ommmmminous hummmmm

[freckles_and_doubt]

Operation Thursday Night was entirely successful: lasagne initiates initiated, white sauce didn't lump, giant quantities of food consumed, Wanted watched, bonus dark chocolate truffles with Diemersfontein pinotage fillings. Yum. Wanted is an entirely ridiculous piece of cinema, with quite enough ironic self-awareness of action cliché to almost conceal its total lack of content, meaning, significance or actual narrative logic. It's a blast to watch. Particularly when drunk. My Evil Landlord pours a mean G&T.

As part of my current programme of work-burnout and consequent avoidance (it's fortunate I'm on leave from Monday), I am now completely addicted to Schlock Mercenary, which is a web comic about a 31st-century mercenary group. It's distinguished by violence, nastiness, cynicism, self-conscious framebreaking, succinctness, laterality, good science and very bad puns. (Also, plasma cannons that make an ommmmminous hummmm). I love it. It's thoroughly evil-minded. It's worth going all the way back to the start (circa 2000, so this will keep you occupied for a while) - the early artwork isn't up to much, but it does refine later on, and the story arcs are consistently good.

Earth Hour! Lights off at 8.30pm on Saturday. If we weren't Salty Crackering that evening I'd have a braai-and-candles party.

Comments

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I'm having one of those "so why didn't anyone tell me about it years ago?!" sort of responses. I started by downloading the Hugo PDF of the recent nominated story, and suddenly understanding why it was nominated. The guy's good.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Well, if you don't want to know about my cron'ed, perl-based, , scripted http-get with regular expressions, linux-platformed webcomic downloading program you have only yourself to blame. I mean, I tell anyone who will listen about it.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Oh, geekspeak. I switch off ;>.

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before -it is, after all, one of my 2 favourite webcomics.


The other thing that's great about it is that it updates every day. I've been following it soon after it started, and Howard has *never* missed a single day, or resorted to stick figures or fillers, ever. That's so extremely rare in webcomics as to be unique, I think.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Between you you have me sorely tempted. I think I'll see if I can wait till I have loads of marking (i.e. June) as the pause between uploading strips on the campus network allows for periodic marking bursts.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Right! Now have loads of marking. Carefully located this remembered post via ourfriendGoogle. Off to read webcomics in between papers.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Good lord. I suddenly feel... stalked, in an odd way. People remember the rot I post? Aargh! the responsibility!