andrew hussie’s garfield: daily 3-4 comics where garfield and jon arbuckle speak to each other for 100-500 words of internet humor and an eventual underlying plot, alternatively it follows a formula simular to Hussie’s earlier short form work where Garfied starts off in a normal mundane situation but the reader gets zagged and witnesses something horrifying or off putting. For example, panel one: Garfield, “I hate mondays.” panel two:
Garfield, “I hate mondays.” Panel three: zoomed out to show a calendar, every day says monday, Jon is distressed in the corner, he looks to be paranoid.
Garfield, “I hate mondays.”
jim davis’s homestuck: I wanted to come up with something more interesting but no, in the end jim davis’ homestuck would boil down to the most basic traits of each character (think always angry karkat, ironic stoic dave) and be stale humor based around this. Also it’d be PG as fuck. For example: John, smiling, shushing the reader as he puts a bucket above a door. Next page: Enter Karkat thru the door. Next page: Bucket falls on Karkat’s head. “JOHN I DONT FEEL THE SAME WAY YOU IDIOT” If it still follows the homestuck format it’d probably end up being a straight love story i’m 80% sure.
Up8: turns out if this reddit post i found was correct the following Garfield without X comics were made by the huss himself, I will share my favorites.
Aries: “I guess I’m ok with mine.” Taurus: “Wow this makes me feel super confident.” Gemini: “Half of me thinks this is stupid, the other half feels i may be an in-joke.” Cancer: “Fucking unrealistic I hate this. Unfollowed.” Leo: “Wow I DO like cats!” Virgo: “I don’t act like that, this isn’t worth a reblog.” Libra: “To be fair I did lick that swingset that one time.” Scorpio: “This is total shit, they’re talking about spiders. It’s Scorpio, idiots.” Sagittarius: “Wow this is like… So me… I feel it on a deep level. Horses, yeah.” Capricorn: “Haha lol what?” Aquarius: “Everyone knows astrology is fake you asshole.” Peixes: “They spelled Pisces wrong???”
Happy first day of winter, it is already FUCKING FREEZING
[nothern-hemisphere voice] “exCUSE me, 10C isn’t cold, why, here in sufferville, we routinely have to endure MINUS A MILLION DEGREES!!! i WISH!!! 10C here!!!”
me: [living in an Australian house build to disperse heat, with thin walls, reflective roof, huge floor-ceiling windows and with no heating, whose bedroom was 6C this morning, where we have to get up in the middle of the night to make sure the greyhound still has a blanket and isn’t dying of hypothermia, where three blankets isn’t enough, watching our breath fog up the air in the bedroom as we exhale] …………….okay
Honestly movie monster design has been bland and boring for almost my entire lifetime. The 80′s had a few gems but eventually everything was just a ripoff of either Alien or Predator and today almost every film creature is a grey rubbery elephant dinosaur man.
I like some of the things I’ve seen from that new Kong movie at least, like the big stick insect, but we’re still such a tragically far cry from the fantastical monster boom of the 50′s
Bring back B.E.M’s
Let monsters be outrageous and colorful in “serious” and “adult” works again
I think someone along the way decided “better available effects = inherently needs to be more realistic” and honestly that’s like the exact opposite of what should have happened? I mean like you’d think with the constant evolution of special effects if someone actually approached one of these designs with the goal of treating it as seriously as yet another Gigeresque biomechanoid they would absolutely still be terrifying as all hell
