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cromnac

Physically, Australia. Mentally, Gotham City.

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Tuesday Oct 07, 2008

Oct 7, 2008
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Last night aver dear friend of mine had her first art opening. And it went very well. And we got very drunk. Incidentally, this old drunk guy came along and talked about how this style of art was going to be the next big thing, and he fought in Vietnam and he was going to come here with all his mates to get drunk tomorrow night and get drunk and all the staff had better be ready. Are all the staff ready? Ok. At this point said old drunk man left and stopped pestering my friends and I.

Interesting stuff. Now tonight, I find myself at the Thai place down the road from me waiting for my green curry, when who should come in spinning a different story in an identical way to the staff. The cornerstone of his ramblings being that him and his friends were going to come in tomorrow night and spend a lot of money of Thai and all the staff had better be smiling for him.

It's interesting, and I would like to know what his story is, but mostly his rants use the word 'and' in the one sentance than makes me grammatically comfortable.

Also, my work today sponsored a crash course in MacGyver style cocktail making. Ie. Making cocktails from everyday household items, which has resulted in a very drunk and unproductive Cormac. Basically I found out I was 2-5 dollars short of making homemade Mijito, which for those who value their braincells, is basically white rum with some garnish.

Comic nerd rant behind spoilers

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

I made a comic swap with a uni mate this week, with the general theme "things you haven't read that you damn well should have read.' I gave him:

Sandman #1
100 Bullets #1 & #2
Batman: Broken City
Wanted

and he gave me:

Ultimates #1 &2
Ultimates 2 #1 & #2
Marvel 1602

I feel incredibly jibbed. Especially since Ultimates #1 is utter shit. By utter shit, I mean it has exactly one believable character and is otherwise everything that's holding back comics as a medium and making what I want to do as a career that much more difficult by confirming everyone's suspicions about all comics being the same generic, disposable shit.

Marvel 1602 is written by Neil Gaiman at least so I can hold onto that, if nothing else. But my main problem with marvel is that they ignore one of the most important elements of their medium: the art style. This, in general terms, performs the same function as the voice of the writing. And marvel only publish artists who can conform to the 'marvel' style. So the writing might still be good, right? I hope so. But a professional comic writer adapts his writing style to the artistic style of his/her illustrator. So Gaiman's either sucked out everything that makes him Gaiman, or somehow made something amazing out of a profoundly generic fictional universe. To clarify: I haven't read this piece yet, that's why I labeled this a rant.

rizzo:
of course you got the shit-end of the deal, he gave you all Marvel books! wink
Oct 7, 2008
rizzo:
it's frackin' awesome!
Oct 7, 2008

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