Many apologies for the comic being so late today. But I managed to upload it at 11:00 PM CST, so it’s still technically a Friday update!
I was torn between doing a comic about The Final Destination and Taking Woodstock. Joe had a really good one-liner about The Final Destination during The Triple Feature on Monday. He was talking about the trailer where one of the cast members catches a NASCAR tire in the face courtesy of the franchise’s Rube Goldberg-like machinations. “Death by NASCAR,” he quipped. I was afraid I would steal his joke.
In the end, however, I couldn’t muster up the nerve to write a comic about Taking Woodstock. Ultimately, it would have wound up being a wall of text inside the comic about how much I hate hippies. Maybe I’ll find a way to pare down my thoughts for Monday’s comic. But until then, I’m letting sleeping dogs lie.
Speaking of sleep, it’s time for me to grab some shut-eye. This was kind of a difficult week – which played into today’s comic being late. I won’t bother you with details. It’s not worth your time and it’s kind of personal. Things are fine. I just need to get over myself a little bit.
Thanks again for your patience and support. I hope everyone has a great weekend and I will see you here on Monday.
Take care.
What can I say? I'm a sucker for gimmicks!
I wanna see what it looks like in 3D!
Wow. So this is what a pathetic money-grab from a floundering horror franchise looks like in 3D.
I can almost reach out and touch the desperation.
Woodstock was stupid. Most of the bands or performers could barely play and or sing. Have you ever really listened to them? Most of them are over-rated. All those people grew up to do nothing the world hasn’t changed and their isn’t world peace. It was just several days and nights of drug use and sex. I don’t really think I need a movie to tell me they were worthless and stank. They just released a giant 40th anniversary collection or some such shit missing several bands due to copyright laws. Woodstock is nothing more than a popculture blip on the radar. People try to say it spawned so much stuff, blah blah blah, it was a concert. That’s all. Nothing more.
Why is the theater empty? A little from Column A and a little from Column B. I didn’t really want to draw people. But, really… who would bother to see that movie?
Castro pretty much said everything I was going to say about Woodstock. More specifically, I don’t know why the 40th anniversary is worth celebrating. I kind of understood celebrating the 25th anniversary and the organization of the concert in 1994. But celebrating the 40th anniversary just seems so arbitrary.
At the end of the day, it was just a stupid concert and it didn’t change anything. Just another example of boomers not willing to step aside culturally and let the generations that followed them have their day in the sun.
They called Generation X lazy and cynical. You’d be lazy and cynical, too, if your parents refused to shut up about their dubious cultural accomplishments.
Also. Funny comic, why’s the theater empty? Too lazy to draw people eh? Kidding.
Probably empty because who actually wants to actually see that awful movie. I think you hit the nail on the head with this one tom.
Well, Tom, I’m proud of fictional Tom for admitting the fact that he’s a sucker for gimmicks. I’ve never watched any of the FD films, and don’t intend on it either. I don’t really do Horror. But this was still funny. Spot on.
“…I don’t know why the 40th anniversary is worth celebrating.”
Wait, aren’t we supposed to celebrate EVERY anniversary that ends in “0” or “5”? What other excuse would we have to re-release an album or movie in new packaging every five years??
Cha-ching, bitches! ~10m opening day for FD (Yeah, I love the series, bad acting and all). A shame Inglourious Basterds looks like it might take that steep 70% dive.
Chuckle, nice joke.
The first Final Destination movie was fun and had inventive ways to kill people off. You could ignore the bad acting. It got worse from there on in.
the latest gimmick does just stink of desperation, almost as much as the “chose the fate” feature on the third movies DVD.
Wish I could have been at Woodstock. However, I’m content to go to Bonnaroo every year.