I know this was supposed to be a week of guest strips. But, well, I couldn’t really round one up for today. Chalk it up to poor planning. I decided late last week to take this week off and that’s not time enough for most artists with already busy schedules to drop what they’re doing and produce something for me.
Hats off, however, to Jason Swearingen and Paul Southworth for their time and consideration. It is much appreciated.
I took time off this week partially to give myself a break from the comic and partially to work on some other projects that needed my attention. Primarily on a freelancing web site that I intend to use to attract clients and provide a temporary revenue stream while I look for more permanent work.
I have to admit I did not make much progress on that front. However, I kept busy this week applying for jobs and sending out resumes. I took a few meetings and had a few interviews. Fortunately, my experience is such that I attract the interest of most employers. At this point, it’s finding one who is willing to compensate fairly for that experience.
My freelance site aside, I did accomplish something else this week that actually benefits both of us and not just myself. I took some time this week to prepare the Theater Hopper store for a massive fire sale that I’m going to start promoting next week. I have a little bit of money saved up thanks to Project Wonderful and I plan on spreading it around a little bit in hopes of attracting people to my store and helping me clear out some inventory.
As of now, everything in the store is on sale. All books are $9.99. All shirts are $7.99. I’ve even dug out some old inventory I haven’t had on the site for a while in hopes of selling that as well – mostly baby doll tees in limited inventory for $4.99.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the main page in the store, you’ll see I’m selling the Iron Man parody poster I designed for Chicago Comic Con in early September. I have 49 left in stock and I’m selling them for $3.00 a piece.
The sale ends at Midnight on Sunday, September 20. I am motivated to get rid of as much inventory as possible, but I don’t know if I’ll do something like this again. So if you see something you want, now is the time to grab it.
Thanks and have a great weekend.
Then, in a "shocking" twist, the girl returns from the dead to kill the people who tried to cover up her murder.
Why burden the plot with this cumbersome mashup of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Black Christmas?
Who needs plot when you're murdering snobby sorority girls?
You have my $8.50 right there!
I love a good fire sale. I really like the baby doll shirts. I just ordered one, can’t wait 😀
I wish there were more ladies like you who read the site, totalmoviefreak. I’ve had those baby doll tees for years!
Then again, I really haven’t had them in the store for years, either. Soooo…
Not that it justifies the $8.50, but technically Sorority Row is a remake of a 1983 film that pre-dates I Know What You Did Last Summer.
…And I just discovered that I Know What You Did Last Summer is based on a 1973 novel. Nevermind. xD Still, not a lot of people are aware Sorority Row is a remake.
I have to admit that I was surprised to learn it was a remake.
I wonder how similar it is to the original. The trailer seems to indicate a lot of “nu-horror” affectations.
You can find a list of all movies ever remade on Wikipedia, so there’s probably an article about the original movie. …I know this because my senior thesis was a content analysis of original movies and remakes. Anyway.
I have no intention of seeing Sorority Row. But I’m glad you included snobby when talking about murdering sorority girls. Though I doubt they really deserve to die, they’re probably more deserving than the rest of us sorority girls .
hmm, how big is that Iron Man Parody poster anyways? its quite amusing. also, in the credits text thats really small, what does it say there? or can you add a link to a higher quality version or description of the poster?
thanks!
also, somehow I could smell remake on the sorority row trailer. they usually have a certain stench about them… lol
David,
The posters are 11 x 17 on card stock. The text below is basically like “Theater Hopper is a movie comic updated every Monday Wednesday and Friday and it’s really awesome and you should tell your friends…” Basically a visual gag to make it look like actual credits.
I need to create and Odds & Ends page for the poster and the sampler booklet. I’ll get on that in the near future.
In the meantime, here’s a larger version of the poster: http://twitpic.com/cs0lq
Hope that helps!
THis may seem kind of random but what’s the story behind the Johnny 5 T shirt. I was just curious to what that meant. Is it from a past comic?
Yeah, it’s based on this comic:
http://www.theaterhopper.com/2005/03/11/a-deep-distrust-of-robots/
People liked it that I pointed out Johnny 5 – a friendly robot – was actually an instrument of war, originally.
it only costs 8.50 to go to the movies out there? it can be up to 10.75 here…and they force us to watch commercials before the movie…and we put up with it…man we suck
Up here in the Canuck land we pay $12.50 and kids & seniors are at $8.95. Even with the exchange rate, it doesn’t seem like we get the bang for our buck for theatre quality. Our cheap seat theatres are still $5.00 and some of them don’t even manage to have matinees either for lack of staff (doesn’t stop them from advertising them, just means you get greeted by a sign on the door informing you of your tough luck).
Re: The strip – as if Hollywood markets for originality. More of the same with interchangable starlets! It takes a film fest for studios and theatres to take notice and distribute (Slumdog Millionaire anybody?)
I kind of have to wonder why he has that crazy look in his eye in the last panel….
Still I have to agree, down with sorority girls.