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Today’s buzzComix incentive sketch is kind of a continuation of today’s comic. Click here for a Godfather-esque homage for the 21st century…
Speaking of The Godfather – Marlon Brando, R.I.P.
If you’ve been keeping up, you know that a complete bastardization of Arthurian legend is being dumped into theaters today. You can thank producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Antoine Fuqua for that. From everything I’ve read, the basically took the story of King Arthur, stripped it of it’s mysticism and tried to root it in historical events. About 1,000 years ago when the Roman empire collapsed, to be exact.
What’s the fun in that? You may as well just call it “Medieval Battle: The Movie”. I’m not interested in seeing King Arthur one iota. I don’t care if you dress Keira Knightley in a couple of leather straps and force her to pretend that’s a reasonable wardrobe choice. I’m not going.
I mentioned Monday that I had a bit of “world-shaking” news. I hope your sitting down when you’re reading this. Things are about to get a little weird.
Okay, so last Saturday, I went to my comic book store to pick up my regular stack of books. I cracked open a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #509 when I stumble onto page 5 and encounter something unusual.
Remember that poster I made with Mitch Clem, Zach Miller and Carrington Vanston as a one-of-a-kind commemorative collectors item? A means to celebrate our collective presence at the Minneapolis FallCon last October?
Well, in the background of Amazing Spider-Man #509, page 5… you can see our poster.
FREAKY, HUH?!
I’ve been sitting on this information since Saturday (even though people in the THorum have known about it for a while) because I wanted to wait until after the holiday when readership would be higher.
I’m trying to figure out a way to contact the new ASM artist Mike Deodato, but his official web site is in Portugese! Even after translating it, the e-mail form you can use to contact him doesn’t work!
I have a few alternate leads, but if anyone has suggestions about how I can reach Mr. Deodato, please forward them here. I just want to ask him a few questions and find out where he learned about our poster.
I don’t want to give anyone the impression that I’m unhappy about this. That’s the furthest thing from the truth!
The truth is, I’m excited beyond compare. I can’t believe that something I had a hand in creating managed to find its way – however indirectly – into the pages of one of the best selling comic books of all time!
I have some other news items, but nothing pressing. I know what I’ve put out there is a lot to absorb, so I’ll just leave things at that for now.
Be sure to keep checking the site for updates of this whole saga! I’ll post everything I learn here!
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For those of you who are concerned that the last panel of today comic is a little graphic or bleak, would it comfort you to know that David Seville was with The Chipmunks at the moment of impact?
Vote for Theater Hopper at Top Web Comics to see what I’m talking about. There’s an incentive image related to this week’s comic waiting for you if you do.
And speaking of Top Web Comics… can I tell you guys how awesome you are? Since I threw the link back up on the home page last week, you guys have responded PHENOMENALLY. Theater Hopper was ranked somewhere like 4,000th on the list of comics in their database. But after one round of voting, we’re positioned now at 138. That’s not easy to do in one week’s time – especially when Theater Hopper only updates once a week!
So I wanted to say thanks to everyone who visited the site more than once last week and placed their vote. I want to encourage everyone to do the same. I know it’s hard to remember to visit when there’s no new content to greet you, but if you could swing by once a day and click on that link, it helps me out a lot.
Let’s see if we can break into the Top 100 this week!
As for this week’s comic… yeah, I’m sorry. Sort of. No I’m not.
LOOK… I don’t like The Chipmunks. I didn’t even like them when they were popular in the 80’s. As a 30-something man child, you’d think that would give them an automatic pass. It doesn’t.
That said, I really, really, REALLY don’t like the current CG version of The Chipmunks. I’m still upset that Alvin prominently ate fecal matter in the trailer for the first film!
I mean, I understand the movie are for kids and poop jokes are supposed to be funny. But let’s try to elevate the bar a little, please?
Still, you gotta admit that it’s at least a little bit impressive that the franchise has been around this long. Who would have guessed that a novelty song that was recorded in 1958 would spawn all these television shows and movies over a half-century later. Not me.
But then, as H. L. Mencken said, Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” To that end, the third Chipmunk movie “Chipwrecked” seemed like the perfect opportunity to end it all.
Do you agree? Disagree? Did today’s comic go too far? Did it not go far enough? Leave your comments below! And – as always – thanks for reading! I’ll see you here next week!
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