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3 items.
I had written a big blog about today’s comic, but it appears that my comments system at it.
Here’s the long and short of it.
- 1. I’ve never done a big storyline revolving around the Oscars and I’m really excited about what I have put together.
- 2. I’m selling shirts in the store (pre-sale ends March 8).
- 3. I have a new sponsorship system (check out No Offense Taken)
- 4. I’m doing a full week of comics.
Hopefully all of you will come back to the site onTuesday where I will go more in-depth to all of this. The post here for Monday’s comic has now become filler since the original post has gone AWOL.
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Mar15
GUEST STRIP – JOERULES AND MADMUP
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(39 votes, average: 8.82 out of 10)
Much respect to Joerules and Mad Mup for bringing another stellar guest strip collaboration to Theater Hopper. Followers of the site know that they’ve displayed their tallents twice before and the comics keep getting better and better and better. This is a nifty little hat trick for them!
I think we all know Joe Dunn is a pretty busy guy. But why my good friend Mup hasn’t found a full-time artist to collaborate with is beyond me. He clearly has a sense of pacing and knows how to tell a joke. That Quidditch line? Can I steal that and put it on a shirt, Mup? It’s classic!
I also have to give BIG points to Joe for tossing in all the litte Iron Man action figures. Joe knows me personally, so he knows my fanboy obcession with all things Iron Man. Once again, Joe proves he’s the master of detail by adding them to the office environment! If you guys want proof of my Iron Man devotion, you should comb through some of my archived web cam images! I think that’s where he might have gotten the inspiration for this personal touch… Great work, Joe!
This will probably be the last real-time post you’ll see from me in a while. Cami and I are going on vacation tomorrow – hopping on a jet plane to "THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH!" Walt Disney World.
I always feel this weird compulsion to apologise for going to Walt Disney World. As if it were some kind of childish endulgance that I should have grown past. I think it’s because when I was growing up, I looked at the resort as this very exclusive place that only rich people could afford to go to. That’s not really the case. It’s very affordable. And, actually, Cami and I have shared a lot of happy memories there.
We’ll never be the kind of couple that goes there every year or hosts some big-ass family reunion that clogs up the line of every attraction. But I proposed to her there, we spent our honeymoon there and – six years later – we’re going back to celebrate our anniversary. We’ll be married six years this Saturday, the 18th. We’re going to have a great time.
I’ll be back sometime Tuesday afternoon and I’ll probably be spending most of it catching up on e-mails and other internet happenings. But there will still be guest strips going on while I’m back. You’ll get another dose on Friday and then Monday, Wednesday and Friday of next week.
Both Cami and I have been burned out for a long time. We haven’t taken a vacation where it was just the two of us since January of 2004, so this has been a long time coming. I’m excited to go, but I’m also already excited to come back because this will be exactly what I need to recharge my batteries and get me ready for pushing the release of the first Theater Hopper book shortly thereafter!
Things are really looking up!
Thanks to all you guys for giving us a little breathing room, but also for continuing to support the comic and spreading the word about Theater Hopper to all of your friends. I’m not sure why, but I’ve been getting lots of e-mails from people lately saying that they’lve just been introduced to the comic and are loving it. That’s a great feeling, especially after doing this for three and a half years. Don’t think for a minute I don’t appreciate it!
I’ll be back soon enough. Until then, enjoy today’s great comic and the guest strips yet to come!
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Mar31
I think as long as there are movies – any form of media, really – the parody genre will always be a vital form of keeping industry arrogance in check. It’s almost like the judicial arm of the entertainment checks and balances system. If the studios (the executive arm) overstep their bounds by utilizing the same formulas again and again and again, parody films are well within their right to single this out and make fun of it for profit.
Incidentally, some of my favorite comedies are parodies. Blazing Saddles, Airplane!, Young Frankenstien, The Naked Gun, Spaceballs. Mel Brooks and David Zucker are masters in that regard.
However, the thing that Brooks and Zucker did that the writers and producers of the “Movie” movies don’t do, was create something original to critique the genres themselves and not individual scenes within specific movies of the genre. It’s not a wasteland of references to popular films with interchangeable jokes. Watching one of the”Movie” movies is like watch Dennis Miller stumble through a routine without a thesaurus. Basically what they say to the audience is, “Hey! Remember that famous scene from the movie you liked? Well, here’s that *same* scene with someone farting! Woo hoo!”
Watching a “Movie” movie is like watching a pardoy sketch I would have written and video taped with my friend’s family’s video camera when I was 12 – and I would have thought it was HILARIOUS! (Believe me – I’ve done this.) But the fact that the producers of these films not only continue to churn out product year after year but somehow continue to attract comedic actors that I like really disheartens me.
Superhero Movie should have been right up my alley. Making fun of comic book movies? Sign me up. There’s enough cringe-inducing moments in Spider-Man 3 to make fun of to at least last 40 minutes. I may be a big comic book nerd, but I can laugh at myself.
Of course, the operative word being “laugh.” The trailers for this thing look so insipid, so uninspiringly unfunny, I couldn’t bring myself to endure it. Especially when you consider the “pedigree” of the past “Movie” movies – including Date Movie, which has to be one of the ugliest, most hateful films I’ve ever seen.
Did any of you guys see Superhero Movie this weekend? E-mail me and let me know what you think. It’s third place showing at the box office tells me I didn’t miss much, but I could be wrong!
That about does it for me this morning. Don’t forget to tune in to The Triple Feature tonight at 9:00 PM CST over at TalkShoe.com. I’m sure we’ll be talking about Superhero Movie, 21, Run Fatboy Run and more!
See you there!
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