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by strawman » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:52 pm
Invisibility for Beginners inspires me to imagine what Tweedy's movie at DragonCon next year starring the DC forum community would be like, if we made the cast invisible. I mean, the Con attendees wouldn't react at all to zombies or vampires, or flaming love monkeys. But they'd be totally freaked out by invisible people.
Frank Key either works on a formula, or maybe his mother dropped acid in his formula back in the day. Either way, he is just a little predictable in his unpredictability. I can see OCD as a symptom of viral contamination. Some people count tiles or blocks, Frank's characters count cows. See what I mean? Not a really threatening consequence of infection, if you ask me. The opposite of Mother Goose rhymes, in which what should be a terrifying image of blinded mice getting tails chopped off with carving knives is softened by presenting it through a maternal narrator as a little melodic ditty. (Hard to believe Child Welfare hasn't broken in on Mother Goose yet.)
My favorite is Haggerty's Outside the Box. From concept to execution (literally), the all-important Gore/Syllable ratio breaks all previous records in this story, and no one can sell it like Norm. But, oddly, with a bright and chuckley atmosphere, as if you were reading the menu at Ruth's Chris, and the entree descriptions gave a fastidiously detailed blow by blow by blow account of how the farm animals were slaughtered, and the lengths that were taken to snuff out their final breaths. Zombie-rights activists and vegans will do their usual knee-jerk freak dance on this, but come on, people. Bottom line: we're stranger than they are.
Chelsea Ragan, thanks for the awesome art to a fellow Georgian (can a girl be a fellow-something?) I can see you used dreamrock for your model. Small world. Who's the guy standing in front of him?
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