Two Snarks for the price of one
Friday, August 26th, 2005I’ll have to simply face facts: There’s no better word for describing the act of extrapolating on a single comic spontaneously. So I’ve resigned to it, even if it isn’t my word. It’s officially entered the webcomics collective lexicon. So I’m going to embrace it; what follows here are, indeed, Snarks.
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(From Two Lumps, by J. Grant & Mel Hynes)
Ok, this is just boggling to me as it stands. Because of all comics on this great big internet of ours, Two Lumps is probably one of the last strips I’d ever expect to do a video game parody story arch, much less one on Silent Hill. I mean seriously, that’d be like Count Your Sheep doing a Grand Theft Auto San Andreas story. It’s way out of place, but comically so.
So from where I’m sitting, I can’t wait to see how this one goes. And if it goes well, you’ll definitely hear from me about it again. Sorry, I’m probably the biggest Silent Hill fan that’s never actually played the game (I’m a backseat Silent Hill player).
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(From Theater Hopper, by Tom Brazelton)
I like Theater Hopper. And every once in a while, a strip of Tom’s just nails it. And usually without him ever having seen the movie. Or me neither for that matter. So, I guess I don’t know whether or not the accurate nailing has taken place, but for damned sure it feels like nailage occurred.
I don’t know if I mentioned on this thing, but at the AFI Silver Theatre I just now previously worked at, we’ve been doing a Jim Jarmusch retrospective. I’ve seen about 4 movies of his so far (about, because I left midway through one of them and came back). Coffee and Cigarettes, Permanent Vacation, Stranger than Paradise, and Mystery Train. Still, it’s my resolve that I don’t craft a formal opinion and evaluation of a director until I’ve seen at least 5 works of his (where applicable). But so far, I’m really unimpressed. Really, really unimpressed.
At any rate, even though he’s citing Bill Murray specifically, Tom’s strip nails the Jarmusch narrative style 100%. Without even having to see the movie. I’m sure it’s a fine movie, but not a lot actually happens in his movies. And then people tout him as an arthouse genius. Needless to say, Jarmusch’s been a strong topic of debate in my former workplace, and that strip made my day pretty good.
On a personal note, the worst part is that if I want to impress my film professor in any way, I’ll have to make that sort of arthouse bullshit. Dammit.