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Author: | robertduffy [ Wed Mar 12, 2003 2:50 pm ] |
Post subject: | Warren Ellis namechecks Laughing Ogre and other ramblings. |
Warren Ellis is my favorite comic book writer. Go here: http://www.warrenellis.com In his latest great newsletter, he namechecks my favorite Ohio comic book store, Laughing Ogre. Give this a read, and the rest of it. Fucked up and beautiful: --- bad signal WARREN ELLIS badsignal-unsubscribe@lists.flirble.org Why isn't there a teleportation system between here and California? I demand better service. Someone needs to devise a way to remotely delete blogs that contain nothing but the results of online tests. This remote deletion device should also incinerate the generative organs of the perpetrators. Testicles and wombs making little fireworks to brighten the long dark night of the world wide web. Benetton clothes will soon contain ID chips that transmit in a three-foot radius and are imperceptible to the wearer. But not to a store clerk with a POS console set up to read the tags. That tag can store an awful lot of information, and can easily be set to apply sales data to the tag. Which means that a Benetton store could smartly notice when a pair of its trousers slouches back into the store, load up the owner's store card or CC details, and aim a drone at them for handselling. Odd trend; interviews with comics creators at http://www.comicon.com/pulse have become targets for the _expression of nerdhate. This got going when they interviewed editor Bob Schreck, and writer Joe Casey is the latest. Pulse operates a system where the features are published via UBB message-board software, allowing comments from the peanut gallery. It seems that, at Pulse, the interviews are considered by the audience to be some kind of personal affront, or a skinny Christian pushed in front of their leonine maws. And so the nerdcore descends; in the newest instance, mostly unable to spell even Joe's name correctly. Even comics store owners step in to call Joe -- one of the better writers in commercial comics right now -- a monkey. And, you know.... it's embarrassing. It's pitiable. And it's a definite trend. Comics: the medium that hated itself to death. Incidentally; our fine ORBITER initial sales figures still mean that a great many of you live near comics stores that didn't actually order it at all. Comic Relief in Berkeley ordered 30 copies for the book's first week. That means at least a dozen other stores didn't order one copy, right there. So be prepared to put in a special order if you want a copy of ORBITER. Not all of you are in SF, or near a Splash Page, Big Brain, Comicopia, Speeding Bullet or Laughing Ogre. Or wait until it goes out to bookstores in the summer. I mean, if they're not going to order it, what am I supposed to say? I want a button on my computer that, when depressed, has the target on the screen held down and fucked in the gall bladder by nymphomaniac suicide lepers who are quite prepared to leave their green suppurating cocks broken off in the wound. I DON'T THINK THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK IN THE 21ST CENTURY. LEPERS. SORES. WOUND-COCKS. NOW. -- aaaarrrr |
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