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14 years ago
Listening to random crap from the hd. Band called Mannhai is doing bad things to Motley Crue’s “Live Wire”. Hard to digest at 4:04 AM.
So the idea that keeps dancing in my head probably comes from a recent discussion about Smurfs. I refuse to watch the pandering, profiteering piece of crap movie (yes, I’m pre-judging it). Except I have two small kids therefore it is as certain as Godwin’s Law that I will eventually have to see the movie. That’s my cross to bear.
But see when I was a kid I loved Smurfs. I watched it every Saturday morning. My mom bought me some Smurfs comics. Those little blue bastards left a dent in my psyche. So the idea of a diminutive, whimsical race of creatures in a big, scary world still haunts me.
What I’m thinking of is a story about a group of funny animal characters drawn like Felix or something. Simple characters, on the surface. Wolfy the Wolf or Alligator Man, or maybe Miss Zebra. I don’t know. But basically these guys lose their home or something and have to deal with a big and brutal world. A sort of sci-fantasy realm with robots and demons and shit.
Eh, its just one of many ideas that have cropped up on me lately. I’m in a flux zone here. I’ve written several partial scripts for several partial comics. All are cool, I think, but I don’t have a clue what will rise to the surface. Luckily most of them fit nicely into the Death Mamma theme so hopefully that comic book will become a reality.
Done rambling now.
So the idea that keeps dancing in my head probably comes from a recent discussion about Smurfs. I refuse to watch the pandering, profiteering piece of crap movie (yes, I’m pre-judging it). Except I have two small kids therefore it is as certain as Godwin’s Law that I will eventually have to see the movie. That’s my cross to bear.
But see when I was a kid I loved Smurfs. I watched it every Saturday morning. My mom bought me some Smurfs comics. Those little blue bastards left a dent in my psyche. So the idea of a diminutive, whimsical race of creatures in a big, scary world still haunts me.
What I’m thinking of is a story about a group of funny animal characters drawn like Felix or something. Simple characters, on the surface. Wolfy the Wolf or Alligator Man, or maybe Miss Zebra. I don’t know. But basically these guys lose their home or something and have to deal with a big and brutal world. A sort of sci-fantasy realm with robots and demons and shit.
Eh, its just one of many ideas that have cropped up on me lately. I’m in a flux zone here. I’ve written several partial scripts for several partial comics. All are cool, I think, but I don’t have a clue what will rise to the surface. Luckily most of them fit nicely into the Death Mamma theme so hopefully that comic book will become a reality.
Done rambling now.
Well, if you're stuck seeing the movie I hope you at least kinda like it. As a fan as a child I think, for the most part, we all have to some degree an obligation to see our childhood obsessions through to the end, even if it does end up swallowing feces for breakfast, lunch, dinner and everything in between.
Oh, hey, it's almost four thirty AM. What are we doing still up? When ya do go to bed, g'night. :-P ♥
You know it doesn't bother me when they rape Alvin and the Chipmunks because I never liked that in the first place. But I loved me some Smurfs, and the Smurf raping at the box office stings a little. But what else can you expect? The market for kids movies is huge and if they can tap into nostalgia at the same time they make parents more eager to take the kids to see it. Its great marketing, just incredibly manipulative.
But its ok. The world survived Highlander 2 without exploding.
And I dunno about that, I think a lot of us died inside with Highlander 2. :-P
By the time Sean Connery's character bit the dust I was feeling assraped and mugged and ready for a bottle of sleeping pills and a nice chianti.
Now we gotta hear them drop the latest catch phrases and shake their blue butts to the latest pop tunes all for the sake of fast cash.
I hear that the Smurfs are actually high midi-chlorian beings from the planet Zeist...and they want it all.