Sean Kleefeld has an interesting idea about repurposing my Weapon Brown strips with the original characters. Take a look, and if any of you take him up on his challenge, be sure to show me the results!
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Well, the T-shirt drive is progressing quite nicely I am happy to see! I’ve really got a good feeling that I won’t have to refund all that money, so much so that I think I’ll spend a few bucks of it on some toxic assets that are about to hit the market. There’s an office complex in Love Canal that I can pick up for a song! And if Hawking/Keynesian economic theories hold true, once the exploded estate bubble reforms from it’s atomized components, I’ll be sitting pretty on prime casino real estate, baby!
But that’s no excuse for the rest of you to shirk on your T-shirt obligations! Imagine how good you will look with Chuck on your chest! No pressure. Just buy lots, is all.
Oh, come on! How many people can steal-ish my idea this week before I get a lick off the fame sausage?
This Sin City-style parody of Charlie Brown arrived six times in my inbox this morning. Fucking MTV’s website covered it! Did they send a crew to my house to investigate my years of labor to build a career off the same joke? NOOOOOO!
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Not bitter.
UPDATE: Jen Contino on the controversy!
UPDATE 2- CORRECTIVE BOOGALOO: I think I may have thrown a match on an oily rag, so let me snuff it out. My suggestion that the artist for Schulz City swiped my idea was purely meant tongue in cheek. I doubt he has ever seen Weapon Brown, and don’t believe he in anyway has copied it.
I was only expressing a little rassal-frassin’ over the fact that, this week at least, it is someone else’s Charlie Brown spoof that the world is in love with. But I don’t need the world! My loyal fans are enough. Mwah!!
Over at PvPonline.com, Scott Kurtz is doing a very funny parody of the Watchmen using classic comic strip characters, called The Ombusmen. Ahem, Scott? How about some props for the guy who has been doing a gag vaguely similar to that for a couple years now? Yes, I do own the trademark on lampooning comic strip characters. Call the patent office if you don’t believe me.
Yesterday’s strip featured this panel:
That’s a spoof of the Comedian’s badge which, as luck would have it, I have the actual materials to replicate!
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Yes, that is the Weapon Brown badge I have been including with some of my bundles for a while now, Kurtzed-up for effect. Ain’t it funny how life imitates art imitating art?
If this certain-to-expire-in-15-seconds meme appeals to any of you, I will include one of these customized Blockhead badges in any order of my products that are clocked before the end of the day on Friday. Make sure that if you order Weapon Brown or Blockhead’s War in order to take advantage of this that you order it directly from me and not from the Indy Planet option in my store (only products I ship personally can have stuff added in).
Now that the white hot flames of cartoon controversy have died down on this site, having fused lighter elements into precious helium, I can get back to my other full time pastime: whoring!
Here’s some more blowback from the New York City Comicon. The first one courtesy of the angry projectile enthusiasts at the Raging Bullets podcast (the show is all good, but my bit begins at 2:42:17).
Meanwhile, Geeks Unite, the militant wing of the Virgin Liberation Party, also has a new dispatch from me that begins exactly at the 34 minute mark.