Category: Comics

Here’s the short, untouched by man’s editing powers (see notes below).

Rumpelstiltskin 3000 (1999)

What a terrible time for YouTube to be down for maintenance. We’re at the cusp of a new world, so what better time than now to revisit lost realms of the human psyche?

I’m talking, of course, about the extremely lost BigWig Productions classic Rumpelstiltskin 3000, a short made in 199x starring yours truly and a young Pat Sanders at the bleeding edge of adulthood. Shot on VHS, there was previously no simple way for me to get this sought-after video onto the internet for all to see. Thankfully, I got my VCR back from Justin (“le cinematografer”) the other day, and did it the old-fashioned way: recording the TV with my video camera.

While this made an already out-of-focus movie even blurrier, it’s now available for all the world’s children to enjoy. I’ll post it as soon as I can upload it. For now, here are some ghetto screencaps.

Well, I took so long to follow up the first part of this that the full feature is already online. Here are my thoughts on TV games in ’06, as well as my “great prophecy” for this year. This is the full feature from page one, though I find your interest in all things not me somewhat disconcerting!

New comics coming soon!

Today’s tough news is that my last post got me in a bit of trouble with Düdü Blaq & Dirty Earl. Just like their hardcore fan Rumiko, they misunderstood the way in which I was representing their titles that I was translating on this blog. Anyway, I almost lost my exclusive right to translate their entire catalogue at my leisure, but thankfully we came to an eventual agreement. Though, I have to add that I’m a bit wary of the outcome.

Blaq & Earl have agreed to let me continue translating their works, but only if the next five titles that I present here are a handful of their grosser gems on which I had previously refused to work. Real disgusting crap like “When the Runs are Done” and the “Little Daichi Dipshit” series. I guess it’s worth it, but I figured I should apologize in advance for some of this content!

I’m really trying to use all of my willpower not to blather on about Children of Men for a variety of reasons. One, I think so many people have already covered how great the movie is. Two, if I start writing about it, I’ll inevitably go into detail about how technically amazing it is, and start wailing on some of the insane continuous shots and see, I almost did it. Just go watch it.

Instead, I thought I’d finally put a project out to pasture. A lot of you probably recall the “smash hit” JLR-exclusive short comic Express from August of last year. That was a lot of fun, so I immediately started working on an unrelated follow-up called “I Can Fly.” After a couple of pages, though, I realized that it was pretty much the same thing!

It’s about a businessman that goes to the top of his building to commit suicide, but when he jumps off, wings come out of his ass and he suddenly starts to fly. Cut to the chase: shortly after spreading the word of his new-found love of life in the skies, the wings expand further, revealing a demon working its way out of his anus. The guy explodes, screaming “I can fly!”

If anyone really wants to see it finished, I’ll do that someday, but I might want to wait a while before becoming the “guy that draws comics in which stuff comes out of people’s asses.” Here’s the cover image and rough versions of the first two pages: