The whole article is worth your while, particularly the incredibly disturbing woman near the top of the first page. But for my money, #10, or the entry on top of this page, is the funniest, owing largely to its commentary. See if you don’t believe me.
NSFW, guys. A lot of Liefeld’s drawings are violent and/or sexual, it would seem.
(Found on a comments thread at Shortpacked!)
Or at least I drew him that way. I spent part of this afternoon (my day off!) drawing a front cover for invitations to my upcoming housewarming party, and to warm up, I drew an angry Mark on an index card. Here he is:
He’s coming down from a jump!
Tune in this Friday for a major turning point the current story, A River of Darkness. We’re coming up to the climax of this thing, everyone!
Hey, look! It’s a real Great Hallway War! It turns out that such a thing kinda sounds like it sucks in real life. But the coincidence was so eerie, there was no way I could resist linking it.
I am really late to the party on this one, but I just got the Megaman X Collection for Gamecube, and this was the only game on there I hadn’t previously played. I was sort of eager, but also sort of hesitant–I had read somewhere online that X5 was supposed to be the last game in the series, because Zero dies or disappears in all the endings, thus putting his head and torso into position for the beginning of the Megaman Zero series. X6-8 featured Zero against the creator’s wishes. I didn’t much like the implication that the storyline would get mangled, but I did want to play a new X game. So I gave it a chance.
Without going into too much detail–last week, someone I work with overheard me making an offhand reference to my persistent roach problem. He suggested that I buy something called boric acid, which comes in a white (formerly yellow) bottle and has an appearance similar to table salt. You sprinkle it around your house and it’s supposed to utterly decimate an entire roach colony. Come to think of it, I believe one of my friends suggested this to me last summer, shortly after I moved in here…he just made it sound more involved than I think it has to be. Also, I wasn’t sure where I could find the stuff until I asked my coworker (Stop & Shop, it turned out, had one bottle left on an out-of-the-way display that I can’t believe I actually found).
So now I have it, and if I believe my coworker, I could be completely roach-free in less than a month. All I have to do is spread the stuff around in places I know they frequent. But I’m not sure I want to now.
For one thing, all the poison control warnings on the thing make me nervous to use this stuff in my kitchen. But mainly, what gives me pause is the graphic of a collapsed and very sad-looking roach on the front, just below the ominous product name (”Roach Wrecker.”) He’s even holding flowers, as if trying to make a peace offering, though it’s just as likely that the package designers are referencing the same sort of funerary arrangements that popped into characters’ hands on Looney Tunes. But this is like the pictures of mice desperately trying to free themselves from glue traps–are there actually consumers out there who get a sardonic thrill out of this? I see it and it makes me feel sorry for the roaches!
I’ve gotten pretty used to my “roommates” by now, so time will tell whether or not I’ll actually try the boric acid. In all likelihood, it will depend upon some spur-of-the-moment thing (for example, I could find baby roaches in the salt shaker again), and that thing will need to be bad enough to override my misgivings. Regardless of what happens, I’m sure I’ll chronicle it here–I’ve already made updates on the situation so far.
