Comic for Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Posted: 7:15 am, Thursday, May 3rd

OK, before I get to the strip and my daily nonsense, the real news: tonight, at the Brooklyn Arts Council gallery in Dumbo (I suppose DUMBO, if I'm going for accuracy, but whatever), the show that 2.0 is curating opens. There will be beer and grub and art and folks, so stop on by if you're a local. The opening goes six to eight, and you never know, we may duck out to a bar afterwards. There's great pizza nearby if whatever food is there has already been consumed. Here, you can actually preview the works if you want. Seriously, stop on by. 55 Washington Street, Suite 218 in Dumbo. (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass, for non-New Yorkers wondering what's with the stupid neighborhood name.)

The show opening (and the fact that we're old and can't stay up all night anymore) is keeping us from hitting a midnight showing of Spider-Man 3. In fact, this entire weekend is somewhat booked, so it looks like it'll happen next week sometime. But I am jazzed about Spidey. Even if it is, as this Slate article suggests, overlong and massively expensive. Further in that article, though, I cannot fucking believe that the third Pirates movie is 170 minutes long! That basically assures that I'll never even Netflix that thing. Three hours?! Why? It's going to make a ton of money regardless of its length, and it's not like anyone gives two shits about the storyline.

Of all the sites I reference all the time that mock comic strips - the Curmudgeon, Duck and Cover, the Milford Times, etc. - probably the funniest (and crudest) is actually Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke. Oh, man, funny shit. First off, Marmaduke is evidently the worst comic in the papers - the art is just abominable. And then the situations just don't make any sense. Except for this one. Man. Must-read stuff.

The admissions dean at MIT learned nothing from George O'Leary. Also, I know all of those collitches.

What? Why?

Gilgamesh on the mound today - two-thirds god, one-third man - to keep pitching up to his contract.

I totally owned Gargoyle's Quest. Everyone in the world moved very slowly. And evidently your character became red at the end. But it was on the GameBoy, so it was black and white. (Or light green and dark green.) So it was hard to tell. Apparently, it was quite hard according to everyone in the comments. This just leads me to believe that I played way too many video games as a kid, because I don't remember it being difficult at all. Just lengthy. And slow. Honestly, the gargoyle was really, really slow.

bullfrog

Grafe -- Thursday, May 3 2007, 08:13 am

I think Gargoyle's quest was difficult for a gameboy game. If you're used to super mario bros. and the other side scrollers, the gameplay was totally different.

Much closer to Metroid. Clearly NOT metroid, but closer.

And you know what game was freaking impossible on gameboy? Wizards and Warriors X. Holy crap. Making those stupid jumps was just not possible. We're talking you had to land on the right freaking pixel or you'd fall off.

AND the first castelvania on gameboy. Just because you move slow does not make the game easy.

Holy shit, you're right. A friend of mine had both of those games and I don't think we ever beat either one of them. Yeah, that Castlevania one was impossible. I remember that you jumped upward extremely slowly and then plummeted to your death at about eight times that speed.

If you enjoy comics satire, you should check out The Phat Phree. They often take these inane family-newspaper comics and recaption them to hilarious effect, particularly their version of "Judge Parker":

http://www.thephatphree.com/comics.asp?StoryID=2113&SectionID=4

They also often do Marmaduke:

http://www.thephatphree.com/comics.asp?StoryID=2241&SectionID=4

Damn, I have a weird sense of humor.

Quiet today.

For the 8 or so readers that might care, I updated www.lamora.org w/ baby pics.

For those that don't know me, I promise it won't be interesting to you. Same probably applies to some that do know me, but any proud dad is going to share regardless.

I *know* your bride's not wearing a tOSU sweatshirt in that one picture.

I saw *that*, too! Cute pix!

My youngest bro-in-law is a current student there. I know, it's been tough. I haven't worn any of the T-shirts that my mother-in-law purchased for me.

I have been wearing the red basketball shorts, though. They're really comfy. **ashamed**

I hope he doesn't burn your couch just out of force of habit when he visits.

That was actually the first picture I blew up to look at. It's like there's a radar going on.

My company softball team plays the local tOSU alumni club on May 30th. We played them last year and - you'll be shocked to learn - they were assholes.