by jamesstoweart
on 12/9/2010 @ 7:57am | I really like this week's strip. It was probably the mot challenging SCATS I've gotten to draw so far. Normally I am not given artistic direction from Kevin... just a script. This week he had very specific visuals he wanted to see. Ever shifting backgrounds. Celebrity cartoons. This one had it all.
Also, for the record... also haven't seen Titanic. |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 8:01am | Watch "Titanic" for the amazing visuals. Ignore Leonardo di Caprio, who just distracts from the Edwardian perfectness of the film. It's like a floating (and eventually sinking) Pythian Temple!
Regarding "Avatar", I have problems with movies that play slaughtering US troops for cheers. "Dances with Fern Gully" would have been a better title for that film, anyway. Bleh. |
by Mandiferous
on 12/9/2010 @ 8:43am | Thanks for the blog shout-out, Kevin!
I've never seen Sound of Music. When I was younger it was because I had just never gotten around to it. Then my friends were aghast and said I was thoroughly un-American for not having seen it so I abstained in protest.
I also haven't seen Inception. Not a DiCaprio fan. |
by jamesstoweart
on 12/9/2010 @ 8:51am | Jinx, I had the exact same problem with Avatar. I mean... COME ON...
Mandi, you should see Inception in spite of DiCaprio... not because of him. |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 9:43am | Umpteen-million dollars to make the movie, and the best they could do for the interiors of BOTH the interorbital shuttle and the atmospheric troop transport was the cargo bay of a C-17? That means Cameron received some kind of government support to use those interiors (can't film using first-line military equipment without government sanction)- and then slaughtered the troops for cheers.
(Kind of like when "Three Fugitives" received full City of Tacoma support when being filmed -then when the actual film was released made the city, and especially the police department, look like idiots.) (By the way, OCH plays a fairly significant role in that movie- I'll have to dig out my photographs from the filming) |
by NineInchNachos
on 12/9/2010 @ 12:51pm | match in the gas tank boom boom!
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by NineInchNachos
on 12/9/2010 @ 12:56pm | to be fair about avatar, they were NOT earth army troops, but all ex-military private contractors (essentially blackwater).
Let's all plug our ponytails together and be friends.
Where is my blue body paint? |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 1:06pm | And they never renamed the script placeholder, "Unobtanium".
Sloppy writing, what. |
by NineInchNachos
on 12/9/2010 @ 1:22pm | they just didn't get it. |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 1:31pm | Nope.
I liked the sets in "Titanic", though. How could I not?
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by Thorax O'Tool
on 12/9/2010 @ 2:18pm | Titanic was awesome. Leo DiCaprio did a decent job, but the real reasons to see the film were the visuals and (of course) Kate Winslett.
But also, I'm a sucker for the story of Titanic. Not exactly sure why, but that piece of history has always appealed to me.
Avatar, though... um... it bothered me for two reasons:
1) it's Dances with Wolves with blue aliens instead of the Sioux. When I saw Avatar, I couldn't not see that.
2) Jake dooms the whole planet. If there is anything we've learned from history, it's that the Earth People will be back in a year or two with much, much bigger guns ans smallpox blankets. Losing a battle only makes the juggernaut angrier... |
by jamesstoweart
on 12/9/2010 @ 3:25pm | So did you like this comic? Alot?
Now you can own a print of it signed by the artist and the writer.
There is a new link above for it.
Look for the rest of the SCATS catalog to be available for print soon. |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 3:34pm | The Titanic represented the pinnacle of western civilization. It's all been downhill ever since.
(I know, don't get on me about modern medicine, technology, air travel and such- I stand by my opinion.)
related note: On December 21, 2012, the vMSDE plans on hosting an invitation-only white-tie Titanic-themed "End of the World" Gala in the Pythian Castle. That gives us just over two years to find a string quartet to play "The Wedding Dance" and "Nearer my God to Thee" to prevent panic on deck as the hour draws near.
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by Thorax O'Tool
on 12/9/2010 @ 4:21pm | Wouldn't that party be better for April 12, 2012?
Something to be said for the centenary... |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/9/2010 @ 4:37pm | True- I do hope to attend someone else's Titanic centenary party as well- no doubt there will be something good put on by people with more money than I.
However, the End of the World gala on December 21st is a combination Solstice, Christmas, Titanic, and END OF THE WORLD party. It may very well be your last chance to revel before everything is gone for good! (I blame those stupid Mayans and their crappy calendar.) It should be very much like going down with the mighty White Star liner herself. |
by Thorax O'Tool
on 12/9/2010 @ 4:42pm | 12-21-12 will be a very popular wedding day.
After all, what better way to start your new lives together than by getting married on the eve of the apocalypse?
Actually, it is kinda romantic. |
by NineInchNachos
on 12/9/2010 @ 5:03pm | Hubris!  |
by The Jinxmedic
on 12/10/2010 @ 8:21am | Heh. |
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