― pinkmoose (jacklove), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha! I'd love to see this.
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― veronica moser (veronica moser), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
finest achievement
#22!
― occasional coleslaw (kit brash), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Also omg expressive rabbit
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(192 points)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Lucyvanpelt.jpg/250px-Lucyvanpelt.jpg
Lucy was the most terrifying character in the historyof comics - proud, sadistic, utterly self-centered andhateful. The most famous running gag in Peanuts involved her lying to Charlie Brown about an act ofpointless treachery and then offering a hypocriticalexcuse for it; in an early episode Linus is seencrying after Lucy tells him she wishes he'd never been born. "Beneath the surface there's something tender,"Schulz once said of her. "But maybe if you scratcheddeeper you'd find she's even worse than she seems." (Justyn Dillingham)
Best Moment: Pulling the football; away just as Charlie Brown was about to kick it. (David Simpson)
And a worst character vote from Huk ("What a bitch.")!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Harthill Services (Neil Willett), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Thursday, 9 November 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link
It's basically the Countdown to Calvin now as far as I'm concerned.
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4VUCZ3TK
it's not copyrighted material, so I don't think I'm violating any ilx rules by posting this link.
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 11 November 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 11 November 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
I think this should actually do it.
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 11 November 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
NOTE: contains spoiler if you gave up on Cerebus at a sane point.
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To list exactly why I love Cerebus so much, or believe he's the greatest character ever created in comics, would dominate proceedings so I'll try and keep it short.
Cerebus is all of us. Well, not exactly. Cerebus is all the bits we don't like or don't/can't acknowledge about ourselves and we hate. He's every bit of petty jealousy. Every ounce of manipulation. Our lack of backbone. Our drinking. Our intolerance. Our stupidity. Self aggrandisement. Wanking. Insanity.
As Tom said during the nominations phase, "I'm not voting for Cerbeus because he's a cockfarmer." And that's exactly right. He's boorish, arrogant and frequently entirely wrong-headed. He decides he wants a woman in his life and gets her by painstakingly destroying her husband. When things go wrong, it's never his fault. People can exploit him, but he just leaves.
His finest moment? Easy. At the end of 'Form & Void', having been plagued for some time with an urge to visit his parents but held up with ridiculous behaviour from Jaka. When they get to Sand Hills Creek nobody will speak to him. Cerebus realises they have died.
He is inconsolable. He tears his hair out, rubs mud in his face and, seeing Jaka, vents his frustration with the prophesied words "Go on. Beat it. Scram." She leaves, and he is alone in grief.
He is us, and we are him.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.marsimport.com/images/LOVRH22.JPG
I forgot this when Hopey came up, so everyone should go read Mark S's piece on punk, starring Hopey and Maggie.
maggie is great becaus she,s competent but insecure at the same time - she is pretty but worried about her weight , she loves this guy who loves back, only she doesn't know if he does. she's funny and yet concerned about what people think of her. we can all relate to her coolness slash dorkiness (Mark Co)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― robster (robster), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
(195 points)
http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/haddock.jpg
Entire remainder of entry by 'Captain' Chuck Tatum!
When I was young, I wanted to be Tintin when I grew up. These days, I'd much rather be Captain Haddock. Haddock gets to have all the fun -- the drinking, the schmoozing, the fancy hotels -- while rarely having to bother with the time-wasting (and potentially dangerous) detecting and adventuring side of things. There are downsides to being the comic relief, of course. Once every book or so, you will need to fall off the wagon and almost kill yourself ( Explorers on the Moon, Red Rackham's Treasure). In every single adventure, you will clumsily trip down some sort of mountain ravine or desert hill ( The Crab With The Golden Claws, Flight 714, The Red Sea Sharks, etc.). And nature is always your enemy. If a llama is present, he will spit in your face (Prisoners of the Sun ) -- repeatedly. If you see a cow -- especially a sacred one -- he will not hesitate to bowl you over and ride you over town. (Tintin in Tibet). And here's one important piece of advice: always, without exception, keep your nose away from wasps ( The Castafiore Emerald). It's not your fault your nose is so unfathomably large -- but really, do try to be more careful.
There's more to Haddock than his pratfalls, of course -- there's also his love of drinking. His massive ego. His social climbing. His hatred of dithering. His awesomely extended vocabulary of insults ( http://www.angelfire.com/super2/animorphs/insult.html). His lunatic care for his friends. Haddock might only be the comic relief, but it's hard to think of other comic relief characters, outside of Dickens, with such an satisfyingly well-developed interior life. Rather than becoming subordinate to Tintin, Tintin effectively becomes Haddock's sidekick after Red Rackham's Treasure, not the other way around. And Herge never ran out of interesting things for Haddock to do: apparently in Alph-Art, Herge considered having Haddock grow marijuana plants in the basement at Marlinkspike.
Top Ten Insults
10. "Son of a sea-gherkin" (Flight 714).9. "Antediluvian bulldozer" ( Tintin in Tibet ). 8. "Technocrat" (The Crab with the Golden Claws).7. "Fancy-dress Fatima" (The Red Sea Sharks). 6. "Addle-pated lumps of anthracite" ( The Red Sea Sharks).5. "Macrocephalic baboon" (Tintin in Tibet).4. "Second-rate son of a sword-swallower" ( The Seven Crystal Balls).3. "Ectoplasmic byproduct" (The Calculus Affair).2. "Fresh-water-spaceman" (Explorers on the Moon ).1. "Miserable blundering barbecued blister" (Tintin and the Picaros).
Best Moment: The temptation is to go for the genuinely moving scene in Tintin in Tibet, where Haddock tries to cut his climbing rope and kill himself (to save Tintin, of course.) But for sheer sustained Haddock-ness, one has to go for the whole of The Calculus Affair. There are pratfalls aplenty: the electrocution, the Mosquito spray, the Cutts the Butcher dialogues. But also tons of great character moments: the first meeting with Jolyon Wagg, the desperate cadging for a drink while interviewing a suspect, Haddock's wonderful moment of joy after realizing Colonel Sponsz has the band-aid attached to his ear ("Szplug! What is this?"). In no other book is the Captain so simultaneously comic and heroic.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I would pick Castafiore Emerald as my favourite Haddock, though - it's the one where he's most central, and its delight is in seeing the entire fictional universe set up for the purpose of irritating him.
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost - you've got the wrong guy there, DV.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link