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[Adam]

I definitely like "Lookouts" the best.

That's my favorite Jim moment, too. My second favorite is probably when he's making his death saves and has something important he wants to tell Binwin before he dies: "I'm awesome."

ETA: I agree that this is a bit too dark, but I was amused at the idea that Jim would what is clearly an attack spell to "help" someone who is on fire.

[wei yau]

Originally Posted by Adam

That's my favorite Jim moment, too. My second favorite is probably when he's making his death saves and has something important he wants to tell Binwin before he dies: "I'm awesome."

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[Adam]

Originally Posted by Kael

Maybe I'm just in more of a sci-fi mood these days, but my vote is for Automata.

Looks like you're not alone:

[Ensign Steve]

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[Watser?]

This one from the same address is pretty good too:

[Adam]

So, Lookouts is done, I guess? I'm not familiar with the guest artists' other work, but I thought this was pretty much ass, although I will say that it's much better if you read it all at once. Spoilers, I guess...

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The whole thing, but especially the basilisk fight, is a textbook example of how not to portray action sequentially. People keep swapping positions between panels for no good reason. Check out the first page, before the encounter the basilisk. They're just walking and talking, but the Lookouts are never in the same order twice. Once the fight starts, it's even worse. I thought the blond kid was dead on the first page, and the scoutmaster goes from being apparently out cold when the second page starts to just standing there sadly by the time the page ends.

The reason it's better if you read it all at once is that, until you read the last page, nothing the scoutmaster guy says make any sense at all. I dig that they were going for the last page reveal (although I'm still not clear on exactly what the reveal was...apparently, "What men must know" is that the forest demands sacrifices and "a boy must learn" that by watching one of his buddies become the sacrifice?), but an author needs to build up some trust from the audience for that to work. Throwing confusing dialog into a confusing visual layout just makes the whole thing confusing. Instead of wondering why the scoutmaster was behaving oddly, I just assumed his dialog was as senselessly random as the panel layouts.

[Adam]

[Anastasia Beaverhausen]

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[Adam]

Make sure to hit the xkcd site itself...the alt text is the best part.

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Yeah that is funny.

[Adam]

The last panel is totally me in meetings at work.

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I love the hover text for that one, Adam. It referred to the strip that made me love xkcd.

[SharonDee]

I am totally the second panel.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by Adam

The last panel is totally me in meetings at work.

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[Adam]

I never read that post because I was thinking about Batman.

[BrotherMan]

[Adam]

[Ensign Steve]

Just discovered lead paint comics today on reddit (unless that's the same one with the girl with the baseball bat and the meteor, in which case I've been on board forever).






(The url for that last one is crab-season )

Lead Paint Comics

[BrotherMan]

I loved the tangent rant following this one:

TF2

I finally saw Transformers 2 last night, and I basically took two things from the experience. The first is I will probably never get tired of watching Optimus Prime kill decepticons. Ever. I’ve been watching him wreck house since I was three years old, and the experience never seems to lose its appeal. For the 10 or whatever amount of minutes you get to watch Prime fight in the new movie, I am grateful for this facet of my personality. I wasn’t a huge fan of the big fight with the unicycle robot in the beginning, but the rest of the fight scenes with Prime were really stellar, if a bit short. The most accurate descriptor I can think of is “Brutally awesome.”

The second thing I’m taking away from the film is apparently I can sit through a movie that is otherwise quite bad just to watch my childhood hero be awesome for a tiny fraction of the film’s running time. Because make no mistake, Transformers 2 is really a pretty horrible movie.

The plot is convoluted and nonsensical, which isn’t a major offense for a sci-fi movie, but it doesn’t exactly start things off on the right foot either. Plus, it’s only the tip of the scripting terror that is this movie.

The storyline has the most bizarre and inexplicable pace, devoting huge amounts of time to Shia LeBeouf’s cheeky and incredulous antics that I don’t really give a shit about, because it’s not at all robots fighting. You get like 2 minutes of robots doing something, then 20 or so of Shia being a boring dumbass at college or not knowing how to handle things with his girlfriend Ms. Blowjob Face*. Repeat for two-and-a-half hours. Even when Shia and Blowjob Face are running through the desert, trying to get to the action that I wish I was watching, its still really boring, because IT’S NOT ROBOTS FIGHTING. Also, there are like 18 characters in this movie that are entirely too annoying, and that’s 18 too many. I understand that in a movie co-produced by Hasbro there’s going to be some annoying product placement, but Jesus Christ Michael Bay, show some restraint. And please hire some better writers next time to work on your dialogue. The one-liners in this film are baby-stompingly awful. And that’s the second-worst awful there is, right after mother-punching.

I know people are going to be like, “Bloo bloo bloo I like this movie bloo bloo it’s meant for kids, that’s why the script is the way it is,” to which my response is “Fuck that.” Go watch Iron Man, and tell me that movie isn’t meant for kids and adults, just like this one is supposed to be, and seriously try and tell me the Iron Man script isn’t a thousand times better executed, especially for a film that was essentially meant to be a studio summer cash cow. I’ll be waiting right here, with a crowbar and Jon Favreau’s ability to tell a coherent story.

I can't help but be thralled by their devotion to Cookie Monster. It's cute and disturbing. Cutesturbing. Discutening.

Lessons from Cookie Monster

The three most common lessons Cookie Monster teaches:

• Cookies are delicious.
  
• Cookies are a useful tool for learning how to count.
  
• When greatly out-sized by your prey, always aim for the throat or other weak areas.

[Ensign Steve]

Today's abstruse goose kind of blew my mind.



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[JoeP]

Nevermind the cellphone, he's checking wikipedia and google while driving. As one does.

[Ensign Steve]

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