Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Assassin Goes Back in Time and Doesn't Kill Anyone...
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I know. You're disappointed. Sorry.
Today, I took my son to my uncle's comic book store for the first time since he was little. I don't know why it took me so long. I spent a lot of time in that place as a kid.
I come from a comic book family. My father and his baby brother, Tim, loved comic books since they were kids. My dad introduced me to Golden Age DC as a kid. Everyone in the family had their favorites. Mine, of course, was Wonder Woman. (Duh!)
We went every Saturday as a family. My job was selling the coney dogs in the back. I even indirectly met my husband through that place. It was awesome.
So today, I took my 11 year old to Tim's Corner. Uncle Tim talked to him about comics and Jack managed to relieve me of my oh-so-unwieldy money.
I, in turn, showed him the picture of Vigilante I drew for Uncle Tim in 1983, that he STILL had on the ceiling of his shop. That was so cool. He just shrugged. Sigh.
So I have this idea. We need a Pirate Chick comic book. I think this crew should come up with a pirate comic, featuring the crew of terrifying, hard-drinking, kraken-owning crew - sailing the seas and looking for rum, loot and smoking hot cabin boys. The order of these things is irrelevant.
I think it could be HUGE. We just need an illustrator who could draw us all with tiny waists, long legs and huge breasts...
What say you?
The Assassin
PS - the knitted praying mantis goes to Hellion. I'll start on the kraken once I finish Paris' book. Um, do we have ship colors?
Bo'sun adding Assassin's Kraken pics. (We have to get one of these!)
Are these the coolest things or what???
[/caption]I know. You're disappointed. Sorry.
Today, I took my son to my uncle's comic book store for the first time since he was little. I don't know why it took me so long. I spent a lot of time in that place as a kid.
I come from a comic book family. My father and his baby brother, Tim, loved comic books since they were kids. My dad introduced me to Golden Age DC as a kid. Everyone in the family had their favorites. Mine, of course, was Wonder Woman. (Duh!)
We went every Saturday as a family. My job was selling the coney dogs in the back. I even indirectly met my husband through that place. It was awesome.
So today, I took my 11 year old to Tim's Corner. Uncle Tim talked to him about comics and Jack managed to relieve me of my oh-so-unwieldy money.
I, in turn, showed him the picture of Vigilante I drew for Uncle Tim in 1983, that he STILL had on the ceiling of his shop. That was so cool. He just shrugged. Sigh.
So I have this idea. We need a Pirate Chick comic book. I think this crew should come up with a pirate comic, featuring the crew of terrifying, hard-drinking, kraken-owning crew - sailing the seas and looking for rum, loot and smoking hot cabin boys. The order of these things is irrelevant.
I think it could be HUGE. We just need an illustrator who could draw us all with tiny waists, long legs and huge breasts...
What say you?
The Assassin
PS - the knitted praying mantis goes to Hellion. I'll start on the kraken once I finish Paris' book. Um, do we have ship colors?
Bo'sun adding Assassin's Kraken pics. (We have to get one of these!)
Are these the coolest things or what???
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I love comic too, especially those with lanky Japanese hunks. A pirate chick...does she own a ship?
Chemical Fusion
If she's talking about this crew, then yes, we own a ship. LOL! This ship! Welcome, Enid. We're happy to have you aboard.
This is a brilliant idea. Man, this ship is filled with brilliance! I'm not artistic, so I'm out on the illustration side. I'd say our colors are brown, black, and red. Others may see it differently. (And don't listen to Chance cause she'll say neon green with orange highlights and then no one will be able to come aboard with their eyes open!)
My day is totally off whack because my car is officially possessed. I'm taking her to be exorcised (I wish I was kidding) but I'll be back. Soon. Maybe. Eventually.
Firstly, I apologize fer tryin' to steal yer day, don't kill me. I got me Friday's bamboozled... Course, this means I could crawl back inta bed...
But a comic book! Would be wondrous...
Brown, black and red? What are we, goth pirates? Can we toss in some turquoise at least? I want a turquoise head scarf and I do hope our flag has a big feathered quill pen on it...drippin' red!
I am fond of turquoise too. I look good in that color. :)
OK, A) that is so COOL your drawing is still on the ceiling--it's so good!; and B) we should so totally have a Pirate Chicks comic book.
I WON THE PRAYING MANTIS!!!?? Awesome! I'm so excited!!!! *bouncing up and down* He'll be my pirate sidekick, the praying mantis who does martial arts and talks like Yoda.
I would agree with Bo'sun's ship colors--we are a bunch of women who are fond of wearing black for the most part. And I love wearing red too. That's rather traditional though, and not very hip. Anyone for black and hot pink as the ship colors?
I see the comic as US, in our ship, sailing around the world, righting some sort of wrongs against puppies or something, while exploiting liquor and men. Oh, and it would be funny.
We'd need some arch-villains! Who would they be?
One would have to be the nasty Inner Critic, who would change disguises everywhere we ran into him. That's a given. And the Kraken always eats him at the end, like on South Park where Kenny always dies.
Oooh! A shapeshifter for the critic! I like that!
Do we invent a pirate who always dies or do we have any volunteers?
You mean have our own Kenny on the ship? Can we make the Undead Monkey die--then he comes back to life?
Not a bad idea. Or the "Kenny" could be a cabin boy named Bob or something.
A cabin boy named Bob. Oh, yes, please. That appeals to me. And Bob, though he tries...he doubts which is why the IC always manages to trick him into some absurd method of dying.
You could practice methods of death, Leslie!
To fix a dead Bob, do we have to replace his batteries?
Batteries only belong in the ship's vibrators, Hellie!
I'm now working from home waiting for the dreaded call of how much this auto-exorcism is going to cost. *sigh*
How do you kill an undead monkey?
I knew that battery comment was coming. LOL!
I suppose I could live with touches of turquoise. Not sure about the hot pink.
And I am impressed by your artistic abilities, Leslie. I couldn't color inside the lines so for you to have artwork hanging in a store for decades is pretty dang cool.
Well, Bob can be very bland until he's turned on... ;-)
Les, that's exactly what Hellie means.
BOB = Battery Operated Boyfriend.
8)
Oooh! I'd never heard that before! I love it!
Terri, what the hell is going on with your car? Is it Christine?
I drew more when I was younger. Now I write. I think we need to find a kickass chick illustrator.
I believe my electrical system has gone wacky. She's started dinging at me while we're riding along, flashing POWER STEERING across the radio, and today all the warning lights came on at the same time. While I was driving to the dealership.
Whose idea was it to put computers in cars?!
If it is a recall, it shouldn't cost you anything. *LOL* Unless they decide your brakes are bad too.
Maybe you should loan her your mantic, Cap'n...to scare the car into behaving...
I agree - computers in cars suck. My husband had a '72 AMC green hornet and he could fix anything on it or in it with just a wire coathanger.
If the issue is only with the power steering then the letter will cover it. If they say the problem is something else in my electrical system and the flashing POWER STEERING thing is a side effect, then I'm screwed.
What are kidneys going for these days?
Les - My dad was a mechanic, but not certified, so when they put computers in, he was basically pushed out of his job. And dad's tool of choice was duct tape.
That's horrible! I've met many, many mechanics who don't even get the computer thing.
Maybe that's our hook! We sail around the world killing these inventors! The guy who put computers in cars...the IDIOT who came up with clamshell casing for toys...that kind of thing!
the IDIOT who came up with clamshell casing for toys
OMG, I gave my niece a my little pony toy last weekend and she spent 30 minutes trying to get out of the wrapper. Each thing she got free was a VICTORY. "A comb! I got a comb!" "Yes, honey, you did."
She finally gave up and asked for help with the pony, which I popped out with a flick. "How did you do that?" she asked accusingly.
This is the perfect mission for us. We will right the wrongs of the world. If anything positive came out of this horrible economy, it was the death of those damn clamshell things.
We need to add clothes makers to the target list. WHY do they make size 16 clothes with little bitty spaces for the girls??
Every time I open one with bloody fingers I scream for revenge!
And those designers who make slutty halloween costumes for little girls.
Ladies - I think we have our story. I really think we should do this! And on the blog, readers contribute inventors we should kill.
We need to start a list. I say we go after people who don't pick up after their dogs...
And demand car makers put sout more than white, black, silver and beige cars. (Americans have the most boring car colors in the world, I swear.)
Oh, the costumes! Finding a kid's costume for a child who is 10 but the size of a 16yr old is impossible. Hell, finding her clothes period. You should be able to find shorts that cover your ass that don't look like their made for little old ladies. (Like me.)
I don't actually mind the car colors. But I'm dull like that. And my car is midnight blue, thank you very much. LOL! Isn't your van bright red?!
So this comic would be an ongoing series. I'm totally in with this.
I love this idea! Can I be a walk-on character?? Like the evil empress JK who sics a tsunami on the crew!?!?!
My van is bright red. My Matrix is white. It's what they had. Sigh. And when I try to find it in a big parking lot I am faced with 70% of the cars around are white and look just like mine.
So, can we go after the CD wrappers, too?
Campaigns...we go after annoying inventors. Then we go after annoying people with bad habits.
One campaign has to be about rewarding the unrecognized heroes in the world!
Wouldn't it be fun to manga/comic an author interview with Captain Jack Sparrow and have that on the blog too?
Who do we know that draws like this? Sin would know somebody. She knows everyone. Plus she's got crap on everyone, so she can strongarm them into working for us for rum.
Fabulous idea!
How the hell do we defeat a tsunami???
Off topic: I should really clean out my fridge more often. I just threw out a coffee creamer that I never opened. It expired in March. It had actually turned into yogurt. Yeesh.
Jk should have a walk-on!
We have a black minivan and an orange kia soul. Looks like halloween in our driveway.
Can it be comic art instead of manga? Manga anime gives me the creeps. I know a couple of artists. I wonder if we should put out a call on FB? Do interviews?
I'm totally into this too. I actually think it could be big. The publicity chick at my former publisher moved to a graphic novel publisher. She actually said, "I bet we work together again someday." Maybe I should email her? We'd need art work first.
Oh, and we could have our own booth at ComicCon. LOL!
Definitely contact your artists. I'd rather have straight comic book art too. (No offense, Sin.) I'd love to write this kind of thing. Or help anyway. Probably as close to para as I'd ever get.
Bo'sun...that is terrible.
*runs to toss away that package of frozen ribs buried in frost behind the empty ice trays
BTW, I love the look of your Kia Sol...how you feeling about it? Been thinking of trading in the minivan...
2nd chance - I did the freezer thing last weekend - sucks...and yet...scientifically interesting...
I LOVE MY KIA SOUL! I doubt though, if anyone sees me in it that their first thought is Gangsta Hamsta.
Yes! A booth at the Con!
*sings*
You can go with this, or you can go with that. You can go with this....
I was behind one of those once and the sticker on the back said, "You just got passed by a hamster."
I'm hoping that creamer was the source of the smell. It couldn't be anything else, the damn things almost empty.
I MUST HAVE THAT BUMPER STICKER!
I'm great with comics too. Just so long as I get long wavy red hair and a pirate hat.
We're planning for booths at Comic Con and we have neither an illustrator nor a story plot yet? That's a cart before the horse situation if I ever heard one.
LOL! I do think we can do this. And yes, you'll get a hat...a really big one!
I just want the Kraken tentacle draped over my shoulders, friendly like in my illustration.
I'm gonna talk the DH into looking at a Kia Sol. I so adore the color. Yes, I'm that sort of woman...
Me too! I must have my color!
Hey, how do we post a photo here? I've got a kraken pic to show you.
You could just add it to the blog.
I'm too tech illiterate. I sent em to Terri - can you post one or two?. It's from a local public art project. It's called the River Monster - Kraken. Wish I'd thought of that.
She sent the pics before I saw this comment. LOL! They're up now. Though I think they're invading the comments!
http://thebloggess.com/2011/07/would-you-like-to-buy-a-monkey/
You guys have to read this.
I love her! Can she draw comic books?
You can always post it to FB...
Hey, if we get this comic going maybe they'll make a movie! You know, Pirates & Aliens! ;-)
I'm so going to that movie this weekend!
Can we get Daniel Craig too????
I vote yes.
Maybe we could rescue him over and over in the comic book.
rescue him over and over inthe comic book ... from what? The aliens or us?
And yes, I want some pink inflatable kraken arms...
Oh, Mattiecakes has met his match, btw... I putting money on Copernicus.
Good news! Car is fixed, oil is changed, tires rotated, and I paid NOTHING. Ha! Dude tried to trick me with bullcrap about the check engine light being on AFTER they fixed the first problem. Right. He wanted to keep it to do another diagnotics test tomorrow. As if.
I picked it up and the light is not on so far. Dude had no idea who he was dealing with.
Yeah, Terrio!
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