Ditto, in white
but I don't want to bother with figuring out how to do his Diabolik-esque mask IRL (it goes INTO his nostrils!) and I don't want to half-ass it with a baggy balaclava
ze Spy
sometimes I think about how I have a light blue suit so I am already most of the way to a third TF2 cosplay
& Knuckles
There are a lot of converging factors at hand, I wonder how much of that is downstream of the consistent issue of "we never figured out a snappy way to refer to 2000-2009".
Like, there are STILL radio stations that tout their selection of "the 80s, 90s, and today!"
Ben Affleck smoking
when Carly Rae Jepsen - Cry comes up on shuffle
I listened to the clean version of "The Fame Monster" so much as a youth it still sounds kind of weird when I re-listen nowadays and Lady Gaga says "bitch" instead of "bit-"
we need a Lupin III/City Hunter crossover special already
This is dope
The response to our Poker Night arts & crafts contest was over the top, both in the sheer number of entries (more than 300!) and in the creativity on display.
We’ve spent the last few weeks oohing and ahhing over the entries & the last few days feverishly deliberating over which we liked best. 🧵 👇
Mambo V 🎺
h/t methsyndicate
I'm going to cut you some slack. Trust me. Just turn around and walk away.
optimus prime be like i just drove in from denver and boy are my arms tires
I keep thinking about trying to get one of those READ posters but I don't trust reprinters on ebay to not sell me a 72dpi jpeg blown up to blurry af size
Also funny when people don't recognize him when the other three are objectively more obscure/less-updated. glass houses and all that.
sort of a correlary to my theory that a plurality of modern PAX attendees have never read Penny Arcade
haven't picked up the Poker Night remaster but I am enjoying the new wave of Tycho Brahe slander
nose started running an hour or two ago. I better FUCKING not be sick AGAIN
looking at the list of Sakuracon meetups and EVERY TIME I do I misread "Gachiakuta" as "gachimuchi"
don't forget the Tandy
You can tell when i'm watching a comedy-drama because i stop laughing sometimes
friend posted this draw your fave characters template and spent the day having fun with it
oooh that Koike Lupin
"Ah! Comic books!!"
moral of the story: comics are cool
BUT ultimately ig the meme supports McCloud's point w/r/t comics and engagement: with a cartoon you read and 'hear' your own voice, despite being drawn as a bespectacled dark-haired man he's largely abstracted... this and more allows (invites?) readers to insert their own personas into the scenario
(I feel this most prominently with cosplay where I prefer to subsume myself into the character. Not that I LARP or am a screen-accuracy absolutist, more to where it functions as an interpretation of the work. I don't tend to inject my personal style and don't like doing transition skits)
I'm sure some of this is a "me thing" – though I've certainly been active in fan spaces I've never been one to engage with comics by making self-inserts, OCs, 'sonas, reading "y/n" fics... media I love is something I engage with externally without directly inserting myself in its narrative/function
(can't speak for McCloud, of course, but,) my read of the original two-panel was always that it's meant to be more than a little self-effacing and understated, so it's interesting how extremely designed, expressive, "look at me!" BOTH images are in most meme redraws
Not that that's a bad thing...
fascinating how "simple style"/"like this" took off even though that phrase doesn't make much sense out of context...tho the book is SO dense and constantly building upon itself that even sharing 8× the panel count still feels like I'm posting stuff "out of context"...!
cracked open "Understanding Comics" again bc of trends and had to stop myself from rereading the whole thing cover-to-cover. still as absolutely fascinating, insightful, and enthralling as when I first read it over a decade ago.
