gdp's Comments

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Brothers in Arms Comics #1 and #2 are in stores!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:05:59 +0000

YAY!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Overruled. I'm going to allow this.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:06:41 +0000

There's a typo for "objection!"

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : The Bit Goes on for Like 6 Minutes

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:28:34 +0000

Chris Sabat has appeared in every single Brothers in Arms game, including Hell's Highway. He plays a British guy in the newest one.

Joel, you've had more lines than him in every single game. So, enjoy those apples.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : The Bit Goes on for Like 6 Minutes

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:26:33 +0000

Accelerate your life IN THE MOTHA FUCKIN NAVY!

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Need some feedback on Shirt Design

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:14:12 +0000

Way late to the party, but here is my eleventy cents. I like the pink spacesuit but DRAW IT SO IT MATCHES JOSH mr. photoshop cutout filter. It doesn't hang together so hot right now-- especially the lighting.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Does Whatever an Iron Can

Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:13:49 +0000

I find it interesting (oh, and preface that I'm stealing your post to soapbox) that people think of Batman Begins as an "adaptation."

*ahem* If I may...

Batman Begins is a re-imagining of the whole Batman mythology. It borrows lightly from a few key books (Year One, Killing Joke, various Jeph Loeb ventures, etc) but it really goes out of it's way to tell its own story and background for Bruce Wayne and the man behind the mask. He starts the movie as a prisoner in some strange Chin- erhm, Asian prison of unknown origin and we watch as an aimless Bruce Wayne is turned into Batman by RA'S FUCKING AL GHUL. He eventually goes against his master but he was clearly the person that developed this idea of fear as a weapon (conveniently teamed up with Scarecrow, the only other villain that uses fear so well.)

Before anyone bites off my esophagus and makes a Chinese finger trap out of it-- I love Batman Begins. I think it's easily the best Batman movie ever made (and yes, I'm putting Mask of the Phantasm on there _and_ BB: Return of the Joker ) but it really isn't attempting to be canonical. This is the part where I'm getting to the soapbox:

The people responsible for making these movies in Hollywood have been taking shit for so many years when a crappy superhero movie comes out because it's not the "true origin" or its "outside of canon." But, in reality, those internet soapboxers (IRONY!) are missing the point. The movies were shitty. I think a re-imagining, a lot of times, is _exactly_ what these origin stories need. Most of these mythologies have existed over some 60-some odd years and have been twisted and ret-conned to hell and back (lookin' at you, Death of Superman : Just Kidding!) Batman Begins was awesome because they didn't dwell on the same old bullshit we'd seen a hundred times before. It was pure. It was new. We witnessed an aimless Bruce Wayne misplace his anger with such an epic fail there was no way he should have come out of it-- but Ra's and Alfred saved him- hell, they created who he really was. That never existed in a single comic, or in over 80 years of continuity, or in hundreds of thousands of lines of dialog.

How fuckin' cool is that?

PS. Fantastic Four sucks.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : I'm going to ask Battlestar Galactica to Homecoming

Thu, 3 Apr 2008 22:41:27 +0000

I didn't laugh at first-- and then I saw that the paper was octagonal and then I started laughing a lot. It was the details that did it for me.

Excellent.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Tragedy + Irony = April Fools Comedy!

Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:23:41 +0000

Oh, Chad. Don't encourage this behavior. It's bad for everyone, but it's especially bad for me. That shit smells toxic like a Brittany video. Yech.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : The Architect's Dilemma

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:13:17 +0000

I are. I expect payment of said smallish banana at your earliest convenience.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : The Architect's Dilemma

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:14:53 +0000

I KNEW ARGYLE WAS THE WAY TO GO. BOOOOSH

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : An Oscar Caliber Performance

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:27 +0000

::spoiler warning:: See the movie or be spoiled here. I'm posting it though, because you opened the can of worms.

In the movie there's a whole set up about both Daniel Plainview and the preacher, having a milkshake. He uses it as a metaphor for how to drill oil. He drinks "his milkshake" even though he didn't have to be in possession of the milkshake because he has a really long straw. It's an era metaphor given life by the character.

Without the set up (and you haven't seen the movie, so this makes more sense) the joke doesn't actually make sense. Daniel Plainview did not just run around yelling "I drink your milkshake" for two hours. I think that's why the comic is just befuddling. I saw the movie twice and this just made me go, hrmmmm.

Joel also did not beat Eli to death with a bowling pin after screaming about the milkshake to be followed IMMEDIATELY by the credits and peppy music. The genius of the movie.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Battleship: The Movie, The Game, The Breakfast Cereal

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:43:41 +0000

My family used to play it all the time because 9 year olds can't win games like that. How did Contra never get made into an awesome movie?

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Battleship: The Movie, The Game, The Breakfast Cereal

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:05:45 +0000

I remember that game pretty well. It was awesome to collect the driving gloves and the non-deflatable tires-- Hot diggity, that game was _so_ french, it kills me. It's about speeding and reckless driving FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Call it a going away present

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:36:21 +0000

Obligatory Office Space quote.

Wait, shit. I did this wrong.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : The comic will be up tonight

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:41:13 +0000

Damn, I was thinkin' the same thing. And now my joke is ruined.

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Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:44:14 +0000

I always liked the one where that fat guy mowed the lawn. Man, AfterDark's shit was so mesmerizing back in the day. The chalkboard, toasters, that space fighting game... all bank.

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Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:22:57 +0000

OH! And there's a local (or two) Dallas Comic Conventions... mayhaps me and Joel will start a car pool.

A literal car pool. It drives and has a diving board.

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Bluehost.com: I invite you to eat a dick

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:22:16 +0000

I'm trying to decipher your name.

When is ComicCon during the year?

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Bluehost.com: I invite you to eat a dick

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:24:28 +0000

Or, in a future comic about the FUTURE, you make me the evil villain of I've always needed and wanted to be so I have a much better avatar involving my flowing golden hair and a six jaguars that carry my ectoplasmic throne around (yes, my throne is made of ghost mojo from Ghostbusters, kachow!)

HijiNKS ENSUE - A Geek Comic : Bluehost.com: I invite you to eat a dick

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:05:47 +0000

Wow. That really is the best story ever.

And I've seen Rhino's go after a watermelon-- not pretty.