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Aug18

ALIEN VS PREDATOR VS THE AUDIENCE – WE LOSE

August 18th, 2004 | by Tom
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ALIEN VS PREDATOR VS THE AUDIENCE – WE LOSE

Well, I’m back in the comic saddle, as it were. There are certain perks that go along with that. Like an extra incentive sketch for you! Click here to vote for Theater Hopper on buzzComix and see what happens to Tom when he gets a little too close to one of those creepy Alien egg-things… We’ve kind of slipped down the charts a little bit at buzzComix, so hopefully this new sketch will help Theater Hopper jump up a couple places on the list.

One last shout-out to Dave Hinkle who gave me an excellent guest comic on Monday to help me get back into the groove after the Chicago convention. Check out his comic, Security’s Finest for me, will you? Dave’s guest comic has been removed from the archive and now found a home on the Bonus Materials page.

What do you think of the extra-special cameo in today’s comic?

└ Tags: Alien Vs. Predator, bi-polar, confusion, dating, faith, gestation, intelligence, Joe and Monkey, knife trick, Lance Henriksen, skull, Zach Miller
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Aug20

IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN FIND YOUR READING GLASSES

August 20th, 2004 | by Tom
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(8 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)
IN SPACE, NO ONE CAN FIND YOUR READING GLASSES

Since I created an Aliens vs. Predator showdown in last Friday’s incentive sketch and depicted a face hugger attacking Tom in Wednesday’s sketch, I had a request from someone in the THorum to draw a chestburster. So I did. Vote for Theater Hopper at buzzComix if you want to see it.

I went outside the lines a little with my rendering. Since I pretty much gave you the goods in panel three of today’s strip, I decided to have a little fun with things. Anyone who’s a fan of Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs will recognize what I’m referencing.

In other buzzComix news, apparently Jeff Rowland of W.I.G.U. and John Allison of Scary Go Round have decided to join the race for the top spot and it has everyone… well, BUZZING! Why I’ve decided to help the competition by directly linking to them, I’ll never know. But both are quality comics and actually, I think their addition could really class things up at buzzComix. I say this with the full knowledge that their participation could knock me off the Top 10.

BUT THAT WON’T HAPPEN IF YOU REMEMBER TO VOTE EVERYDAY!

(Do I sound desperate enough, yet?)

At any rate, I’m still having a grand old time making fun of Alien vs. Predator. Truthfully, I could probably keep going with this. I have another comic idea in the bin for Monday.

Even though I complain about how poor the final movie was, that doesn’t mean it isn’t ripe for parody! Particularly the largest bone of contention in the movie among franchise fans – The gestation period of the Aliens.

I’m not going to go into a huge rant about it, but in AvP, it seems like it literally takes minutes for the Aliens to complete their life cycle from egg, to face hugger, to an implanted embryo, to chestburster and finally, to drone.

Some people have suggested the speed of the process was enhanced by the Predators who did so to accelerate the hunt. There are even reports that director Paul Anderson has said the same thing, but that it wasn’t communicated in the movie because the movie studio – Fox – mucked with the editing.

Personally, I chalk it up to piss-poor film making. It would have taken literally two minutes to explain why there are full grown Aliens running around the temple two scenes after the first group of humans were attacked by the face huggers.

And DON’T give me any crap about the audience not having an accurate reference for how much time passes in the film. I didn’t hear anyone say “I’m so tired! We’ve been running for hours! We should stop for sleep!” Especially not in a pyramid that reconfigures every 10 minutes.

At any rate, that’s my two cents. I was hoping to find something nice to wrap this up with, but I ran out of steam. So there you have it.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Stop by the THorum if you’re not busy, log in and say “Hi!”

└ Tags: Alien Vs. Predator, chstburster, drone, egg, facehugger, gestation, senior citizen, tickles
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