The online comic Sore Thumbs in actuality has only one of the three qualities above. Can you guess which one? Don't hurt yourself thinking about it. To be completely honest, I've never been a big fan of Chris Crosby's work, though I do support his numerous empires. And this simply has to be a joke. It HAS to be! No one in their right minds--not even Chris Crosby--could possibly believe that a manga-style comic can feature big-breasted anime chicks AND thoughtful leftist political commentary together! Fortunately, there is a complete and total lack of thoughtful leftist political commentary within the confines of this online comic, which is just as well. As Kris Straub puts it, it contains nothing more than "anti-Republican straw man arguments". I thought that was a bit harsh, until I started reading the archives and slowly realized just how correct he was. It just isn't taking itself seriously, and I'm thinking it just has to be a big joke. If it isn't, well, then that's just sad that they actually think this kind of style can be anything other than completely and totally ineffectual. Now I'm having a dilemma of sorts. You see, there's some kind of audacious battling going on between the Sore Thumbs people, the Checkerboard Nightmare people (Kris), and some other comics, which is starting to make me believe this is all just an elaborate publicity stunt. I don't know what to think anymore, especially when I read the comic that appeared to be mocking Penny Arcade's Child's Play efforts. I mean, who mocks that? Almost $30,000 in cash and hundred of thousands of games for needy kids stuck in a children's hospital? If you can make fun of that and still look at yourself in the mirror every morning, you are a much bigger man than I. Or smaller. Whatever. I'm done giving them air time.
Speaking of online comics, I keep forgetting to mention Ctrl-Alt-Del by Tim Buckley. I have a very small set of comics that I read every week, and that comic recently made the upgrade into my list. I think it was the sentient Xbox that did it. Who knows for sure?
So, did I happen to mention that my nephew lost my copy of Metroid Fusion? I wasn't finished, actually I was at the last battle with the SA-X. It's gone now. I threatened to make him give me his allowance for the next couple of months to pay for a replacement, but how do you do that without coming off sounding like a bully? He's 10! "Gimmie your lunch money!" Ugh. To make it worse, his mom (my sister) is a single mom and a kindergarten teacher. She's sick about him losing my game, but I'm not about to demand her to give me a replacement. I'm just counting it gone. Alas, it was never meant to be. That's okay, I'm still knee deep in Battle Network and Mario & Luigi anyways. Who has the time, I ask you? Who has the time...?
I also managed to finish "Neverwhere" this past week. Excellent piece of fiction. I'd definitely recommend Neil Gaiman to anyone even remotely interested in scifi. It really brings out what I consider to be the absolute essence of scifi. Where most people think it's all about robots and aliens and spaceships, we scifi afficianados know better. It delves deeper into what is possible in the realm of the imagination. Truly inspiring stuff. "Neverwhere" is especially good because it makes me want to visit London, something I've never even considered previously.
Is Nintendo's purchase of Kuju going to pay off in the form of "Cube Wars"? Only time will tell. I thought Advance Wars was the most fun one could have playing a strategy game on the GBA. Let's see if Kuju can make the same magic come to life for the Cube, though rumors place the game as being more action-based, set within the Advance Wars universe. Like I said, only time will tell.
That's all for now, kids. But really, isn't that more than enough...?
Posted by evilnetwork
at 10:28 AM CDT
