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Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 29 - Discovery in the Woods
Gregg Samsa:
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--- Quote from: Rijst on January 26, 2015, 11:45:27 AM ---You'd have to write that into the story though. Like a frame where the police find the dead ninja and one cop asks "Why do his eyes look that way?" and then another replies with "That's what your eyes look like after you've gazed into Hell. Haven't you seen The Beyond?". The first cop then says "No, I haven't.". You could even make him look like me, since I too haven't seen The Beyond..
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Except all movies/video games/bands and such in the 198X-verse have to have a parody name that is usually another way to say the same thing (e.g. New Kids on the Block becomes Fresh Teens on the Street), or the parody name references the content of the original (e.g. Caddyshack becomes Gopher Golf). So The Beyond would become something like The Afterlife (if I were feeling lazy) or perhaps Hellgate Hotel.
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Given we're in the 198X universe, you'd have to parody the name Seven Doors of Death if this is in America - it didn't get a released as the Beyond in the US until the mid-90's.
Gregg Samsa:
--- Quote ---Given we're in the 198X universe, you'd have to parody the name Seven Doors of Death if this is in America - it didn't get a released as the Beyond in the US until the mid-90's.
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Seven Whores of Death - I just came up with Sam's next terrifying porn adventure.
Rijst:
--- Quote from: Gregg Samsa on January 27, 2015, 12:22:54 PM ---
--- Quote ---Given we're in the 198X universe, you'd have to parody the name Seven Doors of Death if this is in America - it didn't get a released as the Beyond in the US until the mid-90's.
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Seven Whores of Death - I just came up with Sam's next terrifying porn adventure.
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Did you just start a discussion with yourself? Good catch though, you must be a The Beyond expert.
--- Quote from: Adam Dravian on January 27, 2015, 08:19:46 AM ---
--- Quote from: Rijst on January 26, 2015, 11:45:27 AM ---You'd have to write that into the story though. Like a frame where the police find the dead ninja and one cop asks "Why do his eyes look that way?" and then another replies with "That's what your eyes look like after you've gazed into Hell. Haven't you seen The Beyond?". The first cop then says "No, I haven't.". You could even make him look like me, since I too haven't seen The Beyond..
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Except all movies/video games/bands and such in the 198X-verse have to have a parody name that is usually another way to say the same thing (e.g. New Kids on the Block becomes Fresh Teens on the Street), or the parody name references the content of the original (e.g. Caddyshack becomes Gopher Golf). So The Beyond would become something like The Afterlife (if I were feeling lazy) or perhaps Hellgate Hotel.
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The really lazy solution would be calling it Over there somewhere, or you could refer to a non-existing sequel, Beyond the beyond
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--- Quote ---That's true, but isn't that mostly to save money on the special effects budget?
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I believe the tradition began in books and folktales well before film came along, so I don't think that's the only reason. Besides, it allows you to have the big dramatic reveal where the girl discovers that the evil werewolf that she just killed was actually her boyfriend/teacher/grandpa/mail man. Or, if the story wants to be even more shocking, the beast will turn out to be a woman. Oooooo...
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It's a true literary tradition! To be honest I only realised the wings were gone after revisiting the page where he got shot. One other way is to update the page to show the wings disappearing / disintegrating in frame 7 of Spooky Powers..
aett:
Calling it now: this whole "magic ninja glove" thing goes nowhere. ;)
But seriously, I keep expecting a powerful revenge sequence not unlike in The Mask, even if that movie was a few years too late for this comic.
My Babe Alert isn't ringing. Is this the first page in months without sexy curves and bodacious bods?
Michigander1911:
Other than Eddie tripping over the body this is pretty much how I predicted Eddie finding the glove from the beginning. Walking home late after some kind defeat and stumbling on it.
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