Shawn, Pete, and Nick are finally back in Pittsburgh after their jaunt in Scranton. BUT WAIT! Another time-weary traveler is set to join them in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
OOO WEE! This log is late!!! Sorry for posting this about 12 hours after the usual time... I've had the good fortune to be nominated for a webcomics award, but bad judgement in time management while promoting myself.
I mean, don't get me wrong -- everyone working on Time Log is time challenged when it comes to deadlines. It's just that as the editor, I'm supposed to make it look like I never miss a deadline!!!
In all seriousness, though, I was also busy working on a print version of Time Log ACT I -- a version which we intend to print in color with Time Log's unique dimensions! Basically, what I'm saying is that you should scoop up your own copy of this unique gem once it rolls off the presses.
Speaking of which... have you picked up your copy of the Time Log one-shot (ya know, the story that happened BEFORE this story)? No?! Well why not?!?!?! We make it so easy for you! Grab it digitally from Amazon or DriveThruComics. OR let me know in the comments that you'd like a print copy and I'll email you with the ordering info.
Granted, there were only six entries in the Webcomics Category, and there are exactly six finalists... so do the math yourself. But I'll be damned if I'm not gonna fight like hell to win this award!!!
Voting is open only to SPACE exhibitors from the 2010 show, and voting is open until January 31, 2011.
If you're one of those exhibitors, I'd like to take a moment to thank you for reading this and invite you to read all the Super Haters strips eligible for consideration!!!
According to the rules, any comics posted online between April 20, 2009 and April 24, 2010 are fair game. For me, that would mean Super Haters #1-41.
I'm taking a page from Jim Rugg's book and making these eligible Super Haters webcomics as accessible as possible. Here are the different ways you can check out the nominated comic strips:
You can also check out the new Super Haters Master List to access any individual strip posted here on the site. And, of course, please visit the Super Haters at their new home -- SuperHaters.com!
Good luck to all the 2010 SPACE Prize finalists and thanks to all the exhibitors considering Super Haters as their vote in the Webcomics category!!!
Now, as you may already know, the Haters have moved onto their own blog -- SuperHaters.com -- and they've been running daily since December 1st, 2010.
But from June 25th, 2009 until July 9th, 2010, the Super Haters ran weekly here on the AudioShocker. It was a glorious 13 months of silly superhero satire.
But never fear -- the Haters will be back! New material starts on Groundhog's Day 2011 (that's February 2nd). So, in the meantime, enjoy these classics and get ready for the new strips soon!!!
Justique is on a life or death mission! Can she save the world by the end of the podcast?
But first it's... EXTREME #12! X-Men ( Season 1, Episode 12 ): Ross says animated Bishop is a dope, Nick defends Bishop, Kaylie doesn't care, Jubilee's a slacker, Mystique and Rogue's relationship finally revealed, and Ross hates Storm.
The Video Dead! Kaylie's zombie flick is pure b-movie. Dumb characters galore! And... Sleeping with Hinako! A weird pervy anime of a girl sleeping. Seriously.
Palin's bongo solo. Montell Williams vs. Nick Cannon. Sean Connery in Zardoz:
Neal saw The Proposal AND Get Him to the Greek AND the Aziz Ansari comedy special, Nick wants to discuss nudity in movies past and present, and Justique thinks Miley's bong hits are only the tip of iceberg.
To coincide with the completion of ACT I, I decided to spread Time Log around the web like the fine fruit jelly that it is. Now you can "Like" Time Log on Facebook (as well as read all of ACT I in the photos section):
Or, if you hate Facebook for being a mega social media monolith, you can read all of ACT I on Flickr, owned by Yahoo (a corporation currently dying a slow, painful death).
OR... you can stay here on the AudioShocker and read Time Log easier than ever! See, I designed this little thingamaboo below to help you navagite between the strips:
Plus, since it's tough following a story in bite-sized week-to-week installments, I'll be writing a little intro before each strip to make sure that you're up-to-speed before you read! (Holy shit, that's catchy. "Get up-to-speed before you read!" Note to self: trademark that.)
Anyway, the point IS that now Time Log is easier and better to read than ever before. Every time we finish an act of the story, it'll go up on Facebook and Flickr. And moving back and forth between weekly installments is now a breeze with the new navigator.
Now if only I could get those damn unicorns to show up...
EDIT: Oh! I almost forgot about this! Please vote for Time Log daily on Top Web Comics. A higher ranking on that site means higher visibility and more readers and more entertaining/ridiculous comments on Time Log posts. You DO want more ridiculous comments, right???
I'm really excited to post this drawing, but not because I'm huge Julia Child fan or hater or anything like that. No, it's because this submission spun out of the comments of A Podcast with Ross and Nick #76. And while we never turned #77 into an all-recipe episode, Francisco still submitted his kickass Julia Child sketch and this:
"And now, they get beaten together.
And this, as you remember, we've done a lot of things with eggs before and, whenever they gonna be cooked... or... made into something, they almost always have to be beaten up first.
And this, for some reason, prepares them for the dreadful things that are going to happen to them afterwards.
I think you can think that egg yolks are rather nasty, little people that need to be beaten up and treated roughly and... it's like, 'Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes. And then he'll always do the right thing.'
That's just what you have to feel about egg yolks."
-Julia Child
"The Hollandaise Family" episode of
"The French Chef"
Next week, hate goes on a holiday for Grendel by Wayne Wise!
Not interested in having Neal jump my slot again, Culturology is back with what Vanilla Ice might have called a "brand new adventure," but I'll call "more complaints about stuff that most people think is just fine." Namely: the zombie TV show that was just on and so popular, The Walking Dead.
Is it just me, or was this show popular because people like Mad Men and Breaking Bad so much? Like, people want so badly for there to be good programming on cable television, that they just will themselves into believing that a show which is mediocre at best is one of the great achievements of contemporary televised entertainment. Now, I like zombies as much as the next person, and I think there are probably are interesting things to be said about the current trend of putting the "geist" back into "zeitgeist," but, having gone ahead and jumped on this bandwagon, and watched all six episodes of The Walking Dead, I'm mostly left scratching my head about what people see in this.
The biggest thing that I see is what South Park figured out years ago: the conservative powers that run our censorship boards don't mind grotesque violence. There's a massive double standard between censorship of violence and censorship of sex or speech acts. So zombies are pretty much the safest vehicle for cutting edge cable-TV violence, since they don't have sex and don't talk. In a lot of ways, The Walking Dead is about little more than acts of "Look what we can show on cable TV nowadays! Amazing!" It does nothing new for the zombie genre, nor for the TV drama genre, or anything else, other than there's lots and lots of rotting flesh and gun shots to human skulls. I haven't read the comic book, but I presume a lot of the flat-ness of the zombie mythology is they fault of the book, and not the TV show.
Again, there are probably interesting questions to ask about zombies, so maybe this show was an excuse for zombie nerds to talk about zombies? I'm not really a zombie nerd. I don't really want to talk about it.
DEJA VU! If you're thinking that this week's strip looks oddly familiar, then you're right! You've seen some of today's action waaay back in Time Log #12. But the story itself picks up after the events of Time Log #15:
I had all this awesome stuff to promote along with last week's strip... but this one is a little slower. It's been a behind-the-scenes type of week for me -- I switched my personal websites over to the AudioShocker's web host, and yesterday I wrangled with some serious technical podcasting problems.
But everything seems to be back on track (I hope!). I guess the only new things are my upcoming A Deadpool A Day feature starting next Monday at NickMarino.net, and Shawn's completion of his long-running Gello Apocalypse comic (it's not done for good, but done for now). Oh, and SuperHaters.com is still going strong after its launch last week.
So I guess that's it! Oh, wait, I almost forgot -- remember those unicorns I teased about back when Time Log started? They're almost heeerrree...
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie! State Home for the Ugly, Non-Union Sweat Shop, Toughest Bar in the World, Ross hollers about sexuality's place in the film, where did the ATVs come from?, and "remember the garbage truck?"
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