FARTS! It's the podcast that only Bo demanded!!! We discuss our dream farts, beats, Nick's nightmare fart, the diarrhea song, shower farts, and farts in comics. WE'RE TALKIN' 30 MINUTES OF FARTS!!!
THEN: After the end theme, we talk about comics for 20 mins. Ross tells his story about how he got into the comics industry (thx to Crowforge).
NOTE: Today's main topics come from Ross's deviantART podcast suggestions post.
ALSO: Ross loves the Paper Wings podcast.
DOUBLE ALSO: Nick's got pie!!!
AND: Ending story arcs.
NEXT: Finding a publisher and getting paid.
Love and Rockets has some farting. "Bront!" being the sound effect I remember.
Bront? That's a strange SFX for a fart. I guess I kinda get it. Brrnt makes more sense to me, though.
It was used for like a loud, fierce fart- kind of the 'no one else is here, might as well let it rip' sort.
For some reason after listening to the fartcast I was farting all afternoon- glad I was alone!
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bront is a pretty awesome sound effect. i haven't read Love & Rockets, though! Rachelle on twitter also pointed out Erika Moen's comics have farts, not sure if you guys are familiar with her work though. there have to be some other ones i'm not remembering... there might have been a fart in an issue of Sleepwalker.
I don't remember how much farting there was, but Akira Toriyama's 'Dr. Slump' is full of poop gags. And wasn't there a bunch of farts in the Austin Powers movies?
Ross, I also wanted to chime in on 'Water Baby's ending. I love it. So much emotional satisfaction those final pages. It is very much my favorite of the MINX line.
If you're interested in watching a movie with half a climax and no real ending, check out 'Sword of Doom', directed by Kihachi Okamoto. It blew my 18 year old mind when I first saw it.
Bront!
BRONTTTTT!!!!!!!!
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@Jason: aw, thanks!!! really glad you liked the Water Baby ending, that's good to hear. :D i felt like there was good satisfaction too, but sometimes i wonder whether it's easy for me because i'm the author and i'm writing the characters so even when the satisfaction (or whatever emotional point) works in my head and i feel for the characters it doesn't work for anyone else.
Sword of Doom added to netflix queue! one movie i remembered after the fact is Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive, it's structured like a regular mob/gangster type movie and kind of has a semi-third act but then goes completely insane at the very end and just stops. also blew my mind much like your Sword of Doom experience.
another strange ending is Hatchet, which has a pretty typical slasher movie structure but the last scene is a prolonged "final scare" moment where the slasher character appears again and then the movie ends mid-shot and practically mid-dialogue, it's really weird and hilarious.
Gotta re-watch Hatchet then, because I remember it as having a pretty standard "slasher" ending.
I was also wondering if maybe you guys could talk about co-authoring and/or co-creating works on the show sometime? I ask because a friend and I are kinda trying to start-up a web-comic with him doing the art and my writing based off his concept/character-idea, so I thought I'd ask if either of you had any thoughts or tips or anything on the subject.
Jason: i don't know how you could forget the ending! so funny. it ends abruptly like they ran out of film in the camera. whenever i read people's opinions about Hatchet online they either hate the ending or love it, i guess it's pretty polarizing (usually people seem to lean toward hating it).
co-authorship/creating would be a cool topic, yeah. here's a cool post about collaboration by Darryl Ayo, and Nick left a great comment on it so be sure to read that too: http://comixcube.com/2011/08/26/it-takes-two-collaboration-within-indie-comics/ i'll save my thoughts on the subject in case Nick and i do an episode about it. :D
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@Jason: I'd love to do an episode about collaboration/co-creating comics. Almost every single one of my comics has been a collaboration (or if it didn't start that way, it turned into one). Obviously Ross will have a much more professional point of view on the topic (and he has one story in particular that I'd love for him to share... though I'm not sure if it's something he'd want to talk about). But I can provide some perspective from an amateur level. In fact, I think we discussed this topic a bit on our Sequential Underground podcast... actually, I just checked and we haven't done a collaboration-specific episode yet. But I know we discuss it on there all the time.
@Ross: I thought Darryl's positivity in his blog post was terrific, though to me it suggested he hasn't collaborated much (I'm not familiar with his body of work). Personally, I think anyone that's collabo'd on an indie level will tell you how difficult it can get, especially when there's no money upfront. And that's what my comment was all about and I was really hoping he'd respond to it, but he didn't!!!! Anyway, yeah, I'd love to discuss our respective collaboration experiences, either as part of the next episode or the one after that.
@Ross Haha. Yeah, I think I'd kinda tuned out of Hatchet by the end. The character building was fun, but once the killing started I just got bored. But if it ends the way you say, I think you'll dig Sword of Doom.
That was a really cool blog post too. But I think Nick was really spot on with his critique. Or at least I would think that, as I'm *still* trying to get my friend to talk to me for more than a couple sentences about our comic project (Curse you his full-time job! Though not his rapidly approaching marriage!) because while I like the idea, I want to see eye-to-eye before I really get writing. If that makes sense.
@Nick: i don't think i want to share the story i think you're thinking about not because i don't feel like it but because i don't want to air that dirty laundry, and i'd rather protect the involved parties and keep it under wraps. maybe i can refer to it in an oblique way. i was hoping Darryl would reply to your comment, too!! d'oh.
@Jason: haha, that's okay. Hatchet is one of my favorite movies, or at least one of my favorite slasher movies, it knocked my damn socks off when i first saw it. oh man the kills in it are so good. XD
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I like to gross out the ladies by saying they're inhaling poop-dust.
I think the tub fart is worse than the shower fart.
I actually had a fart question pop into my head while I was refilling soy sauce dispensers tonight: Farts are generally used for comedic effect, but how would you use them for *drama*? I couldn't think of anything.
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@Byron: that's a good line. i'll try it on Justique later.
@Mark: the tub fart IS nasty. i really hate baths, though, and i never take them... so i forgot about the tub fart.
@Jason: OMG. that's like narrative breakthru -- the dramatic fart.
Re: a recording of the diarrhea song, Dave Chappelle had a choir sing it in an episode of Chappelle's Show. I can't find it online though. >.<
we should make it our new theme song.
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