Supanova: The Rackening

Take THAT, you tacky heathens! Unf!

Take THAT, you tacky heathens! Unf!

I’ll write something more detailed about Friday’s events later.  Today, Saturday, will be the first day of actual signing and cavorting with the native fans, and I’m sure I’ll get into that as well, but I wanted to get out a few things about yesterday.

I wandered around the showroom floor a little bit and checked out the area they were setting up for me to sign at.  It was your standard signing getup, complete with  flaming torches and trapdoors leading to acid vats and such.  Nothing to get too excited about.

Someone pointed out a rack of comics that would be part of the setup, half full of some but not all of my books.  Really, it was just the old school stuff : JTHM, SQUEE!, and I Feel Sick.  Dunno if they had any Jellyfists on site, but I don’t recall them being on the rack.  The rest of the books were issues of Lenore, and I pointed this out, mentioning that those were not done by me but were part of an experiment in teaching violent gorillas to channel their anger into more creative outlets.

The person I pointed this out to responded, saying they were aware of the fact that the books were not works of mine, but that the “people who buy your stuff will buy that stuff, too.”

Like Jesus and the moneylenders, I swiped the issues of Angry Gorilla Comics (Lenore) off the rack, making a huge mess of things.  I proclaimed that readers should maybe pick something new up now and then.  The last thing I want to do is to perpetuate the stereotype that my fans are just tasteless zombies without the desire to pick up more than what’s being marketed directly into their asses.  I’d rather have people genuinely like or despise what I do rather than pick it up blindly as a requirement of their “scene”.

I suggested maybe replacing them with issues of The Walking Dead, something I wish I could talk about to more people, dig?  Something I could geek out to to the people that stand in line to get my child-like scrawl on their copies of JTHM.

Just a note, though:  Pretending to be Jesus and knocking shit all over the place really doesn’t make you look that cool.  I thought it would get me chicks and respect, but mostly it got me dirty looks from the guys that had to pick everything up.  I even joined in, picking up books and saying terrible things about myself, but the damage was done.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-27

  • Router must’ve been plugged into internet from an alternate reality where teaming up with 3 strangers on LIVE for some Nazi Zombies was fun. #
  • Making a helmet that fires scorpions into the face of everyone online with only imagination enough to write “I’m bored.” It’s orange. #
  • Helmet also has a switch for people that sign up for twitter and then immediately write about how stupid they think twitter is. #
  • The helmet drops off a 75 mob in Twittlazan, right by that area where the lobster tries to sell you some Rolos. #
  • @cunch I love that show. in reply to cunch #
  • @staceywatson Screaming into the darkness, indeed. Now fill a sack with Mimobots and leave them at the meeting place. I mean it. in reply to staceywatson #
  • @3liza I swore I wouldn’t pull off another heist, woman. Sure that cop had it comin’, but the kid? The kid didn’t have to die like that. in reply to 3liza #
  • Old news, but a new review and actually a pretty fine take on Jellyfist. It’s like I’m respectable, even: http://tinyurl.com/cax5zp #
  • @staceywatson That hurts my various feelings. I hope it was something amazing, at least. in reply to staceywatson #
  • @staceywatson Now I really want to know the story there. This sounds both amusing and infuriating. in reply to staceywatson #
  • I am afraid I am Duddits, guys. I…Duddits. #
  • Alright, Elaine, 100 more of you since yesterday. Last hundred are off boiler room duty. New Elaines grab a shovel and get to work. #
  • @rstevens I did. I did this while wearing my clothes three sizes too small for me, driving around on top of an R/C clown car. in reply to rstevens #
  • Inking some artwork to be auctioned off for Australian fire relief. Bring your wallets, you cheap jerks. I’m a humanitarian, see? #
  • @Venusbacchus Actually, the kids in the basement are the ones doing the artwork. I just beat and berate them until it’s done. in reply to Venusbacchus #
  • I dunno…there’s a lot of pressure on me for being maybe the nicest guy ever to exist. It’s not easy being like this. I can’t help it. #
  • I punch a guy in the face out of anger and, later, he finds that his facial cancer has been cured. Too nice, man. #
  • I slammed a baby against a tree, and out popped the Corn Nut I didn’t know it was choking on. Mother hugged me. A parade was held. Gah! #
  • I really wish they had left this scene in in ‘Babe: Pig in the City’ – http://tinyurl.com/c8jkyq #
  • Should I land safely, I’ll go from 15 hours of terror in the sky to sadness over the prospect of 2 weeks of paying for internet access. #
  • Just making sure before I take off tonight: Are emergency jetpacks standard on international flights yet? They are, right? Right? #
  • En route to airport. Hope the fact that I am mostly plutonium doesn’t slow me down at security. #
  • As a fine, cultured, traveler of worlds, I will settle for only the deepest, veiniest thrombosis. #
  • Plutonium was a problem. Security said it was too badass. I nodded solemly in agreement. #
  • Hate flying, and Seth Brundle’s too busy eating jam to perfect the telepods. Always the jam. #
  • Agreed to emergency exit seat. Was asked if I was a capable sort. Punched a hole through the wall as proof. There was applause. #
  • Apparently sleeping pills have no affect on me besides making me angrier. #
  • I am in internet hell, Elaine! Data caps, time limits, and expensive. I truly have gone beyond Thunderdome. #
  • I’ll try to update QuestionSleep as much as possible with very factual posts about my visit here. Expect lots of griping…and NUDITY. #
  • Someone give me a lift to Hanging Rock. I’ve got to see some wormholes about some Victorian era schoolgirls. #
  • Felt like an intruder in this strange place where I have no associations. Those girls eating churros on Lygon St were like aliens to me. #
  • What interesting stuff is there to do here if you’re not a big drinker and don’t like mad, bloody sex with slutty kangaroos? #
  • Without my consoles, I can only text with them back and forth from here, and Nazi Zombies via text is just a bit too old school for me. #
  • Wii messaged me, and apparently it got locked outside of the house and is being chewed on by the neighbor’s filthy, feral infant. #
  • PS3’s myspace has been updated with P.O.V photos, it’s hands visibly bloodied, slaughtered family in the bg. I should not have left. #
  • Australia: DAY ONE – http://tinyurl.com/clcucv #
  • Day two of game console withdrawal. A black ooze is seeping form my pores. Losing vital gamer-juice. #
  • Learned that the Australian accent, unlike the cleaned up for American tv version, is more like the shrill screech of an enraged barn owl. #
  • Wait…scratch that. Seems I was talking to a barn owl. Sorry, Australians. #

SUPANOVA 1: Picnic at Thunderdome Rock

This is Supanova. Or Customs. I dunno.

This is Supanova. Or Customs. I dunno.

My Tuesday ended with a Thursday, thanks to some time zone trickery and a sleepless 15 hour flight.  I’m actually no fan of flying, as was Spacebat, but up to a point, the flight was blessedly uneventful, and easy on my nerves.  Now, I say up to a point because up just after they served dinner, everything was smooth sailing and easy going.
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-20

  • Leaving LA soon when it’s finally colder here to spend two weeks in hot, hot Australia. I had really better get to see a wombat. #
  • Did one half a of a two button set that @cunch might put up on her store if I don’t just keep them instead. It might be TOO amazing, dig? #
  • It’s like a big tidal wave of jam coming towards us, only it’s jam made of @Glinner tweets filling up my home page. #
  • According to @essrose, I’ll be greeted by Lord Humongous tossing leis out to all the passengers. This had better be true. #
  • @CapnWalrus @Glinner is the incredible machine built to make such shows as Father Ted and The IT Crowd, in reply to CapnWalrus #
  • @essrose THE Feral kid should also be there, throwing a boomerang at the waving passengers now and then, harvesting fingers. in reply to essrose #
  • @wefollow #comics #animation #art #
  • I’ll give any one of you 10,000 dollars if you survive a night in this hauuuunted house. You…or your next of kin. Muahahah and so on… #
  • And here comes our first brave soul and…Oh…oh, no. Ghost got’im in the face with a Barrett M107 sniper rifle. Supernature wins again. #
  • Another challenger lost after being repeatedly beaten about the head by a ghost’s Master Replicas Mace Windu saber. That one’s purple. #
  • No! Don’t try to rescue him! Yes, the ghosts have only shot him in the leg, but they’re using him as bait. Snipers will get you. Think! #
  • I’m wondering now if the difficulty setting on this haunted house isn’t a bit too high. No one’s even made it to the porch steps. #
  • The ghosts are using an RPG-7 to blow apart passing cars while they wait for people to try to enter the house. Definitely challenging. #
  • Yep, @sindermann is not far off when referring to this place as “The Ninja Gaiden of haunted houses.” #
  • Challengers have slowed. Raising the award to $50,000, a tour of of the acid vat and my Vincent Pricey mustache. C’mon. Tour my stache. #
  • Surveying the carpet of fresh, bullet-ridden corpses around the house, I’m a bit sorry I initiated this haunted challenge. Sorry, guys. #
  • I just…I guess I didn’t count on the ghosts being so well armed. Was expecting some old-timey chains rattling, not .50 Cals and such. #
  • Just edited the wee video I made of J.R. Goldberg drawing her half of our button set. My glorious return to Final Cut Pro. #
  • The SciFi channel without BSG’ll be like the person you keep around just for screwing having their pelvis fall off. #
  • All the hipsters gathering at SXSW gets me thinking of Poe’s ‘Hop-Frog’ a bit. Should be easy enough to get them into orangutan costumes. #
  • Wanna see a lil video I made of J.R painting a tiny “thing”? Sure ya do. http://tinyurl.com/cwt9og #
  • Following up ‘Phantom of the Paradise’ with ‘Tommy’. It’s a night of grotesque musicals. #
  • @essrose No. I don’t even have a joke for that. Just no. in reply to essrose #
  • @3liza That’s why I only bullshit instead of regaling you with what celebs I am eating sandwiches with, or what toilet I’m sitting on. in reply to 3liza #
  • @3liza Sorry. I meant what toilets I am eating and what celebs I am SHITTING IN. in reply to 3liza #
  • @joeledbetter Never watched an episode but beating the living shit out of terrorists while I work amounts to the same, I think. in reply to joeledbetter #
  • Elaine, I think we need to have a talk. There’s maybe too many of you now to sustain with the supplies we have. Some of you need to die. #
  • Australian adventure is nigh, Elaine. Don’t forget to spare me the pain of live question taking: http://tinyurl.com/cyyu9d #
  • Not sure which culling technique to use for Elaine. Logan’s Run style might work, but installing gems into people is a bit of effort. #
  • What other famous herd-thinning tactics from books and movies might work best here? Elaine will suggest things now. #
  • Shirley Jackson getting a lot of love in these suggestions. That warms my heart crumbs. Continue! #
  • Coming in a close second is ‘The Most Dangerous Game’, based on an Ice T, Rutger Hauer duet, I believe. #
  • I know, left to my own devices, I’d still want my tax dollars helping Dreamworks’ latest trash to hit it big: http://tinyurl.com/cfxr22 #

J.R. Goldberg: No longer a Bigfoot-like mystery

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J.R. Goldberg: The Enbuttoning from Chancre Scolex

Now here’s a thing, yeah?  J.R.  had been making these lil hand-painted buttons for a bit when, one night, while walking the streets in search of crime to fight, I hit upon the idea of doing sets of the things together.  The theme for the buttons would be ‘Mortal Enemies’, with one of us painting one character and the other painting their mortal enemy, whomever or whatever that may be.

Having finished my second character ahead of time, I took to filming J.R. painting said character’s nemesis, a somewhat sickly looking lizard man.

I figure this helps demonstrate what goes into these tiny images, and also shows off my coveted Pope mug.

It’s a bit nicer looking in HD over on the actual Vimeo site.

AYCH DEE!

J.R goes into a bit more detail as to the creation of the image itself over at el blog de cunch.

Enjoy.