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August 19th, 2009
If You Strike Me Down…
Through sorcery and witchcraft (or possibly bitchcraft) Josh managed to get us (even Eli) 
tickets to the 25 minute preview of James Cameron’s Avatar. Apparently the high demand for tickets made half the internet fall over and burst into flames. I’m not 100% sure of the details of this event, but rest assured that I will fill you in either during or after the showing. I do think it’s a little unusual to hype a movie up to the extent that fans are clambering for tickets to a portion of the film. It borders on hubris and we all know that when you have hubris, Hugh gets the tip of his penis cut off.
A couple of things:
- I have been doing more live streams of comic drawing lately. Follow me on TWITTER to know when they will happen. I’ll answer your questions and we’ll listen to good music. It’s a fun time and brings back some of the community we lost when we stopped doing live podcast shows.
- My mole inside the production of TRON: Legacy has sent me the ultimate geek trophy. Almost exactly a year ago, he bought a print of my TRON/Lebowski mashup comic to hang in their production office. Then the director saw it and ordered one too. I sent them a handful of prints and asked that if the chance ever arose to please get Jeff Bridges to sign one and send it back to me. LOW AND FUCKING BEHOLD, MAN. New shit has come to light!
- I will be at Baltimore ComicCon October 10th and 11th. If you are in the area, come see me. I’ll have books, some shirts, stickers, prints, maybe some buttons, who knows?
- I did an interview with PopTen.net. GO READ IT!
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August 20th, 2009 at 6:35 am
FIRST!!!
Avatar looks good already. This is another great comic you did, Joel. But if Josh was offering just 2 tickets with so much hate in his voice, why don't you and Eli strike him down & take the tickets yourselves?
August 20th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I hope that is the type of email Josh regularly sends you. The sign off is especially awesome.
August 20th, 2009 at 7:23 am
just for the record, the subject line of that email is what I actually sent. Although I got 4 tickets instead of 2, so I suggested that Denise and Joel's wife fight to the death instead. So this comic is really basically true.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I kept wondering why Eli was wearing a yamaka in the first panel. Took me so long to figure out that he wasn't. WTH.
Lovin' the Josh email. I wish I could sign my emails to a few choice people in the same manner. Am also loving how Eli's skin got lighter as he was about to die.
August 20th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Do you drive a Toyota? Something about that turn signal knob looks familiar.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:58 am
The reference in this comic feels like it's at the tip of my tongue but I can't quite grasp it. Any help would be appreciated.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
T4co Pr0n! hahahahahaha
August 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
I was hoping for a Highlander reference somewhere but Star Wars works too.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Dude, it's an amalgam; Hellboy is the final reference.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I think?
August 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Did the other half of the internet sink into the swamp?
August 20th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
The Tron stuff … awesomeness, Joel!
August 20th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
That's awesomesauce about the Tron stuff. Also, I see they took my suggestion to include Journey in the soundtrack again, although I'm dismayed that the band isn't going to write new material for it like they did with the first one.
If Neal Schon can do a 1990's theme, I'm sure he can whip out a bitchin' 2000's theme.
August 20th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Combination of Star Wars and Highlander: perfect!
August 20th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I would kill for that signed print.
August 20th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I'm thinking bitter divorces should involve a Highlander type sword fight.
"There can be only one parent!"
Later….
"Daddy, what happened to mommy?"
"Well my sugar plum…daddy had to chop mommy's head off with a sword because she was such a heinous bitch."
August 20th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Yeah…Eli is secretly turning white….and jewish
lol
August 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Highlander of course
August 20th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Joel, are you familiar with the so called "Racebending" casting controversy?
http://www.racebending.com/v2/
August 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Oh, nevermind…wrong Avatar. Gah.
August 20th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Its a loose highlander reference. Nothing too specific. It borrows from the whole "brother against brother" genre.
The title is a reference to ObiWan as is Eli's "preparation for death."
August 20th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
HUGE TRACTS OF INTERNET!
August 20th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
LOL .Yes I have heard about that. But different movie.
August 20th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Like I said on Twitter: Avatar looks like 1/2 Starship Troopers and 1/2 Magic: the Gathering. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
I may be making a day trip to the Baltimore con, where I can hopefully put tasty, tasty dollars into your fists (and those of merchants selling $5 trade paperbacks, always a great part of cons).
August 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
No Joel! If you strike him down, his life force will be absorbed by Steve Jobs! It's a fate worse than death!
August 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
"so I suggested that Denise and Joel's wife fight to the death "
Worthless without pics.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Oh yeah I often forget to read the title or my goldfish of brain forgets it. I think you just embodied the title so well.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
That is why you fail…
August 20th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
I should never make comments, should I. xD
But what is Joel really telling us? Only white-skinned, Jewish Mexicans get the Heavenly glow?
August 20th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I'm sure that's the idea, ritual sacrifice of Eli to cure Steve Jobs.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
will you live-twitter the premiere?
August 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am
meh. the tickets were in Josh's name. This is just so much easier.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am
this is the ONLY type of email josh sends me.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Its all just simple facts of mexican physiology.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Honda, actually. A Fit.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:16 am
Shhhh…. no one is supposed to know about that
August 21st, 2009 at 12:17 am
its a bit of both.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:17 am
You think incorrectly.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
I am super happy about it. I want to get that framed.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
Like, you were talking to the producers and said "Journey or its a dealbreaker!" ?
August 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
See? You get it.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:20 am
Dude! You should totally come. Your Xmas comic is in the book.
August 21st, 2009 at 12:35 am
I live two hours from Baltimore (less than an hour if I camp out at my grandparents'), so it's not necessarily getting there that's the issue; it's all about funds. Parking, tickets, and merch…sweet, sweet merch.
August 21st, 2009 at 4:22 am
(Sorta) heard Coulton live tonight–he was on the rifftrax broadcast of MST3K/Plan 9 from Outer Space. Did The Future Soon and Re Your Brains.
Was cool!
August 21st, 2009 at 4:32 am
Forgot to say: thanks. We do geek over some of the same basic things. BTW, how many times have you seen the new Trek???
August 24th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
No one else commented on it… so Hubris? Amazing joke. Almost made me literally rofl.