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[The comic is a rough draft for now. I've been really sick all week and had another ER visit last night for an allergic reaction to something (don't know what) that caused a crazy rash over most of my body. Yay for Steroids! The completed comic will be posted late tonight.]
Josh also thinks Tina Turner is the Australian Prime Minister. She isn’t? Right?
I got the idea for this comic when I noticed a link to my “Edward” shirt coming from the Australian SciFi Channel Blog. I realized that they had never made the ugly transition from properly named television network to Polish venereal disease like their US counterpart, SyFy, had. Further inspection revealed that all worldwide SciFi affiliates retained the original nomenclature. I guess American’s are the only ones that need to “imagine greater,” “unthink different,” or “expect disappointment” or whatever their new slogan is.
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SPEAKING OF THE EDWARD SHIRT
Thank you so much to everyone that has purchased one. It is officially my fastest and best selling product ever. I received a sample print today and I think they look great. They will start shipping later this week. I don’t want to say too much, since not everything is finalized yet, but I was contacted by Olmos Productions last week regarding the shirt. Expecting a swift cease and desist order I was overjoyed to learn that they liked the shirt and were interested in working with me on a project or two. More details to come as things unfold.
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December 8th, 2009 at 2:18 am
Josh's face is becoming much more expressive recently.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Fantastic news, Joel! Can't wait to see the shirt in person!
December 7th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
the sci fi international is because SYFY as a corporantion doesn’t care about the rest of the world so every new thing, every new show takes a loooooong time to reach other countries.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:57 am
That is probably the most accurate description of Australia that I have ever seen.
As an Aussie, I am glad to see an American finally understand what Australia is all about.
I am sending this straight to our Prime-Minister, to get the transcript added into our national anthem.
December 7th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Getting a call from (the only) Edward must have been cool. I was worried you might get a C&D but that call sounds utterly awesome instead!
December 7th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Tell me about it, Agent X. Yesterday, my murderbuggy got ticketed for being ‘insufficiently makeshift’.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I think we need a podcast with real life eli and josh singing "we don't need another hero".
December 8th, 2009 at 4:44 am
Oh man.. if you get to be BBFs with EJO because of this shirt – that would be so awesome!
Meanwhile "codpieces made of broken glass and razor wire" nearly made me do an eggnog spit take
I've tweeted this to my favorite Australians, Hamish & Andy.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:32 am
I'm loving this.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:40 am
As an Aussie, I can vouch for the truth of this strip. Our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, routinely responds to Parliamentary Question Time by just yelling "Who run Bartertown?!" and throwing a razorsteel boomerang around.
This little Aussie gayboy also loves Doctor Who longtime. Grew up on Tom Baker- I'd staple myself to David Tennant's leg if I could…
btw- have you heard that the American remake of DEATH AT A FUNERAL has James Marsden (Cyclops) in the Alan Tudyk part? Faced with the giddy prospect of potential Cyclops nudity, I might have to overcome my MartinLawrencephobia…
December 8th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I'm assuming you sliced your face off off-panel and replaced it with the soggy laboratory-meat.
December 8th, 2009 at 6:53 am
See, you can't just assume you can go down to the remains of the Aussie version of Home Depot and scavenge screws or bolts or whatever. You need to make that crap yourself, and may Master Blaster help you if your windows or windshields hold glass.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:15 am
I was going to suggest a "jacob" shirt featuring the new guy on Lost, but then I realized Edward is the actor, not the character. Although, JJ Abrams' middle name is Jacob…
December 8th, 2009 at 9:37 am
As for the comic, I loved it. Damn am I tired of trying to convince Americans that we aren't actually Mad Max territory, we merely have various Bartertowns which are apparently very successful because most of them survived the Credit Crunch.
Yeah, I'm kind of glad us Australians got to keep "SciFi Channel", because most American TV companies treat us pretty bad. Then we set the Humungus on them and it goes downhill from there. It gets ugly negotiating TV in Australia.
Oh, and I hear that drop bears, unmentioned in this strip, are pretty dangerous. I lost a neighbour to one of those ;P
Anyway, as for the Edward t-shirt I'm not old enough to recognise who he is, but all I know is that even though my name is Jacob I can't call my fan club Team Jacob for at least twenty years until this Twilight craze blows over. Isn't it sad that people want a Werewolf Jacob instead of a real, somewhat more Australian one?
December 8th, 2009 at 4:40 am
doctor who mention! yay! *goes back to her whovian pursuits*
December 8th, 2009 at 11:04 am
SciFi Chanel? Is that like some new perfume with lasers and buzzsaws sticking out of it?
Also, as an Aussie, I can confirm our status as a barren wasteland of biker gangs.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
That is awesome that you hear from Olmos Productions – and so great that they were so cool about this.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
The fact that EJO was cool enough to want to work with you instead of squash things speaks volumes to his awesomeness.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
"Expect Disappointment" I like that. Probably the truest description of the Sci-Fi channel to date.
"Oh you like that show, do you? Cancelled. Haha! Whee! Here, have some more of our 'special' effects. Yeah, they're truly 'special.' Oh, and here's some crap my 3-year-old wrote, so we filmed it with B-List actors for you."
December 8th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I'm not-so-secretly hoping that the "lawless" was a Xena reference. Just sayin.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
A new wallpaper in the vault: "The many faces of Josh" having a sequence of the recent comics would be killer.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
"The many faces of Josh"
Yeah, there could be a bunch of sliced-off Josh faces! And Eli, holding the bloody knife! That's not going too far, right?
December 8th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
The thing about Doctor Who on their money was more true than you think; William Hartnell, being the first, is on the one-pound note. Tom Baker's on the hundred, Jon Pertwee's on the fifty, Peter Davison is on the five, and David Tennant, fittingly, is Ten. And companions are on their coins; the exchange rate is ten Roses to a Donna, five Donnas to a K-9.
As for Sci-Fi/Syflecch, Canada's Space channel is still superior. They actually interview SF authors in between shows.
December 8th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Draft Comic! these things are part of the experimet history, or should be. *downloads image*
Aussies rock, but mad max doesn't. The only TV aussie i like is Chase. hehe.
GOOD COMIC JOEL
December 8th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I'm sick of trying to convince people we don't all talk like Paul Hogan. And we don't throw 'Shrimps on the Barbie' because we call them Prawns.
I always assumed SciFi's motto was 'Think Cheaper'.
December 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
*Suddenly feels very embarrassed about my long biker goatee*.
December 8th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
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December 9th, 2009 at 2:50 am
I love how Josh is pulling Eli's beard.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:05 am
Josh's expressions are priceless. Who knew anyone could get so worked up about Australia?
December 9th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Going too far would be REAL Josh faces with REAL bloody knives…
…
Or is it not far enough?
December 9th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Don’t listen to Anonymous Bosch. The real reason we don’t throw shrimp on the barbie is because they can’t fight back. There’s no flamin’ sport. What we actually do: we feed TV executives full of shrimp, and then we throw THOSE bastards on the barbie. Like Turducken, except with seafood wrapped in a fatty, slimy coating of indeterminate proteins.
December 9th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Four things:
1) This comic is hilarious.
2) That is so awesome about Olmos Productions.
3) I also currently have an allergic reaction rash due to something I ingested, so you have my utmost sympathy, and
4) What happened to the WIZARD NEEDS HUG BADLY tee shirt in the HE store?
December 9th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
re: #4 Ive never heard of that shirt. Maybe it was another comic?
December 11th, 2009 at 6:28 am
[...] My brother helped me extract the hard drive, the brains if you will, from the corpse of my old dusty dead computer like a crazed techno-zombie unflinching and unfaltering in his onslaught. Either that or you could explain it as similar to Vikings drinking mead out of the skulls of their enemies, only instead of mead it’s data. The ruined and blasted remains of the wretched and annihilated dead PC was thrown out into the rubbish when all the useful parts were harvested. Because that’s the Outback barbarian hellscape we grew up with in Australia. [...]
December 15th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
The Doctor is on the money… sort of. The bills the ATM (er, cashpoint in British, I think) spit out in The Runaway Bride were made by the prop's department and bear the Doctor's likeness, along with the text "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 10 satsumas."
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runaway_Bride_%2... or http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/tm_o...
December 16th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
It's because British Television still has it's head screwed on straight. Check my American-gone-British blog at queensforgottenchildren.blogspot.com
December 18th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
The version of that (awesome) movie that I saw released here in Texas was still using proper accents. It would not have been nearly the same with Americans playing the roles.
December 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Further, Mr. Olmos is quite cool. He came to give a talk to my university and wanted to show one of "his" films, but couldn't find a copy of it, so he told the student assistants and faculty to find one on the internet, because he knew that they were there. When the question of piracy came up, because it's an official institution and they don't want to get involved, he said, "it's my movie and I give you permission." Everyone then proceeded to watch a pirated version of his work, complete with somewhat off audio.
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