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Comic-Con ’08 Revelations Pt. 2

I went to high school with a guy named Tr2n. Or maybe it was Tran Nguyen. Either way, the trailer for “Tron 2”

that premiered at Comic-Con was short and sweet and enough to get me excited.

I actually wrote this comic several months ago when they announced the film. I had a page of notes about how “Tron” and “The Big Lebowski” could intersect.

  • “Ju don’ fuck wif’ de Sark
  • “Shut the fuck up, Tronny!”
  • “and I sure as shit don’t disc on  Shabbos!
  • “Tronny died as so many young programs died in the games…”

The list went on and on. Yes, my brain is broken. As far as I’m concerned they’re the same movie now.

Bonus link: check out this Comic-Con 08 Costumes

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  4. no dice – they named the FPS "Tron 2.0". released for PC and Xbox I believe. Pretty wicked game, too – if TR2N is anything like it, I'll die a happy man.

  10. I really like the art in this one, Joel.

    I have yet to watch Tron and The Big Lebowski. I know they're classics and I should've already seen 'em, but I haven't yet. I'll put them at the top of my list.

    As a side note, has anyone had luck in posting Intense Debate comments on the iPhone?

  14. Hey, if Josh is in the comic, does that mean he'll be in the podcast?

    You are going to talk about Tr2n and The Big Labowski in the podcast, aren't you?

  17. Dumbest sequel title ever. I mean, ever. I cannot think of a single sequel title off the top of my head that is worse than that. How can so much fail emanate from three letters and a number?

  21. And the bad thing about that is that the title really intimated such promise. Good ol' fashioned archaeological plunderin' of El Dorado, a real Indiana Jones movie–as opposed to the KGB and some fucking aliens with their interdimensional new age crystal skulls.

    But it's still not as bad as "Tr2n", which makes the movie sound like it's going to be a two-hour long typo.

  22. And the bad thing about that is that the title really intimated such promise. Good ol' fashioned archaeological plunderin' of El Dorado, a real Indiana Jones movie–as opposed to the KGB and some fucking aliens with their interdimensional new age crystal skulls.

    But it's still not as bad as "Tr2n", which makes the movie sound like it's going to be a two-hour long typo.

  40. I've never actually seen Tron. The only thing I know about it is that Journey did a song for it that ended up not making it to their albums until they released the boxed set.

  44. I'm I the only one who thinks that your depiction of John Goodman in Tron looks suspiciously like "the Tron Guy"

  52. Easy, big fella. Remember, the flick's not even in production yet; with that title animation they were trying to play on audience recognition by making it as similar to the original title animation as possible. I guarantee it's going to go through every possible combination of "Tron" and "2" before (I predict) landing on "Tron 2.0."

  53. "And the bad thing about that is that the title really intimated such promise. Good ol' fashioned archaeological plunderin' of Coronado, a real Indiana Jones movie–as opposed to more Nazis and some fucking knights with their supernatural magic wine cup."

    FTFY

  57. greatest comic ever, I thought the same thing throughout iron man.
    I kept saying "THE DUDE CAN'T BE EVIL!" during the movie.

  58. Ach! Why!? Why the fuck must you ridicule it by calling it Tr2n? Just randomly inserting numbers in the title to show that it's a sequel DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
    What's next? Iro2 M2n?
    Where they trying to make it sound L33T? How hard is it to figure out 0 can be used as o, because it looks like it. 2 does not look like and o! If you wanted a 1337 title you could have called it T2on, that still looks like shit, but atleas the number 2 and the letter r look kind of alike (atleast when I write it)

  60. But if you were a hip, stylin' cool kid in 1982 you had the Tron soundtra…

    Dammit, I almost made it through that with a straight face. But yeah, the Journey song was on the soundtrack.

  77. I am working on the movie. We love the comic! We show it to everyone who comes in the door. I will send you a pic but it won't be super exciting since everything we are doing right now is on complete lock down. I wish I could show you what the art dept. is doing but I wouldn't be working on the show any more. Some really visionary people are working on this show.

  78. Dude. Someone up there should totally get with Journey's management and see if the band would be interested in providing a song for this film, since they wrote one for Tron. I'm sure they would love another opportunity to show off their new lead singer.

  79. It's called "Only Solutions". It played during the arcade scene, but you could hardly hear it over the arcade machines. It's got more of a jangly guitar sound as opposed to the sweeping meoldies they usually do. Nice 80's feel, though!

  80. Oh man, this made me laugh.

    But consider for a minute…what if they ARE trying to make it sound L33T? This is the internet age, after all; perhaps Tron should reflect that?

    And so it came to pass that the music during the end credits was by Rick Astley.

  81. We love the comic and have it up here at our production office. There are only 2 people in the office that know what L33T means and they had nothing to do with naming it. The internets will shut down before we ever name it Tron 2.0.

  82. Wait, you're working on the movie? If this is indeed true I will send you a proper print of the comic, but you must send me a picture once it's posted. If I assumed wrong, then…. something something.

    Email comics(at)hijinksensue.com

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