In all fairness to Fox, their proposed space western sounds more like a Jonah Hex ripoff than a Firefly/Serenity wannabe. Credit where credit is due, I suppose.
I love writing for the Evil Fox Exec. Despite appearing only a handful of times, I have his entire back story fleshed out in my head. He’s a troubled man that wrestles with the moral implications of his many unfathomable sins, while simultaneously reveling in his god-like powers. He wasn’t born this way. He was made into a monster. He’s a walking study in nature vs. nurture. He started at Fox in a lowly, but creative position. The highers ups noticed his go-getter attitude and began molding him to their sinister will. With each promotion came more money, more power and more dubious job duties. At first he was only asked to cancel shows that had already had several seasons, good promotion and still suffered from low ratings. He thought of it as mercy killing. Then he was told to create shows that would garner a small but devoted fanbase JUST so they could be canceled and replaced with reality-dance contests. Fox’s hate-engine is fueled by sadness and he was loading it’s doom-furnace one shovel full at a time.
OK, he’s basically Lindsey McDonald to Fox‘s Wolfram and Hart, but I still enjoy the tiny, evil space in my head the EFE occupies. Expect to see more of him in the future.
omg the kittens are extra cute, well done Joel
The cuter, the tastier! 🙂
"This part gets kind of splattery." FoxExec FTW!
Entirely TOO cute.
I LOVE the evil Fox Executive. I don't know why, since he's the arch nemesis of all that is good in TV.
so the kitten is jesus correct???
He got neutered and eaten for our sins.
I maded you a Jesus, but I ated Him.
I can has Jesusburger?
Grilled Cheesus
lol
Oh dear sweet baby jesus, it's the thing of nightmares….oh there's also a guy eating cats maybe he's related to Denise. Just needs a dash of MSG.
Oh dude, come on!
Yet another full of win comic. Nicely done, Joel!
While I'm cautiously optimistic about a new sci-fi show on FOX, this would mean something else may get shitcanned to fit in the schedule [pleasebearealityshowpleasebearealityshowpleasebearealityshow…].
If Fox was really truly smart and gave up their evil ways they would get down on their knees and beg Whedon to come back and do Firefly again.
Fox will look up and shout "Save us!"… and Whedon will whisper "no."
HAHAHAHAHAHAH! I love this.
Danke. Maybe I'll comment more often. And pick a better username.
I do enjoy comics with the fox exec. he should get his own tag. I wonder how long this new show will last. unless it sucks, then it'll stick around for a while
Whee! More fun with the evil, murderous FOX Executive. I wonder if he kills baby penguins too. That's like the highest level of evil there is, killing penguins. Once you pass that point… well, you're pretty much just plain doomed. Perhaps if you're lucky, you'll get off easy and just be sentenced to a limbo dimension… the purgatory kind. You're not very lucky if you're sentenced to the other kind of limbo dimension, cause seriously, who wants to listen to "Limbo Rock" for the rest of eternity?
I hear he clubs baby seals while their mother's watch.
I hear he clubs baby seals while their mothers watch.
Meh, clubbing baby seals is for people who want to be supremely evil, but can't bring themselves to harming penguins. I'd club a baby seal, if I wanted to be like that, which I don't, but I'd never even think of killing a penguin.
I'm thinking you secretly want to rule the world with an iron fist.
Of course, but I'm not gonna club any baby seals to do it unless there's no other way, and I'm definitely not gonna kill penguins to do it.
What if the baby seals and the penguins organize an underground resistance to your totalitarian rule?
Then I'll club the damned baby seals and develop a penguin mind control device.
"Bigtime Lols on this side of the table" completes me.
hey! you must have gotten some internet. its been a while.
not yet, just university comps during the day. Keep it up!
Don't know about the show but if they take the idea off in a different direction from Firefly it could be neat (with no hands on from Fox execs of course). For example, how about something like Neil Stephenson's Anathem but based in the Western genre?
Sadly something will have to die and hopefully those kittens are reality show kittens.
On the note of Jonah Hex, I personally plan on watching that as a crappy cam, projected on a wall, with the ambient sounds from a shitty, downtown theater. I want it to be as close to a B-movie experience as possible, as the movie itself looks like it's going to be complete shit.
how long till we see a force choke or force lightning from the EFE?
You have no idea the power of the fox side.
The FOX is strong with this one.
You forgot a small detail about the Evil Fox Exec, Joel, the part about him having been raped by his astronaut uncle.
And yes, the fox exec is EXACTLY like I've pictured him.
Did anybody else notice that the bag says "Execu-lunch". Like its a prepackaged meal he bought specifically made for Fox executives.
awesome, precisely what I was in search of. have a good one..