The plot thickens, or the story grows ever more convoluted, or…oh heck, they’re all just having fun. Except poor Prospero.
UPDATE: Hey, The fine folks over at The Demon Archives have started a new feature: The Wednesday Spotlight.
And guess who they’re interviewing this week? That’s right, yours truly. So, if you want to read it, hop on over. If you don’t, hop on over anyway and you can see what I looked like back in 1977.
And, if you like really well done science fiction/military/space opera/psychological comics (and who doesn’t?) you’ll really like The Demon Archives. Do check it out.
OKAY, Prospero looks a lot like a certain Hawaiian based PI, or a (much) younger version of a UK based commentator(?).
And I can sympathise with his frustration about the twenties, me I never roll higher than a two.
Oh hey, thanks for a link over 😉 And thanks again for the interview 😀
(The below was posted as a comment on the blog link you just posted – I just wanted to repost it here. ‘Cause I’m an attention hog.)
[That interview] was fun to read. And that photo is awesome. I’d almost forgotten how cool and hip we could look in the 60’s… (cough) That does look like a group of fun people to hang around, though. 😀
My mind did boggle a bit at the sentence “Frank Frazetta did ghost for Al Capp on Li’l Abner, but the styles
matched up fairly well, so I don’t think too many people noticed.” I mean…. I REMEMBER Li’l Abner. And while I’l admit that Daisy Mae was definitely zaftig enough to be in one of Frazetta’s paintings, I’m not sure I’d say the art “matched up well.” ~boggle~
~giggle~
~snort~
Well, his women may have been a bit more pulchritudinous, but he still kept close to Capp’s style.
I had forgotten it didn’t all take place up in the hills… And I had COMPLETELY forgotten how ghastly he could draw some people. Nightmare Alice… ~shudders~
You know the worst part? StumbleUpon once took me to a collection of photos of a woman walking on a beach somewhere on the French Riviera who’s body (not the face, thank the gods) actually looked like that. You had no illusions, because she was wearing a bikini.
http://necromanc.blogspot.com/2007/04/old-woman-on-beach.html
Re-reading my post, I’m a little bit ashamed of how it makes me sound. I’m astonished and delighted by that woman’s willingness to thumb her nose at how the bulk of the world reacts to her visual appearance. But I have to admit that you wouldn’t catch me imitating her. I guess that makes me a bit shallow.
And I didn’t realize until you mentioned “Nightmare Alice,” just where her name came from.
Nightmare Alley (1946), by William Lindsay Gresham, is a crime novel with the most horriffic and disturbing last line in American fiction. It will stay with you for days.
It’s a classic, well worth seeking out.
They say that ‘Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder’. At least, SHE thinks so. As for the rest of us: Thank God, my eyes have seen worse, so I will not judge her state of mind.
You are right about ‘Nightmare Alice’.
Sooo…what class is Jacob? I can’t figure it out.
“5th Level Handsome Mustachioed Barbarian Fighter Guy Man.”
Gamer party!
I’m trying to determine the formula for zaniness in a given page. I’m guessing that it must be logarithmic, since each character added increases said zaniness in a proportion far greater than even geometric progression…. Or something like that. 🙂
I think it depends on the character combination.
Stephanie + Larry = wacky
Edison + Larry = madcap
Toivo + Anybody = zany
Oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. I’m glad you cleared that up. 🙂
I agree that it increases logarithmically, rather than geometrically. If you put three of them together it more than doubles, and then four, well, you see.
It’s like roosters and crowing. Two crow twice as much, three crow 100 times as much…