June 2012
56 posts
What is the best way to hunt ghosts?
Phoning It In: on liefeld →
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Just sitting here, nodding vigorously to what both of these dudes have to say.
[…] I know that the go-to Rob Liefeld punchline is “lol feet,” but that’s as stupid as boiling Claremont down to bondage fantasies and bad accents. He…
Are you or are you not a Herman Melville novella?
And how do I type with these boxing gloves on?
Do you know things about Godzilla?
I know that the name Gojira is a portmanteau meaning gorilla-whale.
I know Perry Mason killed him…or was killed by him?
I know he dunked on Barkley.
I have an irrational fondness for Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboy, myself. Do rights issues prevent the use of cartoon-original characters in the comic? This is not an issue I have looked into, so apologies if it has been asked before.
Yeah, I can use any character that first appeared in the comic, but not the cartoon or live action show. The rights involved are the same reason American Maid and Die Fledermaus were not in the live action show.
Do you have a favorite episode of the Tick cartoon?
Grandpa Wore Tights and The Tick Vs Science make me laugh like a bastard every time I watch them. I like The Human Doll and Tongue-Tongue.
Tongue-Tongue is the one character from the show I wish I could use in the comic.
The Story of O was your favorite book when you were a kid? Please define kid.
“n. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act”
No, wait. That’s the definition of joke. ;)
Which ice cream did you decide to go with?
Rather than my go-to, the variety pack of store brand Drumsticks (Fun Daze Sundaes), I actually got regular-ass ice cream.
Black raspberry dark chocolate chunk. I just had some. It was pretty good.
What is the coolest animal? Follow-up: What animal is the most annoying?
Coolest animal: possibly the mantis shrimp? It has sixteen color receptors in its eyes compared to our three, and can punch a hole in inch thick glass. And there was a whole thing on RadioLab about it, that’s pretty cool.
Most annoying: my cat Oscar when I am trying to sleep.
You work on the Tick. Edlund's worked with the Venture Bros. guys. Any chance of networking, I dunno, a Bully Pulpit/Venture crossover?
I met Chris McCulloch (aka Jackson Publick) once. He could not possibly have, even under extreme duress, given less of a shit that I even was alive.
So…probably not?
What was your favorite book when you were a kid?
I was really into Bruce Coville’s My Teacher Is an Alien series, which I felt were really subversive, like I was getting away with believing my own teacher might, in fact, be an alien.
Also, The Story of O.
How're things going?
I just spent like half an hour at Kroger comparing the relative merits of various ice cream novelties, trying to determine which could best assuage the unrelenting horrors of life.
So, you know. Pretty good.
Nate Belldegarb asked me this question:
“Okay, the british phrase “needs must” meaning that you have to do something you otherwise don’t want to, because circumstances force you.
Comes from “Must needs when the devil drives” which comes from “He must nedys go that the deuell dryves”
WHY does this phrasing make it feel like the words “need” and “must” are completely meaningless? Like, I understand the idiomatic meaning of it as it is, but looking at that sentence I cannot figure out what those words are SUPPOSED to mean, like what they meant back then. “
Great question, Nick!
Since you seem to have discovered the meaning and origin of the phrase, what you seem to need help with is parsing the syntax of the sentence.
I predict the problem is this: you look at the word “needs” and assume it is a verb form, as in “That dude needs to put a shirt on”; or a noun form as in, “But what about MY needs?”
IN FACT NO
In this instance, “needs” is a mostly archaic adverb form meaning “by necessity.” So the original statement means “He whom the devil compels [to verb] must [verb] by necessity.”
I hope that answers your question, Mark!
Ask me questions and give my life meaning. →
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No mythology questions, please. I’ve got a number of those topics piling up.
