Sorry, 'bout that. :smack:
Neither of them struck me as major spoilers since Quiver is 3, 4 years old and the bit about Mia got mainstream media coverage.
So far, Cisco, you’ve continued to describe Barry is ways that are IMO not consistent with the character as he’s portrayed. Moreover, I just think it’s really dumb to reject a character because he doens’t use the same race slang as you do. But whatever. I don’t care if you don’t read Barry Ween, I just want the other people reading this thread to understand that your criticism isn’t something that’s accepted by (AFAIK) anyone else who reads it, and that most people who’ve read it consider Barry Ween one of the funniest things to hit comics in years.
–Cliffy
Methinks there’s some projection going on here.
We have had very different experiences with Barry Ween. I passed my TPB around to a few friends after I was done with it and they all hated it with a passion, probably worse than I did. I’ve met other people that have read BW as well and they have all invariably hated it. As far as I could tell, there wasn’t a laugh in the entire book.
That said though, I’m dropping out of this argument unless someone has something radically new to add. I’m not going to continue a tit for tat discussion of a book I didn’t like in the first place. Sorry I interrupted your thread.
Dang. Oh well. Thanks. Come to think of it, psychosis comes to mind. I’ll google that term.
Hmmm… It seems to fit the bill, but seems to be far too vague.
No, I played shadow run, back in the 80s, and it took place in a cyber-punk future where ogres and faries were verfiable reality. The game I am thinking of took place in the present. And you were either killing ogres, or cops, but you had a problem telling one from the other.
I’d like to put a good word in for Barry Ween. Cisco seems to have come to those books with the wrong expectations. Barry’s best friend is Puerto Rican and his girlfriend is Chinese. He speaks some Plains Indian dialect fluently. He won an award for a documentary on migrant farm workers. He’s egotistical and headstrong, but he’s not a bigot like Cartman and wasn’t meant to be.
Read these books. They are hysterically funny. It’s good to have a genuinely COMIC book for the first time in a long time. Then read Winick’s Pedro and Me and cry yourself silly.
I didn’t know Winick was doing Juniper Lee.
This thread is a little old, but all the episodes have held up, and I have stumbled upon an interview with the the author. Thus, that is why I am bumping this thread.
Thnx, tds.
http://www.fanboyplanet.com/interviews/mc-juddwinick1.php
I find it funny that about five months before this cartoon aired, Disney Channel premiered “American Dragon: Jake Long,” about a Chinese-American kid who, with the help of an elderly grandparent and a talking dog, has to deal with a supernatural world that remains hidden from most mortals.
Wonder how that happened?
Just based on fly-bys, I thought they were the same show for a while. They’re both uniformly terrible. Very disappointing work for Barry Ween’s creator.
“Animation is based on plagarism.”- Roger Myers, Jr.
Well, it may not have as good a plot as say, “Hey Arnold” 
, but I think the plot and dialogue is far better than most shows on now, and the designs are very nice.