For example, in the Lysinda story arc, we see Lysinda turn two people into vampires to give us an inkling of what is soon going to happen to Zoe and Torg. Lysinda refers to the two new vampires as Gary and Winona. Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder played Dracula and Mina in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” a few years back.
Example 2: The “Reakk the Dragon-Boinker” story ends with Reakk’s bard singing. He gives the line [forgive me for the paraphrase] “…the only thing he likes better / Is to grab them from the sky.” A nearby demon asks “Did he just sing the words ‘this guy?’” Remind anyone else of the rumor that Jimi Hendrix sang “Excuse me while I kiss this guy”?
“Is it not nifty? Worship the comic.”
Granted, I still have to get around to ordering the books…
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to lucie for starting this thread and introducing me to the brilliance that is Sluggy Freelance. It has joined Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes on the all-time list. I can only read it at work, 'cause my poor old harried home computer can’t handle big images, so I’m only up to February '99. But I look forward every day to reading a few more strips. So I officially declare myself a convert. Worship the comic.
Great, now there’s another reason I won’t get anything accomplished during the day. You know, catching up on this will keep me away from the SDMB for awhile…
In the past week or so, I’ve read through some two years of the comic. I wonder what my history file looks like. Anyway, I’m up to Kiki’s Virus and it’s had some good lines so far, but I’m missing Zoe, Torg and Riff. And I’m also noticing that I mentioned Zoe first.
Favorite strip:
The one where Torg and Valerie are in the castle and Torg is planning the assult on the other army. “Ok, we’ll put men here in the forest for wood, have these men mine for gold and we’ll set up solar collectors here in case we need to build more troops!”
Sluggy!!! My favourite net-comic! It introduced me to the whole phenomenom two summers ago. Now I have Sluggy-shirts and Sluggy-books; I made the web page for the Sluggy Freelance SETI@home team; and I got second prize in the poster contest! Er, I mean, yeah, I like it.
I read other net-comics now, and am working on one of my own (bilingual, to boot), but… Sluggy was the first. And you never forget your first time.
But a couple of days ago, he repayed the Sluggite introduction by introducing me to Penny Arcade. As an unreconstructed computer geek, this is probably now my second favorite net-comic.
See, my problem is, I find funny things to be funny, and not funny things to be not funny.
Hence my analysis of Sluggy Freelance.
And it constantly surprises me what people find funny. Will and Grace is an example that springs to mind. I just can’t fathom the mind of the average consumer.
Sluggy, Penny Arcade (video-game based geek humor) and SinFest (my new favorite; great art, great writing) are my favorite online comics.
I actually haven’t read Sluggy for a year though. When I discovered it about a year ago, I read two years worth in a few days. I tried to read it every day as they were written, but I just couldn’t take it. Sluggy is best read when you can read a storyline in full in a sitting, so I’ll eventually mosey on back there to read a year’s worth of storyline, and boy will it be worth it.
Sluggy, Penny Arcade (video-game based geek humor) and SinFest (my new favorite; great art, great writing) are my favorite online comics.
I actually haven’t read Sluggy for a year though. When I discovered it about a year ago, I read two years worth in a few days. I tried to read it every day as they were written, but I just couldn’t take it. Sluggy is best read when you can read a storyline in full in a sitting, so I’ll eventually mosey on back there to read a year’s worth of storyline, and boy will it be worth it.
(That submit button sure looked like the preview button…)
