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Comic and Rant for Saturday, March 16, 2002
DIY DDR for GBC |
Okay, before I forget again, props to Jed Hagen for helping me with my link colors! Also before I forget again, on Monday (March 11, 2002, for those who can’t be bothered to do the math) I was reading Will Eisner’s excellent book Will Eisner’s Shop Talk. Well, actually I’ve been reading it since I bought it on Friday, but on Monday I was reading his interview with Joe Simon, and at one point Will asked Joe where he saw the industry in 20 years. I checked the date of the interview. It was March 11, 1982. Doo-dee-DOO-doo doo-dee-DOO-doo ... Now that the shout-out and uninteresting useless coincidence story are out of the way, Color is pretty! I plan to do the strip in color for as long as I have the time to do so (or unless monochrome would be more appropriate). I was thinking of going back and coloring the first two strips, but decided against it because:
The punchline for the 11/23/63 strip, BTW, comes from the original British version of Queer as Folk (actually the sequel, Queer as Folk 2, to be precise). One of the characters, Vince (Craig Kelly) is a Whovian (is that term still PC, or has it gone the way of “Trekkie?”), and is sometimes seen watching Doctor Who videos. In one episode of the original series his friend Stuart (Aiden Gillen) gives him a remote-controlled K-9, something which, coincidentally, I built for myself (Vince’s US equivalent, Michael (Hal Sparks) is a comic book fan, and his friend “Brian” (Gale Harold) gives him the first issue of the fictional “Captain Astro,” which ya gotta admit is far less photogenic). I think any American Whovian (smeg it, I don’t care if it’s PC, it’s what I call myself!) can appreciate how wonderful it is for a TV show to casually make references to “our” show, especially considering all we get in the US is the occasional line on MST3K. QAF is also commendable for other reasons, and I highly recommend it unless you’re a child or very homophobic. NOTE: For legal reasons (i.e. the producers only negotiated British rights for certain material) most of the Doctor Who stuff (as well as some of the music track not even related to DW) is missing from the “international” version available in the US. If you want your full quota of references, you’ll need to import the British release (and you’ll need to be able to play PAL, and Region 2 if you get the DVD). Now that that’s out of the way, I suppose I should talk a little more about Dance Dance Revolution. I don’t have it for GBC, but I do have it for Dreamcast. So far, I haven’t played it. Here’s the story: Just before I got the game, my foot started hurting. Badly. So badly I had trouble crawling, let alone playing a foot-intensive video game. I’m not even sure how well the third-party Mad Catz “Beat Pad” PSX mats work (PSX-to-DC adapters aren’t too hard to find), except that they suck for use with a PSX because the “Start” and “Select” buttons (which reset the game when pushed simultaneously, at least in the PSX version) are right above the “Up” arrow. I later bought a “Dance II” pad made by a Chinese company called “Performance” which have the buttons in the usual, nigh-impossible to step on accidentally extreme upper left and upper right positions, so even if the buttons do trigger reset for DC, it won’t be a problem. Unless I’m playing 2-Player. Oh Boy!
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