HAWPcast: Why Did You Show Me That

[Man of Popsicle]

On the subject of the whole Boomerang thing, I'm also starting to hear 90s music on classic rock stations.

Also, Cartoon Network may be coming back a bit. Flapjack is great and they're adapting Adventure Time into a series.

[Mr.Chewie]

On the subject of the whole Boomerang thing, I'm also starting to hear 90s music on classic rock stations.

Also, Cartoon Network may be coming back a bit. Flapjack is great and they're adapting Adventure Time into a series.

Adventure Time is going to be the best thing to happen to cartoon if it is as awesome as the first episode was.

[KamenOtaku]

Yeah Flapjack is pretty good, it has this weird almost Lovecraftian vibe sometimes.

Hopefully they pull off Adventure Time well. I'd hate to see such a good concept and pilot lead into a shitty actual series.

[Sonic9jct]

ED, EDD, AND EDDY WAS REALLY GOOD SHUT UP.

I found the first two seasons at a Walgreens for $5 each. I bought them immediately. Also, Ego Trip kicked MOUTAINS of ass, it's just too bad I only remember it coming on TV only once at the end of a gigantic Dexter's Lab marathon. Is there any way I can see this masterpiece again?

[Harris Bueller]

Ash, what city are you possibly doing the exchange to? I'm in the process of application for study abroad and if it works out I'm either going to Tokyo or Akita (it's in the North-West corner of the Tohoku prefecture).

[nekobun]

Oh man, this is great.

Commenters will make ludicrous assumptions about stuff, then treat them as fact

In response to one of the dozens of GameTrailers comments requesting to know who played Pikachu, one random viewer made a bizarrely self-assured statement: that she was my new girlfriend, and I was putting her in the series for the first time ever.

It’s not the total wrongness of that statement that really throws me off. It’s how immensely certain the guy was of his theory. It was said unapologetically, without any evaluative language. The sun rises. The sun sets. Anthony’s banging the chick in the Pikachu hoodie.

I'm dying. squirtle

[DaniusKang]

Yeah Flapjack is pretty good, it has this weird almost Lovecraftian vibe sometimes.
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I could definitely see Flapjack takaing place in Innsmouth.

[indie-go]

Oh man, this is great.



I'm dying. squirtle

The websites finally up and no one told us about it!!!!

[nekobun]

I must've been dead tired. I totally meant to post that in the most recent show's thread.

[Sonic9jct]

This podcast drove me to watch Ego Trip again. And realize just how amazing it is. One of the best uses of time travel in fiction.

[Avalon]

I think the whole problem with Shakesphere's work is that they are plays. The stories are good and the writing is, mostly good if dated, but the audiences have moved beyond plays. Cameras give a lot more freedom in delivery and can add emphasis that you just can't get in plays.

I have never heard anything I disagreed with more. Shakespeare's work are not plays in today's sense, these days they bear more resemblance to literature, the trouble is naturalism didn't become popular in theater till the late 1800s. Most of the time it doesn't really matter how Shakespeare is performed, it's the language you're supposed to focus on, so as Anthony said, before naturalism, people would just shout and recite their lines. Plays nowadays are far more sohpisticated in terms of dialogue.

Anthony, I urge you to come to England and watch some Harold Pinter or Samuel Becket. I heard you talking about Gypsy and thought it was a Brecht play and was ready to go on a rant, only to discover it calls itself "a musical fable". A "play" that call itself that is not going to be good.
Like seriously, it seems to me you would like a good play if you saw one, as more than anything they're about relationships between different characters and the conversations they have.

Also please come out from under your comics rock and read something other than Jeffery Brown or Chris Ware. Dismissing ALL superhero fiction as empowerment fantasy just isn't fair game I'm afraid. there's so much good stuff out there you never mention, like Madman, [the current run of] Detective Comics, Love & Rockets, Scott Pilgrim, Jeff Smith's RASL, Peng!, 20th Century Boys, King City and so much more. Please go buy all of the above immediately.