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By: Just some random dude whose been reading

Just some random dude whose been reading — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:30:24 +0000

Adam, he’s from the future. The distant future of 5 months from now, where they’ve developed a time machine capable of sending humans back to a general period in time.

In said future, Mightygodking eventually breaks down trying to recreate the incredible success he attained with the Civil War parody and burns himself out.

Incidentally the website Mightygodking.com is shut down. Forever.

XQUZYPHYR, feeling horrible about this, takes the time traveling oppertunity to make things right.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:29:47 +0000

XQUZYPHYR, how can we take you seriously when you don’t know what month it is? Jeez

By: August J. Pollak

August J. Pollak — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:58:23 +0000

Ugh. By “this is August” I meant of course this is XQUZYPHYR. Obviously it’s August, it says so right there.

By: August J. Pollak

August J. Pollak — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:48:17 +0000

And yes, I am a long-time and huge fan of the site, so I feel roughly about the same right now as I would having, say, accidentally run over Barack Obama with my car.

By: August J. Pollak

August J. Pollak — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:42:14 +0000

Hi, this is August, I only saw this comment now because someone on MeFi just e-mailed me.

What I meant was exactly as N@ described. My definition of a “Rick James moment” is any product from an artist that is so widely popular (but deservedly so) for its sheer quality that it literally shadows any other work the artist has done regardless of said other work’s quality, i.e. Dave Chappelle’s “Rick James” sketch.

Apologies for the confusion and possibly hurting your feelings. Thank you to everyone else for not taking the incredibly easy way out by mentioning how terrible my own comics are.

By: Just some random dude whose been reading

Just some random dude whose been reading — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:16:03 +0000

Yeah,

the civil war thing brought me here, but theres a lot of other amazing things that kept me.

By: Mariko

Mariko — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:22:01 +0000

Oh my gosh, the Harry Potter thing was brilliant. I’ve re-read it several times and totally love it. (Of course now I can never enjoy the actual books again. . .but I never really did anyway.) Death of New Gods too. And the “Why i Should Write LoS” stuff. And, just to be random, I’m going to have to say that I also love the blogs about fruit juice.

By: Will Entrekin

Will Entrekin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:07:00 +0000

I’m with Ken; that Harry Potter thing is my favorite part. I’m actually probably one of the few people who read for non-comics posts.

By: N@

N@ — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:02:03 +0000

I’m pretty sure that was meant as a compliment. It was more like, “that was so damn awesome, it overshadows all the other great stuff he’s done.” Because Chappelle has done a lot more funny shit than just Rick James, but that’s not how history will remember him. And that’s a shame.

That’s how I read it.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:59:38 +0000

A tangent on Chappelle: Am I the only one who thought his best sketch was the Clayton Bigsby mockumentary, a character he reprised on Inside the Actors’ Studio? From the first episode. Perhaps his next funniest moment was the stand-up routine about the ingredients of grape drink. Hell, even the Red Balls ad was as memorable as Charlie Murphy’s story about Rick James.

And yes, MGK has measured up to the high bar set by I Don’t Need Your Civil War. (I am also one of those weirdos who liked the original, Katherine.)

By: Ken Raining

Ken Raining — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:56:58 +0000

Actually, I think your liveblogging of the last Harry Potter book is my favorite thing here. Am I the only one?

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:56:11 +0000

I think the “Rick James” moment refers to the now classic Chappelle’s show sketch…you know the one that goes “I’m Rick James…” that everyone and their mom tossed off at the drop of a hat for about 9 months…

By: C. Carter

C. Carter — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:01:03 +0000

Wait, wait – the “Rick James” comment is about the artist himself? That he only had one good moment in his career? The man was a pop-funk icon, not some one hit wonder. That’s bullshit.

By: rwe1138

rwe1138 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:14:04 +0000

Just wanted to chime in and saw that I also enjoy your stuff. Especially you version of Death of the New Gods #1. That was brilliantly written.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:47:22 +0000

Is there an archive of the Asterix posts anywhere?