It’s not often I come across any creative work of which I am immediately jealous – most times I just admire things that I think are good intensely, rather than actually wishing I had created them because they are just that good. The last time, I think, was “Holiday” by Green Day, for which I not only wished I had created but also wished I had the necessary musical talent and singing ability to perform.
And now, there is this.
It won’t take long. Go read it.
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I’m gonna go grab a fan to combat global warming too!
I don’t know . . . there’s about a ten percent chance the artist is into [i]Fooly Cooly[/i], particularly the fourth episode, “Full Swing.”
I remember that comic.
There is a lot of good stuff there. Very poignant.
I have the print of this on my wall. Good stuff.
Being that it’s Minus, that one is OUT OF HERE!
Minus is awesome!
Oh no Mr. Bird, no – Green Day has been terrible for the past ten years.
I actually ordered a print of that comic the last time he offered them. I’m sitting here starring at it as we speak. I think he’s opening up the prints again in a couple weeks. It’s totally worth it.
Isn’t Minus great? It went from off the radar to one of my favorite comics in about two weeks.
I thought it was poignant at first, but then I went and read the earlier strips and realized Minus was basically God… and that lessened it, you know what I mean?
How so?
could you elaborate for those of us who don’t know what you mean?
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“How so? Could you elaborate for those of us who don’t know what you mean?”
Well, the earlier strips give a clear indication that Minus ( the little girl with the baseball bat at the end of the strip ) is basically omnipotent and can do whatever she wants ( time travel, changing things, magic etc. ) When I first read the strip, I saw a little girl trying to save the world against utterly hopeless odds in a way that a kid might think up. It’s bittersweet. Once you find out Minus could make the asteroid disappear just by thinking about it, and it’s just Minus playing around, it’s not quite the same. You know the next panel would just show Minus batting away the asteroid and everything would be fine again. Cute, perhaps, but not terribly poignant.
It is indeed “teh awesome”, as I believe internet parlance would have it.
It’s also an interesting test of character (assuming one doesn’t know who Minus is). You can pretty much divide the entire internet community into two piles with this strip, based on whether they a) impressed (maybe even slightly touched) by the idea of a young girl trying to stop a gigantic space rock with a baseball bat, or b) annoyed that “received” is spelt wrong.
Begin the sorting process!
I dunno if it’s the composition of the panel or the way she’s posed or what, but seeing the strip with no prior knowledge of the character, my immediate thought was “Wow. She is gonna knock it out of the park.”
Wow, I just spend the last few hours reading that entire strip from beginning to end. It’s amazing. My only complaint was that I was trying to figure out who were the different girls with different colored hair… then it hit me that she was changing her own hair color on a whim.
“Cute, perhaps, but not terribly poignant.” – Galamb_borong
Normally I might agree with you, but this is different. That strip is still poingnant, just not in the way that has been talked about so far.
Look at this strip: http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus98.html
Minus is poingnant to me [I]because[/I] she can do anything she wants. Reality can be a game to her if she chooses. She could just make the asteroid dissapeare, or let it hit Earth and just make everything normal again, but instead she chooses to do this monumentally amazing thing that she didn’t have to do. In the strip I posted, Minus wants the man to play a part in a story, but he didn’t want to and she didn’t understand why. like in any fiction, anything could happen, but it is made excellent and meaningful by what the author chooses to have happen. In this fiction, Minus is the author of her own story. The poignant thing is that this doesn’t mean that story that she tells will alwasy be good or what she wanted, and this makes it all the more meaningful when she tells a wonderfull story like the original strip.
2 cents, YMMV and all that….
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