You can see Darrow following closely in the footsteps of his hero, Moebius. All about the art, and absolutely zero care for the writing. Comics are a visual medium so we don't care, but it will always be like a man missing a leg when artists forever think like this.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

disagree about Moebius here, his writing for an example in "the airtight garage" follows just other paths... it's a play to undermine expectations ... and yes, that's a bit similar to Shaolin Cowboy - at least Shemp Buffet, while "cruel to be kin"'s narration is almost back to familiar ways of story-telling.

Need to get that one, love Darrow

These are great comics. Glad to see a new video, I was worried I would need to learn to speak German for more Earl/Orl Grey.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

no, I'll definitely will continue as Earl, but the stuff I do on "Örls Waschmaschine" has been a bit demanding the last couple of weeks.

@forgerelli1

11 ай бұрын

@@earlgrey862 I understand. You mentioned comics aren't as big over there so building up a community is important. I have watched a couple of them but the translation can get a bit off.

Really enjoyed "Who'll Stop the Reign?" during the Trump term 2020-2021. Trumpers threatening to dethrone the nazis as our human species' ultimate villains immortalised forever in comic! Geof Darrow, you son of a gun lol!

He's a humdinger of a visual feaster!

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

another English word that I've learned :)

…and I just got me the Shemp Buffet. Haven’t read it yet though by a quick glance it’ll be more looking than reading. This video was perfectly timed. I was planning to get more info about this series. Good thing you mentioned that fake history bit. I tried to read it in comic book store to figure out which book is #1. Couldn’t see a thing and wondered why anyone would print these tiny letters. 😅

On the list! Only have Start Trek but still haven't gotten around to it.

Shaolin Cowboy is still missing in my collection. I hope to get this books in near future (but there are so many books i want 😅)

Do you have Phantom(The Phantom by Lee Falk) comics?

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

an old German collection of some classic Phantom strips, printed in black & red ... yes

I was kinda disappointed of Shemp Buffet. But I want to read this one for all the reasons you mentioned.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

the new one has "shemp buffet-ish" sequences as well, for an example a killing spree through a room filled with nazis - which felt strangely satisfying :/ - but it's balanced out very well with a nice, absurd, in all its absurdity depressingly real story

Make a video on your erotica collection please.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

that's actually not an attribute to arrange my books.. for an instance I have some Manaras on different places in my "time machine"... same with Crepax (in the 60s part) ... and some here and there, but not too much honestly

I like the art style but the subject matter will not age well. And I don't mean just the Trump float like monster.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

I would hope we will be able to laugh about the "subject matter" or even better: could call it an unsubstantiated paranoia in ten years or so... but I'm not so sure actually

@AlucardNoir

11 ай бұрын

@@earlgrey862 it's not just a matter of laughing at something but one of getting the reference. Some people will not get the reference, the problem is when you get that it's a reference but don't know to what. If that happens then whatever it is you're reading, viewing or listening to ends up leaving you frustrated. It's the main reason you don't put present day politics in a work of art indiferent of when present day is. Not unless a work is meant to be political, and those works tend to not have a long shelf life since they're inherently propaganda and people tend to distance themselves from that.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

unless you have a creature like Trump who will be remembered for bad or for worse in the decades to come... a bit like Nixon... everyone still gets the references to the watergate affair and that's nothing that will change soon

@AlucardNoir

11 ай бұрын

@@earlgrey862 Is he remembered because of the scandal or because of how often he's been portrayed in the media though?

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

both... Nixon would be forgotten & the media would have lost interest...if the scandal would have not been as outrageous as it was. And I'm pretty convinced that T. and all of his "antics" will not be forgotten soon... even if we will try as hard as we can - starting the lucky day when he stops being a public figure.

Wow. TDS is a big turn off

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

?

@forgerelli1

11 ай бұрын

@@earlgrey862 TDS means Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is something Trump cult members say to any criticism of their orange god king. They cannot argue against the criticism so they attack the person behind it. Like children. It's best to just block them.

@earlgrey862

11 ай бұрын

if I prompted them to turn off it's fine for me.