Eric Burns returns to Websnark blogging
by Eric Millikin
Former Moden Tales editor Eric Burns appears to have returned to his regularly scheduled Websnark blogging. That’s cool, not only because it gives you things to read, but because it must mean Burns’ life has ascended from the pits of total chaos and he’s now soaring like an eagle through the pits of something closer to 95% choas.
Last week Burns brought an analysis of recent plot twists and character developments in current Modern Tales editor Shaenon Garrity’s science-fiction comedy strip Narbonic. Burns warns of “Destruction, death, brain-tanks, President Mell, [and] Universal Oblivion.”
This week he takes a look at my own painted-poetry-on-zombie-flesh comic Fetus-X. “Daaaaaymn,” says Burns of recent Fetus-X, “I like everything about this. … [It's] right out of the park.”
The comments sections of these things are often as interesting as Burn’s posts themselves. There are about 50 different predictions posted for what may happen next in Narbonic. “[S]ince Narbonic is supposed to end at the end of 2006, how is Garrity going to destroy the universe in four months?”
The discussion of Fetus-X ranges from the excited (”I’m going to read this damn comic and finally find out what the fuss is all about”) to the confused (”I wonder what its referring to”) to perhaps the faintest praise I’ve ever received as a professional artist (”I’m not going to say it’s bad art, ’cause from what I can tell, it’s not unskilled”). I love this stuff.
August 24th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
I always thought the old “photoshopped a crayon over a photo” crack was always the funniest you’ve gotten.
August 24th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
I must have missed that one! That is some serious disrespect to not only me, but to the Adobe and Crayola corporations. And, yeah, I’ve gotten a lot of crazy e-mails and comments over the years. Here is one of my all-time old school favorites:
http://www.statenews.com/editions/053100/op_ltr4.html
I think it was after this that Casey Sorrow and I realized that since neither of us could write or draw we might as well break up the team …
August 24th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
We’re making a best effort, anyhow. (Weds is still way too buried to surface, but she’s heavily involved behind the scenes.) One of the things I’m doing is taking my own damn advice — when I have time enough to do more than one post, I’m queuing them up for later days. All to try to have something every weekday without having my job devour the flesh from my bones.