And thus begins COMMISSIONPALOOZA! It’s currently scheduled to last all the way through June 13th, unless more strips get commissioned, in which case it’ll last even longer! In any event, these strips are a lot of fun to make, so keep ‘em coming! I’ve uploaded a tenuous schedule for Commissionpalooza, if you’d like a peek at what’s ahead. That’s very subject to change, but it should give you some idea of where we’re at.
Now then, as for today – and the rest of the week – we have Watership Down, the most depressing thing written about bunny rabbits ever. Though a classic book of the 20th century, I believe most people of a particular generation will be more familiar with the (surprisingly faithful) film adaption from 1978. It seems very, very similar to the book in most respects, just with some bits and pieces trimmed out. It’s also been nightmare fodder for children for well over thirty years now! Seriously, there’s some disturbing crap in that “kid’s movie,” not the least of which is a song by Art Garfunkel. I mean, talk about scary!
In any event, the story opens with a legend about the origin of the rabbits and their god, who is quite literally the sun. As you might expect by now, I just can’t let god-talk go without rejoining our favorite cheesecake divinity.
Also, thanks to everyone who filled out the survey for me. The results will actually be incredibly helpful for me in the future. I’m going to be leaving the survey online, so if anyone that hasn’t taken it still wants to fill it out for me, every little bit of data helps. Thanks again!
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Watership Down? Awesome, I loved that book when I read it as a young teenager,and it was still good when I re-read it as an adult. Never thought I would see it get the ‘Brick treatment, however, liking it so far.
Read this book when I was ten, and I always loved how rabbity the rabbits were- that is, that they were short-sighted survival-driven herbivores with teef and turf battles instead of fluffy bunsies in waistcoats.
I found Animal Farm much more disturbing, when I read it that year. I was a country girl, I was cool with rabbits having their issues, but those pigs killed a HORSE. Cue girlish wailing.
You just don’t (didn’t ?) understand – “Some are more equal than others.”
I read AF at the same time I was reading Trotsky’s “History of the Russian Revolution”,; it was an interesting juxtaposition.
I picked up a copy of Animal Farm when I was nine, because my older brother brought it home from school. I thought it was a happy animal story, because it had cute cartoon-y pictures of smiling farm animals on the front.
Boy, was that one a surprise.
Thats the best way for kids to learn! Hook em with the cold hard reality of life early on. With rabbits.
Love the expression on She-Jesus in the last panel. Updates to Lit Brick, MESS and Delusionary State? Kudos.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince-with-a-thousand-enemies, including She-Jesus, so watch your furry ass, El-ahrairah!
Interesting… You’ve actually made Frith a little less of a dick than he was in the book.
Yay, the beginning of the soon to be giant blue block on the index.
I can’t wait for next Monday and the first Friday in May.