I had 50 copies of my 24 Hour Comic printed up and if you’re interested you can purchase one in any of the following ways:
1. The Wooden Shoe in Philadelphia. It’s located on the 700 block of South Street.
2. Wade’s Comic Madness in Levittown, PA.
4. Buying it directly from me!
The comic is 8.5 x 5.5, 24 pages in black and white with a hand crafted cover. I’m selling them for $3 each.
jason segel playing a song with swell season and proving (yet again) that he is awesome.
remember when i was in that show freaks and geeks? well there were no special effects, no special effects. so if you thought i was sweet, well yeah i’m really that sweet.
remember when i showed my penis in forgetting sarah marshall? well there were no special effects, no special effects. so if you like what you saw, well that’s exactly what i’m working with.
Holy crap!
I want this blanket because the blanket I currently have is an old one that belonged to my mother that is not only old and ugly, but also has some lovely.. uh… blood stains on it. x_x
Target has this in a Full/Queen size for $60. Oh Christmas/Birthday, I will take full advantage of you this year…
Today Nick linked me to a website that has maps of old theme parks and then I quickly devoured said website and realized that I was kind of turning me facebook page into a shrine of Great Adventure nostalgia, so I figured I’d bring it here instead.
The Ultra Twister was was built at Great Adventure in the spring of 1986 when I was only 5 years old and removed when I was 8 years old mid season of 1989. Because I was so incredibly young and terrified of rollercoaster, I have never been on it. I do have a vague memory of watching it for what seemed like hours one night as I assume either my parents or brother or some combination did go on the ride. The coaster lit up at night was beautiful.
The ride moved to the Six FLags Astro Land where it remained until the park closed in 2005. THe ride is now currently in storage at Six Flags America which is only one state away in Maryland! However, the wikipedia entry notes that it will likely not be reassembled due to extensive damages.
I spent the better part of the afternoon today trying to find somewhere on the internet where I could purchase an original 1987 Great Adventure park map that I could frame and hang up in my apartment, which led me to www.greatadventurehistory.com. This site has an amazing amount of information on a theme park that is so heavily linked to my childhood!
In 1995 they finally decided to build a coaster in the empty lot where the Ultra Twister once stood. This coaster was called Viper, which was a pretty generic name and logo for a coaster at a Six Flags park, but this one was designed by the same Japanese firm that had built the Ultra Twister, and early photo and promo shots of the coaster sort of made it look like they had taken the Ultra Twister idea and extended it to be a full legth ride, where as the Twister was a prety short ride that when at it’s end it would then make a second pass on the track in reverse. In my mind, Viper would be to the Ultra Twister what The Great American Scream Machine was to Lightening Loops.
The thing is that I have no idea if my theory was wrong or not. See, Viper was a TERRIBLE coaster! It had a lot of downtime, the harnesses were very harsh and painful, and the ride was just not smooth. Of course, I had never gone on the Ultra Twister, but several articles I’ve read about it suggest the exact same things, so maybe Viper was an extended Twister and I just don’t want to believe it becase I’ve built up the Twister in my head to be this mecha of theme park experiences.
Viper lasted 10 years in the park before it was taken down, scrapped, and El Toro was built in it’s place.
I kind of like having the silly goal to one day ride the Ultra Twister before I die. Right now it looks like the possibility of it being the American one is less likely than me taking a trip to Japan and riding one of the five that are still operational there.
trailer for kick-ass
WANNA SEE IT
Admittedly, I haven’t read this comic and I find Mark Millar’s work to be kind of hit or miss. They showed a bunch of clips for this movie in Chicago and it looks really awesome, though. SO yeah, I wanna see it too.
Please please please please please don’t think this means that I have any plans to kill myself because I swear to you that I don’t! This ending was hilarious to me when I had thought of it, but I will admit to feeling pretty uneasy when I was actually drawing it out. Having an emotional reaction to something I was drawing meant that there was no way I was going to change it, so I hope everyone can find the humor in it’s absurdity and not take anything I do too seriously.
This comic was started on October 3, 2009 at a few minutes before noon and completed 30 days later on November 2, 2009 somewhere around 6pm. I didn’t exactly beat the 24 hour challege, but at least I finished it.
This e-card is pretty dumb, but it can certainly apply to something that is still posted on this blog.
While pages 15 and 16 did take me much longer to draw then I thought, the truth is I’d just been lazy the past two weeks. The rest should be posted much quicker.
—McSweeney’s Internet Tendency | IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS. (via rachaelmaddux)
that last line made me laugh so hard.(via emrgency)
SERIOUSLY!
