That Arkham Assylum book you gave me? ^^; ::still needs to read all the endnotes::
Hee. "Ass"-ylum. (Just messing with you!)
I actually don't own my own copy of that book. I borrowed it from my brother. When I went looking for stuff to get you, I had a feeling it would be up your alley, though. That and I wonder if I would be too forward in assuming you have more of an affinity for Batman than the other caped brethren.
::is biting his tongue to pieces on the Calvin & Hobbes response::
I need to clarify this. I won't say that I've never found C&H funny. (Actually, I saw a montage of a lot of the snowmen strips and I found them really great.) But the strips mostly went over my head as a kid, so when I used to read "the comics section" that would be one of the strips that just didn't work for me.
Granted, strips have just been something I haven't really worked at giving much thought to. I'm probably the ideal audience for Garfield -- read them that week and then didn't think about them beyond that. A part of me is still surprised when people get excited about, say, Peanuts because I can only process Peanuts as something that's just so ubiquitous in my life and in the general culture and HOCKING INSURANCE that I can't think of it as a unique work of art. (On the other hand, when I look at the early strips, I can. Actually the first strip is made of awesome.)
So ... yeah. Basically I'm kind of a plebeian when it comes to newspaper strips and so I never really sought out something that never resonated with me as a kid now that I'm an adult to see if it would be better.
Suuuure~ :>
Sweet. The comic is actually adapted from that two-girls-in-an-asylum story you may or may not remember. I'll see what I can do.
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Date: 2009-02-15 01:54 pm (UTC)Hee. "Ass"-ylum. (Just messing with you!)
I actually don't own my own copy of that book. I borrowed it from my brother. When I went looking for stuff to get you, I had a feeling it would be up your alley, though.
That and I wonder if I would be too forward in assuming you have more of an affinity for Batman than the other caped brethren.::is biting his tongue to pieces on the Calvin & Hobbes response::
I need to clarify this. I won't say that I've never found C&H funny. (Actually, I saw a montage of a lot of the snowmen strips and I found them really great.) But the strips mostly went over my head as a kid, so when I used to read "the comics section" that would be one of the strips that just didn't work for me.
Granted, strips have just been something I haven't really worked at giving much thought to. I'm probably the ideal audience for Garfield -- read them that week and then didn't think about them beyond that. A part of me is still surprised when people get excited about, say, Peanuts because I can only process Peanuts as something that's just so ubiquitous in my life and in the general culture and HOCKING INSURANCE that I can't think of it as a unique work of art. (On the other hand, when I look at the early strips, I can. Actually the first strip is made of awesome.)
So ... yeah. Basically I'm kind of a plebeian when it comes to newspaper strips and so I never really sought out something that never resonated with me as a kid now that I'm an adult to see if it would be better.
Suuuure~ :>
Sweet. The comic is actually adapted from that two-girls-in-an-asylum story you may or may not remember. I'll see what I can do.