Posts Tagged ‘Comic’

Bumblebee-Tuna.com is now dead and gone, buried by a major American corporation taking advantage of my complete lack of giving a crap.

But do not fear – your favourite pair of misfit conversationalists aren’t gone. They’ve moved to a new address and title which is -

…wait for it…

MISPLACED PANDA!

Check out the new site
HERE

You see, Around mid-December of 2009 in a fit of boredom and procrastination I drew, designed and created the first Bumblebee comic. It was based upon a conversation I was having with a friend when I was talking about creating a stupid little comic.

(and by ‘based upon’ I mean almost word for word)

But when it came to a title I was all out of ideas. I wanted something nonsensical yet irrelevant. Something that rolled off the tongue but didn’t mean anything at all.

It was at that moment when I heard this -

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That’s a clip from Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. It was playing on the TV. I thought it was a meaningless bit of gibberish and perfect for my little comic thing that I would probably do two or three of and then forget about.

Then I kept on have ideas for more and more. They kept coming like… well, like a swarm of bumblebees. They started overrunning my site here so I decided to move it onto a site of it’s own.

That’s when something weird happened. I got the funniest email.

Here’s an excerpt –

I purchased 2 12 oz cans of solid white albacore tuna in water from winn-dixie 02/14/2010.I opened one can found it to be a water soaked mess.It was impossible to fully drain it.I made a tuna salad from it and could not eat the mess.This is the worst tuna I have ever purchased.At 3.99 a can you should be ashamed to sell this product.

At first, I thought it was someone’s odd sense of humour. But then I got another…

i recently bought two cans of solidalbacore and was very disappointed with the quality. it was not solid but in many pieces and there were several bloody specks in it.this the only brand that i buy.

And another…

Recently had a can of solid white albacore tuna–it had bones in it–yuck.

I did a search and found this

HOLY CRAP.

Well, it was around this time that I was already thinking about changing the name. The complaint emails kept rolling in day after day. And I began making lists of names that I wanted to change it to. (Making sure to search the internet for inferior American products while I did.)

AND THEN… I received a cease and desist notice via email AND FedEx. Here’s a small sample –

_{(I don’t know if it needed the smudgey marks but I always see people doing
that and I’ve never had a chance to do it.)}

To be honest – I thought it hilarious. I have the FedEx copy on my wall next to my desk. They wanted me to give them my Bumblebee-Tuna domain (Pffft… yeah right.)

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Anyway, they gave me a deadline of April 2nd to change the name or suffer the litigious consequences. That was about five weeks ago now, wasn’t it? And I still haven’t heard anything more. I’m kind of hurt that I wasn’t as much of a threat to their sales as they led me to believe.

Bone-filled cans of bastards!

In any case I’ve found a name that I like possibly more than Bumblebee Tuna. One which has no affiliations with bone-filled cans of dolphin meat.

Now, the only complaint mail I’ll be receiving is about how shitty the jokes are.

…because as of this moment Bumblebee Tuna has it’s very own website!

Woo!

So put www.Bumblebee-Tuna.com into your rss feeds.

DO IT!!

From Cyanide and Happiness

In the previous entry I was talking about the lack of places to buy cult graphic novels and such. While this is true for the most part (in fact there was a couple of years there where I didn’t even have a local bookstore), I got a pleasant surprise yesterday when I wandered into my local Angus’s.

I not only found a copy of Volume One of The Sandman – Preludes and Nocturnes, I found it in the 50% off box. Score!

Also missing from my previous entry, which has been pointed out to me with a vengeance (and a belief that this blog reaches more than two people), I am working on plans for a comic/graphic novel of my own. I can’t tell you much about it just yet, as I’ve only come up with a backstory for the main character and a few faint ideas for plot so far, but I can tell you this – It will be awesome and everyone will be wanting a copy, so get in early and order it now… years before it’ll be ready!

I will be doing the writing and… (what was her name? the one that pointed out this was missing from my blog? Oh, I can’t remember… Let’s just call her – Franky Neener) will be doing the artwork.

And there aren’t too many more this year. Naughty-Eight is flying by like a Penguin with a rocket pack and it doesn’t seem like anything will slow it down. Not even Batman.

At around this time every month, I’ve come on hear and written about how this coming month will be the month where everything begins clicking into place like clockwork. This coming month will be the one where I get into a routine and stick with it. This coming month will be the one where I get so much work done I’ll have sentences coming out of my ears.

And yet…

Some days I put it of until ‘later’, some days I get a little done and then take a break that lasts the rest of the day, some days I stare at the screen and say ‘….’ for a while before giving up.

BUT

This month will be the one where I get things done, Where I’ll get into a routine and everything will click into place.

I swear.

Maybe.

Lately I’ve been reading comics. I haven’t read that many comics in the past. I read spiderman and Xmen when I was a kid but I never really stuck with them.

I grew up in an area without comic book shops, and for that matter limited book shops, so I didn’t really have access to anything that wasn’t sold in newsagents.

It’s one of the things I love about this internet hooey. Access to things I’d otherwise not have access to, or even know about.

My first comic book that I actually loved was Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. I came across it in a strange way. I was searching for tattoo designs when I came across a tattoo of Nny. I searched for the title and found out it was a comic book. I downloaded all the comics and CDisplay to read them through and that was it. I had to buy them all.

Then came Y: The Last Man. I can’t remember how I came across the series but I found it around issue 20 and followed it all the way through to the end. It was a great series and, as you know, I love post-apocalypse stuff.

It’s been a year or so now since that ended, (around about, not sure of actual time though), and I haven’t read any other comics but I have been looking for other stuff I might like.

Then a few weeks ago, in much the same way as I came across JTHM, I came across a tattoo of a cool looking key. It was the key to hell that Lucifer gives to Dream in Sandman.

I thought about checking it out but I didn’t get around to it for a while

Not until, a week or so ago when I came across the trailer for the Watchmen movie and thought it looked awesome. I decided I wanted to read the comic.

So I downloaded it, and at the same time I remembered Sandman and downloaded that as well.

The first Issue of each had me hooked.

I read Watchmen right through to the end and it was great. It was also interesting coming back and watching the trailer again too. Everything made more sense and I was able to see where everything shown in the clip fit into the comic book, and made it that much better to see.

I’m still reading Sandman, I’m up to issue #39 now. It’s been awesome so far and I’ve been loving all the intertwining stories and the off shoots and the shorts between the stories as well.

Well, that’s what I’ve been doing with my time for the last couple of days anyway.

How about you?

I think I really went off topic there for a while. I was going to simply write about how I’m going to throw my all into work starting tomorrow – the 1st of August.

(interesting coincidence, kinda, One issue of Sandman that I read today was about Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus… otherwise known as Augustus…)

I think that’s all I wanted to say. Anyway, you’re boring me. Leave me alone. Go on! Git!

Until next time….