Monday, April 14, 2008
If you're bored... Part Deux
If you're bored... Here's a really good webcomic for you, Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida. According to the good people over at Wikipedia:
I hope I didn't need permission to link all that. Anyway, Ishida's been updating almost daily since 2000, so if you're really bored you can spend around five hours reading all 2,777 (as of today) strips.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
Proton cars are more well-known than you thought. Well, they used to be, at least in the UK. In the Mr. Bean episode "Tee Off Mr. Bean", the eponymous Bean hit a golf ball up the exhaust pipe of a Proton Saga, or MPi as the Brits called them. Oh, you gotta love them silly Brits.
That's our good friend Bean in the back there, if you haven't realised.
The subject matter of Sinfest is often human nature, with particular attention paid to sexuality and religion. Less frequently, the strip will parody popular culture or indulge in political commentary. There are some recurring types of strip, such as "You Had to Be There" (where the reader is not told what the characters are discussing), "Japanese Calligraphy" (where one of the characters transforms over four panels into a kanjiideograph, usually related to the strip in some way.), "Porn Script Readings" (where Monique and Slick read porn star dialogue in deadpan style, except for once where they used flash cards for a Silent Film reading) and "Ninja Theatre" (where the characters take on the roles of heroes and villains in a martial arts movie). Though there is little in the way of overarching story in Sinfest, the central characters do undergo continual development.Among characters such as Monique, Slick, God, Jesus, the Devil, and Buddha, there's a cat-and-dog pair named Pooch and Percy who are just too damn cute. They're especially cute in the following strips, resulting in my sudden urge to show it to everyone.
I hope I didn't need permission to link all that. Anyway, Ishida's been updating almost daily since 2000, so if you're really bored you can spend around five hours reading all 2,777 (as of today) strips.
Pointless Fact of the Day:
Proton cars are more well-known than you thought. Well, they used to be, at least in the UK. In the Mr. Bean episode "Tee Off Mr. Bean", the eponymous Bean hit a golf ball up the exhaust pipe of a Proton Saga, or MPi as the Brits called them. Oh, you gotta love them silly Brits.
That's our good friend Bean in the back there, if you haven't realised.