Issue 174

News: Why I haven't been updating.
As you may have noticed, it's been two weeks since I updated the blog. Well, there are two reasons, and first among them is that I've spent a lot of it studying for my finals, the last of which I had yesterday. However, another thing has been distracting me for the past several weeks: a webcomic called Sonichu, and I'm sorry to say that, after discovering this webcomic, Billy the Heretic no longer deserves the title of the worst webcomic. After all, comprehension of that webcomic isn't dependent upon taking a journey into one autistic manchild's personal hell. If you want to know what the comic is like, there are audiobooks on youtube that help propel the crap into "So Bad it's Good" level, quite possibly making it seem like his work is similar to Daniel Johnston, except without the naive charm. From this, you'd probably notice that it's an astonishingly bad webcomic from its second-grade-art-project level art (the author is almost thirty), and its story. But combining Sonic the Hedgehog and Pikachu in the same way as old Reese's commercials do with Peanut Butter and Chocolate is just the beginning. Slowly, the plot becomes more depressing when it begins to focus on the life of the author himself, who is presented as Sonichu's actual father... somehow. In fact, according to some outside information, some of the villains correspond to a Community College dean who stopped him from stalking women, Walmart cops that did a similar thing, and (I'm not kidding here) his negative feelings about his High School graduation, which didn't recognize his art skills. I know that reading about life from the perspective of somebody with Autism can be interesting, like Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, but our "Hero" is no Christopher Boone. From what I've heard, he's extremely arrogant and unpleasant (surprisingly enough, especially towards others on the Autistic spectrum and the few people who appear to genuinely be fans of his), refuses to get help for his problems, is selfish, extremely bigoted, and the real Chris isn't much different. For that matter, there is a wiki that contains an alarmingly exhaustive amount of information on his life, as gathered by the people who troll him, including a horrifying amount of information about what passes for his sex life. And for some reason, it appears that he has given up on actually working for the Sonichu comic in favor of just becoming the most genuinely horrifying internet phoenomenon.

Film Idea of the Day: After discovering that there is no rule that states that a man can't be part of a nominally all-female beauty contest, he manages to do whatever he can to win, but, in the end, he doesn't. Yes, it is a parody of all those sports movies where sports teams include an unusual player (like a 12-year old boy ot a dog) because there's no rule against it.

Film Review of the Day: Zardoz. Well, the movie begins as a giant stone head falls to earth, proclaims the Penis to be evil, and spits out truckloads of weaponry, and it makes much less sense from there. Well, from what I could gather, a lot of it was about Sean Connery killing the pilot of said stone head (a man with boxer shorts on his head and facial hair obviously drawn on with magic marker). It makes no damn sense, which is why I liked it so much.

Quote of the Day: "On the one hand you've got an absolutely vile person who's a racist, a homophobe and a borderline sociopath among other evils, but let's face it, his opponents aren't really much better than a gaggle of schoolyard bullies. Whoever wins, human decency loses. "
__________TVTropes on the conflict between the author of Sonichu and his trolls.

Link of the Day: I won't give a link to the actual wiki, but I will put a link that gives a little more insight into how far gone this guy is.

Issue 26

Note: First off, I'd like to apologise for not updating in a while. With the Holidays, and getting sick on new Year's eve, who has time?

News: Jack Thompson.
Normally, I wouldn't make video games a more or less focal topic of an article, but today I will. Jack Thompson is a lawyer from Florida. Recently, he got nationwide attention for exploiting a new mod in the New Grand Theft Auto game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which allows the protagonist to have sex with a woman. In a game which is built around stealing a car and killing hundreds of innocent people, he is worried about an addition that allows sex. I don't play video games at all, but I do know there is something very wrong about a society up in arms about sexual content in a video game and almost silent about the violence that outnumbers the sex greatly. He once asked the makers on San Andreas to create a game in which a father of a murder victim goes on a rampage against the gaming industry. Oddly enough, He claims that video games are not the only reason for violence. He also blames the Quran, which he claims to have a lot of references that tell the reader to kill innocent people, which may be true, but not as much as the Bible, which frequently has God telling his chosen people to sack entire towns and leave nothing alive. Another Video Game that has attracted his ire is The Sims 2. He is angry because of the fact that it shows characters nude, albeit blurred, and that a mod removes the blur, which reveals... Nothing. For more on him read his wikipedia article.

Band NAme of the Day: Self-Brainwashed. Recently, when watching the film Raisin in the Sun, I saw one character being referred to by her mother as "The only person to successfully brainwash herself."

Film Idea of the Day: Subplot to the film in Issue 24: As he puts the writer of the letter under his wing, he ends up revealing that he once "got a girl in trouble" and the parents killed her because of that, so he is implicated in a murder trial.

Review of the Day: The Second Graphic Novel to be reviewed by this blog: St. Swithin's Day. It is out of print, so it may not be available in many places. Grant Morrison spins this tale of a boy trying to shoot then-PM Margaret Thatcher. It starts off as he shoplifts a Copy of Catcher in the Rye and the Complete Rimbaud. After doing this, he decides to go to London to Shoot Thatcher. After visiting a Cathedral, having Lunch with his girlfriend, who is all too enthusiastic about the idea, Dancing in front of Karl Marx's Grave, he decides to do it, but ultimately does it with his finger. He believes it was worth it just to see her scared. The Story closes as he goes back on a train.

Quote of the Day: "I'd like to call him a sadistic, necrophiliac hippophile, but that'd be like beating a dead horse"
____________Woody Allen

New Tract: The Chaplain- A Soldier manages to Save another soldier spiritually and physically. An Army Chaplain tries to dissuade him and after both ride on a land mine, they are judged. The Chaplian is damned, the other soldier is not.

Link of the Day: THe New link for Animutation Wiki: http://wiki.animutationportal.com/index.php/Animutations_List