Comic Creators Free Talk

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FurryMink

Personally it's just not my cup of tea; I honestly didn't like the way that movie looked and so never watched it.

On a unrelated topic, is it bad if the comic version of a book is better than the book itself? E.g., Maximum Ride. The pretty art distracts me from the "Meeeh" story/writing and the science!fail.

I got that book from the library. It's boring generic anime s**t.

[Mink_LaLa]

And yet to me, it still somehow manages to be better than the book. :/

I'm still trying to figure out how James Patterson can write a book with people with avian DNA who somehow manage to get just wings, random god-moded super powers, people who can turn into wolf-like creatures, yet somehow the biggest threat he can come up with to mankind is GLOBAL WARMING. Not to say that global warming isn't a threat or whatever, but considering what's in the book aliens would have been more believable. After all, there is this. Also 'meh.'

[Mr McGrumpypants]

I would think it would be disease if they can breed together. Birds, wolves, and humans aren't exactly known for their genetic similarities as far as I know.

[Mink_LaLa]

If you wanted to splice DNA, mammalian and mammalian is MAYBE possibly in some tiny chance possible. Although I doubt it, especially if it's two animals who can't produce offspring together.

Mammalian and avian? That ain't gonna happen. BAT CHILDREN would be more believable because a bat is at the very least also a mammal. Or pigs. Even rats would make more sense with the whole "grow a human ear on a rat" thing. :/

So birds are a no-no. I suppose if you wanted to over analyze things, one could argue that he was going for some sort of religious sybolism. I mean, c'mon, one of them is named ANGEL and her wings are PURE WHITE and she's BLONDE and BLUE-EYED and a PERFECT LITTLE DARLING.

But you know what? I bet the adult version is is better. I need to go read that, just to see.

[Mr McGrumpypants]

Ugh. *shudders* I remember seeing that ear. Gross.

And I'm pretty sure even humans and monkeys can't reproduce together.

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I hate James Patterson and that a*****e Dean Koontz. They must have some kind of crappy book quota. I tried reading Odd Thomas after reading the manga adaptation and being slightly interested, and it was so bad I didn't get further than page twenty.

On an unrelated note,my math teacher gave me some math lectures on a dvd, and the name of some of the lectures sounds like some kind of math porn 'the sexiest rectangle' and such like. Lectures are interesting, though

[Kaxen]

megrar

guuuys. i need to see this movie. so do all of you:

http://www.thesecretofkells.com/

it looks gorgeous heart

I want to see this so badly... x_x

enchantedsleeper

Kaxen, did you level up? o.o Or was the 'forum assistant' phase like a probationary period?

Well, I'm onto the next level of training. Now to handle bigger fish too.

[Mink_LaLa]

Mr McGrumpypants

Ugh. *shudders* I remember seeing that ear. Gross.

And I'm pretty sure even humans and monkeys can't reproduce together.

No, they can't.

-2o: That reminds me of a video my class watched in A.P. English Literature, where I learned THIS:
Do you want to know why in almost every language 'A' is the first letter of the alphabet. Because you have two (main) instincts, sex and food. What do you say when you're happy with both? "Ahhh..."

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Oh snap.

Those filthy filthy academics.

I realized today that my sixteen year long love of english and history is slowly being eclipsed by my new love for science,math and the law. Man I love the law. And if the lectures continue on the same path they are going, math will be my number two. Oh bby. I still love reading though

[Mr McGrumpypants]

I'm actually paying attention in my Sociology and Criminal Justice classes now that we've moved past material I learned in high school. It's depressing in that both textbooks basically say that there is institutionalized discrimination in every facet of our society and it makes me go "SHIIIIIT! What are we gonna doooooo!?"

[Mink_LaLa]

What do you mean 'we?' Don't you mean what am I gonna do? I'm the one who's ********. :/

-2o: Even better was when we read Othello. None of us could stop saying 'an old black ram is tupping your white ewe."

And after a certain point I was convinced Iago was int to bestiality, what with all the animal/sex metaphors.

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My mom has a bunch of true crime books from her John Jay days, so for a while, I wanted to go and become a cop. Now? I want to use my chemistry degree to do lab work for the police department and/or get a law degree and try criminal cases.

[Mr McGrumpypants]

Well it kind of needs fixing and I don't think any single ethnic group could get rid of institutionalized discrimination.

@-2o: HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, STAY AWAY FROM CRIMINAL DEFENSE UNLESS YOU HAVE NO CONSCIENCE. ******** seriously. Most prosecutors hate the income for being district attorneys and jump ship to defense. Criminal defense is just... Gah. I mean, people on trial need a lawyer but I wouldn't want to be the guy to do it.

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This is probably a horrible thing for someone who claims to have a love for the written word to say, but I really hate Shakespeare. I always laugh at sexual metaphors,especially when i'm no longer sure if it's meant as a metaphor for sex. My art teacher goes 'WHOAH' to every little thing that could even be a little related to sex. Then again, he also looks up yo' mama jokes on the internet and recites them to the class.

[Mr McGrumpypants]

I liked Macbeth. I thought it was boring the first time I read it, but once I read it again for an exam I found it a lot more interesting to read. Something just clicked.

But no, I don't think hating Shakespeare's plays makes you terrible as a writer. His sonnets are great and the plays are fun to read, but I think people since then have done the plays better and made them much more relevant to our times.