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Title: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: littlefallsmets on December 25, 2006, 09:28:02 pm: http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12262006 (http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12262006)

A comic strip... from tomorrow!

(Nice Pete is a control freak, the Robert Fripp of elf-metal... Pat will approve?)
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: wombat on December 25, 2006, 09:44:31 pm: Indeed, springing is clearly not the scariest way of getting around. Although it certainly has its uses.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: Ben-San on December 25, 2006, 09:52:23 pm: The best part is that Lyle does not cuss in his internal monologue, instead utilizing "frickin'".
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: dejavroom on December 26, 2006, 01:45:27 am: Why is Lyle being played by a disguised Teódor lately these days?
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: Choop on December 26, 2006, 01:59:41 am: Because of "MORE LYLE"

(which i totally agree with)
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: littlefallsmets on December 26, 2006, 02:26:52 am: Quote from: dejavroom
Why is Lyle being played by a disguised Teódor lately these days?

I sort of dig the way that the strip is saying "okay, in relation to everyone else and usually even Ray, Lyle is the wild man but... by means of contrast, an alcoholic pornstar who can't hold a job is going to fall into the role of the confused normal person in relation to a sexually confused escaped murderer hiding in the 'burbs... being a drunken screwup'll make you tough in certain ways but it's all about who you're standing in the same room with."

Lyle's not hard, remember, dude's still a part-timer in his salad days, like Johnny Cash in Folsom Prison.

To you or I, to Teodor or Molly, a few weekends in the drunk tank might give you a rep.

But in relief to Nice Pete, Lyle is the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

(did anyone else wonder if the cab with the vanity plate "FRESH" was actually driven by Will from the future, like the Milkman of the Missing Hour in EERIE, INDIANA or was it just me?)
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: V-Adore on December 26, 2006, 02:55:48 am: Quote from: littlefallsmets on December 26, 2006, 02:26:52 am
(did anyone else wonder if the cab with the vanity plate "FRESH" was actually driven by Will from the future, like the Milkman of the Missing Hour in EERIE, INDIANA or was it just me?)
That may well have been just you, but I think it's a perfectly serviceable theory.

I think the big thing this strip reveals is that Lyle is not actually that weird. Frequently drunk? Yeah. Gonzo porn star? Sure. Hard up for work such that he's willing to do tranny-fucks for money? Absolutely. But compared to Nice Pete, who is on another goddamn planet, Lyle is just your everyday guy. He could well end up the Bruce Springsteen, relatable-down-home-type of elf-rock.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: nDed on December 26, 2006, 03:02:36 pm: Quote from: wombat on December 25, 2006, 09:44:31 pm
Indeed, springing is clearly not the scariest way of getting around. Although it certainly has its uses.

Springing is probably the most appropriate way to emerge from the haunted loins of a fever-witch, at least that's what I would do. I do not like being in haunted loins for more than a second.

I wish Onstad had put a clef in there so we could figure out what note Lyle is playing. Then someone could do a cover. Of the Mister Band song.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: Fooker on December 26, 2006, 10:59:11 pm: Seriously, everything is springing out of something in these death metal songs.

See ScaryGoRound:

http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20040910

http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20040913

Ok, so it's "rising up" and "coming forth" and whatnot, but I recalled it as springing. Damn. My memory must be completely shot between this and that deadpool nonsense.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: melack on December 27, 2006, 07:05:23 am: I don't know, springing is what Tigger always did and that motherfucker scared the shit out of me.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: the gooseman on December 28, 2006, 05:14:46 pm: I wish Onstad had put a clef in there so we could figure out what note Lyle is playing. Then someone could do a cover. Of the Mister Band song.

Lyle is playing the bass guitar...

i think it is reasonable for one to assume that it is a bass cleff.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: Drygioni on December 28, 2006, 06:02:32 pm: Quote from: the gooseman on December 28, 2006, 05:14:46 pm
I wish Onstad had put a clef in there so we could figure out what note Lyle is playing. Then someone could do a cover. Of the Mister Band song.

Lyle is playing the bass guitar...

i think it is reasonable for one to assume that it is a bass cleff.

I reckon so, but the lack of a key signature means we don't know if it's supposed to be played flat or not. Assuming the C note is natural, then I reckon B is a natural too, because the descending of a single semitone sounds suitably evil.

Anyway, we've now reached the over-analysis stage. Sorry, everyone.
Title: Re: 26 December 2006 -- "A MIGHTY EARTHEN CROCK"
Post by: Victoria Waterfield on January 02, 2007, 09:57:25 pm: May I officially call dibs on "Mister Cover Band" as the name of my hypothetical Mister Band cover band?