Welcome back once more to The Bones. Your one stop shop for everything groovy.
Today I had The Passenger by Iggy Pop stuck in my head. And you know what? It was alright. I spent plenty of time shuffling around muttering “La la la la la de la laaaa” under my breath. Sometimes it’s nice to have a song stuck in your head when it’s actually a decent one. Last one that was up in my old noodle was that Chumba Wumba song, the name of which I shall not utter here, let it start it again. That. Was hellish. Mostly because it’s one of those songs where I know about one line of lyrics and it just goes through my head over and over again. Drives me nuts!
Anyway, todays post is actually about a comic. The passenger brought it to my mind because the comic actually referenced the song a while back. (Anything that is hip enough to groove out to Iggy Pop is fine in my book.) It’s called Octopus Pie and it’s actually really good. (Not tasty, but interesting!) You get to follow the adventures of this uptight lady named Eve and her pothead room mate Hanna as they have their crazy escapades through New York. One of the things that I really like about it is that they don’t really focus on a drugs are bad or drugs are good message. It’s just a simple character trait so it never really feels preachy one way or the other. It’s an all around fun comic, I really recommend it.
Another good one that I’ve been getting into, while we’re on the subject of comics, is called Questionable Content. It’s hard to go into any detail about this one because the storyline is so complex. It’s like watching a comedy drama about being in your twenties. With a robot. And a girl with OCD. They reference World of Warcraft once in a while too, which is how I actually got into it. It’s a comic about hipsters for hipsters and it’s just a great thing to lay eyes on.
So what’s so great about comics? Well the awesome thing about these is that they are actually web comics. They’re published entirely online for free by their writers and artists. It’s really a cool concept to me. These people have basically cut out the need for big publishers and have taken it into their own hands to get their material out to their readers. I’m hugely into anything that gives giant corporations a big fat middle finger and these guys do just that.
Quick note before we go: Did anyone else follow the story about that politician who sent pictures of his “privates” over his cell phone and facebook? His name was Weiner! WEINER! I can not believe that newspaper headlines didn’t at least TRY to make use of that.
Keep you stick on the ice, guys.
-Costello
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Link for Octopus Pie:
http://www.octopuspie.com/
Link for Questionable Content:
http://questionablecontent.net/index.php
Link for Octopus Pie:
http://www.octopuspie.com/
Link for Questionable Content:
http://questionablecontent.net/index.php
