Accent On The Mental

I'm continuing to run the old TIM pages from experiMental Theatre, but the content grows more unsuitable for the front room as it progresses, so it's all on The Other Voice Of ODD!.

This morning has the next 30 strips (including the one above), and we'll run about another 100 pages over the next few days. Here's a direct link to the full version of this post.

Later today, out here in the main room, we'll look at the much safer pages of Mad Science with Dr. Nick!...

...and perhaps some of that alternate world's history.

(Yes, we'll get back to real entertainment soon)

stuff by -3- (2011, 2013)

Back In The Daze

Sorry no posts this weekend. I've been locked in an inward spiral and having a bit of difficulty finding the exit.

While i'm down here, i figured i could get back to things by raiding my own past. For a while, i did a webcomic called experiMental Theatre. The first arc was entitled TIM or This Is Me. I did very bad things with a cyber-voodoo doll, but we'll get to that later. Today, let's just look at the opening strips to get an idea of what sort of weird world it was. (I'd say 'to get an idea of what was going on' but that's probably misleading)

The strip was done fast and loose - minimal pencils and speed inking for a frantic brush style. And strictly black and white - no greys. So lots of hatching and odd line work for textures, with a fun additional challenge of getting psychedelic without colour (later in the series).

So, go ahead and dive in - you can claim you were pushed. I won't say a word...

At this point, we get the first nudity (of which there was a fair bit, along with other things like Language, Violence and eventually Sex), and so this strip is only visible in our back room for adult content. Later, we'll have to continue this discussion back there in the Other Voice of ODD!. Here's a direct link to the uncut version of this post. For the moment, let us summarize - 

Our protagonist ran full tilt into a thick tree branch and knocked himself unconscious. A naked girl comes along, pokes him with a stick, and then gleefully punts him over the treeline and off a cliff...

Next:
things start to get a little weird

stuff by -3- (2010, 2011)

This Post Is Rated GP

Somewhere between the Challengers Of The Unknown and the Blackhawks existed the Ghost Patrol.

So, who were these guys?

Originally written by Ted Udall and Emmanuel Demby with art by Frank Harry, (good luck figuring that out from the page credit below), the Ghost Patrol debuted with their origin in 1942 in the pages of Flash Comics...

Things sure worked out better for them than for these guys...

Like the Blackhawks, the Ghost Patrol continued well past the end of World War II - until 1949 - appearing in most issues of Flash Comics between #s 29-104. And, like those other guys, they sometimes had trouble finding direction without the war that spawned them. Things evolved and changed, with John Wentworth now scripting...

...things always change...

(Thanks, kiff57krocker)

...except   War. War Never Changes.

There was a Ghost Patrol that appeared in Our Army At War in 1963, but that was some other guys. They were Infantry. 
Fred, Slim and Pedro seem to have moved on from this realm.

page art by Frank Harry from Flash Comics #s 29, 38, & 70, panel art by kiff57krocker (1942, 1943, 1946, 2019)

(Yes, i've been playing FallOut games again)

Not Quite Reboots

Just a quick cartoon reminder -

Rick And Morty weren't the first to kill and replace themselves...

...and Fry handled it better than Morty...

 ...good times...

screens from Futurama S06E07 (2010)