Prisoners of the infinite loop
Many
years ago I read a webcomic about prison life. I remember thinking that
it was quite good, but I have forgotten its name and almost all of the
strips. In the one strip that I do remember, the two main characters
were standing against the wall and one asked the other if he ever
thinks of what's going on in the women's prison on the other side of
the town. "Only every day..." the other guy answers, and the comic then
cuts into the women's prison, where the female equivalents of these two
characters similarly stand against the wall and talk about something
else. Does anybody know what comic strip I am talking about, and is it
still available anywhere on the web?
I read the first three "Promethea" comic books by Alan Moore. Oh Jesus, was that experience ever tedious and the book so pretentious, especially the third one. The first book was actually all right and quite readable and the second one was still so-and-so, but then the third book was a total slog when the various aspects of the super happy magic land were explored and you couldn't even tell which panel you were supposed to move next after each panel. It is almost like Moore had tried to remake "Gödel, Escher, Bach", but since his version was ultimately about nothing real but about some nonsense ucca-pucca-wicca magick of how hippies think reality works, the end result was an incomprehensible mess. Perhaps Moore should dabble less in magycks and other dopehead hippie ideas and come back to reality, since after his previous works, this book was such a disappointment that I have to wonder what he is going to write next.
I read the first three "Promethea" comic books by Alan Moore. Oh Jesus, was that experience ever tedious and the book so pretentious, especially the third one. The first book was actually all right and quite readable and the second one was still so-and-so, but then the third book was a total slog when the various aspects of the super happy magic land were explored and you couldn't even tell which panel you were supposed to move next after each panel. It is almost like Moore had tried to remake "Gödel, Escher, Bach", but since his version was ultimately about nothing real but about some nonsense ucca-pucca-wicca magick of how hippies think reality works, the end result was an incomprehensible mess. Perhaps Moore should dabble less in magycks and other dopehead hippie ideas and come back to reality, since after his previous works, this book was such a disappointment that I have to wonder what he is going to write next.
Prison Funnies?
http://www.stevetastic.com/prison/
Posted by Risto Saarelma | 11:29 AM
Yep, that's the one.
What is even stranger here is that perhaps I subconsciously remembered the name of the strip, because I was initially going to title the post "Prison funnies".
Posted by Ilkka Kokkarinen | 12:00 PM