Neat Comic!
Apr. 1st, 2004 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Yesterday
martes showed me a comic she'd bought that day. "Neotopia" by Rod Espinoza is a delightful series in the spirit of Miyazaki and many of the European fantasy comics. I enjoyed his COURAGEOUS PRINCESS series and this series has the potential to be just as enjoyable. I hope I'm not being disrespectful in making a two-bit comparison, but Neotopia is like a cross between the original Star Wars movie and Miyazaki's Nausica. And the good news is that (I believe) all five issues of the second series is already out! [edit: actually, all ten issues of volumes one and two are out; the first issue of the third series may also be out now]
Note to
okojosan: The issue she bought, Neotopia v.2.1, heavily features a group of hyena pirates! They're terrific characters: scruffy, yet charming.
Here's a link to a review:
http://www.thefourthrail.com/reviews/snapjudgments/122903/neotopiav2_1-5.shtml
And on a totally unrelated subject: Does anyone have any idea what the heck the lyrics to Springstein's "Blinded by the Light" mean?!? I thought the problem was that I couldn't make out all the words, but a check of a convenient lyric site shows me that I clearly have *no* idea what they mean!
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/blow/blindedbythelight.htm
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Here's a link to a review:
http://www.thefourthrail.com/reviews/snapjudgments/122903/neotopiav2_1-5.shtml
And on a totally unrelated subject: Does anyone have any idea what the heck the lyrics to Springstein's "Blinded by the Light" mean?!? I thought the problem was that I couldn't make out all the words, but a check of a convenient lyric site shows me that I clearly have *no* idea what they mean!
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/blow/blindedbythelight.htm
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Date: 2004-04-01 08:22 am (UTC)Are these comics still sold as individual issues, or are they in collected trade editions yet?
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Date: 2004-04-01 09:50 am (UTC)As for "Blinded by the Light", it's Manfred Mann, and uh, I have no idea. I don't think I've ever seen the lyrics before now. Freaky!
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Date: 2004-04-01 10:13 am (UTC)…it's the idiots who don't recognize the obvious April Fool's joke in a paper or magazine or their favorite radio show and get VERY ANGRY about the whole thing. The examples that are springing to mind are NPR's bogus story a few years ago that starbucks was building a coffee bean pipeline across the continental divide--someone started organizing a protest. My, gawd!
lyrics
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Date: 2004-04-02 01:20 am (UTC)As for the Mann song... my guess is that it's either deliberately nonsensical like "MairzeeDoats" or simply a tripped out drug-induced set of lyrics... *boggle*
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Date: 2004-04-02 07:02 am (UTC)Re: the meaning
Date: 2004-04-03 01:26 am (UTC)I hear a kid'll eat ivy too...!
Re: the meaning
Date: 2004-04-16 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-02 01:04 pm (UTC)Actually -quite- appropriate *chuckles*
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Date: 2004-04-16 05:30 pm (UTC)Thanks! :-)
Don't feel bad.
Even the semi-pro's KISSTHISGUY.COM (http://www.kissthisguy.com/real.html) don't understand the lyrics to it.