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furtech ([personal profile] furtech) wrote2004-04-01 08:02 am
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Neat Comic!

Yesterday [livejournal.com profile] 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 [livejournal.com profile] 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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[identity profile] spotweld.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
*blinks* Hyena Pirates! yes!!

Are these comics still sold as individual issues, or are they in collected trade editions yet?

[identity profile] okojosan.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Eeee, hyena pirates! I'll definitely have to check that out! Thanks for letting me know!

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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[identity profile] typographer.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
During my college days I over saw three successful April Fools issues of student newspapers. I had a lot of fun (I think the mushroom cloud in the parking lot under the headline, "Parking enforcement gets tough" was the best)--but I've decided what I don't like about this holiday are NOT the people who can't tell a good joke…

…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

[identity profile] kvogel.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't make out the words either, so thanks for the ref. As for what they mean, I got at least a vauge idea about most of it. To me, things like "revved up like a deuce" seems pretty obvious, especially as it sounded like "rolled up like a deuch", which doesn't.

[identity profile] fuelnfire.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Lyrics: Could be either his life trying to make it big, or his life being tempted by drugs....hmm

[identity profile] hopperroo.livejournal.com 2004-04-01 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Interestingly enough, Rod Espinosa is open to receiving e-mails and will most likely resond if you write him. ;=D) Let him know how much you enjoy the comic and encourage him to keep it going.

[identity profile] furtech.livejournal.com 2004-04-02 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's a great idea-- I think I will write him! I tried my local comic shop and they never really ordered any. Must track down issues...

[identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com 2004-04-02 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
That's a cool book link!... I hope I remember to look for it at the next cconvention or bookstore visit.. :>

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*

the meaning

[identity profile] kvogel.livejournal.com 2004-04-02 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
The Mann lyrics appear to be simply rather oblique slang, I actually do follow it once I saw wha t it was really saying. As for "Maairzeedoats", that it simply a mangling of "Mares eat oats", which then follows - "And Does eat oats, but little Lambs love ivy".

Re: the meaning

[identity profile] c-eagle.livejournal.com 2004-04-03 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
woooo!
I hear a kid'll eat ivy too...!

Re: the meaning

[identity profile] fer-lomarcan.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought ivy is poisonous? o.0

[identity profile] crocuta.livejournal.com 2004-04-02 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Hyena pirates? Best idea ever!
Actually -quite- appropriate *chuckles*

[identity profile] fer-lomarcan.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Neotopia looks interesting, I'll have to check it out.
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.
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