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Mar23

Webcomic Review: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

by tonyd on March 23, 2015 at 12:01 am

Webcomic: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Creator: Zach Weiner

Format: Single to Multi-panel Strips, color

Updates: Daily

Genre: Gag-a-day, comedy, satire

Themes: Physics, God, Philosophy, Geek stuff

Characters: Except for some of the early strips, there aren’t really reoccurring characters in SMBC

Archive: September 5, 2002

Still one of the most popular and funniest webcomic on the Internet, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is still churning along with no end in sight. If you’ve never read it, you have a lot of catching up to do, but the good news is that going through the library is a lot of fun.

Weiner’s strips are stand alone (except for a few very early strips that precede the current run). He likes to make heady jokes about physics, philosophy and/or geek related topics. One of my favorites involves Superman. They figure if Superman can power an unlimited power source using his powers, crime will evaporate and the human race will move forward. It works and Superman eventually becomes obsolete. When he finally dies, he’s only remembered as an alternate energy source. (I couldn’t find the link. There’s just so many strips!)

So Zach does a lot of thinking about weird things and that’s why I like the strip. The art is pretty basic and straight forward, but just right for the gag-a-day format. It’s got a lot of good energy to it. It feels a lot like the comedy sketches he eventually added (called SMBC Theater). Like his comics, they are funny, manic and pretty weird. Zach deserves his own comedy show and if not, his own Kentucky Fried-esque movie.

If you haven’t read SMBC, you should. You’ll be glad you did.

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Mar22

Your Fratoscope: March 22, 2015

by tonyd on March 22, 2015 at 12:01 am

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If your birthday is this week: You will see Bill Murray at your birthday party, but he’ll take selfies with everyone except you.

Aries: You’ll find a tiny corpse in a green suit and green bowler hat, along with an empty pot with gold residue.

Taurus: You won’t feel like cooking tonight, you’ll just eat a chicken raw.

Gemini: Some kids will egg your house, but when you explain it’s not Mischief Night, they’ll apologize and throw stones instead.

Lemini: You’ll check your horoscope drunk and end up expecting the prediction one below, which won’t happen.

Cancer: You’ll go for an uneventful drive that doesn’t end with being naked, blasted with a firehose and throw into a cell.

Leo: You either have a spider crawling up your leg or an itch, but either way, you’ll check before reading the end of this horoscope.

Virgo: You’ll remember that you forgot to call Robin Williams back. He sounded kinda rough on the phone, but he’s probably fine.

Libra: The stars say, that previous horoscope was too soon.

Scorpio: Your attempt to email an orgasm clogs your keyboard with bodily fluid.

Sagittarius: Your weed dealer breaks up with you. He insists it’s him and not you.

Capricorn: The cops will raid your place just to eat all the Pirate Booty in your pantry.

Aquarius: Your elaborate Prom date proposal goes poorly because the girl isn’t interested and you’re 27.

Pisces: This will be the week you’ll get some Patreon subscribers, because your fans are that nice.

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Mar21

Why I’m Not Seeing These Movies: Spring 2015

by tonyd on March 21, 2015 at 12:01 am

I’m back, I’m cheap and I’m angry. Why review movies when you can bash them for free without wasting your time? This is why I have On-Demand. This is why I save money. And this is Why I’m Not Seeing These Movies.

Get Hard: Although I like Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell, they made this movie.

Home: An animated movie with voices from Rhianna, Jennifer Lopez and Steve Martin? Oh, Steve. What happened to that wild and crazy guy? I would just be too sad to see this.

Serena: The description of this movie begins, “In Depression Era—” and I just immediately think. No.

Furious 7: But I haven’t see the first six? How will I follow the story?!

Paul Blart: Mall— No!

Pitch Perfect 2: C’mon. Seriously?

Mad Max: Fury Road: Okay, this is a challenge not to go see, since I am a fan of the originals. Other than replacing Mel Gibson with someone younger and less vocal about his opinions on Jewish people, what’s the purpose here? It looks like the same, ol’ tired movie with better effects. Like the remake of Robocop. You can shine a turd all you want Hollywood, it don’t make it gold.

Insidious 3: Why don’t they just start calling these movies Scary Ghost Movie 146, 147, etc.? It would save us all a shitload of time, as they are all basically the same movie.

Spy: Here’s the problem with spy movies and I’ve discussed this at length whenever I start screaming about the Bond movies: The Soviet Union is gone, so who does the West have left to fight? There’s no one bigger and badder than the U.S. Even a casual glance at the amount of money countries spend on the military and intelligence will tell you the U.S. outspends its nearest competitor by ten to one and almost the entire world combined. So whatever spy you send, even an English one, it always feels like the main character already has a HUGE leg up, since there is no giant evil Soviet Union backing up the villains. So really, what’s the point? It’s why Archer is so effective, since the KGB still exists on that show.

Speaking of Archer, I’m off to watch another episode or something else on my TV. Maybe I’ll finally move my ass to the theater to see Avengers: Age of Ultron, but it’s possible Hollywood could screw that up too.