There’s a little cutback over at Wired way, and for the foreseeable future I’m going to be providing a video every other week instead of every week. (Currently we’re on a holiday hiatus.)
Looking on the somewhat brighter side, this frees up more time to do other things! I was thinking to myself “I wonder if I can update Bad Gods every weekday in January.” Then I realized that’s what George Orwell would have called “loserthink,” if he had written a teen comedy instead of a biting political satire. So instead I’m asking the question “What happens when I update Bad Gods every weekday in January”?
The ramifications are, even now, being explored, with a new Monster Manual Comix.
Keep checking Bad Gods, you’ll see new material constantly emerging like pups from an extremely gravid prairie dog.
I didn’t believe there was a recession until they came for my precious Alt Text.
Most people would settle for producing creative puppies like a normally gravid prairie dog but not you. You hold nothing back procreating web content with your legs jacked up and wide in webobstetrical stirrups to produce fodder for our inane babytalk cooing pleasure. You sir, are the man. Assuming I can say that about somebody ready to give birth to multiple Bad Gods.
I’ve learned a new word today, thanks to this very update.
“Updatiest”?
Your illithids are composed of equal proportions of win and cute.
Thanks! They’re inspired by any number of adorable Cthulhus.
As outstanding as Bad Gods updates are, now I really want to see a teen comedy that’s also a biting political satire.
(I must also consider the possibility that one already exists. It probably can be found right next to the unicorms.)
I assume the leaning-on-a-wall thing is an intentional Charlie Brown reference/homage?
You have made me think of a prarie dog giving birth, and I will get you for it someday.
Ah, I think I am identifying a Lore trope – When two monsters are talking, the second one is always “Dave”. An homage (conscious or un-) to David Neilsen?
This update has caused me to review the series of “Monster Manual” comix, and I’d just like to commend you again for “liar also fucker”, from this one.
Interestingly, this one avoids the obvious parallelism — not that it detracts, you understand, it’s just that I was taken in as a youth by a herd of wild pedants and can’t help noticing these things. But “mind” isn’t an organ, like “kidney”. Maybe a deviant brain flayer might accept kidneys as an alternate, but it seems like a progressive, rebellious mind flayer ought to feast on some other emergent property. Not sure what, though. Superego flayer? Collective unconscious flayer? Public opinion flayer? Zeitgeist flayer?
Unless, of course, the tangibility of kidneys is, in fact, the point. I’ll stop now.
Dude! I just this second noticed that the guy from the unicorn comic is the rot-grubs guy from the first comic, now in the advanced stages of losing-his-arm! How did I miss that before?
Also, the word I learned from this update was “gravid.”
Awesome! My prayers are answered: more Monster Manual comics. It’s like Christmas in January.
Maybe it’s just me, but does anyone else feel like if you’re in a certain (fairly narrow) demographic group–namely, geeks/readers/children-of-the-80’s–Lore’s work is pretty much pure poetry?
The mustache guy’s indifference to minor inconveniences, such as Fungi, Violet’s touch eating his flesh away, is admirable. So is how he can just make up new words like unicorm.
I eagerly await being further ramified by this marvelous character. May he reappear often!
The “Dave” thing is in fact a reference to Dave Neilsen. It’s also kind of an in-joke between us. I’ll explain.
Before I even had a Web page, Dave and I did a short-lived vanity radio show in Los Angeles. We’d start the show with something like the following:
Me: I’m the latest victim in a series of grisly murders that have the police baffled.
Dave: And I’m Dave.
With, of course, my line changed each show. So when the time came to start assigning ludicrous fantasy names to monsters, I was reminded of that bit, so I incorporated it.
Do they say “There!” that often in porn? I was impressed by how much there there was.
Ah, yet another inexplicably funny Lore-ism: A senator made out of viagra.
I try to explain this stuff to people. I send them links to Bad Gods and Alt Text. But some people just don’t get it. I might worry about that a bit… but: A senator made out of viagra. I’m still chuckling.
OT: Lore’s Twitter feed has gotten its first serious competitor. Incidentally, I wouldn’t mind Lore doing some AI humor in the future. The ideas are many, I wager.
http://twitter.com/cyc_ai
A paladin named “Doogie”? Not in my campaign, bud.
It seems almost a shame to hear about the origins of the “I’m Dave” in-joke. I like to think that there was one Bad Gods browser who also retained a perfect memory of gags from bygone radio variety shows who just killed himself laughing at that one…
Man, I’ve had “Lord I was born a shambling mound” in my head all weekend…
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