If you’re partial to humor about demons (and all you atheists — you know you are), check out DEMONS, a webcomic, sort of. It’s an interesting way to use YouTube, and I also rather like the mockery of Faithmole.
Demons
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’m sure those are funny but my hangover is preventing me from watching those shaky videos..
ouch
Hey, the bully looks like Darwin! Sure, he would’ve agreed that the universe is pitiless & indifferent, but he was a nice guy, by all accounts. So what’s this Faithmole?
I don’t get it.
….. I don’t get it, either. What’s up with the YouTube videos showing each cartoon for two seconds before manually switching them out? (And why so fast? I’m a fast reader and I still have to pause the video in order to read the text and at least glance at the artwork.)
The background music on the most recent “video” (didn’t look at the others) was cute for about ten seconds, then it got old really fast.
whats a faithmole?
Religious or not, Faithmouse is at least clever and Dan Lacey is his own kind of brilliant. Not sure if I can say the same for the parody.
Faithmouse is at least clever and Dan Lacey is his own kind of brilliant. Not sure if I can say the same for the parody.
Clever? Brilliant? What, like Christian furries are clever and brilliant? Here’s a faithmouse comic:
http://cartoons.christiansunite.com/Faithmouse.shtml
In light of such clever brilliance, Demons strikes me as less parody than measured retaliation.
There’s no question that Lacey is absolutely nuts, but he really is quite brilliant. Example:
http://www.faithmouse.com/mallard-long-panel.gif
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Wow, possibly a new high in stupid ways to use YouTube! They manage to present their comics at low resolution *and* annoy us by forcing us to watch them at their choice of speeds. Brilliant!
Ah yes, demon humour is great. One of my all time favourites is “Bobby vs. Satan” from Kids in the Hall:
“I am the front-man of evil Bobby!”
So, appropriating Mallard Fillmore, out to commit vehicular manslaughter on a hippie bus full of Doonesbury characters (drawn in the style of Trudeau before he could afford to hire assistants) is brilliant? The car sound effect, “Freep” is kinda subtle, I suppose.
As for Demons, it’s all material handled much more thoroughly by S. Clay Wilson, with an R. Crumb rapidograph gloss. Happy to see it. I’m sorry to have learned that there are comics considered to be wholesome and family-oriented, that contain a fetus-angel named “Neverborn” kissing Obama while saying “He kills me!” Showing said character being strangled by a cross-hatched Darwin while a well-designed demon stands by may not be brilliant, but it’ll do.
Don’t call the demon well designed. It’s well adapted, dammit.
There’s nothing wrong with the denizens of a Cartooniverse being designed. It’s the people who want to insist that the rest of us live in their own Cartooniverse that make me nervous, because sometimes their behavior seems better adapted to survival than mine.
Maybe, but my gustibus is better than yours.
…my gustibus is better than yours.
Perhaps, but not as good as my milkshake.
It’s appropriate that the sequence links (what do you call those things, anyhow?) at the top of the previous posting read:
« Well, yeah…so who does GW Bush endorse, anyway? … Demons »
Dan Lacey is completely crazy, but has pretty much given up on Christianity now – see http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787116&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=62. His main preoccupation now is painting figures in popular consciousness with pancakes adorning their heads.
And, if anyone is confused in the above link; Timothy A. Bear is Dan Lacey. That thread is the second part of a long descent into madness and away from Christianity.
Sorry, That was just ugly. And I don’t really get the ACLU guy thing.
It was Richard Dawkins and not Charles Darwin who said the “pitiless and indifferent” schtick that is thrown back at Darwin by the believers. Darwin wondered why a god would allow a caterpillar to be eaten alive by a wasp larvae, and why a god would allow a ten year old girl to die, but he always seemed to be a pretty upbeat dude. Dawkins has had to put up with 150 years of irrational anti-Darwinists and just says it more forcefully and cogently.
I also am partial to humor.
A painting of Professor PZ Myers with a cracker on his head – Ebay Art Auction
Nice self promotion
It worked.
Good stuff