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Lisa Simpson Is A Ghost World Fan

lurleen — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:12:42 EST

oh man I'm such a Daniel Clowes geek..I love that..and I love this place! can't wait to see this

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Sunshineyness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:46:27 EST

@Tisiphone: And how many cookies do I need to give you to spill on that one? hehe. Jealous? Me.

Whatever your feelings on V are guys, you HAVE to admit Hollywood MAJORLY fucked up 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' and made kind of a mess out of 'From Hell.' So with this in mind I just don't have much hope for 'Watchmen'. Plus, the whole point of 'Watchman' is that it uses the comic medium completely. The point being that the story could have been told no other way. Hmmm... we'll see though.

And I have to say, I REALLY want to see 'Persopolis.'

And I always tell people- the best comic book film adaptations are 'Ghost World' (Managed to be sooo different from the book, yet kept the same spirit and used the medium to a perfect pitch) and 'History of Violence' (You CAN'T hate those sex scenes. You just can't.)

And I'm really excited for the 'Rex Mundi' adaptation. I hear Johnny Depp is heavily involved. Too bad everyone will just think it's a Da Vinci Code ripoff. (Even though the creaters always tell people the first issue came out BEFORE The Da Vinci crap. AND manages to tell a similar story MUCH MUCH better. NOR does the writers take it seriously. Sigh...)

Sunshineyness

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braak — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:36:49 EST

@Tisiphone: You are welcome to believe that!

But, really--compared to the comic book, I mean. Let's say you think that the movie is pretentious and heavy-handed. Is it really more pretentious and heavy-handed than the comic book?

braak

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couponwhore — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:31:10 EST

@Tisiphone: Hehe.

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Tisiphone — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:34:16 EST

@braak: Seriously? I thought the movie was another pretentious overly-obvious Wachowski turd.

@Sunshineyness: I'm actually doing work on Sandman right now. Er, won't reveal anymore in case some insane person on teh Internets tracks me down.

Tisiphone

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thanksluckystars — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:43:09 EST

@andBegorrah: yes! I have mixed feelings, but overall I'm just excited to see what they can do with it. And I'm glad they didn't cast a bunch of huge Hollywood stars. Also, I love Patrick Wilson.

thanksluckystars

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ShoplifterOfTheWorld — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:34:10 EST

@andBegorrah: The new Batmans are alright. Ok, pretty good. Actually, Batman's gone camp, dark, standard superhero, etc. but I think people have finally realized the dark psychological interpretations get the most mileage out of the Gotham universe (and I still argue that BATM is its best incarnation).
So hopefully the Watchmen movie will be given the same consideration.

If it's any consolation, we all know that the movie never lives up to the experience of reading the comic / graphic novel so the awesomeness will never be displaced, you know? *cough* persepolis *cough*

Shit, I do sorta think a Love and Rockets movie would be killer though (Maggie and Hopey's stories).

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

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ShoplifterOfTheWorld — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:27:20 EST

@Sunshineyness: Dude, when I was in high school, I mailed two paintings (one of Death and one of Dream, I kept the Delirium) to Neil Gaiman. We had a shorty email correspondence for awhile. And this was pre-art school so they were made with 100% L-O-V-E.

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

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ShoplifterOfTheWorld — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:24:32 EST

@HelloNos: I have to agree with the age discrepancy... but technically, Lisa's around 27 so it's about right. :-P

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

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braak — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:08:10 EST

@Sunshineyness: Also, I have to say, I believe that Alan Moore's response to V for Vendetta is one of the few cases in which the author is actually incorrect about the artistic interpretation of his work.

braak

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braak — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:07:00 EST

HAHAHAHAHAH!

That's always exactly how I imagined Alan Moore would sound.

braak

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seresy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:45:41 EST

@bigleggedwoman: My late 70s vinyl lunchbox had Donnie and Marie on it. :( Laugh-In at least gets retro-cool nostalgia points.

*sniffle*

seresy

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porterlicious — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:04:49 EST

Also? Daniel Clowes is nerd-boy haaandsome.

porterlicious

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Neodymium — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:41:00 EST

Uh, Lisa is human. She's not real. Different.

Neodymium

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speaksoapcube — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:23:47 EST

Lost Girls weirds me out. I flipped through my friend's copy and there are some bedazzled vadges in there - no lie.

speaksoapcube

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Cam/ron — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:57:30 EST

@ccchild: Good catch. I love how the Simpsons often exposes middle America to fringe works such as "Naked Lunch," "Pink Flamingos" and "A Clockwork Orange" (Bart was dressed up as friggin' Alex during a Halloween episode).

Cam/ron

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Sunshineyness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:56:04 EST

@MsDirector: Oh, sorry for the double post but I am the BIGGEST Sandman dork, like, ever. If I ever have money I want to get a copy of Sandman #1 and have it framed in my home. That is my dream, lol.

Sunshineyness

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Sunshineyness — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:54:36 EST

Oh squee, I love this eppy! I love the part when Art Spiegelman puts on the Maus mask, lol. Oh, and Alan Moore- I don't know what kind of strange cookies they promised that crazy recluse to get him on the show but props to the producers on THAT. I didn't like Lost Girls though... I thought it crossed the line from sexy/artsy into just plain bad porn. And I agree- the Watchman movie is a disaster waiting to happen. Although, considering what Hollywood has done to most of Alan Moore's work I don't blame him for being bitter about it all. (Although I kinda liked "V For Vendetta" I understand his pissiness at it)

And I so just ate up the final issue of Y: The Last Man- dare I say one of the best feminist comic books, ever? (Even if a guy did write it, but he's a cool guy. He signed my Ex Machina #1 for me at last comic con)

Sunshineyness

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MsDirector — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:25:46 EST

@caffeinequeen: Lost Girls is awesome. And hot. I read almost all of it sitting in the Barnes & Noble near my office, which felt fairly inappropriate, but I did it anyway because I can't afford to buy it, even though it's sooo pretty...

Count me in with the Fables fans. Also Y: The Last Man, Sandman, and anything Whedon.

I enjoy being a nerd.

MsDirector

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tiramisu — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:24:06 EST

I love Ghost World. And Fables. And Preacher.
My brother made me a nerd and I'm kind of ok with that.

tiramisu

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laurafin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:58:08 EST

@andBegorrah: My complete, mint condition collection of individual, pristinely packaged issues of The Watchmen and I are squealing with excitement!

laurafin

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Cam/ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:30:14 EST

@SF_iris: Ouch!

Cam/ron

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Branza — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:22:59 EST

@caffeinequeen: Wasn't that also a theme of one episode where she dreams abotu getting into the seven sister colleges? I remember Vassar making out with one of the other ones. Haha.

Branza

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SF_iris — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:04:30 EST

@Hamsterpants: Do you live in SF and hang out on Valencia Street in the Mission?

SF_iris

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marvel girl — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:51:32 EST

More girls should read comic books. If this episode made any girl pick up a comic, even a Dan Clowes one, that'd be awesome.

marvel girl

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AnnieGetYourFun — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:15:13 EST

@caffeinequeen: I can't believe they showed that in the background! I so heart The Simpsons.

AnnieGetYourFun

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Cam/ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:22:26 EST

@andBegorrah: I'd also imagine that Rorschach's back story would scare the shite outta many kids.

Cam/ron

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brendahamLincoln — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:22:01 EST

I was so psyched when this episode premiered a few months ago. I worked in a comic book store and wanted to compare the Simpsons' idea of a "cool" comic book store to the store I worked in. It was really close! Of course the store I worked in had douchebag managers, minimum wage, and an employee that me and my friends/coworkers referred to as ACF, short for AnnoyingCuntFace.

I'm glad Lisa branched out from her old Casper and romance comics. Clowes ruuuuulz!

brendahamLincoln

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andBegorrah — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:18:58 EST

@Cam/ron, AllThatYaz: The manipulation of the mutually assured destruction paradigm could maybe been done in a really interesting way, but yeah, I don't think the majority of my students know who Reagan was. Plus, Patrick Wilson is a little to young to be Nite Owl; yea for equal-opportunity ageism in the film industry? I would have loved to have seen this done as a multi-part series.

Now where did I leave my 12-sided die?

andBegorrah

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glass_slipper — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:06:57 EST

The interior of "Coolsville" was totally modeled on that of Meltdown Comics ( comic shop on Sunset Blvd. ) I used to go in there when Felt Club ( local hipster craft fair ) was held in the back parking lot.

They have a statue of Bender I would kill to own.

glass_slipper

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BeSarcastic — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:49:08 EST

@iodine:
I'm sorry.

BeSarcastic

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BeSarcastic — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:45:13 EST

Lisa is a pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

BeSarcastic

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titania1285 — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:36:07 EST

man, whenever i see stuff like this on the simpsons, it reminds me of their crack on the "bi-monthly science fiction convention" or the "bi-mon sci-fi con."
kills me every time.
i would have really liked maus if i hadn't read it in college in a class with the WORST PROFESSOR EVER.

titania1285

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jo-zebel — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:28:08 EST

Anyone else see a weird resemblance b/w Thora's character in Ghost World & Christian from Project Runway?

jo-zebel

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AllThatYaz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:28 EST

I KNOW. I heard Billy Crudup is going to be Dr. Manhattan? I'm not sure about that. I would have cast my friend, Billy Zane.

Also, I swear I'm cool in real life.

AllThatYaz

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Cam/ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:22:11 EST

@andBegorrah: I'm terrified. The Watchmen really isn't meant to be filmed, there are too many complex, overlaping stories that would all make a very complicated movie to digest. Plus the Cold War context will fly over young viewers' heads.

Cam/ron

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HelloNos — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:15:31 EST

How amusing that they would choose to depict mainly young boys and girls as attending the alternative comic-con. Riight.

HelloNos

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bigleggedwoman — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:53 EST

My vinyl lunchpail purse from the early 70s said:
"sock it to me
sock it to me
sock it to me
sock it to me"
And it had a thermos.

Thank you, Laugh-In merchandising.

bigleggedwoman

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ccchild — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:24 EST

@caffeinequeen: I was just about to call out the Lost Girls poster on the wall behind him! Nice.

ccchild

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FloraWay — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:12:13 EST

@iodine: EVER?

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tmmkitten — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:08:00 EST

i love maus! so watching this after i get home from genetics.

tmmkitten

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andBegorrah — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:05:45 EST

Is anyone else here totally excited (and totally terrified of the possible suckitude) about the upcoming "Watchmen" movie? Okay, I'm going to go give myself a wedgie and steal my own milk money behind the gym now.

andBegorrah

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ceejeemcbeegee — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:03:06 EST

I always thought Lisa was more of a "Strangers in Paradise" kind of girl.

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gluecake — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:59:35 EST

@SVreader: Same here. I can only stream stuff (no cable hookup at home, it's our choice) so I love these entries about awesome Lisa Simpson episodes...

gluecake

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misssgolightly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:58:47 EST

The other night I was supremely depressed and lonely and watched Ghost World for that very reason. Lisa Simpson, you mah gurl!

misssgolightly

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Cam/ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:58:08 EST

@Cam/ron: I'm sorry it's "What's New, Pussycat?" Damn, it's been a long day at work.

Cam/ron

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SVreader — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:56:00 EST

Ooh, can't wait to watch this when I'm not at work.

SVreader

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Cam/ron — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:56:00 EST

Jack Black's uncanny Korean rendition of "Pussy Cat I Love You" was the best part. It's awesome that Alan Moore was a good sport - "Baby Watchmen" haw, haw.

Cam/ron

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iodine — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:56 EST

yes, this is now the only simpsons episode I have ever liked.

iodine

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CollegeBookworm — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:54:07 EST

I want a purse that is a lunchbox now. Why??? It's definitely not an attractive purse. I have prettier purses. But I want a purse that is a lunchbox!

CollegeBookworm

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caffeinequeen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:53:48 EST

I loved that, but it would have been even better if she'd been getting a copy of Lost Girls, the graphic novel featuring Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, and Alice in Wonderland having all sorts of sex, signed by Alan Moore. I think Lisa would be down with the lesbians.

caffeinequeen

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Hamsterpants — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:53:21 EST

"My name is Strawberry. My purse is a lunchbox". Dudes, I AM Strawberry.

Hamsterpants

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kimsama — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:52:55 EST

Best part was when Art Spiegelman was like: "Maus is the the house!"

P.S. Am a comic book fangirl.

kimsama