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wansley · Frequent Poster Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 54

Does anyone think they know what the background image is in "The Evil that Men Forget To Do"? (For those who haven't seen the Friday update, Scott McCloud added a tiled background to the comic, made up of, apparently, tinted photographic images.)

A venus flytrap, maybe?

(My mind is obsessed by superficial trivia. Could you tell?

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Hunter of Wisdom · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 3:17 pm Post subject:

My immediate reaction upon seeing the background was "internal organs". That's probably not it though. While that blob on the left is a decent likeness of a lung, the tubular thing is sprouting too many off-shoots to be a blood vessel, or - for that matter - anything else in the human body that I know of. Maybe they're alien internal organs

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Rip Tanion · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 3:21 pm Post subject:

Wikkit · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject:

Here's the picture, for reference:

Scott's nice enough to not use index files, so all the panels in process are still easy to see. Somnivore TETMFTD

Rip Tanion · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 5:16 pm Post subject:

Special guest star, Kirk Douglas as the Tommy Gun wielding psycho.

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Corax · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject:

I'll second the internal organs guess. The really old anatomy diagrams sometimes have funky proportions and odd things, and it looks like an old engraving. It seems to show the left lung cut open with the bronchioles and blood vessels snipped off.

Greg Stephens · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 7:06 pm Post subject:

Are you a student of human anatomy or is slicing up internal organs just a hobby?
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Rip Tanion · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 2:44 am Post subject:

I don't know if Scotts' title was inspired by the quote from Julius Caesar ("The evil that men do lives after them;/The good is oft interred with their bones" -act III, scene II.), the title of the Iron Maiden song (from what I know of Scott's musical tastes, I doubt it), or the title of the 1984 Charles Bronson flick;but I'd like to take a moment to mourn the recent passing of the man the Italian's called "Il Bruto"

Bronson was one of my favorite "tough-guy" actors, even if he did make some lousy and clich?d movies near the end of his career.

One of my favorite moments from the Simpsons happened when the family went looking for Grampa Simpson, who had run off with Bart to Branson, MO. Homer gets off the bus and says (I'm paraphrasing, mind you) "Well, here we are in Branson, Missouri." Then a man looking and sounding just like "Il Bruto" says, "No, punk, this is BRONSON, Missouri!" The camera pulls back to reveal a town where everybody looks and sounds like Charles Bronson...even the women and children.

I hope Scott pays tribute to ol' Chuck, and puts him in this strip. I'd love to see him blow away that woman stealing punk (who looks like Kirk Douglas)!
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Hunter of Wisdom · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject:

Cyborg Caveman · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 10:51 pm Post subject:

losttoy · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 11:35 pm Post subject:

I figured that Alex was just James (Man-Man) and Bill (Zombilly/MonsterHollow) Duncan's brother.
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Rip Tanion · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:09 pm Post subject:

Alexander D. · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject:

DecafSilicon · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

So can we assume that our new guy will have a bout of amnesia in the loo?

Rip Tanion · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:16 pm Post subject:

Damn, Kirk Douglas has been sitting on the can for a while there. Get our boy some Preperation H. This guy is worse than my dad. At least my dad has an excuse...he's reading the latest issue of Popular Mechanics while he does his business. I'm trying to rember if my dad ever fell asleep while sitting on the "porcelain throne." I don't think he ever did while I was living with him. Of course, now he's almost 60, so anything's possible.

Since Kirk is snoring, we can assume he hasn't pulled an Elvis, and dropped dead on the toilet.

And why isn't Hortense holding her nose from the stink? P.U.!

BTW, why are out-houses always drawn with that "cresent moon" window in the door. Having grown up in the Big City, I don't think I've ever seen a REAL outhouse. I've seen latrines when I went camping with the Boy Scouts as a kid, but they were of a different design.
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Hunter of Wisdom · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2003 5:36 pm Post subject:

Why do outhouse doors have half-moons on them?

Kevin Pease · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 5:51 am Post subject:

Hortense needs to get together with Brad from "Brad's Somber Mood." They would make a great couple.

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Corax · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:14 am Post subject:

This strip is getting awfully bizarre. Please don't tell me he's coughing up his lungs.

DecafSilicon · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:23 pm Post subject:

He's giving birth, mythic-style.

DecafSilicon · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject:

"From her mouth sprang Kanayama- biko and Kanayama-hime, respectively the god and goddess of metals..."
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/kojiki.html: "The Birth of the Deities" from the Japanese Creation Myth.

Rip Tanion · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject:

DecafSilicon · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject:

I vaguely recall the Zeus birth story, but note that our Kirk Douglas has anime demented eyes. (Can't find an example of them online, but Scott put one in UC, and there's probably one in "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga.")