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Well, okay, this is escalating quickly! EDIT: I adjusted the lighting on the past four pages to give it a more bright sunny day feel (using some of Pascal’s artistic advice). The old version was looking very ‘yellow’.

Joe and I saw The Martian. It’s real good, go see it! We’d both listened to the audiobook a while back and both agree it’s an ideal adaptation of the book, retaining the book’s intelligence while streamlining the many problems the characters encounter into something highly entertaining to watch within two hours.

The only major complaint Joe had, which I agree with, ย is that they made the main character, Mark Watney, more of an everyman and less of the super nerd he’s portrayed as in the book. I mean at one point he wishes he could have a D&D Paladin’s water creation ability, which he’d always thought was useless when he role played, but would’ve been extremely useful while trying to grow plants from his poop garden. But that is a minor complaint, since I suppose main stream audiences would get it, or care, or something, even though Big Bang Theory is still an inexplicably popular sitcom.

Anyway, go see The Martian, it’s great. In fact, wow, there have been a lot of great action/adventure/scifi films this year! Mad Max, MI: Rogue Nation, Avengers 2, Ant Man, Ex Machina, Jurassic World, Inside Out, The Man From UNCLE, probably a bunch of others I haven’t seen. This has been a quality year for my favorite movie genres! And then there’s still that other movie that’s coming out, what’s it called…Star Wars?

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52 responses to “626”

  1. Gigi says:

    “I wanted to be a fisherman so bad. SO BAD. And now you’ve ruined that for me punk. All my dreams of catching all the fish: crushed in a single moment by you, punk that you are.”
    “I’m older than you, you can’t call me a punk.”
    “YOU CRUSHED MY FISHING DREAMS PUNK I’LL CALL YOU WHATEVER I WANT”

  2. Loved “The Martian” too. I knew, going in, that there was no way they’d get in all the material from the book (not unless they tripled the length of the movie, and that might have been a bit too much), but they included… well, most of the best parts. And I thought the brief epilog they attached to it, with the classroom speech and showing the “where are they now” for everyone in the credits, was a good and seamless addition.

    And, lest we forget, Andy Weir (who wrote the novel) is a former Webcomic ArtistWriter, as well, with the (now long concluded) Casey and Andy.

  3. Leo says:

    If you can’t catch fish in the sea, go for am*bass*ador on land.

  4. charles81 says:

    Really should have given him alternatives when he told them earlier that this would happen.

  5. clogboy says:

    lol. In my head I’m thinking ‘bring him the Tenchu!’ and get a heart throbbing feeling.
    I miss Tenchu. The sequel not so much though.

  6. Hfar says:

    Of course he’s a fisherman! That’s not a sword but a really fancy tuna knife that he’s just super excited to show off!

  7. Flaming Squirrel says:

    My prediction: Ricardo’s pointing a gun at him. Genchu, even with his godlike swordsmanship, knows he’s not fast enough to dodge or deflect a bullet, so he lets the ambassador go. The ambassador, having no time for such trivial things, continues on his way with his hands still folded behind his back.

  8. Minando says:

    Hey, now ! You said you just wanted to cut your nails !
    I did, but alas, his throat got in the way.

  9. Da'Zlein says:

    “Hey there fisherman! It’s me, Nataku! I know you’re nobody from my past because if you were you’d know well enough not to murder my emissaries!”

  10. Scott Henry says:

    How could he want to be a fisherman if….FISH AIN’T BREAKFAST!

  11. Mad as a Hatter says:

    “I wish I could say I was a noodle vendor. But alas, I am a student of the principle art of Cutting.”

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