The Alphabet Posts (A & B)
Aristotle once said, “There is no surer way to get to know a man than to peek at the history of his search engine.” Now, because I’m bored generous and kind, I’m giving people a chance to do just that, with me. Here’s a look at my “past history” prompts that come up when I type a single letter into my search engine. Today’s letters… A & B
Here we go!
ABANDONED NEW YORK LOT: I remember looking this one up. I like to provide visual references in the body of my comic scripts, so that the artists I work with will more closely match my "vision." In this case, it's a setting for a segment in Black Widow & the Marvel Girls # 4. This is the actual reference visual I added to the script.
ACTRESSS SMALL BREASTS: What the hell? Why did I do a search for "Actress Small Breasts?" I completely admit that I vastly prefer small breasts, but why was I searching for them in this light? Aren't there better ways to do it? Was I searching for a particular actress, and the ONLY thing I could remember was that she had small breasts? This one's a mystery to me. Anyway, here's a picture of Kiera Knightley, who happens to have small breasts and be an actress, a combination that I apparently search for, sometimes.
ANTIQUITIES DEALER: (Note... I also searched for "Antinquities Dealer") I collect a lot of different things (Golden Age Comics, Original Art, Restraining Orders) and now and then I buy antiquities. I've got a 3000 year old dagger, some Pre-Columbian pottery, lots of Chinese tomb figures, hundreds of Greek and Roman coins, etc. Pictured above is a set of Egyptian canopic urns. I do not own them... only posted their picture so we can all decide which members of the Fantastic Four they each match.
ATTILA THE HUN: No idea whatsover why I searched for Attila. I was probably trying to remember how to spell his name. I'm glad my parents didn't name me Attila.... I'd still be in first grade, struggling to get my name spelled correctly so that I could move on to "dog" and "cat."
BASQUIAT: Another one that I cannot remember looking up, although I will say that the ONLY possible reason was to fuel my hatred for this "artist." To me, Basquiat is emblematic of all that's wrong in the art world. I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but in this case, what the hell..... Basquiat, you suck roadkill. Incidentally, that piece of "art" you're seeing above is "worth" a quarter million dollars or so, and Basquiat's paintings go in the ten of millions. The piece above is untitled, as Basquiat was probably too exhausted to name it, you know, after putting all that effort into the illustration.
BAUDELAIRE: Okay, Baudelaire I do like. I've been to his grave, in the same cemetary as Oscar Wilde. I tend to favor the decadent writer / artists.
BOOK BROTHEL: Oh, come on! Book brothel? I did a search for book brothel? Is that where lonely old tomes go to "get their pages flipped?" I have no idea what I was thinking. Anyway, here's the first image that came up when I recreated this puzzling search.
BOTERO: Botero is easily one of my favorite living painters (pretty sure he's still alive, anyway) and I remember that I was searching for his bullfighting paintings, but i love this cat painting so much that I'm going to use it instead.
And…. that’s it for this time… stay tuned for the next installment, where we address the question, “Why was Paul searching for Christie Brinkely?”
Thank you for this glimpse into the twisted psyche of Paul Tobin. In regard to the canopic jars, I guess Ben, Reed, Sue, and Johnny, going left to right. Also, those urns would be great for keeping pencils and stuff in.
Takes a big man to admit he searches the internet for boobs. :p
Book brothel? Sounds like an interesing idea for your next project…
Thing is… you don’t HAVE to search the internet for boobs, they’re just there. Future generations will be startled to know that boobs originally grew on women, and not just on the internet. That’s why I’m so confounded that I was apparently searching for boobs.
I didn’t put in my own choices for the “Match the canopic jars to the FF” game, because I don’t want to influence any other opinions, but I will say that you and I were a tad bit off.
Also, you bring up a great point … when you have canopic jars waiting for you, but you’re not yet dead… what DO you do with them? Is it gross to keep other things in them?
Awesome. I’ve often wondered what my voyeuristic corporate IT masters think of my random and substantial trail of search queries. They probably need an entire file cabinet to hold the hard copy.
Also: Small breasts++
It’s the government that I worry about with my search queries. Doing research for my comic book writing, it’s not uncommon for me to look up types of guns, types of explosives, street addresses for government buildings, etc. Pretty clearly, there’s an FBI agent out there that thinks I’m a potential terrorist with a small breast fetish.
Loved the end of Model’s Inc! Like you said, the scene you mentioned was tastefully done, and the surprise ending was nice.
I seriously hope you or someone else can do something else with these characters at some point.
Thanks! And, yeah… I’m hoping this isn’t the last we see of the characters.