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...think it shows a very naive, immature mind when somebody calls a person a jock. If I have to use a label like freak,' I'm only admitting that someone has done something better than me. This label stuff is a lot of horseshit. You judge people by whether they waste time or not, not by what they do. If a guy doesn't accomplish anything. I don't care...
...comic book series inaugurated this month will do nothing to erase the suspicions. HEE HEE Bogeyman, and Honky Tonk, all published by Company and Sons, an underground company, are directed at the young freak audience that finds Robert Crumb's Head Comix and Felix the Cat less than fascinating, and the traditional Dell and Marvel labels absolutely boring. All three assume an acquaintance with hard drugs and are only formally connected with their heroic predecessors. More than surrealistic, gross visual explicitness washes each frame with a desperate finality. Where the cover of Felix the Cat shows Felix and his girlfriend...
...however absurd carnivorous hair-dryers may sound, horror movies have used equally absurd monsters for years-with the important difference that a considerable amount of energy was expended to demonstrate how these monsters were created, usually through the excesses of modern science. The new freak comics work with a new kind of causality. A beautiful girl is transformed into a princess phone through the psychic projections of rejected lovers. Retributive justice is a persistent theme, but it is never confronted and articulated. Rather the new causality operates as an instantaneous wish-fulfillment never clearly associated with specific characters...
...parody of older comic book forms and advertising techniques. Sandwiched between the two principal stories, a full-page ad, layed-out with True Grit's promos, boasts. "Get both spending money and a real high!" The serious kid with shoulder satchels full of newspapers has been replaced by a freak holding a lid. The caption reads, "Percy Sibbin makes $500 a week and is always stoned!" Unfortunately, much of the remainder of the comic is more self-indulgent mockery than readable satire. In the lead story, "An Okie from Waskogie," Sodmind Redneck is drinking with the boys when acid somehow...
Though less sensational than the two other freak comics, HEE HEE's artwork is uneven and lacks even a minimal thematic continuity. From titles like "Voyage to See What's on the Bottom of the Toilet Bowl" and "The Man Who Bites," the comic sounded like an instant winner, but both stories are incomprehensible jumbles of Martian deserts and bathrooms. Others include a giant mouse that chases both Americans and the Viet Cong out of Vietnam and a scientist who tries to change the direction of Western culture by involving everyone in a game he calls "Life." The best story...