Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Role of Humor in Action Movies. The progression is easy: take your run-of-the-mill put-down, one-liner or joke--preferably old enough to seem fresh now--and slap it into a situation where the only other people in the room are the joke-hearer and someone with acid for blood and a bad case of extraterrestrial colic. Rewording may be necessary. Example: "Who do I have to fuck around here to get off this ship?" or the old-school misogynistic refrain recontextualized "Must be a chick thing." File under sub-heading The Role of the Quotidian, such...
...Role of Humor in Action Movies, Part II. There is a script imperative to sequels, it seems, to burlesque or mock the story's campier elements. Comedy pulls the rug out from under horror. Pretty soon, though, you have nothing: who has all the breath to laugh and gasp simultaneously...
...movies he can watch with his kids--but there's no need for him to sink to the level of this harrowing script. There is no improvisation, no delicious pop culture references, no Williams silliness. Instead, he stays true to an underwritten character that needs a serious injection of humor. As a result of his repressed portrayal, the rest of the performances...
Schrab is a highly gifted visual artist, and his fluid, hyper-kinetic black-and-white illustrations give the comic a definitely "cartoony" feel which contrasts quite effectively with the startling violence which periodically erupts in it. Ben Edlund's popular humor comic "The Tick" is a visible influence in the early adventures of Scud (for example, in the characters like the nefarious "Voodoo Ben" Franklin, a villain suspiciously resembling a founding father who animates his zombie armies using his electrified kite...
Because when it's taken on its own terms, of course, Schrab's ridiculous fusion of machismo, humor and popular culture works. And it certainly does generate a lot of attitude. Scud himself realizes this in one of his profounder moments. Meditating that he's one robot protagonist who's never wanted to be a human being, he comes to the conclusion that he should enjoy being what he is. Summing up the central aesthetic of the comic, Scud proclaims, "It's cool to be a robot...