Eye Spy
Hey Sicklings,
I’m starting a new policy of erasing any comments that seem hateful toward another reader. You can correct each other, argue about Rez lore, whatever, but anything that’s going to start a baseless fight will be deleted immediately. I want everyone to feel comfortable coming to the site and I’d hate to lose any of you. Most webcomic how-to’s suggest you disable the comments section completely, but that’s not something we want to do. What’s the purpose of stabbing the priestess in the gut and then kicking her off a ledge if we don’t get to hear the inevitable after-gasp?
There seems to be some concern in the comments section about the, ahem, worthlessness of non-Rez Sick material. We’re still doing the comic three times a week, fear you not, but on top of that I’ll write one comic review, one children’s book review, and one piece of lore about our new universe. We want to show you the kindling that keeps the Rez Sick fire crackling, and - more importantly - introduce you to vital work that’s happening in the comics and kid’s books world. Enjoy or ignore as you please.
Here’s the kid’s book review for the week.
There’s a distant land where goblins drink rainbows through long, thin straws. They hunt the colorful arcs over water-painted terrains and slurp them down, huing their frog-like skin ROYGBIV. They are a menace to the skies and they must be stopped . . .
There is a cool way to teach morality. The after-school specials of my youth took the direct approach: watch what happens when Jimmy rides his skateboard without a helmet, or, Jenny had a wonderful life . . . until she tried a cigarette. These short, easily-digestible lessons told the world in black and white, striking fear into hearts and equating being judgemental with strength. I spent a long time pointing fingers at kids who broke these sacred rules, thinking I was being a good person, and that there were only two ways of being: good or evil.
But over time, those shorts lost their grasp. After a thousand rides down steep, curvaceous hills helmetless, skull in tact, or watching relatives burn a liftetime of cigarettes and outliving younger, tobaccoless relatives, those old shorts went up in smoke.
I much prefer morallity told through another universe. It opens itself to a million interpretations. Instead of pointing fingers, I become curious. What do rainbows taste like? Is it greedy to try one? As I watch the goblins’ melted fate, I don’t search for goblins in my life, but rather the rainbows I’m trying to slurp up. I think a perfect moraliy story will not make you point fingers at others, but find your weakness and pull it out through your belly button.
Granted, the goblins are the clear-cut bad guys of the story and they get their just desserts. But to the book’s credit, it never comes right out and says so. Am I the only one who mourns the loss of the pastel baldies and thinks the ostentatious flowers seem willfully obnoxious? After all, those goblins were just as beautiful and colorful as the rainbows they drank . . .
-CMH
June 26th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Khm… Well, now he have a weapon.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Ow thats what I call painful volume… um, what comic is this?
eh, there is some sort of pain in each one, I’m more concentrated on Michael Jackson on MTV right now
June 26th, 2009 at 4:17 am
“Quick sharpen my teeth with that rock!”
He reminds me ever so much of the black knight
June 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Huh. So we have 3 adventures going on, it seems. 1. Willow and the maybe-dead-maybe-not Lenkins 2. Og, Bohard, and Haiz’s journey to Find Willow, and 3. Leporka (Thank you Vein) and the Prince. Confusing. I wonder how Mini will turn out…
June 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Im glad to see that you guys arent sparing anyone a painful death in rez-sick. Mini died, pig-face died, lenkins is dying slowly and painfully. Although it takes a bit of getting used to when a character that has had an impact on the main character dies, i just hate it when everyone gets kept alive.
Keep the funny flowing-TK
June 26th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Everything is dead-or near dead, which is so funny.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Seriously, remolay. I’m remembering my Japanese students dancing to “ABC” by the Jackson 5 and requesting it over and over and over . . . My childhood kinda aches today.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:49 am
does that mean that lenkins will dies? or is he THAT tough
June 26th, 2009 at 11:39 am
i nearly busted a gut when u said that about ur students….
June 26th, 2009 at 11:40 am
also,wouldnt an arrow to the eye cause some…um….brain damage? oh wait,forgot ‘lenkins’ doesnt have a bbbrrrrraaaaaiinnn!!! also,when will willow need to feed on brains to sate his neverending hunger for brains and human flesh?
June 26th, 2009 at 11:41 am
and those pictures of the books are an eyesore,to many colors,reminds me of something i saw on spore…when the coloring on everyhting got all buggy
June 26th, 2009 at 11:45 am
ONE MOR THING! to ppl who are thinking my picture is of a toothless lion,its not,its a toothless prouler form the barrens,got it from a WoW comic that says some quets drops have to be 100% and in the comic it had a hoofless zhevra,headless raptor,and a toothless and fangless prowler
June 26th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I didn’t really care for his music too much. I’m more of a rock fan. But on the other hand of it all, I did see a park FULL of children today on my way to lunch soooooo…
June 26th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
ow, that’s got to hurt worse than Lenkins getting shot in the eye. I’ve actually been watching videos of Michael on MTV all day, for today they are back to living up to their name MUSIC television. MTV usually ticks me off
June 27th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
ok i think lenkins is finally dead and im hating how short these comics are getting its like watching a TV going: hello….. im……vein…..whats……your…….name……?
wouldn’t you hate your TV doing that
June 27th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
vein, this is rez sick. it’s always been short. ever since (dare i say it) the graveyard and the comic with the blonde haired dude with the dead girlfriend and the short dude gaurding hell (forgot the name).
June 28th, 2009 at 5:13 am
if you look closely at the 2nd box in the comic at willows arm you can see that it looks almost cut off
June 28th, 2009 at 5:50 am
This was made on my birthday
im still not giveing up on mini and lenkins might be dead,,
June 28th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i read the the rainbow goblin along time ago
and as for Lenkins i think it will take a lot more than to kill him
June 28th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
whoops i ment to say it would take alot more than that to kill him not think it will take a lot more than to kill him
June 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
lenkins is like a dungeon boss,hard to kill,and after u think hes gone,he comes back tommarow (on heroic)