Tim's Notebook
Tim Larsen
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Tim Larsen
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669 221 0573 cell
A quick flip through of Recovery Incorporated shows me a 'heist' themed comic.
The artwork is stunning and the story has a compelling hook to it!
Suddenly, a finger thumps him on his back. "Hey, fella..." he hears.
There's a weird scene where out in the country where a girl wanders off after celebrating her 16th birthday with her dad.
Being in 'The Zone' means you're truly in a complete and utterly comprehensive state of mind, state of being.
Brian Epstein was the manager of The Beatles from its creaky start in dive bars in Liverpool and Hamburg Germany.
I think everyone has known a kid in high school or grade school who had a hand-made comic.
darling starts out in New York 1981, the horrific Koch era.
Vinnie (who had been an actor) couldn't help but notice this man was famous from another time.
This thick volume contains four stories. There's plenty of cool eye candy at the back with variant covers and posters, lots to like!
FOINK! WHAPPA WHAAPPA FLAP!
The story of Ricky, a 14 year old girl falling for a man named Dante
Three Haight-Ashbury hippies, brothers in name but with very different personalities.
'Tidy' acts of violence?
In Cold-War era East Berlin, we're confronted with a man named Metzger.
What's an 8-track?
Raymond Chandler meets C-3PO...
I'm going to 'corner the market' so to speak...
It's a Motorcycle Club known as "The Steel Knights."
It's called Double Barrel.
The twisted inner world of the Deep South unapologetically laid before our eyes.
Quentin Tarantino is known for his flawless execution of story and character. This was not one of those.
Football's coming up quick in the windshield.
Getting 'medieval' on your ass? More like 'getting Baroque' if that can be a term.
Some post-war decades have their own sayings...
As I mentioned in reviewing Part One, it left off with a decent 'hook' (is that close enough to be a pun?) in this undersea adventure to make me want to read more.
It's originally French, so everything about it is European in flavor, pacing and style. It plays out very much like a foreign thriller.
A gigantic inmate gets stabbed to death by a skinny runt... who then hangs himself. Police Detective Linda Caruso is charged with filing the report of cause of death.
Comic book writers like Super Heroes a lot. There's something about the variety of ways that Super Heroes can manipulate their environments that spurs the creative ideas of your every day comic book writer.
I would get me fired if I got caught. I used the xerox machine to print 20 copies of my comic book...
I absolutely cracked up with the 'bad lieutenant' story line, following one L.A. police detective named Roy who is perpetually seeking a way to 'sell' what he does as a cop to some Hollywood Producer for big bucks.
Tom Cruise made a lot of throwaway movies. Quick in and out, with some snickering jokes along the way. Then he made Interview with the Vampire and became "the acting talent that is Tom Cruise."
Attack of the Time Stamp!!!
If there was a Zippy the Pinhead movie, I would want it to start where he goes to the laundromat.
Did ka ka get altered? If so, did her alteration happen in a miserable way?
When it comes down to it most comics are like hosting a party.
It has a very colorful palette and somewhat stylized cartoony characters who show a lot of teeth. And man-buns.
Josie Schuller is a modern every-day housewife.
I can honestly say I had a stint with super heroes, with inventing them and writing/illustrating a few stories. They're embarrassing.
What is Mahoney's? It's a bar intended for super-villainy. They all hang out here.
I like the small stage. There's so much you can do with it. Charlie's Spot has that going for it, for sure.
I've read through these four comics twice and I can't really say anything new about them or their concepts.
Last October I had a bit of fun throwing out some weird, funky or stupid ideas for stories. They could be comics, stage plays, full blown movies or a quaint quirky Netflix series. I'm back again with another 8 completely new ones!
In the future it's found that certain strains of marijuana can be made more potent by combining it with the remains of a dead person.
Across the street was a used book store that was open, so I went in.
'It's the end of the world as we know it...'
I thought it would be cool to do a quick overview of just some movies where a M.C. appears.
That Texas Blood certainly doesn't feel thick or dense, quite the opposite.
There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city.
Have you ever run across something that jogs your memory to that moment you were inspired to start what you're doing now?
Another YouTube video!
Andrew is a very busy person.
Sometimes you got to jump out of your skin...
There's been several action/adventure stories in movies TV and literature surrounding the world in the oceans.
You can watch these on my YouTube playlist, which you can subscribe to as well!
It's so cute!
Revisiting some techniques: Inking a comic book page.
I must report that after reading these three comics there was no shortage of titillating imagery: Gore aplenty, lots of boobs, full nudity, carnage, gun play...
Easy Rider made Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda lots of money.
First of all, I think the colors and total packaging is very concise and elegant.
Plan, Energy, Action, Craft, Help others, Engage, and Study the results.
Horror comics never really went away, they got separated for a while from its audience.
I've read a few books by this team...
I was very impressed with his rough and brusque style that held no punches and seemed gritty and real.
The hero of the story, my 17 year old fry cook Honda-riding main character of course would go to...
Here's a preview of them.
One of the great things about working in comics for a while is you get to share your ideas with them, and you get to see their latest projects or read their latest posts.
The story of Rudy Deckart continues.
"I've come to praise Tim Larsen, not to bury him."
Crows and ravens are truly ominous animals, just ask Edgar Alan Poe.
A man stops at a motel -The Macabre Motel- and experiences some weird things.
It's a future noir cyberpunk story, very long page count again. I'm very glad I pledged on Kickstarter for this.
Okay, I give up.
I can understand Brian Vaughan's perspective on this story. It's disguised as post-apocalyptic end-of-days struggle but really it's human drama. Like the kind you find in one act plays or soap operas.
I can only imagine what it must have been like to be a young man coming of age in the high water of the Hippie movement, especially in a liberal enclave like Vancouver...
Chewin' through it. Of the 1424 pages I'm up to 512.
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