Jan 20
Click for larger imageCharles Comments: Shirley, you’re jokin’?
Published 1980
(Average: 7.21 out of 10)
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Charles Comments: Shirley, you’re jokin’?
Published 1980
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January 20th, 2021 at 10:25 am
Heh. He needs two brick belts to hold up…..something.
January 20th, 2021 at 10:57 am
Big Human League fan. The early stuff, mind.
January 20th, 2021 at 12:10 pm
OK, I’ll bite: he really is built like a brick s**thouse.
January 20th, 2021 at 12:24 pm
If he has a brick belly button does also have brick nipples?
January 20th, 2021 at 1:43 pm
I can just about make about brick underpants but you’re never going to convince me he isn’t a dickless* wonder.
*Please supply your own brick/dick pun.
January 20th, 2021 at 2:18 pm
So THATs what those WWII mega-guns were for.
January 20th, 2021 at 2:21 pm
Ugh, this guy. Talking to him is like talking to a brick wall.
January 20th, 2021 at 2:52 pm
I’m impressed that he got Raybans and a gun in his size. I’m especially impressed because getting them delivered when he’s literally No Fixed Abode would have been tricky.
You can’t even get them left in a neighbour’s wheelie-bin like when Hermes or Deliveroo pretend you weren’t in.
January 20th, 2021 at 3:08 pm
Brickolas Cage in “Raising Arizona.”
January 20th, 2021 at 3:34 pm
Give him a badge and what do you have? Marshall Brickman!
January 20th, 2021 at 6:29 pm
Clearly the guy is stoned.
Some people think he’s unreliable, but in fact he’s a real brick.
After he gets the job done, he’s going out and getting plastered.
The story does have a city incarnated in human form, but, alas, I don’t believe he’s Kaiju sized.
January 20th, 2021 at 11:20 pm
City come a-walkin’… and a-shootin’.
I guess this is another city the city is a-walkin’ through?
Can’t read the blurb since the larger version is 404.
A google reveals that the city is San Francisco, which (squints at buildings), OK, I’ll buy that — but then who or what is the anthropomorphic figure? Because there ain’t that much unreinforced masonry in San Francisco, it mostly having fallen down in 1906 and become landfill.
The soundtrack for today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48
January 21st, 2021 at 2:18 pm
So, does that giant assault rifle shoot bricks, or projectiles made of street lampposts, or…??
January 21st, 2021 at 2:18 pm
“We don’t need no education…”
January 21st, 2021 at 9:27 pm
@GSS ex-noob: that whole “no shirt, sunglasses, and assault rifle” look strikes me as more LA than San Fran, but perhaps my prejudices are showing.
January 22nd, 2021 at 3:58 am
Pretty sure I saw this guy once outside the Moscone Center.
It was either for an Apple reveal day, Comicon, or a Big Brick Manly Men conference.
January 22nd, 2021 at 6:23 am
@Bruce: definitely much more LA.
@Ryan: Must have been BBMM — Apple guys aren’t built that solid, and they don’t let you go outside Comicon with your brick weapon.
January 24th, 2021 at 9:24 pm
That gun looks like it’s been drawn by someone who never saw a gun before, only heard about it through descriptions.
January 25th, 2021 at 3:51 am
@Tracy: or someone with no reference material who had seen guns in the past, and though to himself: hey, I can draw that from memory! [1]
(He couldn’t).
[1] Back in 1980 you after all couldn’t instantly call up a zillion pictures of a gun on your phone: you’d have to look in a book or magazine, and who has the time for that when there are brick-pants to draw?
January 25th, 2021 at 10:03 pm
@Tracy; Bruce: I’d say at a guess that gun’s about 25 metres long: who’s seen a gun like that, designed to be shot with brick fingers? For all we know this might be a painstakingly accurate depiction of such a piece of ordinance.
(It’s not in the book, so there’s no help there).
January 26th, 2021 at 12:31 am
The artist was told the title was “City Come A’Shootin'” so by the time the error was realized, it was too late to do over to fix or remove the almost-but-not-quite gun.
@Tat (8): he could get his deliveries in an Amazon Locker. A really, really big one.
Presuming the clock tower down left is supposed to be the one on the Ferry Building, it’s 245 ft/75m tall. His weapon looks to be about twice that.
@Bruce: He’s wearing a shirt, with a very small collar, and maybe cufflinks?
June 26th, 2021 at 10:18 am
From Studio Ghibli comes the masterpiece of Japanese animation:
HOWL’S MOVING SCHOOL SHOOTER