Nov 10
John Comments: Sentient killer smog in Los Angeles of course requires occult defense. Only in the 80s.
Published 1985
Many thanks to John!
John Comments: Sentient killer smog in Los Angeles of course requires occult defense. Only in the 80s.
Published 1985
Many thanks to John!
November 10th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Computers became much easier to use once the three different coloured keypads evolved into the QUERTY keyboard we know today.
November 10th, 2010 at 9:31 am
“I AM THE DJINN IN THE PC! WHO DARES TO WAKE ME FROM MY SLUMBER!”
November 10th, 2010 at 9:47 am
That machine screams ‘early 80s’. It’s not a PC: it’s a PET, coloured keyboard and all (though the areas covered by the different colours are wrong).
November 10th, 2010 at 10:10 am
“No No No! Set your integer to 1 not 666!”
November 10th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Didn’t that guy show up at the end of every Star Trek episode in the 60s? Nice to see he was still getting work as late as 1985.
Also, Killus is a pretty badass name. He would be played by 80s Arnold Schwarzenegger in the inevitable action movie of his life.
November 10th, 2010 at 11:18 am
Pray that when someone calls for “James Killus!” he ain’t armed…
November 10th, 2010 at 11:56 am
“First the sky turns dark, then hungry…then it calls Domino’s Pizza!!”
November 10th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Is that the overworld map to the original Legend of Zelda on the computer monitor?
November 10th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
“Is that the overworld map to the original Legend of Zelda on the computer monitor?”
It is! Because computer games are EEEEEEVILLL!!!
November 10th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I will grudgingly concede that Sunsmoke is a better title than Evil Brown Laptop Fart. Unless it’s a misprint for Gunsmoke. In which case it’s a much worse title.
November 10th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
The way the smoke is drawn gives it a bit of that Fu Manchu / Ming the Merciless look … hmm, there may be some relation to the 80’s Max Von Sydow Ming.
“Klytus, I’m bored with the Legend of Zelda”
“Just delete it my lord.”
“Later, I like to play with things a little before annihilation”
November 11th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Surely that’s just a quote for your average saturday out.
First the sky turns dark, as you drink in your local from 3pm.. then you get hungry and slip off for a kebab.
November 21st, 2010 at 4:15 pm
“The Computer is displeased, & recommends that you report for Mandatory Termination…” – Paranoia RPG Dialogue sample
As for the “possessed computer” image itself, isn’t it a “knock off” of the poster art of the early 80’s Video, Evilspeak…?
(The art work, for said movie, had a possessed Apple II Personal Computer, projecting a pentagram into the air, as I recall…).
December 13th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
The author went through and tossed several ideas for a pen name, until he came up with a real winner:
James Killme
James Killthem
James Slayus
James Stabus
James Strangleus
James Bruiseus
May 18th, 2015 at 6:40 pm
Protip: do NOT ask ‘Am I pursued by an air elemental?’ on Yahoo!Answers.
August 27th, 2015 at 12:51 am
Did the System Lord Sokar just project himself out of that laptop? Because seriously, that’s who that looks like.
November 10th, 2023 at 8:44 pm
Where’s Lorne Greene when you need him?