For some reason, I couldn’t get that oompa loompa to NOT look look like Obama, no matter how hard I tried.  I think it was a combination of the skin color, the hairline, and the face wrinkles.  He was the last character I drew, and the final result made me immediately regret not spoofing the old 1971 Willy Wonka film.  Those oompa loompas were so much cooler.  And their songs were so much better.

Overall, though, I preferred this 2005 film over the old one because it was closer to the book and therefore seemed so much more imaginative.  Roald Dahl was one of my favorite authors as a kid (my favorite story being George’s Marvellous Medicine), and even though Tim Burton made it a bit creepier than it needed to be, at least his film didn’t have Verca Salt’s annoying-as-hell “I Want it Now” number.

“A poop joke?” you ask.

“Yeah, gorillas are known for eating their own poop,” I respond.

“Oh,” you say. “You are super smart and sexy, Joe.”

“I know,” I say. “But ogle these videos instead.”

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P.S. – The story of King Kong, while it may be classic, is really freakin’ lame.  Seriously, I hate these movies.  My wife and I want to shoot our own version where King Kong kills everyone.

I wanted to use the term “retard strength” somewhere in there, but couldn’t fit it in.

I’ve always thought Chewbacca was mentally challenged.  I mean, look at the guy:

The joke just kinda came about from my longtime semi-annoyance with the look of the character and that sound he makes.

When I set out to write Chewy’s cry in text form, I drew a huge blank.  I googled how to write it, and came across this, this and this, which gave such varied answers as: “rtttttttttttttttttttttt,” “ududududududud,” and “Maaaaaarh!!!!!”

Now, I don’t know about them, but when I try (fail) to speak Shyriiwook, I think of it as a mix of a tarzan yell, growl and gurgle sound.  So in the end, I just tried combining them in text and came up with “Arrguglharrghrar!”  It doesn’t really sound like it, but then again I don’t know what does.  If you have any ideas how to write out Chewbacca’s roar, let me know in the comments.

I was a big fan of Sin City back in the day.  Nerdishly, I even took my trade paperbacks with me to see this flick opening day, thinking I would be able to follow along since the film followed the book so closely.  I ended up just tucking them under my seat in fear of ridicule, mainly from my ex-girlfriend.

Most people in the theater laughed at the absurdity of Marv’s nigh invulnerability.  I was confused as to why at first, because unlike them I knew these stories didn’t take place in reality.  In Frank Miller’s world, a man can get shot eleventy times, mowed down with a car, and still be able to dust himself off and castrate you.

And while that’s badass in the comics, on celluloid it didn’t quite translate well.  I think most people like to see their film heroes at bit more vulnerable, so I decided to run with that.  So here you go, people who went to the 8:00 showing at AMC Theater’s Flatiron Crossing 14 on April 1, 2005.  Here’s your vulnerable hero.  I hope you’re happy.

To whomever pointed out that Batman didn’t get lenses until The Dark Knight, I have one thing to say:

GEEK TEST!!!

Just kidding, we’re all geeks.  Batman is awesome.  For the longest time after we made this strip, Jon or I would randomly shout, “WHERE’D YOU GET THAT FALAFEL?” in our best scary Batman voice.

When it comes to crass humor, two things are the funniest: violence and sex.  The first strip, based off “The Departed” was the violence joke.  I’m sure you know what this one is.  In the joke, we make light of one of the only “v” words the V character didn’t use in his speech.  It was discovered when my girlfriend Melissa called the movie “V for Vagina.”  Yeah, she’s awesome.

Jon loves this movie and considers it a modern classic.  You’ll see us parody a lot of what we consider to be the greatest films of all time.  In our own twisted way, making fun of them is our way of paying homage to them.