Review of Winning Strip:
Mixing movies for our jokes is something Jon and I
have always wanted to do, but we decided early on we'd
stick with one movie per strip to maximize the number of
jokes we could make. For example, we thought it would
be cool to do something like put Sauron's ring in the
briefcase from Pulp Fiction. Or put the Men in Black in a
Predator spoof. However, in the end we though that
would kind of cheapen the joke, and instead decided it
would be better to have two funny strips, one for each
movie, then one funny strip spoofing both.
It's awesome to see how cool it would have been though
by reading this entry from Joe Clifford Faust, the creator of
The Home World -- a new side-splitting webcomic about a
guy and his talking dog whose new neighbors just happen
to be space aliens. His entry is the perfect example of a
movie mashup, asking what would happen if the ghosts
from "A Christmas Carol" met the "Ghostbusters"
weapons. The answer: hilarity!
I wasn't aware of Faust's comic before he sent me his
contest submission, but after reading it and then pouring
through his archives, he now has a devout reader in me.
I'm really excited in seeing where he takes the story.
View Winning Strip Here
(click on strip to read commentary)
