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johntrumbull — LIID 117: The Dark Knight Shills!
Published: 2012-11-30 02:20:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 8858; Favourites: 180; Downloads: 0
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The Line It Is Drawn #117: The Dark Knight Shills!This week's theme was "A Fond Farewell to Hostess". Ads for Hostess cupcakes, Twinkies and Fruit Pies were ubiquitous in comic books in the 70s and 80s, so a tribute to them seemed like an obvious theme for TLIID. I was honestly going to go with a Star Trek suggestion where Capt. Kirk defeated the Klingons with Hostess products, but then the line "Real Fruit Filling. Honest." popped into my head and I knew I had to choose the Dark Knight as my top pick for the week. I flipped through my DARK KNIGHT RETURNS trade paperback from the 80s for some additional inspiration, and VIOLA -- I had a rough script! This one was a lot of fun to do & I hope you like it!
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I love the exclamation of disbelief "HOSTESS FRUIT PIES?!"
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Thanks! It was fun writing this one!
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Dear Gods, I am in tears and laughing so hard it hurts....Awesome work!
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Thanks very much! Fun one to do!
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This is brilliant on a dozen different levels. Well f**king done, sir.
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Omg this is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time!
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Thank you! I appreciate it!
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This takes me back to all those old Hostess ads... Such a simpler time. Great job on the piece!
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Man, I really don't know what to do with my last name being used descriptively like that. Is this what Rob Liefeld felt when I came up with "Liefelded" Rob, I'm sorry!!!
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Just bask in the feeling. Maybe copyright the word!
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everything about this is pretty perfect - from art to writing to coloring! Bravo, sir! You "Trumbulled" it again!
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I got pretty lucky on the coloring on this one. Thank God for the grain filter on Photoshop, is all I've gotta say!
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Thank you! I appreciate it!
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Excellent work JT (I'm going to call you JT because it's so much shorter and makes you sound like more of an 80's action star). Definitely got a laugh from me, and I'm more of a quietly consider it to be humorous type of guy.
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You're perfectly welcome to call me JT, Sean. Several of my friends do the same.
Yeah, I'm the same way -- it takes a lot to make me LOL these days, since I'm not as surprised by as many jokes these days. Thank you for the compliments, sir!
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This DA page accepts no responsibility for brain-wrinkling. Buyer Beware.
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It's kinda funny how the Hostess Depression will make everyone look silly when they're back on the shelf within a few years. There's already many interested parties looking at buying the brand. Did nobody watch Tommy Boy? It's like when Dan Akroyd wanted to buy Callahan Auto for the brand name. Except without a Tommy involved.
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Yeah, I'm sure that someone else will buy up their assets and continue the Hostess name & products. They're too well-known of a brand for them to fade away forever.
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Awesome job, btw. Really funny take on those old ads, I love the "This isn't a mudhole.. it's a bakery."
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Thank you. My personal favorite is the "Real Fruit Filling. Honest." line. If I hadn't come up with that, I doubt I would've done the piece.
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If only everything could be explained through the work of Chris Farley.
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I know! I've craving a Twinkie or a Fruit Pie all week myself, but I know it wouldn't taste as good in real life as it does in my imagination.
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