"A Cry For Help" by Gerald DeJesus
August 31st, 2010 by GabeThis is it, the definitive end to Big Pants Mouse. I saved Jerry's masterpiece as the final final final Big Pants. Why? Because it's all there. Like us all, Jerry has always had a soft spot in his heart for this little mouse, but unlike the rest of us, Jerry's heart is quite different.
Jerry is an amazing artist. You have seen his work and you didn't even know it!
My friend Tony introduced Jerry to me at a Carl's Jr. in '99. Tony wanted me to put in a good word for Jerry at Spumco. He was amazing, and we hired him for his flash expertise, but unbeknownst to me, I already "knew" Jerry.
See, some of us guys at Spumco had this contest called the "Ace Card". We would find the nastiest filthiest videos online and share them as our "ace card". Tony always seemed to have a HUGE amount of videos and would usually always win. But those times changed when Jerry started at Spumco. Jerry was Tony's secret supplier of depravity. If I would have known this, I would have told our boss that we needed to hire Jerry on his filth finding abilities alone!
Since then, I think I've worked with Jerry on every flash project I've done, including the Big Pants Mouse pilot at Disney. He is an amazing art director, bg designer, painter, animator, and all around great guy. Thanks for the final word Jerry, you put the final nail in Big Pant's coffin.
Thank you all for all the support over the years. Here's to the end of Big Pants and the start of Life In The Analog Age next week!
Now that I've seen a few of the comics, the environment is coming together for me. I can see why people don't "Get It" (tm) because it's soooo far over the edge, they don't see the internal consistency that provides context.
Ok, so I'm over-analyzing... Nanny nanny poo poo!
PS -- Ditto about Marissa! The only "sane" one in this universe is a uber-psychokinetic space alien? ROFL!
You're earning your paycheck here -- Keep it up!
Look, little boys, you have your cartoon tits and asses and erections on Tuesday, and your head wounds and poopies on Thursday. You can't have the whole week, no matter what Mommy told you. Learn to cope.
like llama pancakes XD
:3
I think I met Marissa once at a rave. She turned me inside out.
Except a couple haters... i find it really funny that they h8 this strip yet they still take the time to read it AND comment
FRS, keep kicking ass!!
*how hard Strawberry is petting the pidgeon's head in panel 2
*Strawberry's pose and expression in panel 4. looks kind of like she's in modeling pose, HAHA
*"Why are we friends? Because I love you" - so cute!!
*KITTEN!!!
*Marissa is a sexy goddess.
YAY!!!
Actually, I think the title was the best part!
i'll never complain about the art in this comic; it's fantastic, expressive, flexible, and pleasing. what the problem is is the writing.
there's nothing wrong with random humour, but the problem i find with the writing here is that the random humour is pointless, disjointed, childish, and the jokes very clumsily and poorly lead into each other. this comic reads like it was scripted by 12 year old jhonen vasquez fans. the difference is, while JV's humour is hit or miss, his jokes can lead into each other and make for a funny punchline, or funny situations.
i've commented on the other FRS but this is one less person who will peruse Dumm on weekends. the other comics employ juvenile humour in different ways - nightmare theater thrives on violence and shocks, skadi is about a dumb barbarian, sorry guys is frat humour at it's finest - but all are still entertaining for the most part. sorry guys makes clever puns or charming stories following a single joke. FRS is a trainwreck of deviantart comments.
From the evil baby strip, I could tell it was going to be random. (More po-mo than random, and I tend to get swept up in either thing, but anyway...) That may or may not last, but that's up to Kyle (and/or John?) to determine.
The characters are really strong, though, and that's enough to keep me interested. This cool comic that we're reading (for free, you guys) is an emergent phenomenon, while the haters will never change.
Course, if they really hated it, they'd stay the hell away. You guys.
what
Yet, the haters should also realize that criticism of their criticism is also something that is allowed and encouraged. Of course, criticism of one's criticism toward one's criticism is also encouraged...and so on, and so forth.
One thing is for certain, Kyle and John must be doing something right....since they started at Dumm, our Saturday traffic has risen by nearly 400 visitors, and it continues to grow every week.
It's like they say, "there's no such thing as bad publicity".
and now i am late for the dentist.