Joey wrote:
hee.

haha i just read the story behind it.. it only makes it funnier:
"Today's comic sucks because I am sick and quite probably dying. I don't even know what the hell happened to the chick in that first panel. She was supposed to look like this cute girl that works at a Hot Topic in the mall near where I live, and she ended up looking like Andy Warhol. That's what a sick cartoonist gets you. I promise, once I get better, I might ever make a good comic again.
It's true, though, about the ladies that work at Hot Topic. What is that all about? Why are they almost always the hottest girls in the entire city? What sort of horrible, evil god would create a world like this?
Before you ask, yes, I have been in Hot Topics before. So have you, so shut up. You find yourself in the mall for whatever reason (mine was to buy new shoes), you walk past their store and you say to yourself, "Oh what the hell, it'll be interesting if anything." And it is. It is always interesting. I learned some stuff.
For instance, did you know Yellowcard is, like, HUGE now? Yelllowcard. I remember when those guys started playing, and they were such a joke. "Hey, let's start an entirely generic, pointless Blink-182 rip-off band, except we'll have A VIOLIN, so, like, we'll be unique!" And of course it was awful, a total affront to all that is music, an abomination against recorded sound in general. They're on a major now, they have videos on MTV, and they are HUGE.
Like I said, any god you believe exists is a big stupid prick.
I also learned that the Misfits have become marketing whores on a level that would make Madonna blush. Misfits underwear? Misfits shoes? Misfits wallets and hair clips and plugs and tigers and bears oh my.... If there exists a thing out there that could theoretically have a crimson skull logo applied to it, the Misfits already have a crate of them sitting in the back room at a Hot Topic near you.
So punk rock is mainstream now, and mainstream punk rock is, you guessed it, total garbage. I'm sure there are tons of apologists out there reading this right now who would be quick to jump to the defense of Yellowcard, Good Charollette, the Used, Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy... Against Me... But yeah, crappy punk music is huge right now. I mean, it IS mainstream rock music right now. Well, it's that and all the garbage Pitchfork Media tries shoving down everyone's throats.
And side by side, I now finally see why people think punk is dead.
I should infiltrate.
I should get my stuff in there, get NN2S to be a staple name alongside all this other junk. And when people come here and they start reading, maybe they'll learn something. Maybe they'll put down that Yellowcard CD and pick up some Gunmoll instead. I like to think I've done a satisfactory job over the past few years of exposing people to some bands they might not have gotten into otherwise. Discount, the Epoxies, Jawbreaker, Kid Dynamite, Against Me (and, uh, sorry about how that one turned out)... If I could find a way to harness punk rock's popularity and get these well-intentioned but entirely misguided kids to focus their energy on ACTUAL punk rock (DOWN WITH SPIN AND THE USED! UP WITH COMETBUS AND RADON!), well gosh, who KNOWS what could come of it! We could turn this soon-to-be-short-lived resurgance in punk's popularity to start ourselves a good old-fashioned musical revolution of some sort!
Then again, this whole plan would probably require me setting foot onto Warped Tour grounds eventually, where I would instantly burst into flames and die a horrible, painful death while Tiger Army blared in the background. Screw it, I'll just stay underground. There's less chance of people recognizing me in public this way."
i
love that guy.
even though i like every band that he made fun of but still .. he did it in a way that was funny at least.
