No, I’m allright!
I’m not going to give Porkins an obituary. He’s too lame to deserve one. Oh, and concerning last Monday’s strip, Jared Cramer pointed out that the joke had pretty much been done by the Mel Brooks SW parody Space Balls. I haven’t seen the movie since my early teenage years and so I had completely forgotten this gag. I’m disappointed it has already been done in something so prominent and well known as Space Balls, but what the heck, that’s the whole point we made about the apparent Family Guy similarity with the Luke and Leia strip aboard the Millennium Falcon. You can easily arrive at the same gag quite independently when working with the same basic material. We do our best to be fresh, but we can’t always get there first. :-/
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(I will never look at fried chicken the same way again.)
I know Spaceballs pretty thoroughly and I never noticed any similarity with last week’s strip. I think how a person interpretes a given strip or punchline depends a lot on what they bring to the comic as a reader.
Thanks April. It’s the countdown skipping a number that is the parallel, however, I acknowledge that BMS is visually different enough to stand on its own, even with the same basic joke. Still, had I known I was using the same concept I probably would have sought something else or skipped that one entirely.
All this time I thought Porkins died because he was texting while flying.
Oh, right! The countdown to the self-destruct. Now I get it.
Not really a star wars-specific joke, and I don’t think that joke was original with Mel Brooks, either.
I really wouldn’t worry about it.
Hahaha, Porkins dies eating. For him that probably the most poetic way to go. Your right though, he does not get a funeral.
Why not? He’s already conveniently cremated…
That’s great. I always wondered why Porkins was so confident in his abilities.
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Man I love this webcomic…RIP PORKINS!
Hey guys, I wasn’t saying that Rod ripped it off or anything. I think it’s a classic joke. I just said it reminds me of that scene. As I recall the garfield movie “GARFIELD’S 9 LIVES” also did that.
That’s okay, Jarred. I just hate the idea of people thinking I blatantly pinched it. As a more obvious joke I should have figured it had been done a thousand times. It’s tough finding an original path of parody through the Star Wars universe without crossing through the work of others, but we try nonetheless! 🙂
And you do a damn fine job!
Yep, I’d think that having chicken-grease on your hands & joystick would be a problem…
…Wait! That didn’t come out QUITE the way I intended.
(or did it?)
Either way, you guys are far funnier than Spaceballs or Family Guy, so…