Punk Rock Drum Machine Comic Strip 12/22/2010

Anyone that has ever had a conversation with me about film or cinema has heard my rant about Hollywood and my idea about "foreign films for dummies".  I think at an early age I recognized that a film that found it too inconvenient to have characters speak native languages in their native foreign lands was not very believable.  It was college however that opened my eyes and mind to international cinema.

If you look at the first Star Wars, it was superior to me than say Star Trek not because of the effects, but because Greedo spoke a language that required subtitles.  It was lame that Han kept answering him in English, and they understood each other, but it was a decent attempt.  I say the prequels fail because they didn't utilize other languages, and chose to have eccentric characters speak in accents, which was later harped on because it perpetuated stereo types.  Lucas would have saved himself a huge headache if he'd trust that his audience could read.


Why Inglorious Basterds works as a film despite straying from historical accuracy? Because you believe it when the film deals with differences in language appropriately.  It is that difference language that makes the opening scene work.

There, I've ranted.


I'm not quite satisfied with the looks of Long Hair and Art Girl from a straight on perspective.  It is obvious that years of Punk Rock Drum Machine albums have given me more practice drawing the robot or "droid" as you will.  I'm toying with a possible redesign of their head shapes to possibly give me more consistency.  The truth is I probably should practice, but then that would require more than 15 minutes a week and would take a way my excuse for sucking.

In following up with the new Punk Rock Drum Machine album news, Angus the Dog had his contribution removed.  I'm certain a credit on the album would have gone to his head, and his head is big enough as it is.  Hopefully the holiday break will allow me to wrap up a few more tracks.  I'll also be making an announcement of where Punk Rock Drum Machine songs will be hosted after the new year.

Happy Holidays and I'm sorry this post was so long.


Paddy O