The Secret Life of Mark Trail
December 2, 2008 4:53 AM Subscribe
Is the secret that despite his concern for all the animals of the forest, he's just not into beavers?
posted by orthogonality at 5:13 AM on December 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by orthogonality at 5:13 AM on December 2, 2008 [1 favorite]
One of my dreams is to do a Mark Trail movie that copies all the stylistic conventions of perspective involving freakishly large foregrounded animals.
posted by KirkJobSluder at 5:30 AM on December 2, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by KirkJobSluder at 5:30 AM on December 2, 2008 [3 favorites]
Fascinating!
posted by From Bklyn at 6:16 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by From Bklyn at 6:16 AM on December 2, 2008
I can never get tired of such things.
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 6:29 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by six-or-six-thirty at 6:29 AM on December 2, 2008
Is the secret that despite his concern for all the animals of the forest, he's just not into beavers?
Well, we don't know what they're up to.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:47 AM on December 2, 2008
Well, we don't know what they're up to.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:47 AM on December 2, 2008
Most of them are rather small. Can you post larger images? And what about other comics? I don't know of any site from which you can get these comics as a Flash file. Is it possible at all?
posted by susanharper at 7:01 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by susanharper at 7:01 AM on December 2, 2008
reminds me of this week in milford, a blog about gil thorp.
posted by lester at 7:25 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by lester at 7:25 AM on December 2, 2008
One of my dreams is to do a Mark Trail movie that copies all the stylistic conventions of perspective involving freakishly large foregrounded animals.
How about Mary Worth instead of Mark Trail? Here's part one on YouTube, and here are the other four parts, and here's the inevitable Metafilter thread.
posted by Ian A.T. at 8:39 AM on December 2, 2008
How about Mary Worth instead of Mark Trail? Here's part one on YouTube, and here are the other four parts, and here's the inevitable Metafilter thread.
posted by Ian A.T. at 8:39 AM on December 2, 2008
That Mary Worth movie is hilarious and disorienting. It's based on strips from almost 30 days and all they talk about is that maybe some guy is moving in. Who the hell reads Mary Worth? Even old people cannot be entertained by 3 panels a day discussing rental bylaws.
posted by DU at 9:24 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by DU at 9:24 AM on December 2, 2008
Question about process: Flatbed scanner? One of those really expensive photo scanners?
They're just panels excerpted from the full comic, which is posted online. There's not much in the way of process here. Copy, paste, crop, copy, paste, make stupid joke about sexy comic people.
posted by mr_roboto at 9:48 AM on December 2, 2008
They're just panels excerpted from the full comic, which is posted online. There's not much in the way of process here. Copy, paste, crop, copy, paste, make stupid joke about sexy comic people.
posted by mr_roboto at 9:48 AM on December 2, 2008
Seriously, those panels are not edited. Text is as it appeared online at the King Features site originally.
posted by mr_roboto at 9:50 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by mr_roboto at 9:50 AM on December 2, 2008
Maybe it's just me, but even snarkily turning the dialogue into sex jokes fails to make this comic interesting. It needs the entire dialogue replaced, and maybe the art as well.
posted by happyroach at 9:51 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by happyroach at 9:51 AM on December 2, 2008
I'm a big fan of this genre (cf: The Dysfunctional Family Circus), but I found most of these rather lame, LOLBOOBIES-level 'humor.'
posted by googly at 9:52 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by googly at 9:52 AM on December 2, 2008
Who the hell reads Mary Worth? Even old people cannot be entertained by 3 panels a day discussing rental bylaws.
Mary Worth is hilarious if you read Comics Curmudgeon often enough to have Josh Fruhlinger's voice in your head as you read it. But yeah, even with that I could never read it daily.
posted by Tehanu at 9:54 AM on December 2, 2008
Mary Worth is hilarious if you read Comics Curmudgeon often enough to have Josh Fruhlinger's voice in your head as you read it. But yeah, even with that I could never read it daily.
posted by Tehanu at 9:54 AM on December 2, 2008
Fixed that for you.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 9:58 AM on December 2, 2008
I've been collecting Mark Trail comics all my life. The best plot-line was when Mark thought that a friend of his was a good farmer. A female partner of his pointed out that his friends' money crop was marijuana.
posted by doctorschlock at 10:22 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by doctorschlock at 10:22 AM on December 2, 2008
A few years ago, some talented guys re-edited the Family Circus Easter Special. They smashed it up with Apocalypse Now and called it The Family Circus of Pain.
posted by doctorschlock at 10:25 AM on December 2, 2008
posted by doctorschlock at 10:25 AM on December 2, 2008
I... don't get it? Wait, let me calibrate my humor gauge... yep, still nothing.
posted by not_on_display at 1:34 PM on December 2, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 1:34 PM on December 2, 2008
...I found most of these rather lame, LOLBOOBIES-level 'humor.'
And worth every minute! I admit that these are funnier if you read MT as a kid and took it at face value. Ummm, very young, ok?
posted by sneebler at 6:05 PM on December 2, 2008
And worth every minute! I admit that these are funnier if you read MT as a kid and took it at face value. Ummm, very young, ok?
posted by sneebler at 6:05 PM on December 2, 2008
This is like one of those times when a friend shows you something hilaaaarious, and you have no idea what the hell they're getting on about.
posted by P.o.B. at 10:56 PM on December 2, 2008
posted by P.o.B. at 10:56 PM on December 2, 2008
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Question about process: Flatbed scanner? One of those really expensive photo scanners?
posted by DU at 5:13 AM on December 2, 2008 [1 favorite]