In
approximately four days time, we'll be marking the Seventh Anniversary
of the very first FOGClub comic. Starting then, The Fantasy Anime Gamers
Club will be getting into high gear in adding essays, commentary and criticisms
of the body of work that we so dearly love.
Also added to the cast of characters will likely be two new posters, Mark and Richie.
All three of us will do our best to update this page with articles, essays
and columns that explain how FOGClub has touched our lives in the seven
years since its inception.
AND THERE'LL PROBABLY BE A LOT OF COPY/PASTED CONVERSATIONS FROM THE AOL INSTANT MESSENGER:
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tome
of finland:
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in the Sonic Crash storyline, Falco and Blades have been there "for several months" but by that point, it was established that Our Heroes were there for only eleven day |
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comissar
craud:
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I like the idea of all Kanenwisher's continuities collapsing into one |
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comissar
craud:
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Crisis on Infinite FOG Clubs |
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tome
of finland:
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I like how FOGClub exists on this weird infinite time scale |
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comissar
craud:
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He's got so few ideas that he tries to rip himself off and reality begins distorting itself |
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comissar
craud:
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It's like the end of MGS2 |
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tome
of finland:
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actually, the Infinite Time Distortion thing is a great essay topic. |
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tome
of finland:
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I could make an awesome graph |
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comissar
craud
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: I'M GOING TO TELL ANNAMAE I LOVE HER |
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tome
of finland:
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the weird thing is, that was a year of story time, too |
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tome
of finland:
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I could run a graph that correlates story time against actual time |
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comissar
craud
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: I still giggle every time I think of that stupid montage of FOG Club mom(m)ents |
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tome
of finland:
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I suppose that Adventure's storyline can be rectified because of the space/time warps |
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comissar
craud:
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Remember the time we brushed our teeth? Or when we were introduced to three people we never saw again? Or that movie we saw and weren't actually involved in? |
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tome
of finland:
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this makes me think that the portal device dilates time, so that Blades and Falco going through only five minutes before the rest equated to them traveling through five months earlier |
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tome
of finland:
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when they go "home," Our Heroes crash in on their funeral, which we can assume took place only a few days after their disappearance, not six months as Kanenwisher indicated in his blog |
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comissar
craud:
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My fondest memory of college is fighting my own android duplicate on the way to a party at which I planned to tell a girl I'd had no prior romantic involvement with that I loved her. |
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comissar
craud:
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That's why FOG Club speaks to me as a person |
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tome
of finland:
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that and that problem you had with that Catherine girl |
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comissar
craud:
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See, I actually did go through a similar thing. The difference is that I moved on and didn't obsess over it well into my 20s. |
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tome
of finland:
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likewise |
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tome
of finland:
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mine actually was with a Katharine |
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tome
of finland:
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WHEN I LIVED IN FUCKING PHOENIX |
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tome
of finland:
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THIS HAPPENED TO ME AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME HE WAS POSTULATING AND FORMULATING AND PREWRITING FOGCLUB |
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comissar
craud:
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I was... I think I was getting over a failed relationship at the time |
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comissar
craud:
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Or possibly entering one that was destined to fail |
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comissar
craud:
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Also, my hair is depressingly similar to Scott's |
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tome
of finland:
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at the time, likewise |
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tome
of finland:
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(mine was more like Kevin's though) |
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comissar
craud:
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Oh man, I'd forgotten about his other comic |
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comissar
craud:
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About the comic store |
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tome
of finland:
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COMIC BOOK STORE CLERKS |
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comissar
craud:
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I laugh every time I read it |
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comissar
craud:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/2002040 5.html what about this one? |
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tome
of finland:
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that piece of shit |
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tome
of finland:
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that one annoys me GREATLY because he discusses the possibility of attending my Alma Mater |
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tome
of finland:
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(the Art Institute) |
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tome
of finland:
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so chances are, he's been in the same building as I |
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comissar
craud:
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You must feel soiled |
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tome
of finland:
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when I found out, I had a bad dream where I met him in the library, he had a little cardboard placard that read FOGCLUB SIGNUPS |
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tome
of finland:
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we got into a fist fight that ended up with both of us going out the window (the library was on the third floor) |
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comissar
craud:
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And you woke up with an erection |
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tome
of finland:
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god dammit, you know me too well |
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tome of finland:
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(and I spit take when you said that) |
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comissar
craud:
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You actually told me about it like three years ago |
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tome
of finland:
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YEAH I KNOW |
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tome
of finland:
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have we really been obsessing about this guy that long? |
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comissar
craud:
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Yes |
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tome
of finland:
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if he only, only knew |
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comissar
craud:
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I like how my obsession with Kanenwisher lasted twice as long as my obsession with the actual Kevin Smith. |
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tome
of finland:
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I seriously wonder that had he created the comic in 2007, after all those balls punchingly-awful Kevin Smith movies, would he still have named his two protagonists after references to him? |
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comissar
craud:
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I know I'd hesitate to call my two self-inserts Russell and Davies after Last of the Time Lords. |
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tome
of finland:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/20020420.html I'd like to draw attention to the eighth panel: "This is the guy who's doing Neorager" "So you're the one!" |
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comissar
craud:
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Oh Jesus |
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comissar
craud:
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And he's 20 |
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comissar
craud:
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That's right, Harry |
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comissar
craud:
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I'm 20 |
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tome
of finland:
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I have half a mind to copypasta this entire conversation into a comment on his Livejournal. |
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comissar
craud:
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that's just cruel |
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tome
of finland:
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The tenth panel of that strip has him dancing with another man while singing "Jungle Love" |
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comissar
craud:
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Oh God |
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comissar
craud:
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So this was after Jay & Bob? |
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tome
of finland:
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You'd think he was dancing in front of a mirror, because the other character's body, hair and eyeglasses style are the same, but the other guy is wearing a black shirt and a different shade-of-gray trousers |
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comissar
craud:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/2002041 0.html he looks a bit like Egon Spengler in this one |
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comissar
craud:
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Oh, "Dance from Jay & Silent Bob" |
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tome
of finland:
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maybe from the X-Treeem Ghostbusters cartoon, which was (from a graphic design standpoint due to copyright reasons) completely independent of the "Real" series |
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tome
of finland:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/20020501.html He pulls the Silent Garfield Meme nearly four years before it hits big. |
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tome
of finland:
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I should be golf clapping |
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comissar
craud:
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If this was going at the same time as FOG Club, why is his art so much better in this one? |
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tome
of finland:
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excellent question! |
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comissar
craud:
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I like to imagine he actually calls his friend Kyle "Neored" in public |
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comissar
craud:
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"Dennis, quit it" |
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comissar
craud:
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"Sorry. NeoBlue, quit it" |
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tome
of finland:
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http://www.fogclub.net/d/20020501.html Compare and Contrast, Rough Sketch from 5-1-02 and FOGClub from 5-1-02 |
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tome
of finland:
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I say that FOGClub is a little better. Just a smidgeon, a hair. Likely because it's been imported into photoshop and "inked" |
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comissar
craud:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/2002061 4.html they actually have different faces in this |
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comissar
craud:
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Except Kevin, who is possibly a robot |
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tome
of finland:
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check out Annamae's manchin |
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tome
of finland:
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she looks like Jeri Ryan |
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comissar
craud:
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But, most importantly, she doesn't look exactly like every other woman in the strip with slightly different hair |
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comissar
craud:
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And since he can only draw two kinds of hair (long and short), this is a massive step forward |
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tome
of finland:
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Annamae though does look more masculine than Scott, who looks like he stepped right out of a JRPG |
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comissar
craud:
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http://ryakuga.comicgenesis.com/d/2002070 3.html Oh Christ this is horrible |
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tome
of finland:
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Further evidence that FOGClub is pretty much just Ah! My Goddess, but done by a hack |
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comissar
craud:
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Disturbing overtones of Foxfire |
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comissar
craud:
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An Annamae figure... she sure is sexy |
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comissar
craud:
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I can't tell which characters are meant to be him and which are other men who look exactly like him |
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tome
of finland:
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There's always been that underlying Kanenwisher / Gonterman connection. |
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tome
of finland:
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in that they're both hacks with an immense sense of self-importance, skill, talent and sexual charm. |
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comissar
craud:
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Placing their self-inserts into other people's work and ruining it all |
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tome
of finland:
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Vash the Stampede, up in a tree crying because his real creative team had the stones to kill him off in continuity. |
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comissar
craud:
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Scott... Am I... Pretty? |
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tome
of finland:
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Scott and his revolver being transprted back to feudal Japan |
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tome
of finland:
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Kevin meets Erinfire the foxgirl suit (who is also a police officer), who he wears around town, fighting American Kitsunes |
