WAG - Web Highlight Time
As I usually do when I have no time - I was out making animal balloons at a American Heart Association Fundraiser this afternoon between church services so I don't have time to have a long recount of the days events or a play-by-play commentary on the Emmys (I don't even have time to remark that following proper grammar rules it should really be the Emmies) - I spotlight a website.
This week, we're going back to an old favorite... And by that I mean a site I've only been hitting for about a year.
I was first introduced to the Sluggy Freelance comics when shopping in Kansas City at a recovery salvage place. I found two printed collections of the Sluggy online comics in the bargain bin over Thanksgiving break. I promptly dismissed them and walked out of the store with other books.
A month later, when back in the K.C. area for Christmas I scanned over the books again – this time actually reading some of the comics. I was instantly sold. The one that hooked was on the back of the second book Worship the Comic and it went something like this
I bought the two anthologies. I had to restrain myself from reading them both in one sitting to prolong the fun. It took me a while to work through the archives to be caught up with the current storyline, but there was plenty of fun material to read through.
A year or so back, they did a spoof of the First Harry Potter book called, Torg Potter and the Sorcerer’s Nuts.
It did a good job of poking friendly fun while still respecting the fundamental story (See Bus Station 2 and 4/4ths, Scary Barry’s Every Celebrity Flavored Gummy Worms [Including Peter Lorre and Helena Bonham Carter], and crazy spells like “Cotton Picken Locken Pickin”).
The series also had fun poking at the fact that Torg, the main character of the strip, has yet to have been given a last name. All the people in the wizarding world call him the Lastnameless One, whose reappearance has long been expected.
Also included in the parody was a collection of flash special features including trailer, hilarious deleted strip commentary, and interactive sorting hat. The best one a sneak preview of Torg Potter and the Chamber Pot of Secretions – including the best Dobby/Gobby line too hilarious to reveal.
Anyway, the mini-movie hinted the sequel would be long in coming – if ever at all.
That is until last Monday when regular Sluggy viewers were greeted with this scene of the Gobby character causing Torg much anguish in an attempt to keep him from returning to Hoggelryth. Follow that with an underage driver in over his head, bone-crushing welcomings, and the best joke about Lucius Malfoy’s name I’ve ever heard, and the next chapter of the parody is off to a great start.
This is a must read for devoted Sluggites, Potter heads, or other people who appreciate good, entertaining writing.
It’s one way of biding time until the next movie comes out.
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