Stopped after 7 minutes. Marvel would do this today in a second if they thought they could get away with it. The dog would be Rocket. The crystal would be Vision’s mind stone. The cop would be Wolverine and the mineralsexual would be Steve Rogers.
This book right here might be patient zero. I remember this getting hyped so heavily on all the comic shill sites and was just flabbergasted because this concept is a one-note joke that tries to be transgressive but just seems infantile, and then that hack Humphries brought his bland mediocrity to Marvel and DC. I would say before the preachy lecturing stuff, the American market was flooded with over-hyped mediocre writers (Humphries, Bunn, Hopeless, Seeley, King, etc) and artists with airplane instruction style art and then 2015 or so hit and now we're here.
I got six minutes in and determined that was too much. Appreciate your work Perch. On this review more then ever before. I'm going to go and see what mental bleach I can find
I remember picking this up when Humphries came onto The Ultimates after Hickman to see what his earlier work was like and being so puzzled why Marvel hired him.
I got to witness Sam Humphries blow up on some Green Lantern fan on Twitter last year (customer service always first, right?). He was being very "holier than thou" since he's a "cool guy that works at DC". In a nutshell the fan DM'd Sam an idea he had for a Jessica Cruz and Simon Baez story. Sam, instead of resolving this via DMs (how it started initially) decided to retweet his scolding of the fan for everyone to see. He told the kid that if he didn't delete his tweet about the story pitch then he (Sam) was going to have to block him. Since the kid was put on blast in front of Sam's followers, the kid kneeled before this guy (Sam) who apparently is our lord and savior Jesus Christ and apologized for the story pitch. He then deleted his private DM of which Sam made public to you know, handle some shit in front of people at the expense of an enthusiastic fan. For those who don't know, you can Tweet people directly by using the @ symbol followed by their username and in turn they will only see the tweet. So everything Sam did was just to stroke his paper thin ego. A lot of these fuckers are insecure.
Oh and it doesn't end there. Sam was on DC Daily which was a show on the old DC Universe app along with some others. One of them being Hector Navarro. I had a membership at DC Universe, so I would also watch the show. I decided to follow these dorky ass dudes thinking I might be privy to some cool DC Comics news that they might drop via their Twitter account. That's how I came across Sam's petty scolding of the fan and then something similar happened to me but instead with Hector. One day Hector was bitching about some Dune drama (I am not into Dune, I just do comics) because some gatekeepers were giving him a hard time about his podcast show and how they talked about Dune. So, I thinking that this little dorky Brad Pitt look a like was a normal guy - I replied in his thread stating that "people shouldn't gatekeep and that he's entitled to his opinion and in turn he should ignore those people." So Hector's Brad Pitt looking ass does THE SAME SHIT Sam did to the other guy, he retweets my reply and somehow finds a way to make it look like I was saying HE WAS GATEKEEPING. It was literally the stupidest interaction I've had with another human and I can't even begin to describe how it made no sense whatsoever what he did other than he also wanted to be "cool DC guy who's setting the record straight." I immediately deleted my post so his retweet wouldn't have my name attached to it. I work online, I don't need that type of BS affecting my reputation in the industry I work in. Especially since I make more than these scrubs did @ DC. It's the wackest experience I've ever had on Twitter. I unfollowed all the DC people I was following minus Jim Lee. These little dudes are overwhelmingly unprofessional and come with a large side of insecurity. I can't imagine any chicks finding them attractive. How wack. Ok, I'm done.
@@parallaxoldchannel Of all the terrible things you posted about, the "cool guy that works at DC" line stuck out for some reason. If you have to tell other people you're a cool guy then you probably aren't.
Dude, after all of the child porn was taken off of Tumblr, all of the Tumblr people left to go onto Twitter, that’s why it became such a shit show in the last couple years
Ok, so the essay I wrote earlier about Sam and his insecurity on Twitter was before I started to watch the video. I now understand. Sam Humphries if you're reading this, I get it. Writing a comic about "Fraggle Rock" and then ending up at DC was an extreme shift in careers that most humans that are as insecure as you, can't process appropriately. I get it. More power to you pumpkin, handle your business. Don't trip.
Humphries self-published 3 print runs of this book. And then Image did a 4th printing, with a signed retailer variant for orders of 25 or more. I find that both ludicrous and impressive.
The hell did I just listen to? 😳 This exists, it's real. Really? 🤨 People, real people actually made this. Really?🤨 And the people who made it got work after this. Really? 🤨
What a shame I really liked his Run in Green Lanterns Had no idea he was a weirdo. Kinda glad I haven’t read anything else of his, though, if this exists
When people say “Love is Love” from this day forward, I will think of this comic about a human society that has sex with rocks, plants, food and animals. I had no idea that Sam Humphries got started doing cringe like this. Well, Wally Wood got started making rule 34 of Disney characters, so I guess Humphries was trying to tap into that energy. Well, I probably won’t be going back to read any of Humphries stuff, that I missed out on before. And I read his run on Green Lanterns for Rebirth, never again. Guess this is the reason why he’s disappeared.
People splooging on cabbage (whatever) People with a crystal vibrator (whatever) In a "committed relationship" with a dog (this is repulsive, what in the FurAffinity is going on here?) Having read Humphries Ultimates and X-Force and some of his Green Lanterns and thinking he was a decent writer, I really don't wanna think this was a propaganda piece and prefer to think this was just him trying to be edgy
The art looks fine enough. Everything else is, pardon me, lunatic insanity (IMHO). Geez Louise! Bizarre and perverted fetishism. I say he has the right to finance and print the book. But it is NOT something I'd ever buy.
=___=.... wut? Soooo.... that thing.... is what exactly? Like, is it a parody of dystopian futures or what? Also, the title of that video should've been "Furaffinity: The Comic". Would've worked better. "Tumblr: The Comic" would work for New New Warriors whenever that comes out. The concept itself is kinda creative, if odd, but the execution, atleast from what you're describing and I can glimpse from the panels presented, is lackluster as hell. Atleast the art seems solid on both characters and backgrounds. I do like the armor design for example. Also, is it just me or does the dog humper on the cover look like Brandon Frasier? It appears that Humphries didn't improve at all when it comes to writing or plotting in 10 years. I've read only a handful of things by him and I feel he's alot like Mark Russel: tries to be quircky and zany but fails miserably at being either interesting or funny. His tenure on Harley Quinn wasn't as grating as Palmiotti's but it sure as hell wasn't good. And I'm pretty sure by describing Humphries possible intention behind this comic, Joe also acurately summarized both Mark Millar's and Garth Ennis' mindsets when writing comics.
Oh yea, I remember that book. The comic podcast I listened to at the time hyped it up so I bought it. I remember the writing being kinda clumsy and awkward to read. I remember thinking the story didn't really add up to very much in the end. The art was okay for what was basically a webcomic they printed and managed to sell in stores. The appeal was just this crazy concept of people fucking dogs and random stuff. Hindsight being 20/20 this really was a sign of things to come from these people. lol
Look, it's juvenalia. You get the crap out of your system and then you do better stuff afterward. I will say this in Sam Humphries's defense- when you describe this stuff, it all sounds a lot funnier than it works out on the page. If I could hazard a guess, he started out trying to be funny, then kept going just to see if he was good enough to actually make it work as a story. Obviously, the answer was "no".
High praise from Jason Aaron, ... guy who made Jane FosThor Queen of Midgard because... Padme Amidala was *also* played by Natalie Portman. Now that’s godtier writing.
er....couldn't you guys have condensed this into 5mins...instead of scarring your audience for 20? 😆 the title itself is such cringeworthy...even romance novels would avoid.
Wasn’t there a South Park episode for this? Something about People Eating (and doing other things) to Tasty Animals. Gives new credence to beware the special sauce at the salad bar. The warning about the author doing “the Fraggle Rock” comics making this so much worse is an understatement. Gives a new meaning to, “down at Fraggle Rock.” So was this a poor attempt at trying to create a comic book version of “the Aristocrats” (how offensive and vulgar can I make this gag without repeats and pauses)?
So I came back hours later (was out getting vaccinated w/ fam). I tried to finish the video but sadly can't. Let it be known this is the 1st Perch video I stop watching. Wack is wack, that's it.
Didn’t sam humphries write Higher Earth? That started off good then just turned weird and disjointed as far as i can recall. That is the only thing i have ever read by humphries and it didn’t make me want to read any more
I totally forgot this was even a thing. I can’t remember where I saw it...maybe a book store. I can’t remember. The funniest thing about it is for how edgy it’s trying to be it’s so completely not edgy at all, and even pretty boring. I mean, compared to like how The Long Tomorrow by Dan O'Bannon and Moebius shows things, even with the weird subject matter, it’s not as crazy as shit you’d see in Heavy Metal. Also, it gets weirder. The thing Humphries gets right after this is that John Carter: The Gods of Mars comic Marvel did to coincide with Disney’s giant two hundred eighty-four million dollar blockbuster John Carter movie. If you Google old articles about him doing that John Carter comic they all bring up Out Love is Real, and mostly positive it seems. Did Our Love is Real review well on release? 'Cause I found it pretty bland outside of the art being ok.
I must admit, I'm a little bemused by you guys' attitude here. It's animal, vegetable and mineral, pretty simple if you ask me. I mean, you don't have to like it, but the premise is not that weird to me. I guess I'm a pervert? Whatever. P.S. Dunno if you're familiar with Jeff Noon, but his Vurt series of sci-fi novels are set in a freaky dystopian world kind of similar to this, where futuristic fertility drugs have enabled humans to breed with dogs, and much more besides. Except (unsurprisingly) it's handled much more tastefully.
Somethings I need to read for myself. But I won't try this comic or the Wanda and Pietro incest comics... Cause there are so many comics to read, and I'll never get to read all the books I want to before I die.
