9-15-08 All Hell's A Comin

As I've stated in the past, Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's Preacher is my favorite comic series of all time. I'm constantly searching for ideas to continue the adventures of CassiGint and Reverend $oss Custer. With these strips I try to change my style slightly to match Dillon's while still keeping the story in the Mc$oss universe. I also like revisiting locations from previous strips. We return to the bar from "Luke Skywalker-Sexy Jedi Knight" in this one.

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9-3-08 A Friendly Game

I like the thought that good old Chuck Xavier and Mr. Lehnsherr would only play each other in games they would be able to cheat the other player in using their mutant abilities. And I happen to agree with Magneto, Battleship is a stupid game.

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9-1-08 Master of Bikini Briefs

My only guess is that He-Man is SO good a fighter that he doesn't need any kind of armor, or clothing of any kind for that matter, to defend the great land of Eternia. Perhaps its psychological? Would YOU attack a man in just those little pants? Didn't think so.

-Gint

8-11-08 Whats on the DVR

I actually don't like this strip at all. It was much funnier at 3 am when I thought it up, but everyone who has ever seen it tells me that it's super creepy. I guess they all can't be winners.

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8-10-08 The Gintbot 2000

I believe the release of Iron Man, or some other successful movie that WASN'T made by DC/Warner Bros. inspired this strip. Now, Warner Bros. would argue their theatrical ineptitude and say, "Did you see The Dark Knight?" And I'll reply, "Yes, you got lucky you dirty fucks. Until you have 3-4 consecutive successful movies from the DC imprint (I'm not talking about shit like A History of Violence here) I will come after you with a 30 ft. tall robot that resembles yours truly."

-Gint

8-9-08 Welcome to the Sisterhood

Yes, I watched it. Yes, I enjoyed it. I didn't really grow a vagina, but there was some concern.

I wish I HAD seen it after I found out Blake Lively would be Carol Ferris in the upcoming Green Lantern movie though. That way I could critique her performance like I did Ryan Reynolds' when I saw The Proposal. My jury will be out on Blake Lively til I see the movie, but I believe Peter Sarsgaard as Hector Hammond was inspired casting.

If my rage against what I like to call "Robots From Mars" is any indication, heaven help these people if they fuck up a Hal Jordan movie.

-Gint

8-7-08 Everywhere at Once

This strip answers the age old question "How the hell can Wolverine star in 8 different books every month?" Seriously, this dude can run around Avengers Tower, teach brats at Chuck Xavier's school, ride his motorcycle through the Canadian country side and drink sake in Japan... all at the same time! Marvel needs to get control of their editors.

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8-3-08 A Frozen Treat

Ripped from the pages of real life, I had no idea how loudly I was consuming that popsicle. But damn was it delicious.

-Gint

7-12-08 The Amazing Birthday

Birthdays here at Mc$oss aren't so much a celebration of ones birth as they are a reason to give a really shitty surprise.

-Gint

7-11-08 Sinestro Corps Review Redux

After 7 months of refining the Mc$oss strip I went back to my first attempt and recreated it. I adjusted some of the script but other than that it is still the same strip I cooked up in early January of '08.

I loved this storyline, this was the arc that got me into picking up Green Lantern every month (or when I get a chance to go to the shop), but I was kind of looking forward to a key member of the Lanterns kicking the bucket. And I think Guy Gardner is a douche.

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Luke Skywalker - Sexy Jedi Knight

Of all the Mc$oss strips created to date, I feel this strip embodies the spirit of what me and Mr. McGinty are trying to do the best. One of the reasons we decided to put pen to paper in the beginning of all this was the content of the conversations that we have. Once in awhile it takes some exaggeration, but for the most part they are ready made for a comic strip. So yes, this exact conversation happened one magical night in '08.

This is one on a short list of efforts where both creators wrote and illustrated the strip. It is a modern miracle considering how lazy both of us can be. I did the illustrations of the Star Wars scenes and Gint hooked up the bar scene.-$

7-7-08 Dissatisfaction

Man, I used to love Batman. The Animated Series was my gateway drug into the world of comics. A couple issues of Gotham Adventures here, a The Long Halloween there and before I knew it I was dropping fat cash weekly at the comic book shop. I was getting all the Batman titles which eventually spilled over into the rest of the DCU. Then something strange happened.

Batman sucked. It was a rude awakening when it hit me that I really wasn't enjoying the books anymore. Could have been that it wasn't the books at all and I had just developed my own comic reading identity and decided Green Lantern and Superman were more the heroes for me. Grant Morrison has enough of an adoring public to support that theory.

But Batman #678 did it. The Batman of Zur-eh-Arrh knocked me out. It was the last straw in a scarecrow full of crazy bullshit that started me down the path of dropping the book. (Which was documented in a later strip.)

-Gint

7-4-08 Axis of Evil

Maybe nothing is ever really perfect? Perhaps its the rose-colored glasses of childhood, unceremoniously ripped off as adults that turns everything we loved in our youth into constant sources of aggravation and frustration? OR, George Lucas is a douche bag. You make the call! -Gint

7-2-08 Innocence Lost

After years of watching my favorite robots in disguise on TV, they were finally making the jump to the big screen. Imagine our surprise when only a couple of them made it out alive. Child therapy isn't cheap folks. -Gint

6-11-08 GTA vs Garth Ennis

On one hand I'm totally repulsed by the senseless violence that goes down in video games like GTA and Saints Row, but completely amused by the twisted perversion in a typical Garth Ennis book. Go figure -$

6-8-08 Black Rage... From a White Guy

...sigh... Michael Bay. Where to begin? Well, I fucking hate his Transformers. By association, I hate him too. And that's hard to internalize sometimes since I really liked both Bad Boys movies.

Granted, being such a fan of the original series its impossible for me to be objective. But if he just wanted to make a movie about giant robots, he should have just made "Robots From Mars" and left Transformers alone.

As of 1.10.10, I still haven't seen "Revenge of the Fallen" because I believe I will commit murder if I do.

-Gint

6-6-08 The Astonishing Delusion

I wrote this strip after the last issue of the Cassaday/Whedon run on Astonishing X-Men, which for me was one of the most well told stories featuring Chuck Xavier' s students that I've ever read. The story arc's featured new villains such as the incompetent alien Ord, Danger the Danger Room come to life and a totally believable (as far as comics go) rebirth of fan fave Colossus. It also featured Joss Whedon working his magic on Shadow Cat, adding her to his growing list of strong female characters. And yes, I was VERY sad as Miss Pryde's bullet coffin faded away into the cosmos. -$