Grymm Ramblings
Hey look! Its a bonus art day! Page 20 of the Surrealis Grimoire is ready to rub up against your eyeballs until they start to tear up. Either from beauty overload or all the scratches on the retinas.
SG Doctor of the Harvest by ~GrymmGrymmowski on deviantART A little birdy told me that CreepKnight's going to be coming in behind me some time today and cobbling together a a news post to talk more on Mac's ramblings. For now, let's just say there's reason to the rhyme. You see, despite the "randomness" and the almost ADD-ish jumping around the comic does at times, there is a master plot at foot. We're just not being dicks about it in the fashion of punishing people for not paying attention to every little detail for everything else to make sense. But there's definitely a greater over-arching narrative rising up. Friday's linework is already in the darkening stages. Its gonna be another bloody violent one. In fact, I can just about promise you that the entire rest of this story arc is going to be drenched in blood, gore, violence, and viscera. Right now, we're looking at this arc to last until about the end of November. Maybe. MAYBE the first week of December. We have plans folks. And they're nifty ones. We gots ourselves a time table!Musings of a CreepKnight
So I started writing this essay that I was going to post here on the argument of traditional superheroes vs. modern superheroes and which should rule the pages of comic books everywhere. I've been working on it since last night until this morning when I realized that this thing was going to take me a couple of days to finish and maybe, just maybe, because its length and in-depthness does not belong in a newspost here on the site, but maybe as its own independent piece posted as a seperate blog or maybe (if it's good enough) I'll send it to Marron Marvel for consideration on Geek Life. But I'll lay down the basic gist here.
Spandex and utility belts have their place, and that place is in the memories of our youth and in the pages of back issues that fill the boxes we keep underneath our beds (you know, unless you hide porn there). There is a reason that Mac who, despite currently working to destroy a villain, is a villain herself. There is symbolism at work here, on multiple levels, and to get into it would take a lot of time and extra space that we just don't have to spare. And while Captain America holds a special place in my heart as one of the superheroes of my childhood, he is dead (canonical resurrection not withstanding); the Avengers have disassembled, the X-Men are not so uncanny anymore, and Dick Grayson is Batman. This is not to say that these comics are not immortal in their own rite and do not merit further publication, but new superheroes like Kick Ass and Scott Pilgrim (to use a few of the more mainstream examples) are the wave of the future and I have decided that this is a good thing. In an America that demands honesty built upon lies and manipulation, we need superheroes who have taken off the mask and put on a dirty blue hoodie. And that's sort of what the next year of Voodoo Walrus is going to tackle.
Speaking of the next year of Voodoo Walrus, it's going to be a big one. As Grymm and I plot and plan we find ourselves excited for everything we have coming up, from the little stuff to the huge, story-changing plot that we hope to get to sometime next summer. We hope you're as excited as we are and continue to read and tell your friends about the awesomeness that is Voodoo Walrus.
Also, if you haven't checked out Grymm's Surrealis Grimoire pieces over on his Deviant Art account, you're missing out. These are truly inspired, amazing pieces of art that truly have his soul in every line and brush stroke. I personally plan to acquire several prints from this series and plaster them all over my house, because as some guy once said "I may not know art, but I know what I like." I like the Grimoire, even if I am spelling it wrong.
9 thoughts on “Meatnecks and Boomsticks 6”
Curator
Mac has such a beautifully demented smile…also, she looks hot in red…
Rosey
Sharp teeth are a mark of evil, but smaller fangs are a mark of true cunning when paired when that insane smile~! Mac, as cheesy as it is, keep on trucking~ about time you tore his proverbial -andhopefullyliteral- head off~!
Muleface
Thumbs up Grymm for the Surrealis Grimoire and it’s many wonders. My favourite so far is “The Reverse Flow of Dreams” which is part of the montage of art that is my desktop wallpaper.
CK, I think that comics and their antagonists/protagonists will always move with the times and there will always be new ones to fill the demands of an increasingly more modern reader base but the classics will never truely die and will always remain as the foundations and inspirations of comic authors today.
Marchosias
It may be a sign of our increasingly connected culture, that the mysterious, clad-in-black, heroes are being phased out, replaced with the actual comic-book reader. The heroes of a culture are its greatest watermark, and we, as said culture are becoming more aware of our own limits and fragilities, that our battles are not against the Jokers and Penguins of our imagination, but against the unfairness to which the comic reader is oft subjected.
Also, and perhaps more importantly, Surrealis Grimoire is some of the creepiest, most fantastic pieces of work I’ve ever seen. Where Grymm gets these ideas is probably better not knowing.
jakwolf
can i just say that as an art student i think your work is brilliantly creepy, kinda tim burton-y. hmm might dig out some of my old demon sketches….. also with the new comic page, permission to use cock guzzling koala fondler next time i insult some one?
Marchosias
Seconding Jakwolf there.
Grymm
Jegus. So many comments build up when I ignore the site for a day and a half.
Curator: Hot, and even more insane.
Rosey: We shall see. We. Shall. See. Sometime before the end of November!
Muleface: “Reverse Flow of Dreams” is amongst my favorites too. One of the few totally inspired by one of my dreams.
Marchosias: I thank the wonders of some of dreams and the build love for the creepy and the surreal that builds up from working on paid work so far removed from the subject matter I want to draw.
Michael Alexander Reaper
i was rereading everything and there is a spy? amazing what you notice when you reread evrything
Grymm
Nice catch! If you’re not the first person to catch it, you’re definitely the first to mention seeing it!