As this page posts I’ll be on a plane to Detroit. If you live in Detroit, come see me at Detroit Fanfare. I’ll be selling the new Axe Cop: Bad Guy Earth books four days before nationwide release! I will also have Bearmageddon posters,sketchbooks and I’ll be doing commissions as well.
As for today’s comic… what can I say? I think we all know a guy like Nigel. I based his look off this guy on an Mtv reality show. And yes, Into the Woods is a rip off of Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn. If you have seen it, this will make a little more sense, but you can not have seen it to follow the story. All you really need to know is the dude ditches life to live in the woods in a bus.
Whenever I have the chance to pay tribute to people I know, I do… of course then other ones get mad at me. But on the DVD cover I copied the same design as the Into the Wild DVD cover and changed the actor names to give a handful of friends warm fuzzies, mainly by opening Facebook and seeing who caught my eye. It’s impossible to read on the screen but hopefully one day when this is printed it will be visible with a magnifying glass. If not, I want to at least score points with this list of friends.
And yes, sorry Sean Penn, I couldn’t resist the 13-year-old style joke on your name. teeheehee!!!
Ethan
Discussion (30) ¬
Into the Wild is also a book by Jon Krakauer
I think it makes it that much more hilarious that the guy was moved by the movie (that he didn’t even finish) than the book. The thing that inspires him to “leave behind the greed” forces him to get closer to the “greed” to be inspired. For the record, I love the book and film of Into The Wild. And, I absolutely love the glue of the albatross.
It was a movie based on a book based on a true story
The book version in this comic would be by Jon Krakhead, I’m sure of it.
You get more points from me for “Sean Pennis” than “Sean McGowan”.
This DVD changed my life. lol. I love how he says this but that he hasn’t seen the ending. The awful, awful ending. Now that – is funny.
Prediction: As Joel becomes a real man, he will slowly develop a strong, square chin. Whether he will use the chin for good or evil is up for debate.
Why do I feel this doesn’t bode well, at all?
Also, yay for juveline snickering.
LOVE the fact that he was inspired by the movie but never saw the ending. Having seen the movie, this really made me laugh.
Prediction:
Freedom Boy heads out into the woods.
Bears live in woods.
Bear eat Freedom Boy.
So begins the reign of Berror.*
*Bear + Terror
Cage goes in the salsa… Shark’s in the salsa.
As a nation, we cannot stand for this. There shall be a war! A war on …
BEARORRISM
(I’m all done with the stupid for the moment)
Into the Woods is also the name of a musical by Stephen Sondheim. It takes a bunch of classic fairy-tales and weaves them all together. Act I ends in typical “Happily Ever After” fashion, but Act II shows what happens after, which basically consists of the violent deaths of a bunch of beloved childhood characters. So, still kind of fits the comic.
I was almost in a production of that…
Poor Nigel doesn’t know what hes getting himself into, remember kids, always finish a movie before you decide to do whats in it
another funny thing is that my friend saw and finished the movie and was still inspired
But… but that’s the joke. Not knowing what he’s getting into is the joke.
Because the guy was STUPID
I haven’t seen the movie, but I love how in the book, the author tries to argue that the guy who wanted to go live in Alaska was not really ignorant or responsible for his own death, bc he would’ve known berries apart or whatever bc he read about them in a book that one time.
That being said, I at one point wanted to go and live in nature just like that. As can be seen by my ability to post this comment on the internet, I ultimately chose not to do that lol
Into the Wild in this story will quickly turn into Grizzly Man.
I love it.. the DVD that changed his life, and he hasn’t seen it all. That’s exactly that sort of person.. the kind who won’t eat anything out of a can but they’ll believe anything from a website.
At first I thought given the theme of the webcomic, I thought it was “Grizzly Man” (since I couldn’t remember the name of that documentary). But reading a spoiler of “Into the Wild” I realize it’s just as comparable. Fun stuff! (Well, for a webcomic… not the guys in the movies, of course.)
BEARRORISM!
last i recall the man died alone in the wild, due to some silly berries or some other poisonous plant. Freaked the bear droppings out of me, he really wasnt normal. I doubt douche-band rambo here would think the same if he knew the ending =D
At first I assumed (not having read the notes yet) “Into the woods” was the title of the actual movie you were referencing. Of course, I realized soon enough the real title was “Into the wild”, but what I find highly amusing is that in the process I stumbled upon about half a dozen movies really called “Into the woods”, which without exception appear to be horror stories of people getting slaughtered by killers/ghosts/zombies/whatnot in the woods.
Given the context, I find this hilariously appropriate…
Chris McCandless (the guy on the bus) went to my high school–he was a real nutter
Hey,
isn’t Angela the name of Doug TenNapel’s wife?
I’m not sure about the other names.
-Benjamin
I got excited because I thought I saw Jim Cummings on the DVD. He’d probably do a great voice for Joel’s dad.
Just found the comic today, and I love it, even without the bears really showing up yet. I honestly want to see Stephen Colbert reference this. And I know it’s in a little late, but my view on the whole Bear v. Gorilla: the most likely outcome is a Gilgamesh-Enkidu thing where, after a massive battle that destroys all else, the bear and gorilla will realize that neither will win, so they become friends, united in their quest to terrify humanity. In short, we must NEVER let a bear fight a gorilla.
this is my favorite answer to the question. Welcome to Bearmageddon!