Well there is enough text on this page I hardly think you need a blog to accompany it. One thing you can never get enough of though is art and I have a bunch posting on my Instagram page. As I finish each commission (minus ones including caricatures people might recognize) I snap a pic with my phone. So enjoy that!
Ethan
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The voice of the creator through his creations.
I want to be Dickinson Killdeer.
Oh god someone called it last page. Those berries were bad after all!
It’s a common cliche–never trust the tasty looking berries in the woods when you’re lost.
Nigel gets told. Aww snap.
Called it on those damned berries. That last line of Dickinson Killdeer’s was epic.
What Dickinson said.
So Nigel might not eat the berries but I predict someone won’t make it through the night. You don’t just set up a beer-bottle-bear alarm without something setting it off.
Just to make it clear this is clearly a work of fiction and has no basis in reality. Our passion is not eating humans. We bears have a plethora of activities we consider enjoyable such as: eating a good salmon, hibernating, defending our cubs against invaders, and stealing pic-a-nic baskets. Please do some research next time.
Nice try, bear, can’t blame you for trying to misdirect the humans into trusting you, they are, after all… delicious~
Nothing beats a good human with a side of salmon. Their tender meat mi.. ooooh bear god it is… hrrrrm I.. I gotta go. TO THE BEAR-MOBILE.
Haha, gotta steal that addiction line sometime.
If nothing else (and there is plenty else to love about all of this), I am just glad to hear of others who hated the pompous rich-kid self-righteousness that was Into The Wild as much as I did.
I…I hated that movie, you guys.
The chubby latino lass is going to become bear butt-mud soon.
Actually, she got named. Haven’t the only folks who’ve been killed had no names in the story?
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And this is why you don’t pack up and leave home with your buddy who bases his philosophy on a movie he hasn’t even seen the ending to.
And this post makes you my hero Ethan. That dialog is brilliant, to the point and amazing.
Thank you.
Thanks my friend! I actually did write a ton more dialog for this scene and I just kept boiling it down. Feels like it works pretty well.
If Killdeer is really a survivalist he would not eat rabbit so much: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_starvation – I hope to see him eating more bear/deer/veg from now on.
We did also see him eating a fish, so I feel confident that he varies his diet decently.
haha thanks for the observation. The fur he wears is obviously Elk or Bear so we can assume he eats those too.
Apparently the theory that that guy in the movie died because of those berries is utter bs http://foragersharvest.com/into-the-wild-and-other-poisonous-plant-fables/
So no mysterious poisoning, just plain old fashioned starvation. But if you eat only berries that will in time follow without poisons, as human body is able to absorb only a limited amount of their nutrients. Eating huge amounts of just your regular lignonberries or blueberries will give you dhiarrhea, expecially if you do not also eat animal fats (learned from an archaeologist friend who has done his homework on the subject).
On eating rabbit: apparently you should be ok if you also eat all of the organs, brains included, and boil the broken bones to extract the marrow. Dickinson knows his stuff, so he’ll propably eat the stomach content as well 😛
He’s like a knight of the forest. I wonder who knighted him… and with what did they knight him???
I’ve suddenly imagined an entire backstory for this guy that is much more epic in my mind than “scientist lost in woods for long time”
Also, it’s rabbits that are lean that you should be worried about, during the summer months rabbits fatten up quite a bit.
I’ve always said it doesn’t count as an addiction if the need predated the drug..
but what do I know? I’ve got the opposite problem. can’t stop relaxing.
… and I want a dinosaur zoo 🙁
Say, can I have some of your purple berries
Yes, I’ve been eating them for six or seven days now
Haven’t got sick once
Prob’ly keep us both alive
Ten days later:
Horror grips us as we watch you die
All we can do is echo your anguished cries
Stare as all human feelings die
We are leaving, you don’t need us
See yah, Nigel
I could’ve successfully operated Jurassic Park, easily. Evidence points to Dinosaurs having been pretty stupid animals. Honestly, when we build zoos, are there people outside picketing them because they fear a tiger uprising? The proprietor of Jurassic Park just made some perplexing and idiotic decisions regarding staffing and security procedures. Give me the same technology, and I will give you a multi-billion dollar dinosaur zoo empire!
The majority of the Dinosaurs found in Jurassic Park were of no trouble to the staff, it was the Velociraptors who, according to the source material, were way more intelligent that predicted and vicious beyond all reason. For that purpose they were kept isolated and locked up permanently. Then along comes Nedry who decides to do some corporate espionage and shuts down the park to cover his tracks. But whoops, a hurricane also hits at the same time, the fences get shut down, raptors escape and kill everyone and a T. Rex also ends up doing some damage. Basically the lesson of Jurassic Park is hire better programmers and don’t build in hurricane zones.
Finally. I’ve enjoyed the buildup, and I’m glad to crest the hill into substance territory. Dickinson Killdeer is maybe gonna be my new favorite comic character, next to Cam’s dad Mike from Cardboard by DT.
Hey, I have a question: Nigel’s name is NIGEL. Should I be reading him with a British accent?
I think he probably changed his name to Nigel. His real name is probably Nick or Steve.
Can I just say that I love this comic?
Thanks. I needed to get that off my chest.
And I also spit out the berries I was eating and ate an entire rabbit whole, ALIVE, to prove my Killdeer worthiness quotient.
Awww man! This stinks to high heaven of an incoming ‘agenda’. I mean yeah, I smelled the strawman coming off these kids when we first met them, but it really looked like the comic was willing to just be a silly story about bears vs the world. I could be wrong mind. I’m just saying, it would really suck if this comic got ruined by a soapbox…
I have faith in Ethan… He’s already said that the characters are growing, so what you may see as a strawman will probably become more complex soon.
Plus, I’m not sure what agenda the comic could have/accomplish. Nigel and co. are hardly true environmentalists. It’s already been implied or shown that it’s more of a rebellion against responsibility and adulthood. Andrea is one of the few that may actually be classified as one, but that remains to be seen.
Every story has a soapbox. If the story has no point, it’s still a soapbox with the message “life is pointless”. This story does have a point… its first point is to entertain, but it does have another point, and I guess you can all judge and tell me if it was too heavy handed in the end.
What’s the soapbox for axe cop?
” I’m just saying, it would really suck if this comic got ruined by a soapbox…”
So, what you’re SAYING is that you’d prefer the comic not to SAY anything… Got it.
Has anyone else noticed that the film they are taking about is Into the Wild, not Into the Woods? Into the Woods was a play, Into the Wild is the one where the guy goes to Alaska, eats poison berries and dies.
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