#190 - Poop Chute Photo Shoot
Friday, December 1st, 2006HATE SALE! To celebrate me finally getting all caught up on my orders, I’m throwing a sale. For this weekend only, everything in the store has been discounted. Shirts are only ten bucks, minicomics $2 and original art is only $15.
The sale ends with my Monday update, so get in there while you still can. Everything will be shipped by Wednesday, December 6th at the latest. If you live in North America, it should arrive by Xmas.
A couple of quick notes:
•Fellow Boxcar mate, Ali has decided to end Housd. Housd will end with today’s strip and Ali’s new strip, AfterStrife, will start up on Monday.
•A reminder that there is a Hate Song LiveJournal feed, for those of you who are down with El Jay and are just too damned lazy to check this site 3 times a week.
•I am working on getting a second Make It Awesome contest going (to be renamed Project: Awesome). Details soon.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:38 pm
I think I’d take the lady-guy-chick-thing from the internet over cherry-lips.
Just sayin’.
December 1st, 2006 at 1:26 pm
I agree
December 1st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
It just keeps getting worse. Poor Mikey…Malachai, sorry.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Somehow I expected the “Cobra Commander” to be greasier and broader-shouldered.
I think he’d get along well with Orest as long as he remembered to wear trousers.
December 1st, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Dude, Orest must be dead on the sidewalk by now.
December 1st, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I just gotta pipe up here…. Hate Song is totally Vancouver pride. Been reading for about 6 months now, love the strip. I’m perpetually amazed that something this good can come from the hell that is maple ridge.
Mikeyalachi is getting to be a better and better character as this side-story progresses. As an ex-Goth, it amuses me no end seeing the terrible life this kid lives, that has driven him to ‘the dark side’ in order to feel even a little bit in control. Perhaps I’m over-analyzing? Anyways, I hope he becomes a regular character.
I can’t help but think his mom looks like she gave birth to Half-Dead too. Accidental similarities?
Shameless self-promotion whore:
http://www.myspace.com/seventhimage
December 1st, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Seventh Image: I just checked out your site. Which dude are you in that band? There is one dude in those photos who I swear I’ve worked with at two different places (Paradise Theatre and Book Warehouse). Keith? I think that was his name — it’s been a few years, so I’m not sure.
p.s. You’re not over-analyzing.
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:47 am
Ho-kay, I don’t know how you did it, but please stop making sketches of my Mom’s ex-boyfriends. This one’s name was “Pat”. The similarity is really eerie.
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 am
The boyfriend looks like that dude from “Road house” & general ross (from h**k). man mikey is messed up.
December 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 pm
poor mikey… gotta take pictures of the cobra commanders asshole….
personally, i’d go for the thing with the hump stick, its probably better than staring at that horror show while having sex….
lol i still laughed at the cobra commader ad….
was that acutally posted on Craigslist? i’d love to see the acutal link..
cheers..
Adam
December 2nd, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Hit the nail on the head, I’m the vocalist, and you got the name right too. Amusingly, I don’t remember working with anyone who worked at both the Paradise -and- the Book Warehouse. Besides me, of course.
The ’small world’ effect is running strong right about now… Of all the webcomics I read, this is the -only- one I’ve ever commented on, and look what happens. Awesome.
Now I just need to sort out who you are… haha…
December 2nd, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Seventh Image: Well, to be honest, I don’t think that you and I ever had a shift together. I think I came to the Paradise around the time that you were leaving (I became good friends with Darcia - lived right next door to her). I was there for all that union bullshit (not sure if you heard about that) and left when the big management shuffle happened (had to stand in line behind 3 other people to quit).
I worked at the Broadway BW while you were at Kits (I think). I used to work with Graeme, who I think was a friend of yours. I’m not sure if you were there at the time, but I did a one page comic about idiotic customer questions/comments that I know was circulated around the stores.
Also, Fred G is a penname, so that might make it more difficult to figure out who I am.
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Reminds me of Dave Brock from Hawkwind… Somewhat…
December 2nd, 2006 at 6:48 pm
I kinda figured you must use a nom de plume, as I don’t recall ever working with a Fred at either place.
Haven’t spoken to Darcia in years. Miss that lass, she was really cool. Fact is, most of the people I worked with at the Paradise were cool. I’m still in contact with James.
Graeme and I drifted apart some time ago, but he’s how I got my job at the Book Warehouse. I wonder if you left the company on as bad a terms as I did.
The only comics I remember being distributed around the stores were done by James, who managed the broadway location for awhile.
Feel free to contact me via email if you’d as soon not continue our touching reunion via your front page, haha.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:38 am
Hate song is quickly becoming one of my favorites, and this plotline in particular has been badass.
That being said, I’m rather skeptical of the existence of a chick who is a dude but is a really hot chick. I think Cobra Commander just doesn’t have much in the way of discerning taste.
Although, maybe he’s closeted and he’s trying to find ways to let his gay-ness out? That’d explain why he wants Mikey to keep taking pictures of The Cobra.
December 3rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm
C-Diddy: In regards to “the existence of a chick who is a dude but is a really hot chick” - when I first moved to Vancouver, I ended up working at a porn store for a year and a half. Plenty of our “straight” customers would occassionally work their way up to the “Does it mean you’re gay if you do a really hot chick with a dick? I mean, like one who looks like a really hot chick. REALLY hot.”
December 3rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
lol i worked in a porn store too, not a sex shop, a porn store…. and the customers felt that because i was behind the desk, i knew all things sexual…
“im a doctor…. can you point me to the chicks the dicks section?”
“if a girl puts a dildo up your a$$ are you gay?”
what makes people think that in (ANY) store that becuase we are behind the counter we know all the mysteries of life? i do know this tho…. midget porn is prrrrettty popular in my area… kind of odd, but meh, thats how the lube drips…. (i mean cookie crumbles)
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:52 pm
Ha ha, i love this.
December 4th, 2006 at 5:32 am
…Cringe.
“Mikey, get the macro lens!”
December 4th, 2006 at 10:38 am
Free your mind and your ass will follow…. Ew….