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Published: 2012-04-29 16:50:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 3288; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 4
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Villainous behavior is all in the eye of the beholder, you see...Anyway, my submission for and their theme for this week, A pony being villainous. And this is the first submission I've gotten to send in to MLP-ATG in...let's see...one, two, three...Dear Celestia, ten weeks! *sulks* I've become SO unreliable these days...
Anyway, just a rather quick comic for your viewing pleasure. Hope I can be able to do more before another ten weeks have rolled by.
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Baby Ant: "M-Mommy? D-Daddy...? Where are you?! HELP ME!" *cowers behind a leaf, looking up at Applebloom*
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It feels odd to see this given that the classic Them! will be playing on TCM very late tonight/early Monday morning...
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Loved that flick! That scene when the ants first appear, that gigantic...THING slowly, silently crawling into view--THAT was scary.
As for my comment and the pic...think of it as role-reversal.
(BTW, any ideas for a follow-up omake?)
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(BTW, any ideas for a follow-up omake?)
I think that's directed at me.
The comic was meant to be a one-shot and it'll probably stay that way. I kinda want to do more with it, but haven't ever come up with an idea I like...
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Nah, it was for ardashir up there.
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(BTW, any ideas for a follow-up omake?)
Sorry, kinda tired right now and I'm drawing a blank.
Loved that flick! That scene when the ants first appear, that gigantic...THING slowly, silently crawling into view--THAT was scary.
It's amazing to see that film and realize just how MUCH better it is than practically every other big bug film of the 50's. It helps a lot that it starts out like a murder mystery rather than 'Hey, here's the monster!' That and the ending was surprisingly dark for the time, with the police officer getting chomped.
And of course the dialogue was amazingly well written: "The nest should be thoroughly saturated by now." "If I can raise an arm when I get outta here, I'll show you how well saturated I can get!"
Side note: Talking big bugs, I was stunned to see that footage from Tarantula showed up in the Three Stooges movie Have Rocket, Will Travel. The boys land on Venus and get attacked by a giant spider that breathes fire(!), and right after that they meet a talking unicorn. Is this Venus or Equestria?
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It's amazing to see that film and realize just how MUCH better it is than practically every other big bug film of the 50's. It helps a lot that it starts out like a murder mystery rather than 'Hey, here's the monster!'
*I had the flick on DVD a while back, and I agree 100%--the pacing was just perfect, and you really get emotionally involved. I wince in sympathy every time I see that little girl flip out and start screaming "THEM!" while crying her eyes out, just from smelling the formic acid. (Another leg up on similar movies; the acting is a cut above the usual B-movie fair.)
That and the ending was surprisingly dark for the time, with the police officer getting chomped.
*Don't forget that kid getting left an orphan, and with a REALLY bad case of PTSD (by implication). And even better, there's no cheesy chase scene or "final battle"; they just corner the ants in a tunnel, call in the army, and douse them with flamethrowers! Efficient, brutal, and effective.
The boys land on Venus and get attacked by a giant spider that breathes fire(!), and right after that they meet a talking unicorn. Is this Venus or Equestria?
*Well, Abbot and Costello already went there; why not those three?
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*Don't forget that kid getting left an orphan, and with a REALLY bad case of PTSD (by implication). And even better, there's no cheesy chase scene or "final battle"; they just corner the ants in a tunnel, call in the army, and douse them with flamethrowers! Efficient, brutal, and effective.
That was something I and a lot of other people like about Them! The ants were just big ants. They weren't bulletproof, didn't breathe fire, and didn't have superhuman intelligence. They were simply large and highly dangerous animals that needed to be stopped from causing more mass death. The plot was simple, and that helps make it work.
The boys land on Venus and get attacked by a giant spider that breathes fire(!), and right after that they meet a talking unicorn. Is this Venus or Equestria?
*Well, Abbot and Costello already went there; why not those three?
Look in my faves gallery and you'll see a sub-gallery devoted to 'MLP meets the Three Stooges' art. It's an oddly popular combination.
And I'll probably be doing more with 'Abbott and Costello go to Equestria' sometime this week.
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I'll check out that crossover--to your faves!
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