SPECTATORS - Part 26
Plus, what's your favorite recent comedy movie/podcast/anything?
Happy lunch break, if you happen to be in my dumb time zone.
Brian here, and I really didn’t want Exploding Giraffe to become just a repository of my shameless bragging about various life achievements.
And yet, from a few days ago…
No big deal, just a quick twodle. I wish I were exaggerating when I tell you that this accomplishment filled me with more joy than any award I’ve ever received or human child I’ve ever co-created.
Guess I can probably retire now, but Spectators co-creator Niko Henrichon is still hard at work, delivering a few new pages of silent spectacle before letterer Fonografiks returns next week for some actual dialogue between characters.
For now, your favorite ghost Val is still stalking her new “storyline,” currently en route to our futuristic vision of Park Slope…
What pleasures/horrors await Val (and you) inside the two-bedroom apartment above that strange restaurant?
Find out next Monday, O Spectating Ones…
Thanks to the many of you loyal Tower members who raved about the sumptuous artwork Niko shared in last Friday’s Artopsy.
Now let’s select one of you generous paid subscribers to win a signed copy of Fang, shall we? And our Randomizer Robot has chosen…
…Robert Ahn!
Congrats, Robert, someone from Exploding Giraffe will be reaching out for your mailing address and other highly personal details soon.
If you didn’t win this month, don’t give up, as there are plenty more Tower-exclusive contests coming soon (and an English version of Fang is in the works for the rest of you).
Last Monday’s open chat about horror was somehow our most commented post ever, and I greatly appreciate all of the outstanding recommendations from you tasteful folks.
This week, I thought we’d make a hard gear-shift into comedy, if only to give me another excuse to plug Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal, currently streaming on HBO Maxi-Go-Plus.
I have no idea how much of this purported documentary series is “real” (and if it is, whether or not it’s deeply immoral), but I do know that it’s fucking hilarious, the most profoundly absurd and absurdly profound show I’ve seen since Wonder Showzen.
Plus, my college pal Gigi Burgdorf is in the first episode, and gives what everyone agrees is one of the most masterfully surreal performances ever captured.
Anyway, I can’t possibly recommend The Rehearsal more highly (this weekend’s episode might be my favorite), and I hope you’ll check it out.
For now, comments are open to everyone, so please let us know which funny shows/films/books/games/podcasts/comics/whatever are currently helping you endure existence.
Thanks again, and I’ll see some of you back here on Friday for a thrilling bonus post about comics and DRUGS. Oh, boy!
Merely fourdled today’s Wordle,
BKV
PS
Finally, shared absolutely without permission, here’s the first CHIPCLASS from fellow comix creator and ‘Stacker Champs DZranski, which I beg you not to watch:
thank u for the anti-endorsement
For TV, I'm enjoying What We Do in the Shadows, Reservation Dogs and Lower Decks the most right now. They're at least getting the biggest laughs from me! Comics-wise, I find Mark Russell to be doing some of the best comedy at the moment, especially when paired with artists like Steve Lieber or Steve Pugh or other Steve's. For podcasts, I'm a fan of Conan OBrien Needs a Friend, Fly on the Wall and How Did This Get Made.