SPECTATORS - Part 28
*NOT* *SAFE* *FOR* *WORK*
Welcome back, you! Do anything exciting over the weekend?
Brian here, and artist/co-creator Niko Henrichon, loyal letterer Fonografiks and I have a particularly spicy new installment of Spectators for you this week, so you may want to avert your monitor from your coworkers.
After 75 pages of frustrated voyeurism, will our main ghost Val finally get to observe some actual human intimacy…?
In next week’s pulse-pounding vignette… nah, that would be telling.
But in last Monday’s comments, reader A Closer Listen had the following request:
Loving the series, fellas, but is there any chance you can post the download links above the previews? I prefer to read in my comics app and go in cold. Cheers!
Sounds reasonable to us, ACL, so that’s where we moved the links this outing. Anyone else have strong feelings about how we format these missives?
And speaking of our attached “CBZ” files, Al Wurst posted:
Also, I discovered something cool this weekend. A few year ago I got nostalgic for my old ViewMaster. I got really into collectiong old ViewMaster reels. It was like time-traveling, and 3D is awesome. I got into it so much that I got a 3D camera and regularly have ViewMaster reels made of family trips. My son got a Meta Quest this summer from his girlfriend and I got to wondering if I could look at all those 3D photos on it. I found an app that will do it, Pigasus. So as Bill Clinton would say, why am I telling you all this? The app also reads CBZ files. You know how Brian is always telling us to check out Niko’s art on our biggest screen? He is not lying. Seeing Niko’s work on a movie theater screen was absolutely fucking amazing.
Awesome and appropriately futuristic suggestion, thanks, Al!
A few weeks ago, we offered you generous paid subscribers in The Tower who weren’t able to attend San Diego Comic-Con the opportunity to mail in a comic to get it signed/sent back to you on us, and this was the haul from just our first day…
I believe I’ve now signed/personalized everything we were sent, but Milkshake and I will double-check the “To Be Continued” mailbag one last time later today.
Either way, I’m afraid that this particular offer is now CLOSED.
BUT, you Tower folks will definitely have another signing opportunity down the line (and Founders, never fear, your comics/scripts/sketches are still coming!), so if you’ve been considering becoming a paid member of Exploding Giraffe, now’s the time, especially because we’ll be randomly selecting another of you monthly/annual subscribers to win an original page of Niko’s hand-painted Spectators artwork soon.
In last Monday’s chat, we were discussing go-to summer beverages, and in honor of Jimmy McGill’s drink of choice, I decided to make my first rusty nail to enjoy with the series finale of Better Call Saul.
And guess what? It was fucking terrible! The cocktail that is, not the excellent last episode.
Regardless, because of my current work/procrastination schedule, I really only have time to watch one measly episode of one hour-long drama each week. So now that Saul is over, which series endlessly recommended to me by my friends should I start next?
Oh boy, our first official poll! Let’s see if this crashes all of Substack…
Alternately, you can lobby for another show entirely (like Dark, which my buddy Jeff has been yelling at me to watch for ages) in today’s chat:
Ans yep, I’m all caught up on The Bear and Succession, thanks.
All right, that’s about it for this depressingly gray Monday, but I’ll be back with some hopefully delightful bonus content for you on Friday, cool?
Still haunted by the unexpectedly harrowing finale of The Rehearsal,
Brian
If you aren’t watching Reservation Dogs on Hulu, you’re missing out!! So good!
I'd recommend this one indy show on Amazon Prime about some time traveling news paper delivery girls. 8 episodes, really good pacing and storytelling.