Shlock of Ages
Posted on April 9, 2020 at 4:43 am by Daniel Kelly
There’s not a whole lot to say about this page, if we’re being honest, but I really liked whole of the hecklers asking why their costumes don’t have a consistent visual motif. Heckling children making art critique is funny, IMO. Also good: Jill flipping off children. She should have done that more, honestly. In the aborted LotH remake, this scene (which would have taken place before the rabbits appeared), would have been a birthday party, and Riley would sing inappropriate-for-children songs. Jill would push back on this slightly, but Riley would convince her to rock the fuck out of some ten year olds and the band wouldn’t get paid. Obviously, none of that happened, but it would’ve been smoother scene better at establishing the “Jill is smitten with Riley even though he’s kind of a bad person” relationship.
“This is how the song starts” is veering a liiiiiiittle too close to “This is the beginning of the song” being the first line of a song from Scott Pilgrim vs the World. The song lyrics also don’t really relate to what’s going on in the rabbit world in any coherent metaphorical way. The song is bad, in every way. The lore post for this page, though, is one of the better ones, being a review of the band’s first (presumably self-published on Bandcamp) album, with the joke being the continued lack of thematic consistency:
This strip’s lore post is one of my favorites especially the quote about how each song is worse than the last regardless of the order. I’ve paraphrased that one a few times.9
Hope you’re okay. Just believin’.