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Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 14 “Dark Trail of Doom”(16) 6/27/12
“I smell old death!” Alley Oop shouts but too late.
Panel One
They see men in black or dark clothes and some still in slickers and also dinosaurs! Not like Alley Oop knows which are brightly colored. But black and gray mottled specimens with filmy reddish-yellow eyes and patches of hide missing showing rigs and other bones working with them, like living-dead creatures! Looking closely some of the ‘men’ look like corpses too but fast moving. Two Velociraptors now showing open mouths of a dead grayish color with sharp teeth some missing and discolored. (Attack stance with tail up.)
Panel Two
The “fire!” order is given and they blast away. The bullets hit and knock them back but they don’t fall down or stay down when they fall. The assault team forgot about the two taken down before. They have gotten up and are grabbing soldiers and snapping their necks or throwing the soldiers aside. Alley Oop takes his club and bashes in the head of one of them on their side of the Ultra Glide truck and its parabola shaped “smart wheels” sent the assailant spinning away. Lavainge is really scared.
Panel Three
Alley sees the man stagger up again but not moving too well, the side of his head is obviously caved in, some blood of an unknown color is leaking out. He finished the job with a straight down pile driver head crusher blow and the living-dead man stayed down.
Panel Four
“Hay guys, concentrate on the head, blast it and bash it will bring them down for good!”Alley shouted above the melee of gun fire, screams and shouting. They already had lost half their number in soldiers to wounds, while their opposition have only lost one and are now using their own guns.
Panel Five
Some of them catch a glimpse of several heavy container boxes that are rolled quickly on in to the cargo hold, then their assailants human and dinosaur scramble and jump on and in as the truck starts up and moves off without a driver! They fire on the truck but the bullets just ricochet off with pale yellow sparks. Before it is out of sight another lightning flash and it is gone from the road! Just thunder lingering as the other two squads make it to them. Too late.
“Well they sure kicked our butts today,” Lt. Chet “Slim” Galbraithe said disgusted and holding his shoulder from a bullet graze and deeper scratches from one of the resurrected dinos, his body armor protect him and all the troopers from worse injuries.
Yes, Ooola—but the real tragedy is you thinking that such a sacrifice was even necessary. Under better writers this situation would never have arisen in the first place. If Hamid had brought an army, can you see Guz and Oop doing nothing less than raising an army of their own and putting the Mondovians in their place? Try to take our girls? Not likely.
But Hamid was only one man. Oop acted like he’d been hit on the head [he may have been incompetent when amnesiac, but he’s never been a coward].
Maybe that’s the whole problem with Carole’s writing—she’s taking her depictions of Alley Oop from the times he’s been hit on the head and lost his memory. Hope she has him wake up soon.
No, I really don’t think so. Carole’s writing is bad—but it’s not actually abysmal. Yes, for a long time there was no mention of Lola’s husband back on Ytopia. But I don’t think Carole was so stupid that she just forgot aboutZod, and had to be reminded by us—there was just no convenient place to put it in the story.
We’re probably not the only site where readers comment on Alley Oop. Don’t know how many such sites there might be, but I doubt the Benders are going to take the time to keep up with all of them, having better ways of spending their leisure hours, than read negative comments
And if that’s not enough to convince you—if Jack and Carole are reading our posts, how come I haven’t gotten a “cease and desist” order, and a court summons to answer charges of slander and libel, the way I’ve been frying the two of them on The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour?
I agree. I was being a weeee bit facetious when I made my comment. I doubt Carol reads our comments at all. In fact, I believe she has become totally out of touch with her fan base and their expectations, just as she is out of touch with the personality of Alley Oop himself.
I suspect that if they ever got wind of our shenanigans they would not be happy at all. They are professionals we are not so what do we know? Is how I would expect them to look at it.
It would be the responsibility of the trademark holder and they would have an almost impossible job of making a case that the brand was harmed by your satirical treatment of the writer/illustrator team.
Is it only harm to a Brand Name, that’s an issue? I know that Mad satirizes things regularly, but they always change the names [like turning Batman into Batsman]. Few would argue that Mad could harm anyone’s reputation, yet it seemed they were always protecting themselves [just in case?]
In any case, I’m using no such subterfuge. My Jack and Carole Adventure Hour does not have Jack and Carole Blender, Jack and Carole Bindlestiff, or Jack and Carole Bent. It stars Jack and Carole Bender, as we all know and love them.
Ahhh—I understand. Yeah. It never really rang right that they’d be checking the comments. And writers often do forget about details. When doing a daily strip, or a monthly comic, you’re often hitting the ground running. You don’t have time to go back and check every little detail, Deadline is king.
It takes me a while to do what I’m doing because I do check the details [even then I found three little mistakes in what I posted yesterday, and that was after triple-checking].
But it’s very true that Carole is out of touch. I do try to give her some credit [and I can be unbelievably tolerant] but there are some things that even I can’t ignore.
Remaining in touch with a concept [or with people, for that matter] takes constant renewal. You can’t coast. You can’t take it for granted. If you do, you start losing perspective and dimension.
It’s like mathematical dimensions: Take a solid, three-dimensional object and remove depth—you have a flat, two-dimensional,color photograph. Remove the color—you have a black and white image. Remove everything except black—you have a silhouette. Turn the silhouette on it’s side—you have a line. Turn the line on its end—you have a point.
If this was written for a soap opera it would have a. been rejected after the first reading b. the show cancelled after the first episode c. been put on the Life Channel at midnight
Alley Oop is the classic caveman comic strip revolving around the irrepressible Alley Oop, who travels from prehistoric Moo all the way to the 21st century in his friend Doc Wonmug's time machine.
Agnes by Tony Cochran
Andertoons by Mark Anderson
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Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago
Lola is quite the martyr here. Many sad faces for her sacrifices.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago
Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 14 “Dark Trail of Doom”(16) 6/27/12
“I smell old death!” Alley Oop shouts but too late.
Panel One
They see men in black or dark clothes and some still in slickers and also dinosaurs! Not like Alley Oop knows which are brightly colored. But black and gray mottled specimens with filmy reddish-yellow eyes and patches of hide missing showing rigs and other bones working with them, like living-dead creatures! Looking closely some of the ‘men’ look like corpses too but fast moving. Two Velociraptors now showing open mouths of a dead grayish color with sharp teeth some missing and discolored. (Attack stance with tail up.)
Panel Two
The “fire!” order is given and they blast away. The bullets hit and knock them back but they don’t fall down or stay down when they fall. The assault team forgot about the two taken down before. They have gotten up and are grabbing soldiers and snapping their necks or throwing the soldiers aside. Alley Oop takes his club and bashes in the head of one of them on their side of the Ultra Glide truck and its parabola shaped “smart wheels” sent the assailant spinning away. Lavainge is really scared.
Panel Three
Alley sees the man stagger up again but not moving too well, the side of his head is obviously caved in, some blood of an unknown color is leaking out. He finished the job with a straight down pile driver head crusher blow and the living-dead man stayed down.
Panel Four
“Hay guys, concentrate on the head, blast it and bash it will bring them down for good!”Alley shouted above the melee of gun fire, screams and shouting. They already had lost half their number in soldiers to wounds, while their opposition have only lost one and are now using their own guns.
Panel Five
Some of them catch a glimpse of several heavy container boxes that are rolled quickly on in to the cargo hold, then their assailants human and dinosaur scramble and jump on and in as the truck starts up and moves off without a driver!
They fire on the truck but the bullets just ricochet off with pale yellow sparks. Before it is out of sight another lightning flash and it is gone from the road! Just thunder lingering as the other two squads make it to them. Too late.
“Well they sure kicked our butts today,” Lt. Chet “Slim” Galbraithe said disgusted and holding his shoulder from a bullet graze and deeper scratches from one of the resurrected dinos, his body armor protect him and all the troopers from worse injuries.
Kali39 said, 12 months ago
And six years later, another storyline meets its … middle…
davidf42 said, 12 months ago
It’s like the Benders read our comments and try to go back and correct some of the errors they’ve made.
FENRISULFR said, 12 months ago
Yes, Ooola—but the real tragedy is you thinking that such a sacrifice was even necessary. Under better writers this situation would never have arisen in the first place. If Hamid had brought an army, can you see Guz and Oop doing nothing less than raising an army of their own and putting the Mondovians in their place? Try to take our girls? Not likely.
But Hamid was only one man. Oop acted like he’d been hit on the head [he may have been incompetent when amnesiac, but he’s never been a coward].
Maybe that’s the whole problem with Carole’s writing—she’s taking her depictions of Alley Oop from the times he’s been hit on the head and lost his memory. Hope she has him wake up soon.
FENRISULFR said, 12 months ago
@davidf42
No, I really don’t think so. Carole’s writing is bad—but it’s not actually abysmal. Yes, for a long time there was no mention of Lola’s husband back on Ytopia. But I don’t think Carole was so stupid that she just forgot aboutZod, and had to be reminded by us—there was just no convenient place to put it in the story.
We’re probably not the only site where readers comment on Alley Oop. Don’t know how many such sites there might be, but I doubt the Benders are going to take the time to keep up with all of them, having better ways of spending their leisure hours, than read negative comments
And if that’s not enough to convince you—if Jack and Carole are reading our posts, how come I haven’t gotten a “cease and desist” order, and a court summons to answer charges of slander and libel, the way I’ve been frying the two of them on The Jack and Carole Adventure Hour?
FENRISULFR said, 12 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
Like a first class action film! And with Zombie, or Vampire Dinosaurs. [I’ve never thought of that combination before.
davidf42 said, 12 months ago
@FENRISULFR
I agree. I was being a weeee bit facetious when I made my comment. I doubt Carol reads our comments at all. In fact, I believe she has become totally out of touch with her fan base and their expectations, just as she is out of touch with the personality of Alley Oop himself.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago
I suspect that if they ever got wind of our shenanigans they would not be happy at all. They are professionals we are not so what do we know? Is how I would expect them to look at it.
Bob Carver said, 12 months ago
@FENRISULFR
It would be the responsibility of the trademark holder and they would have an almost impossible job of making a case that the brand was harmed by your satirical treatment of the writer/illustrator team.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 12 months ago
That should read “patches of hide missing showing ribs…”
dheine1971
said, 12 months ago
Uh-oh…
FENRISULFR said, 12 months ago
@Bob Carver
Is it only harm to a Brand Name, that’s an issue? I know that Mad satirizes things regularly, but they always change the names [like turning Batman into Batsman]. Few would argue that Mad could harm anyone’s reputation, yet it seemed they were always protecting themselves [just in case?]
In any case, I’m using no such subterfuge. My Jack and Carole Adventure Hour does not have Jack and Carole Blender, Jack and Carole Bindlestiff, or Jack and Carole Bent. It stars Jack and Carole Bender, as we all know and love them.
FENRISULFR said, 12 months ago
@davidf42
Ahhh—I understand. Yeah. It never really rang right that they’d be checking the comments. And writers often do forget about details. When doing a daily strip, or a monthly comic, you’re often hitting the ground running. You don’t have time to go back and check every little detail, Deadline is king.
It takes me a while to do what I’m doing because I do check the details [even then I found three little mistakes in what I posted yesterday, and that was after triple-checking].
But it’s very true that Carole is out of touch. I do try to give her some credit [and I can be unbelievably tolerant] but there are some things that even I can’t ignore.
Remaining in touch with a concept [or with people, for that matter] takes constant renewal. You can’t coast. You can’t take it for granted. If you do, you start losing perspective and dimension.
It’s like mathematical dimensions:
Take a solid, three-dimensional object and remove depth—you have a flat, two-dimensional,color photograph.
Remove the color—you have a black and white image.
Remove everything except black—you have a silhouette.
Turn the silhouette on it’s side—you have a line.
Turn the line on its end—you have a point.
At what point is Carole?
r0sc0e said, 12 months ago
If this was written for a soap opera it would have a. been rejected after the first reading b. the show cancelled after the first episode c. been put on the Life Channel at midnight