Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Welcome To Eltingville

tSuibhne

14:30 / 04.03.02

Flipping through the tube last night I came across the last 10 secs of a show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. Style looked really familiar so I checked out the credits. One name came up again and again, Evan Dorkin.

The show is called "Welcome To Eltingville" Looks like it could be pretty cool. Anyone acctually catch this?

Oh, and I'll just throw this in as an extra treat

Trijhaos

16:28 / 04.03.02

I watched half of it before falling asleep. I liked what I saw of it. Animation was nice, good story and all that jazz. I'm just curious if that's what real geeks are like. I mean they fought over a Boba Fett DOLL, not action figure ,DOLL. They were willing to spend 300 dollars on a doll, I have trouble spending 10 dollars on a book. Good lord, how geeky can you get.

If its on again next sunday I'll watch it. Its really too bad that Adult Swim isn't on Thursday anymore. OOH, we get to see Scooby Doo instead. Nothing can compare to Scooby Doo.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Trijhaos ]

moriarty

16:53 / 04.03.02

Damn. Wish I had Cartoon Network.

Eltingville stories, including the Boba Fett one, were printed in Evan Dorkin's comic Dork.

gentleman loser

18:29 / 04.03.02

It's not a series yet. CN could pick it up for more episodes. I did love the fanboy trivia duel and I'm embarassed to admit that I knew most of the answers before the characters said them.

Here's another article:

"The whole idea of 'Eltingville,'" Dorkin says, "is the arrogance that's not perceived of a lot of geeks. A lot of them are sons-of-bitches who use their silly knowledge as power in their little cliques."

Too true! Thanks to LinkMachineGo for the link.

tSuibhne

19:53 / 04.03.02

Anyone know which issues of Dork these stories are in?

RadJose

05:17 / 05.03.02

the stories that they based the 1rst episode of Welcome to Eltinville are in Dork 6, there's also Eltingville stories in 3, 4, 8 & 9, Even does plan to put them out all together as one book someday too...

i liked it, the new cracaters were especially nice... Joe (the comic store guy) being even MORE skeavy looking was a good touch... the Aquabats theme song was rad too... only thing i wasn't down w/ was Josh and Jerry's voices, but Peter and Bill's were dead on so i'll drop my geekyness at that for i did SO enjoy the show

rizla mission

15:11 / 05.03.02

quote:Originally posted by Trijhaos:
I watched half of it before falling asleep. I liked what I saw of it. Animation was nice, good story and all that jazz. I'm just curious if that's what real geeks are like. I mean they fought over a Boba Fett DOLL, not action figure ,DOLL. They were willing to spend 300 dollars on a doll, I have trouble spending 10 dollars on a book. Good lord, how geeky can you get.

I find the Eltingville stories too true to life to be funny..

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

22:56 / 05.03.02

Fuck, and all I ever watch Cartoon Network for anymore is Johnny Bravo and Samurai Jack (which by the way is the fucking coolest cartoon on the face of the planet at the mo'). Here I was waiting for this and it passed by under my nose....fuuuuuuck.....

Traz

23:09 / 05.03.02

[thread rot]Wandered into Toys R Us today. Found an interesting action figure: Mr. White, from Reservoir Dogs. What's next? Toys from the motion picture Quills? A posable Marquis de Sade, and a not-so-posable naked-corpse-of-Kate-Winslet's-character?[/thread rot]

Evan Dorkin is a genius. Nobody else could think up dialogue of this caliber: "Merv Griffin! Merv Griffin!! Merv Griffin!!!"

Add Your Reply