Episode 27 Ratings!

The comics for Episode 27: Liquid & Need were drawn last night week, and there were seven entries. Unfortunately, even though it took 90 minutes for these comics to be created and sprung upon the world, it took almost a full week for me to get to the reviewing…

“Liquid Sheep” is the obvious moniker to go for here. What I am curious about is if anyone breaks that mold. Let’s find out together.

Christian

Christian’s Comic suggests that when hillbillies need to cook up some meat, they won’t settle for charcoal when a car engine is available. I’m not really sure how the car engine’s supplying heat to the grill… is that a wire? a hose?

[Click to see Christian’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

At first I thought the meat turned into burgers and then uhh i guess turkey and then the sheep, but no, it’s just different possibilities. You’ll turn anything into liquid with this much heat!! Even Sheep!

Score:

Comic Value:  2.2
Adherence to Theme:  4.0
Where’s The Beef?: 2.9

Overall Score (Not An Average):  2.2

Dan

Dan’s Comic is about Wolfnado. The way you protect yourself from wolfnado is you pour LIQUID SHEEP around and sheep appear. You do not apply it to yourself for umm… well, the only reason I could think of would have been a more localized application than the comic showed.

[Click to see Dan’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

But hey, the joke works. The guy poured liquid sheep on himself because he hadn’t seen the commercial or read the directions and boom now he’s puffing out wool.

Score:

Comic Value: 2.3
Adherence to Theme: 4.1
Stay-Puft Factor: 4.9

Overall Score (Not An Average):  2.2

Evan

Evan’s Comic is about a horned sheep eating some grass. Then, aliens… or ummm… something with a mechanical arm grabs the sheep and yanks it. It turns out, a long line of sheep are being dropped off and presumably slaughtered.

[Click to see Evan’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

The sheep’s destruction brings blood… and the blood is then pumped up to sprinklers that are spraying fields where horned sheep are eating grass. How about that?

At least, I THINK that is what happened. Was the panel in the upper right supposed to be split? Is that a sprinkler squirting blood at the end? I eventually settled on my interpretation but heck if I know.

Score:

Comic Value: 2.4
Adherence to Theme: 3.9
There Will Be Blood: 3.750

Overall Score (Not An Average):  2.4

Justin

Justin’s Comic is what happens when you decide you don’t like the theme and you just figure you can spend the time better playing with Maya. I mean, I guess that’s it, right? What’d we get in there, about 30 frames? Some kind of physics engine bouncing the bodies off each other? Nice job.

[Click to see Justin’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

Okay, so let’s get serious and score this as a critic. Umm… sheep are falling from the sky like… uhh… rain (a liquid) until they reach the end keyframe, at which point a time loop kicks the universe back a second.

Score:

Comic Value: 1.8
Adherence to Theme: 1.4
What?: 999

Overall Score (Not An Average):  1.6

Nate

Nate’s Comic is what happens when you start drawing a sheep eating something, and then you get to work on the second panel, and you think oh man I’m going to string this along because it’s funny when you show the same panel again and again and then bam awesome punchline so you draw panel two and the sheep chomps and then panel three and then you say oh shit I better get this show on the road so the sheep can hiccup and then uh…

[Click to see Nate’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

Green liquid comes out.

Let’s go to the judges…

Score:

Comic Value: 1.3
Adherence to Theme: 3.95
Soylent Green Is People: 2.9

Overall Score (Not An Average):  1.6

Nick

Nick’s Comic is what happens when you think about the theme and then say okay what might be funny when it comes to liquid sheep. Ladies and Gentlemen and gamers of the world, meet Flowchop.

[Click to see Nick’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

I gotta admit, this really grabbed me as coming out of left field. Liquid sheep made Nick think of Pokemon but not any Pokemon game I’ve ever seen where the mating habits of the pocket monsters are being discussed. Let’s be candid for a second, this is just funny. I don’t know anything about drawing comics (insert joke about not knowing anything about judging comics here, I’ll wait…) but how the hell in 90 minutes does this get drawn and inked to the level that it looks like it’s ready for print?

Is that an insult these days to say that your comic is ready for print?

Score:

Comic Value: 4.0
Adherence to Theme: 4.5
bbbblugugaAAAAHhg..: 6.1

Overall Score (Not An Average):  4.1

Simon

Simon’s Comic is about a warrior woman who is on an adventure of some kind, defeating a dragon. But Owl-Kitty warns of greater danger ahead… the valley of murderous Liquid Sheep!

[Click to see Simon’s comic on the 90 Minute Comics Blog]

It’s odd that what made last week’s comic tick is absurdity… the absurdity of treating a coma with a punch in the face and a ham up the ass.

This week the heroine shears or yanks off her hair and mops the floor with the liquid sheep, which Owl-Kitty doesn’t miss the chance to pun on.

I dunno why, but it didn’t work for me totally.

Score:

Comic Value: 2.5
Adherence to Theme: 4.4
This Space For Rent: 2.1

Overall Score (Not An Average):  2.3

Winner!

Was it a week to forget at 90 Minute Comics? Maybe… except for Nick. It was utter domination with the clever pokemon comic. Nice work. After that, it looked like a promising theme went astray. Can our artists pump it up for Episode 28? Let’s find out together…