Okay, for those of you who don't know...

This isn't exactly an exercise in reviewing comics so much as it is... um... making fun of them. Here's the deal: In a direct and admitted rip-off of the format of the famed television show Mystery Science Theater 3000, I take popular DD comics and set ridiculous commentary to them. Why? Because I can. But I need your permission to do it, otherwise it's plagiarism (or... libel... or something. I don't know. Anyway, it doesn't seem right) and I'll get sued. So, if you want your comic to be featured on MCT3K, post a request in this forum. And I'll display the finished products in here, too.

After reading my send-up of Assassin Assassin, Barb Jacobs (artist of the acclaimed Return to Donnelly series-- it goes by other names, but RtD is always what I've heard it referred to by) asked me to do the same to her comic. The result-- the first seven pages from Chapter Four, papered over with sarcasm and pop-culture references-- appears below. Enjoy.









Character commentary (C) Ian Jay. Original comic (C) Barb Jacobs and Steven P. Jones.

Sincerely,

Ian Jay

PS: We are sorry for any physical, financial, or emotional harm inflicted by these comics. That being said, we aren't liable if you ask us to do this. Sorry.

That was too fucking great. I am now going to look forward to these comics. A lot.

Maybe you should move the AA ones here, just so people can find em more easily. Cause they were hilarious as well.

*snicker* Do mine! Do mine!

Do it. DO DIVISIBLE BY ZERO. I don't know how you could make fun of something that makes fun of something though.

You should lighten the comics just a bit, so the comments and characters you add are more obvious.

That was pretty damn funny

I agree with Ronson though.
At first it took a second to figure out what was part of the comic.

Great fun though

Ahem...bluster-bluster...<<adjusts podium mic>>*gargle*...ahhhhh

Ladies and gentlemen,

Concerning the attemps of Mr. Ian Jay to add rib-tickling sarcastic remarks to the first sevenpages of the fourth chapter of TALISMEN: RETURN OF THE EXILE (a.k.a "Retunn to Donnelly"), I have but this to say about that:

S-W-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-T! You dude, you.

Steven Jones
A.k.a. "The Writer Guy"
www.stevenpjones.com

Wow. Even Steven likes it. (Heh heh. "Even Steven".) Barb, you can post them wherever you want. Just say I did the commentary and link to Try Everything Once (http://teo.spiderspawn.com ). I need the readers.

Here's a list of people who I will get around to MCTing... sometime.


Phantom_Penguin's The Penguin Monologues
Sarah N.'s Vampire Phantasm
Giandroid's Divisible By Zero
Dingosatemybaby's... um... whatever he writes.

Keep in mind, though, I can't do all of these in three-hour pulls like I did with RtD. I have a regular comic, too. Plus homework and stuff. So don't expect all these by tomorrow.

~IJ

PS: By the by, here are those Assassin Assassin pages I did a few days ago, just to keep all the MCT3K pages in one place:

If you could get me in in a month or so, whenever you've got time, that would be great.

http://eggbert.nightgig.com

Oh my god, I'd be honored if you did my comic.

http://sonicboom.smackjeeves.com/

New MCT3K episode today, this time showcasing pages from Joe Kassabian's The Penguin Monologues. It's the first time black and white comic AND the first comic strip to be featured in this series, and, in the last page, it contains what might be the closest we've ever gotten to having an actual review in MCT3K. Anyways, think of it as an early Christmas present. Cheers! Sorry!







Character commentary (C) Ian Jay. Original comic (C) Joseph Kassabian.

~IJ

dingosatemybaby
Brilliant! Bloody Brilliant!

Oh I get it, that was a pun!

Okay. The new line-up is:

~Giandroid's Divisible By Zero
~Dingoesatemybaby's Nice Guy But
~Eggbert's Eggbert
~AlmightyNam's Sonic Boom

And I'm takin' anyone else who wants some sweet sweet ridicule splashed all over their work. You know you want some!

And as for those hankerin' for something new, allow me to quench your thirst with this new episode based on Sarah Nelson's wonderous comic Vampire Phantasm. Or slake. Slake your thirst. Whichever you prefer.









Original comic (C) Sarah Nelson. Character commentary (C) Ian Jay.

~IJ

Actually, don't bother with sonic boom. I have an original story in the works that I'd rather be MCT'd. Once I put it up online, I'll give you the link.

Hehehe, oh man that cracked me up. XD
.....their ears do look like tortellini...

Funny as always Ian, but I really think you should look into making the comics lighter or your wordblubbles a drastically different color so that they stand out better. It's still too hard to pick out your word bubbles from the actual comics.

Ptschh. Whiny as always, Eggbert.

No, but seriously, I tried to lessen the contrast this time. I just don't want to lose the integrity of the art; then, well, you wouldn't be able to tell what the Croutons are talking about, would you?

Then again, you do have a point. I can barely make the bubbles out myself. I guess I'll have to keep experimenting...

~IJ

I dunno, because of the way the speech bubbles are I can always tell the difference between the comic and the commentary, so...

Awesome stuff here, that was really hilarious.

I actually can see the difference just fine. Ian's bubbles are shaped differently with different styled text. Maybe coloring the bubble a light color (like blue or yellow or... Baupe! :lol: ) would help?

Eh. I retract my previous whining. Looking at em a few more times, I can in fact read them pretty easily.

NOW DO MORE.

OMG EDIT'D!

Those are pretty impressive.
I laughed out loud several times

I double dog dare you to do penis.

Not unless the guy who draws it asks me to do it himself...

~IJ

Would you mind doing a sprite comic? If you can, mine is Final Fantasy 3.1 . You may want to wait until I've re-uploaded my archives though because I think my older ones suck something awful. I was on comic 35.

FYI: Marine does do penis.

Though that sounded sick, it's true.

MCT3K is back. This time we did Giando Sigurani's Divisible By Zero. It's a little weird-- the first non-continuous-story comic I've done-- and I couldn't get the pictures to show full-size here on the forum, but by all means go to Mystery Comic Theater 3000's NEW DD ACCOUNT at http://www.drunkduck.com/Mystery_Comic_Theater_3000 . No, seriously.





Original comic (C) Giando Sigurani. Character commentary (C) Ian Jay.

And as for the next people at bat, here's the current list:

~Dingoesatemybaby's Nice Guy But
~Eggbert's Eggbert
~AlmightyNam's Sonic Boom
~Marine's Penis
~Elogotar's Final Fantasy 3.1

Also, I solidly recommend reading Try Everything Once. It's TEO's sketching and inking time that this MCT3K thing comes out of, after all. Read it!

~IJ

Why are these pages so small? Did your image client resize them?

Yeah. I think so. Giando makes his pages naturally huge (in reality, those are, like, nine inches wide), so Photobucket sized them down. Likewise Flickr. If you have any suggestions on how to fix it, please tell me. Otherwise, just go to the official MCT3K website .

Sorry!

~IJ

Oh man, that was great. I can't wait for mine. Keep up the good work Ian!