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Eric: Dude. Seriously, *dude.*
(From Gossamer Commons! Click on the thumbnail for full sized Rankin/Bass Pagan Gods!)
Forgive the indulgence. Or, you know, don't.
Here's the thing, though. I'm having a huge blast writing... well, writing a Fairy Tale as Rankin/Bass might have done it. The story is The Year Without Herne The Hunter, and it's going astoundingly well.
Wednesday is doing the artwork. And this last time I got the script to her much, much too late to produce it. So it went out without the art.
Here's the thing. I had told her Rankin/Bass. I had sent her The Year Without a Santa Claus. But... well, I'd expected a traditional Herne.
The image I'm replicating here is what she sent me. And it blew me away.
Seriously. I squee'ed.
Squee'ed. In a Barnes and Noble, no less.
So. I wanted to show it off. So I'm posting it here. Because dude.
Dude.
Herne rocks. It's official.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at December 15, 2005 4:02 PM
Comments
Comment from: Ahzurdan posted at December 15, 2005 4:16 PM
It's the cargo shorts that do it for me.
(and the blustery squiggles)
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 15, 2005 4:33 PM
Staring Michael Poe as Herne.
Comment from: chalcara posted at December 15, 2005 4:38 PM
the poor guy looks seriously pissed. I wanna hug him. Is it appropiate to hug something akin to a god? Is it?
...
*hugs the poor herne and runs off*
Comment from: Ford Dent posted at December 15, 2005 4:44 PM
Man, probably the best representation of Herne ever.
Ghastly's right though--I think Poe is hiding something from us.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 15, 2005 4:44 PM
It's lack of huggings that have caused him to give up on birth in the first place!
Comment from: wedge posted at December 15, 2005 4:45 PM
o/~ I'M mister HUNT miser....
He probably looks much cheerier in his summer jams. They're very loud.
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 15, 2005 4:48 PM
By golly, there's something akin to a god in my pants...
... and I think it wants a hug!
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 15, 2005 4:49 PM
Herne rocks! He's too cute, in his grumpy-esque sorta way. I too agree that he needs a hug.
Ghastly: you are rotten, but oooh so funny.
Comment from: Escushion posted at December 15, 2005 5:07 PM
Interesting. Rankin/Bass produced some crazy-weird stuff. I still get that Cold/Heat Mizer song stuck in my head.
I definitely wouldn't have attached that image to it, but it's good stuff.
Comment from: Tangent posted at December 15, 2005 6:05 PM
Ghastly, you ALWAYS want someone to hug what's in your pants. :P
Comment from: Alex Jeffries posted at December 15, 2005 6:09 PM
Jhonen Vasquez's Squee?
Comment from: Shaenon posted at December 15, 2005 7:50 PM
I agree. That is one hell of a Herne.
I like his uppity expression and his dot eyes. I'm a big fan of dot eyes.
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 15, 2005 8:03 PM
Incidently, Angst-Herne isn't thinking about a turtle humping a cat, is he?
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 15, 2005 8:14 PM
*opens mouth*
*closes mouth*
*moves on with life*
Comment from: Robert Hutchinson posted at December 15, 2005 8:21 PM
I guess that's one way to get used to the cold. Thrill-a-second, looks like.
Comment from: Ghastly posted at December 15, 2005 10:08 PM
What!?
What!?
I swear it's like a freakin' Rorschach test and by golly I'm seeing a turtle humping a cat in there. And the cat's more into it than the turtle it would seem too.
Comment from: Tyck posted at December 15, 2005 10:36 PM
Ok, first time commentator, long time Eric groupie (I got here from that PvP link once upon a time. Also, parenthesis addict.) Just wanted to say..I can't be the only one who read this and immediately thought of Herne the Hunte*d*, can I?
More obligatory fannishness:
Eric, hurry up and publish something, would ya? I promise I'd buy it in first print hardback release. For reference, my family and I are frugal about books; Terry Pratchett is currently the only author we buy in hardback. Or, indeed, buy rather than wait to hit the library.
Comment from: ormond_sacker posted at December 16, 2005 1:15 AM
Mm, I'm not sure Pratchett's H. the Hunted would be able to rock the tinted specs as successfully. Or the, er, cargo shorts. Is anyone else retroactively inserting cargo shorts into other Rankin Bass-ery? Because the results are disturbing, and you shouldn't.
Comment from: Prodigal posted at December 16, 2005 2:05 AM
Herne's mullet is what totally makes the thing for me. :)
Comment from: Kludge posted at December 16, 2005 4:29 AM
I was thinking Herne the Hunt-Sab, looking at this. Just what we need back in Blighty at the moment - a god to enforce the law and stick it to those red-coated sherry-drinking jerks.
Anyway - yes, good job Wednesday!
Comment from: enchiridion posted at December 16, 2005 12:33 PM
Dude. I realize that 'dude' has a lot of applications, linguistically speaking, but you've been leaning a bit heavily on it for the past week and a half, no? You may need to expand your vocabulary just a bit.
Though, it does seem apropos for this. Carry on, Dude.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at December 16, 2005 12:44 PM
Dude?
I've been leaning a bit heavily on it since at least 1999.
Dude.
Comment from: wedge posted at December 16, 2005 2:05 PM
Herne's mullet is what totally makes the thing for me. :)
No no no, not a mullet. The proper definition of a mullet is:
*ahem*
"Business in the front and party in the back."
Where business = short and party = long.
Herne, in this case, clearly has universally long hair, all of which is pulled back into a ponytail (possibly with one of his girlfriend's scrunchies. it's cute.). It's worth noting that no self-respecting mullet-bearer would *ever* sully the beauty of his or her mullet by strangling it into a ponytail unless under circumstances of extreme utility or danger to the mullet.
For a good example of a mullet in webcomics, go check out Metal Steve in today's Diesel Sweeties. Note the square bits of spikey shortness on top and the unkempt long frill in the back. A very artistic display in pixellated artwork.
Comment from: Tyck posted at December 16, 2005 5:10 PM
For a good example of a mullet in webcomics, go check out Metal Steve in today's Diesel Sweeties.
Or Young Keith in the page that starts this story. That boy sure can grow hair.
Also, I want a Chanukah Pixie. Wishing for an Elf for Christmas is so 90's. (Can Santa bring a Chanukah Pixie?)
Comment from: Prodigal posted at December 16, 2005 11:09 PM
Herne's hair is short enough in the front in that picture to qualify in my book. I'm just sayin'. :)
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 17, 2005 2:14 AM
Hmm.. "dude" is quite the multi-purpose word, and is seriously undervalued. At least he doesn't use it as liberally as certain blue midgets used smurf, no?
Comment from: enchiridion posted at December 17, 2005 2:24 AM
Smurf this. I'm going over to Smurfette's and we're going to smurf the long blue smurf until she smurfs the smurf and we break a smurf or two.
"Who's your Papa?" Awww, smurf.
(I feel dirty now. Small, blue, and dirty.)
Comment from: Violet posted at December 17, 2005 1:56 PM
Dangly Smurf.
Comment from: gwalla posted at December 17, 2005 6:53 PM
Comment from: Egarwaen posted at December 19, 2005 2:14 PM
Seriously, Wednesday's art rocks. I'm loving the Herne story, and her art totally works for it. I think it might even work for the main story.
Because really? Herne the Hunter in cargo shorts? Awesome.
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 19, 2005 2:19 PM
Also lovin' the story and the art. Rankin and Bass as character names.. man, Eric knows how to give the shout-outs, doesn't he?
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 19, 2005 2:20 PM
gwalla: I'm scared now. Amused, aye.. but a little scared too.
Comment from: Prodigal posted at December 22, 2005 2:35 AM
And just so you know, I traumatised people with the picture of Herne at the Yule celebration I attended on Sunday. Win! :)
Comment from: larksilver posted at December 22, 2005 12:47 PM
Traumatized? What a shame, he's so dang cool.
Dang, so sad to see when people leave their sense of humor and whimsy at home.
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