ming doyle ([info]_ming) wrote,
@ 2007-06-26 10:39:00
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Entry tags:green arrow, life of ming, mr. brandon bird, short comic

why kids love green arrow, 4 pages.
characters: bird, doyle, random kid, ollie-sama-chan
rating/warnings: kevin smithular levels of cussitude.
media: pen, ink, & ps7
artist's note: it's not for whatever reason you might think.

this kid said the darnedest thing to me and my buddy b-bird while we were waiting in line for the new york comic-con last february. you may not be able to discern it from my crude art, but he was perhaps 13 or 14. maybe 12. possibly 8. or 17? i don't see age, but my friend assures me he seemed relatively new to this earth.





















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[info]questionstar
2007-06-26 02:47 pm UTC (link)
Hahaha I love how people will admit to reading serious business indie comics before the superhero ones. HE WAS TESTING YOU, AND YOU PASSED.

This is hands down your best work (though I figure the next thing will be your best work as well)

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 04:01 pm UTC (link)
i like indie stuff and i like superhero stuff, and i am shameless in my like for each. i am in it for the picturebooks. ;D

This is hands down your best work (though I figure the next thing will be your best work as well)

gah, my heart! it is swelling! thank you.

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(no subject) - [info]tresorart, 2007-06-27 02:48 am UTC (Expand)

[info]jinkamoo
2007-06-26 02:49 pm UTC (link)
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Dude, this made me laugh my ass off!

Your vision of yourself is so pretty and alarmed!

The Green Arrow with the rose in is mouth! Oh man...dude, tell me you are getting syndicated or making a series or whoring yourself out to MoCCa sometime in the near future. This is pretty brilliant stuff right here my Minglet but I expect nothing less, hear?

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 03:58 pm UTC (link)
well, bird just pointed out to me that i drew myself too prettily, so next time i will be sure to include the freckles and squinty eyes and scraggly eyebrows. i was just trying to inject some chicken soup into my still wounded teenage soul on the self-esteem front! but truly, veritas is more important. *g*

and i wish i could tell you that i was making the big bucks, babe, but it is all very slow going. i'm still chugging along, though, and hoping something pans out before i have to get a job slinging slurpees at the nearest 7/11!

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[info]blythely
2007-06-26 02:50 pm UTC (link)
Uh.... this might be the most genius comment on youth today I've ever seen, quite aside from the fact that your art is smoking and the layouts crackle all the way down.

Your talent shall encompass the earth, honestcakes.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 03:56 pm UTC (link)
your art is smoking and the layouts crackle all the way down.

you make me wanna draw a bevy of film noir broads smoking in shadowy booths. thank you for the awesome comment! and for the honestcakes. those are always good to stock the soulpantry with.

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[info]oneangrykate
2007-06-26 02:52 pm UTC (link)
FOR THE WIN FOREVER AND EVER. Art-you is cute as a button. Plus, Ollie is sort of a pimp. Out of the mouths of babes!

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 03:54 pm UTC (link)
ollie is sort of a TOTAL pimp in the sense that he is a pimp who resides in 'definitely a pimp' town. oh, olls. so suave.

and sankyuuuuuu!

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[info]petronelle
2007-06-26 03:24 pm UTC (link)
I tremble in fear of the teenager portrayed, but I do it in great appreciation of the manner in which you tell the story. The whole thing rocks.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 03:53 pm UTC (link)
thanks, petra! i know this was a little bit scary to read, but believe me, it was also a little bit scary to live. O___O

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[info]22by7
2007-06-26 03:44 pm UTC (link)
this is the wittiest, sharpest thing i've seen in yonks! 'so fucking sick he's terminally ill' - when i gank this for casual use, whom shall i credit?

it's a little frightening how many male persons i know who are exactly like this guy.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-26 03:52 pm UTC (link)
'so fucking sick he's terminally ill' - when i gank this for casual use, whom shall i credit?

first of all, thank you very much for both the praise and the usage of "yonks." secondly, i came up with that line for the purposes of this comic, but it is entirely possible that i have unconsciously stolen it from someone in my murky past. therefore, i declare it free property! verbal "clip art," if you will.

i feel so clean, like i've just released a baby deer back into the welcoming arms of mother nature. or something. ;)

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[info]glossing
2007-06-26 04:06 pm UTC (link)
This rocks my world, all the energy in the lines and the sweet shock on your faces, and THAT KID. I love him! I want an icon of his heart-eyes and power fist. :D

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:08 am UTC (link)
thanks so much, gloss! movement and, eh, i guess dynamism, are traits i've really been struggling to shove down the throat of my art style. glad to see that the effort is paying off some!

and that kid. oh man. i hope he never sees this and recognizes himself, but if he does, i hope he at least notices all the cool accessories and powers i gave him! like heart-eyes! and power fist! and bold crazy font! *g*

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[info]jubilancy
2007-06-26 04:18 pm UTC (link)
AHAHAHA, oh Ming, you made what could be a plain vignette SO POWERFULLY FUNNY. You are smoother than Arrow!

I'm distressed to learn that Catholic school kids are STILL required to be that hardcore in all weathers, though. I swear I graduated with zero nerve endings in my legs after freezing them off in those skirts for years.

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[info]jubilancy
2007-06-27 12:02 am UTC (link)
(I'm back to look at this for about the SIXTH TIME TODAY. I love it so much.)

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[info]caia_comica
2007-06-26 04:28 pm UTC (link)
HEEEEEE. AWESOME. Oh Green Arrow. Oh kids today. :D

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:09 am UTC (link)
oh what a world we live in!

/rufus

;D

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[info]arch_schatten
2007-06-26 04:53 pm UTC (link)
LOL! Oh god! that's.. so... something. Something hardcore, maybe.

I love your art style and I always really enjoy your comics, but this one had the added ...benefit(?) of crack RL. Crack RL is something definitely worth sharing. Thank you!

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:11 am UTC (link)
by nature i'm a fairly solitary person, but when i go on adventures, i only go on crazy unreal ones. usually grounded in the most mundane of circumstances. every day is like a safari into the heart of crackness!

thanks for reading. :)

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like a smooth ass mother fucker!
[info]tzarohell
2007-06-26 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Is it bad that that scary kid is kind of my hero now?

Wow.. you are awesome.

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Re: like a smooth ass mother fucker!
[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:13 am UTC (link)
he has a markedly charismatic personality and speaks with great passion! sure and potentially dangerous signs of a future leader of men.

and you are quite awesome yourself, as we all know!

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[info]miakun
2007-06-26 05:56 pm UTC (link)
Hahahah best line: "Is that slang? // It might be canon."

That was hilarious and I would be equally frightened in that situation.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:15 am UTC (link)
heh! i quite like that line too. because really, anything might be canon these days! even bizarre syntax.

i'm just glad that in the end bemusement won out over fatal heart palpitations. it was a pretty intense encounter, but i like to live on the edge. like all children of the 90's, i breathe XTREME for breakfast! and that is why i still read comics now. probably. based on scientific conjecture. you know. ;)

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[info]smartlaine
2007-06-26 06:27 pm UTC (link)
So this is pretty much all verbatim? Oh conventions, what wonderful words are uttered!

Oh, and coooooool comic, of course.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:16 am UTC (link)
i cleaned up his dialogue a bit but yeah. yes. every topic addressed above? addressed irl. loudly. and to the great discomfort of fellow line-standers. it was classic! XD

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[info]tammylee
2007-06-26 06:35 pm UTC (link)
I probably would have run away!
I AM NOT A REAL VIKING!
I fail my people.
*weep*

Your comic = happyfunwintimes.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:18 am UTC (link)
we stood our ground, but it was a close thing, believe you me!

and you are too a real viking. you are. i am only like 1/9782394723984th viking, but the power is there within all of us, ready to be tapped whenever social interaction or fannish conventions loom large on the horizon!

*polishes your helm*

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[info]akoyamiazaki
2007-06-26 07:03 pm UTC (link)
So I take it that was a real experience? Cute, cool, and nifty.

I also envy that man for his mastery of Ghetto talk.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:18 am UTC (link)
oh yes this was a real experience. and oh yes, he was mighty intense about the talking.

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[info]bluepard
2007-06-26 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Okay, I laughed out loud at the line in the Green Arrow with a rose in his mouth panel. I didn't know marrying gay people (to each other) was in style.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:20 am UTC (link)
all of the hip cats are practically scrambling to marry gay people before the nation runs out! unwed gay people are a precious natural resource, and green arrow knows that we must treasure them and woo them with roses.

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[info]vejiicakes
2007-06-26 10:12 pm UTC (link)
*speechless*

WHAT THE F- HAHAHA HAHA HA HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA AH HA HA HAAA XD

That must have been, um, quite the experience. (God I love how you drew his crazy panels. 'Kay that wasn't too specific.. the first set, where you just get closer and closer to his manic eyes XD) And of course how animated and crazed your rendition of the little b- teena- um, pygmy big thing is.

I hope you never had to see him again.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:22 am UTC (link)
hee! pygmy big thing! :D

i actually did see him several times later that day once we were inside the convention center, and we very studiously avoided making eye contact. it was a close thing, but i think in the end all involved parties realized that what we shared on the sidewalk was best left on the sidewalk, faded yet ingrained like the year old gum wads that cushioned our weary feet.

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[info]ethrosdemon
2007-06-26 10:27 pm UTC (link)
Oh dear. I hope this is an accurate portrayal of a real event which will launch Ollie as the champion of teen America.

Hilarious. The art is a integral to the plot as the dialogue. Excellent work.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:25 am UTC (link)
soon the ollster will be more popular than even hollister, and kids will be seeing green, green, green! the type of green that stands for justice, not the type that finances government fat cats!

*snaps*

i bet ollie would play the sax on our generation's version of MTV. which i guess would be youtube. because ollie cares about the kids.

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[info]luckykitty
2007-06-26 10:46 pm UTC (link)
*dying of the giggles*

oh man, that is too funny. and your comics, as ever, rule the school.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:26 am UTC (link)
!!!

:D

does this mean i can sit at your table during lunch? :D :D :D

<3

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[info]thete1
2007-06-26 11:06 pm UTC (link)
*AHAHAHAHHAHAAAA* OMG JOY. YOU ARE MADE OF JOY. AND SO IS THIS COMIC.

OMG.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-27 01:31 am UTC (link)
and you know, it brings me great joy that you are all laugh-face over this thing, te! me thank you long time for the reciprocal happy.

...and i'm pretty sure i lifted that line off of M*A*S*H somehow. heh!

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[info]stewardess
2007-06-27 02:40 am UTC (link)
Oh the eye-hearts!!!

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[info]_ming
2007-06-28 06:59 am UTC (link)
they are evocative of his soul's true yearning to be with ollie unto the end times! i'm sure. *g*

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[info]tricksterquinn
2007-06-27 03:26 am UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I just

OH GOD TOO FUNNY

Also, you should give me your new number, crazylady. ♥

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[info]_ming
2007-06-28 06:58 am UTC (link)
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD etc.

and !!!

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[info]discountfactor
2007-06-27 05:08 am UTC (link)
Oh man, that kid was pretty intense, hahah. :)

I really loved this and it's now my favorite out of all your works :)

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[info]_ming
2007-06-28 06:58 am UTC (link)
hoo-eee! good times then! i'm so happy you enjoyed it.

and that kid was SO intense. not even illustrated diagrams can completely explain the intensity. O_O

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[info]jayest
2007-06-27 09:46 am UTC (link)
it might be canon...?
MY FAVOURITE LINE.

Ming, awesomecakes. I know this is slightly undescriptive, but it's all that I can manage right now in my hungover state.

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[info]_ming
2007-06-28 06:57 am UTC (link)
hee, i am impressed you manage to fb at all, then! i am usually totally useless in that state. as evidenced by now, kinda. grruuugh. ;D

and sankyuuu!

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That's sad
(Anonymous)
2007-06-27 11:23 am UTC (link)
I hope to never meet that person in the real world. Thank you.

-Josh

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Re: That's sad
[info]_ming
2007-06-28 06:28 am UTC (link)
ha, he really wasn't that bad! just very, very, very intense. and super-focused on his hero worship.

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