The sum total of my World of Warcraft knowledge comes from an episode of South Park, yet I still found this item on Wired’s Game Life blog interesting/amusing: Cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Invader Zim) is recruiting members for his WoW guild, the Order of the Tape Worm, whose members include such luminaries as Roman Dirge, Rikki Simons, Rick Gauger and Chris “Frodo” Furniss.
“… I’m throwing out an early call for people to start characters on Dunemaul (PVP) and Hydraxis (PVE),” Vasquez writes on his LiveJournal. “In a bit, I’ll let the goblins in the guild know that we might expect some new additions to our crew of mostly artists. We were going to recruit way back in the early days and even started a website for the guild, but the thought of adding strangers that would just keep screaming ‘WHICH OF U IS ROMAN?’ was too depressing and so it was left to rot.”
Unfortunately, the comments thread at Game Life starts out on a sour note as the first poster writes: “How about, instead of wasting time playing WOW, he delivers on the zim or jthm games we all richly deserve? or even better, more original work with lasting appeal in several mediums? How many creative souls will this bullshit game devour?”
That sparks a scathing response from another commenter: “Charles, why is it that people like you continue to believe that creators literally OWE them the blood, tears and shit that is required to birth a creative work? You and every other ‘fan’ are under the impression until the creator you supposedly admire has fulfilled this mystifying debt to you, some asshole who probably downloaded their Zim collection from Bittorent, they are not allowed to spend their time in any other pursuit? That because you resentfully stood in line at a convention for an autograph once, you MUST BE APPEASED?”
Furniss, however, kindly points out that Vasquez is working on something new, so “give the guy some credit.”
January 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
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October 11th, 2007 at 1:25 am
well i just wanna say, thatnks for makeing johnny the homicidal maniac, invader zim, i feel sick, anything you have made, im glad there are people like you in the world Mr. Vasquez, you are one of my truest heros, you rule man, seriously you do, and i just wanted to say, i know you might not read this but still its worht hopeing youll be reading this in one of your infamous ” 2 A.M. sinarios” so yeppo, have a great life, keep on keepin on doin your thing, all the stuff ya do, please write more comics, make a movie do somethin!! i miss reading your work, i miss invader zim , i miss it all ;-; so yea as a favor to all your fans, all im asking, is try to make a jthm movie or an invader zim comic, dont let the good stuff die, besides, tak still has to come back, and devi and johnny need to patch things up lol well-in a weird parallel univers where you end up reading this random fans letter and you feeling and un-britaled urge to write back- i hope i coulds talk to you soon =D
October 19th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
HEYYA!!!!!!! ^^ jhonen du bist cool ich liebe dich und all das was du getan hast !! es ist einfach nur beneidenswert!!! understand??X) sorry but i´m from germany ^^
December 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am
silly fans, we are loley and unpredictable.
always wanting what we can’t have.
tisktisk
January 17th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
I’ve been browsing online more than four hours now, yet I never found any well written blog post like yours. It is very much enough for me. Now I’m playing wow cataclysm a few times a weeks Greets Ross Dallmeyer@cologne-uni.edu
July 24th, 2011 at 11:10 am
I think its funny how many people found out about WoW from that southpark episode – it seems to be the thing everyone references to when first talking about WoW. Good post though.