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Viz Highlights

Started by Theremin, March 04, 2012, 10:08:42 PM

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New Jack

#780
Eh, lerrus in, ye f--f-f-f-fuckin....

Reading this thread while I lurked got me to buy Viz and you know what? I love it now!

The Male Online seems to be growing in a good way from its early, deskbound incarnation (I love the one a month or two ago where they go to Wetherspoon steak night)

Anyway I mooched the Drunken Bakers PDF from this thread, which is now gone from the original link, sew a button on this:

https://files.fm/u/9wfhrj6t

New Jack


spamwangler

fuck me they get bleak dont they!


petril

if they've stopped running Aqua Velvas ads, they should at least run a ker-azy Aqua Velvas strip

New Jack

There's an Aquas ad in the new one

I downloaded that couch tripper archive of old issues and, blow me tight if the Aqua Velvas haven't been advertising for years and years.


Viz question: seen Viz merch about 'a pint and a fight: the great British night out'. Is the almost identical line in the Thick of It the source of this, or are they copying it or serendipity or what

gib

Pretty sure it first appeared in a very early Viz, so way earlier than The Thick of It.

New Jack

Fair dos! Viz's wording sounds better anyway, so the Thick of It could be an homage

Terryfuckwit

Quote from: New Jack on May 31, 2018, 01:16:57 PM
Fair dos! Viz's wording sounds better anyway, so the Thick of It could be an homage

Or theft. Don't stab me.

jfjnpxmy

I can't decide whether I love the old beefy dreadlocked Aqua Velva or the skinny tattooed young hipster Aqua Velva more.

Famous Mortimer

The Aqua Velvas remain one of rock's most puzzling enigmas. Like, where did the lead singer make enough money to hire a band, pay for Viz adverts, and produce videos?

Terryfuckwit

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on June 01, 2018, 01:31:14 PM
The Aqua Velvas remain one of rock's most puzzling enigmas. Like, where did the lead singer make enough money to hire a band, pay for Viz adverts, and produce videos?

in my head, his wife died and left him a fortune. The output is absolutely shit.

New Jack

Ever had a chat with your mates about what you'd do with a lottery win?

And one goes... I'd do music. OK, I'm not talented, but I'd get my own records done, pay a band, and advertise...

Like try to brute force acceptance, brute force an audience.

... The Aqua Velvas is this concept come to life.

Quote from: Terryfuckwit on May 31, 2018, 01:57:13 PM
Or theft. Don't stab me.

Don't worry, you wouldn't be a justifiable homicide. Reading the Rude Kids book and it's pretty apparent Viz has been ripped off down the years!

Gulftastic

Does anyone know the reason for the censored speech balloon in the 'Jimbo Jones Robot Beauty Pageant'? The uncensored bit makes it seem like some nonsense about being a dentist's receptionist, which seems an odd thing to need covering up.

Blumf

Quote from: Gulftastic on June 02, 2018, 08:06:34 PM
Does anyone know the reason for the censored speech balloon in the 'Jimbo Jones Robot Beauty Pageant'? The uncensored bit makes it seem like some nonsense about being a dentist's receptionist, which seems an odd thing to need covering up.

There's also a fuck up in the speech bubble just above and to the right ("When she's not on duty..." should be from Jimbo Jones, not his uncle), which leads me to think the black out was also a mistake.

Viz, not as good as it used to be.

FsF

According to these articles, the soulful slap-headed singer fronting Aqua Velvas is a perfectly legitimate businessman, and NOT a drug dealer whatsoever!

Quote from: FsF on June 03, 2018, 04:37:36 AM
According to these articles, the soulful slap-headed singer fronting Aqua Velvas is a perfectly legitimate businessman, and NOT a drug dealer whatsoever!

Doesn't like like him to me. I think the bald frontman is called Russ Teesdale.

New Jack

Signed up for the subscription, a quid now, three months free.

Hope I'm not doing this at the wrong time... I'm a Viz noob, only bought the last four issues in my entire incarnation. My perspective of whether it's good or not right now is meagre, but I chuckle.

Been enjoying the non-DB Healey/Farmer ones, Hen Cabin was ace last month and this month has Bet Muddler. All a bit bleak, I like it like that.

Guaranteed Aqua Velvets adverts! And that fucking British Wrestlers gay porn zine or whatever it is!

Lerrus avvit yer f-f-f-fuckin...

Go on Ebay and you'll be able to pick all the best of annuals from years back cheaply.

The latest issue has one of my favourite "If ______ were laid end to end it would stretch_____" comparisons ever


Ferris

Just noticed my copy of Private Eye has a purloined joke from Viz, namely "the Corden cordon".

Probably a coincidence (and Viz did it better), but still

Tony Yeboah

There's a podcast interview with Davey Jones that should appear here soon https://www.ruleofthreepod.com/. It's already up on itunes.

Danger Man

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on June 01, 2018, 01:31:14 PM
The Aqua Velvas remain one of rock's most puzzling enigmas. Like, where did the lead singer make enough money to hire a band, pay for Viz adverts, and produce videos?

Maybe if you write songs about drug dealers being innocent you suddenly find the cash to put adverts in Viz?

New Jack

Quote from: Blumf on June 02, 2018, 10:47:12 PM
There's also a fuck up in the speech bubble just above and to the right ("When she's not on duty..." should be from Jimbo Jones, not his uncle), which leads me to think the black out was also a mistake.

Viz, not as good as it used to be.

They lampoon this in the latest issue, with a bit of a dig at their proof reading process.

The unseen caption was:
"20 year old Inga works in Helsinki where she is a dental receptionist".

.... almost prefer it blacked out

Glebe

Millie Tant is a bit of-it's-time now, innit?

Chriddof

Yeah, agreed. A very late 80s / early 90s sort of parody which has not exactly aged very well. I haven't read Viz for a while, but it was looking very long in the tooth several years ago - surprising to hear that they've kept the character going. Speaking of which, have they finally got rid of Student Grant yet (or "rebooted" him, at least)? I remember reading the occasional half-page strips they'd do back in around 2012, and it felt completely wrong then, the name alone being amazingly outdated (though it did enable them to do a piss-take of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy... but you had to ignore the fact that the same characters had been praising The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Big Night Out in the same circumstances over 20 years ago).

Famous Mortimer

It was never that great a character in the first place (Millie Tant), and felt like it was some quota they had where they needed a strip mocking the humourless left so they could spend the rest of the issue aiming at the right targets. Or something.

Remember that strip from the late 80s about the young man who cites himself as an alternative comic.  Asked for an example of his humour, the person requesting this is nonplussed when he answers, "Mrs Thatcher, what a cunt, eh!?  Woo-hoh!  Right on!" He tries to organise a boycott of a local fruit seller over 'South African' stock, which turns out to be from the EEC.  He tries to organise a benefit gig in support of freedom for the Guildford Four, to find out they are already free.  Finally, a man asks if he will perform for the Young Conservatives ball.  "Certainly not!" he says, looking away, looking disgusted-but does a double-take when offered a large sum, cash-in-hand.  The final frame has him on stage with a microphone, tuxedo and bow-tie, before an audience of smartly-dressed laughing young toffs, saying, "...and so the two puffs walk into the pub, and the barmaid's got massive tits..."

Chriddof

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on July 01, 2018, 04:34:55 PM
It was never that great a character in the first place (Millie Tant), and felt like it was some quota they had where they needed a strip mocking the humourless left so they could spend the rest of the issue aiming at the right targets. Or something.

I do agree with you, it's just that it's weird that they've kept that character for so long. And the sad thing is, I can imagine certain types nowadays saying "it's even more relevant today!!!" or some such shit.

New Jack

Major Misunderstanding is a bit more relevant today, if you imagine he's a gammon Brexiteer or whatever shafts your raft

Millie basically seems a bit 90s. Suppose they could do a tiring activist character or something. That could be a thriller for your flotilla

Jittlebags

And how relevant is Roger Irrelevant post-Brexit, Weinstein and Trump?  Fznark!