Told You So 3: Clowning Around

Told You So 3: Clowning Around - A? Hidahl - 2017 - ?

The warnings were ignored...

The signs were brushed aside...

... but NOBODY expected... this.

2017

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Villain Comics #17: Origin of Black Friday

Villain Comics #17: Origin of Black Friday - A? Hidahl - 2017 - ?

Friday Black started out as a great employee at Walton Mart; but after a while, she grew insubordinate.

She started raising concerns about the working standards.  She started asking for more pay.  She started complaining about one of her coworkers "harassing" her.

The managers were running out of ways to tell her, the complaints wouldn't go anywhere.

More than once, she was caught talking to coworkers about forming a union... and she was promptly reprimanded for her arrogance!

... and then... Black Friday...

... the day after Thanksgiving...

... the busiest shopping day of the year!

She was warned about the sudden swarm of customers that were about to enter the store...

She knew the risks, when she signed on...

But she was unprepared for the barrage of shoppers, and the dumbass associate got trampled in the middle of the fervor.  The post-holiday holiday crowd was so thick, her nearly-dead body wasn't even found or mentioned for three hours; and she was in the middle of the aisle! 

It serves her right, though... she was a "troublemaker."  Although, if she had died, Walton Mart would have made more than a few million on the "dead peasant" insurance they had taken out on her life... not only did she cost the gracious employer hundreds of thousands of dollars in "worker's compensation" (pronounced, "welfare"), she cost the company several MILLION dollars by not dying!  The sheer nerve of her is astounding!

That was five years ago...

... and now, the higher-ups have started to go missing, and a few have turned up horribly mangled; as though they had been put through a meat grinder whole.

Walton Mart Executive, Steven Tyco, was only able to be identified by the titanium shaft that had been put in his leg after a skiing accident; and even the shaft was mangled, almost beyond recognition.

It is yet unknown for sure, whether or not these attacks and disappearances are the work of Friday Black, but her fingerprints have been found in some very incriminating places, where people have gone missing.

If not Friday, then who is responsible for these acts against the benevolent rulers of Walton Mart???

Villain Comics #7: The Siege of Bastille

Villain Comics #7: The Siege of Bastille - A? Hidahl - 2017 - ?

July 14th, 2017...

Our righteous saviors, the Billionaires, attend their annual event, The Bastille Day Ball...

Attendees dress as "the poors," to walk a mile in their shoes for a night; while dining on the finest catered delights, prepared by the nation's greatest chefs...

The gathering, as usual, is a smashing success!!!

... until...

A gurgling scream is heard from across the ballroom, as guests are showered with blood...

... Bastille raises her still-dripping axe high in the air, screaming, "DEATH TO THE OLIGARCHS!!!"

What follows is a blood-soaked slaughter of the Gods of our society; a slashing, crashing, gashing, hacking rampage that leaves body parts strewn so far and wide, authorities may never be able to fully re-assemble the pieces!

She's still out there...

Ruminating... plotting... planning her next strike against the elite...

... but where did she come from?

What caused her to snap against those who hold our futures in their hands?

... and who, if anyone, can stop her?

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2017

The Milkman

The Milkman - A? Hidahl - 2017 - ?

Through the dark of night, the milkman comes...

to bomb...

to destroy...

to set ablaze, the institutions that bind society together!

Our banks, police stations, courts, and many retailers have all been reduced to cinders!

Can anybody save us from this Anarchist???

Who will step forward and do what needs to be done???

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Gandhi, VICTORIOUS!!!

Gandhi, VICTORIOUS!!! - A. Hidahl - 2016 - ?

Gandhi, VICTORIOUS!!!

We've been lied to for decades...

Hitler didn't kill himself...

Gandhi did it.

The governments of the Allied Forces all agreed to change the narrative, to protect Gandhi's peaceful legacy, to the benefit of world history.

With time, truth will out, though, and now the truth must be told.

A Nazi Party rally in Munich, the setting for our "alternate ending" to the Western Front of WWII.

Gandhi strode headlong into the foray, riding atop a monstrosity liberated from Hitler's demented laboratories in Berlin; a gene-spliced spider/scorpion hybrid, weaponized with all the armaments needed to wipe out entire cities.  On it's head, kill counts for everything they had destroyed along the way.

In an epic rampage of wanton destruction, Gandhi marched across the square, guns and canons blazing, flamethrowers blasting their infernos, and Gandhi, himself, picking up the spares!

The Fuhrer made a break for an abandoned VW bug, but was quickly swept up and bisected with a screaming chainsaw by the bloodthirsty, vengeance-enraged arachnid tank!

And with that final deathstroke, the Western Front had been relieved of a tyrannical Fascist with tiny hands...

... but for how long?

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2016

A Good Laugh!

**This post will be updated as new stuff is made**




A good laugh is one of the things that always makes one's day better and brighter, on ANY given day!  It is in that vein that I decided to start this string.

With that in mind, I realize that not everyone has the same idea as to what is funny, what is insulting, what is absurd, and what is considered to be 'tasteful'.  Some of this material may be insulting, or 'tasteless', or 'lame'... but who really cares?  Some people LIKE 'lame' things!  Some people LIKE 'tasteless' things!  Some people LIKE 'absurd' things!  Some people LIKE insulting things!  As mentioned in my last post, being a big fan of satire, I am no stranger to the utilization of 'objectionable material' as a means to get a laugh, as long as it makes a valid point (as seen, for example, in the BRILLIANT satire, "The Onion Movie").

One thing, however, that you will NOT see in my work are things that are RACIST, MISOGYNISTIC, HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC, ISLAMOPHOBIC, OR ANTI-SEMITIC!  Racism and the other aforementioned perversions are a plague on humanity, and I refuse to stoop to such a pathetic low as to endorse these topics.  Racists and homophobes are abominations against society.

With that in mind, please enjoy this gallery!



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WHERE'S BRETT?!?!?!

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When Gods talk about the horror stories that came with raising their kids

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A not-so long time ago, in a city not-so far away...

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The Gods we Make

Consider the early days of television: "The Honeymooners", "Leave it to Beaver", "I Love Lucy", "Father Knows Best", "The Andy Griffith Show", "The Brady Bunch"...

AVERAGE people... people that the viewing audience could identify with.  People looked up to the characters on tv because they were easy to relate to.

... and then something happened...

Over the last 25 or so years, we have seen a shift in the things we decide to celebrate as being the greatest traits to uphold and seek to obtain.  Those with the MOST money and the LEAST intelligence are often the ones who get the most attention, creating Gods out of cretins and narcissists.

Kim Kardashian... Paris Hilton... the cast of "Jersey Shore"... Tila Tequila... the "Duck Dynasty" family... Bam Margera... "The Real Housewives of __________"... Sarah Palin...

Initially, this started with the advent of the show, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous." (For you youngsters out there, it's the old-old-old-school version of "Cribs") This show was started during a different time in America... a time when hard work really COULD make you rich... a time when a fair wage was earned across the scale, and a pension was almost guaranteed.

People enjoyed seeing how the wealthiest movie stars lived, because that's who people aspired to be.  Over time, though, other shows were created in the same vein; that let average people into the lives of the richest people.  "Dallas" was the next big one, and throughout the 80's, more shows popped up to idolize the wealthy... "Silver Spoons," "Richie Rich," "Diff'rent Strokes," "The Jeffersons"...

Then, one day, MTV came up with "The Real World" and "Road Rules," which were initially shows that were intended to open people's minds with regards to race relations and gender equality (a pursuit that EPICALLY succeeded); but had the unforeseen consequence of causing "Music" TV to abandon "Music" in favor of shallow highlights from Spring Break in Cancun.

Compounded by a strike by TV writers, many other channels started to show more "reality" TV shows that did not require writers.  It started with shows like "Survivor" and "American Idol", but when Fox hit paydirt with the insultingly titled "The Simple Life", featuring Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie, the worship of wealthy morons kicked into high gear.  "The Simple Life" was followed by an onslaught of shows about lazy rich people with inherited money and loose morals, across almost every network and cable station.

Last year, Kim Kardashian took a series of pictures that went viral.  There was one in particular, that I found to be so shamelessly exploitative that I had to use it to make a statement about the Gods we make of the people with the worst traits to exhibit.

In the original picture, Kim Kardashian was holding a gushing champagne bottle in a very phallic manner, with a stream coming from the champagne bottle shooting over her head, filling a champagne glass that was perched on her prominently displayed ass; with a facial expression that more than vaguely resembles a blow-up sex doll.

In my alterations, I thought it seemed appropriate to compare her artificially-inflated fame to the amplitude that it has become.  Shameless wealthy people have been elevated to the level of Gods by a media environment that worships shamelessness and excess. 

I decided to replace Kim's head with a portion of Kevin Smith's brilliantly satirical presentation of Jesus Christ for a few reasons.  First, this depiction of Jesus has a viral tradition, as well; calling to the similar tradition that allowed both images to spread on the internet.

Secondly, this depiction of Jesus, dubbed "Buddy Christ" or "Buddy Jesus", coming from Kevin Smith's film, "Dogma," which is largely a satirical take on Catholicism.  I thought the common link of satire was very important to something like this.

In the film, "Buddy Christ" is introduced to the world by a Cardinal, portrayed by the great George Carlin, whom I idolize, myself.  I see "Buddy Christ" as every bit as much an homage to George Carlin as I do to Kevin Smith and to Jesus Christ.

This depiction of Jesus, in the film, was created to appeal to a wider audience than the typical presentation of Jesus on a Crucifix; because the Catholic Church thought that a more positive, friendly, "less-suffering-ish," "more love-thy-neighbor-ish" depiction of Jesus would bring more people in.  The church officially sanctioned "Buddy Christ" as a "rebirth" of sorts.

Significant of changing directions, I thought this Christ was appropriate, also, to demonstrate the "skewed" direction our own entertainment has taken over the last few decades; departing from its initial connection to the viewing audience to appeal to the widest masses.

Also, I thought his wink added charm...

To complete the satirical slant, I replaced the champagne bottle with a water bottle, the champagne glass to a wine glass, and turned the champagne into red wine, as it comes down to fill the glass.

As a whole, I like this satirical slant on the current media obsession with the worship of shallow, moronic elitists.