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May 19, 2005

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   Greetings, intrepid readers! Welcome to this week's update of TerriblyWrong.com! Almost everything's been updated: The Pin-Up,The Joke of The Week, the Funny Photo of The Week, and the article below are all new. No video of the Week this week... I have no internet access, and thus, can't search for one. Activity in The Forums has fallen off, but I still urge everyone to register an account and post post post! The Comic Strip, supplied by Ford, as always, is flippin' hilarious. The guy just keeps getting funnier.

   As I write this, I am painfully aware that this may well be the last weekly update of TerriblyWrong.com we see for a while. As it stands, I have no internet connection, and am having to do the update on Hal, put the update on a jumpdrive, and transport it to a working terminal before I can actually post the updates to Pippin's server. Fun stuff, huh? On top of this, we have to move by the end of the month, and the chances of us being able to put the money together for it are minimal... so if you don't see an update here for a while, that's why.

   But, before I go, I do want to leave you with this.

A Brief Review of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

   The road to my actually pulling off seeing this film in my current financial state is a long, ugly, boring story that I won't repeat here, I'll just get on with the review.

   I liked it.

   I didn't love it.

   I liked it.

   The opening scene was the epic space battle that normally comes at the end of a good Star Wars film, but it was extremely well done and thoroughly entertaining. Unfortunately, it was down-hill from there.

   And now, my complaints list.

Lucas spent a good portin of the film trying to play "Let's see how many loose ends we can tie up in 2 hours."
The wookies, while in the film, we barely a plot device and obviously stuck in just for the sake of having wookies in the film.
The script was not the greatest. the actors came across looking bad simply because they didn't have a whole hell of a lot to work with in may scenes.
A lot of the time, there was actually too much in the way of special effects going on on the screen at one time, making some of the effects loose there impact to sensory overload.

   Don't get my wrong here. I really did like the film. I would highly recommend seeing it to anybody who likes Star Wars, and I would like to see the film again before it leave theaters. I just had a few cripes, that's all. There were any scenes that I really loved. Like the "order 66" scene for example. (See the film to get that reference. Wouldn't wanna spoil it for you.) Also, the duel scenes, of which there were many, we are excellently done.

   Well, that's it for me this week, folks. Hope you enjoy the rest of the issue.

   And as always...

   Fuck you, Sam Walton.

   Fuck you with a stick.

-Mace

FREE!!!
By: Hops N. O'Barley

What is so powerful about the word "free"? Well, I found out on Saturday, May 7th, at the Fourth Annual Free Comic Book Day. If you are not already acquainted with, me I manage a growing comic book store in Ballwin MO... A very wealth area. It amazes me how the middle to low income patrons of my store who came in with there children got there free books and took the time to shop, and at least purchase something from my shelves to be polite and because “Nothing is (or should be) free!” Yet those of a higher income bracket came, took and asked for more. We gave two comics to every one walking in the door but they wanted more. Even if they or there children liked or disliked comics. It did not matter the more you offer the more people demand.

I really enjoyed the event and the whole purpose is to get people in to comic book store in the hope they will come back and become regular or even irregular customers. My main gripe is the people themselves. This is one event in my life that I must specify that the vast majority of my fellows humans equated them selves admirably. Yet, the few spoiled apples did truly ruin the bunch. From being plain rude to demanding special treatment. All that was required of us was to give every one walking in to the store one comic book to be part of the worldwide event of Free Comic Book Day. We went one step further and gave everyone Two Free Comic Books. But individuals still complained.

I said, “Well if you would like more, visit our other store in St. Charles or one of the other St. Louis Metro Area comic book stores for another book." Was that enough; NO! I should give them more now. “There FREE!! Aren’t They!?!” Indeed they are not. Though free to the public retailers like myself must pay cash money for the “free” books. After explaining this, the furious customers were not allayed. They found it simple enough to stomp off aggravated. I would have been more annoyed but had “real” customer to deal with till 7:00 pm when I closed the store to return to my fathers basement to work on my true goal of slowly killing my self with alcohol. That freed me... Or so I thought!

Sunday. My slow day. Yeah. But no. I was bomb barded with the question “Were are the free comic books”. I forced to reply “Packed up for next year”. That did not dissuade my customers though if you can even call them that. “I want the @%$#&@ book!”

“Well sorry they were all taken yesterday at 'FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, YESTERDAY WHEN THE COMICS WERE FREE AND THE FIRST WHO CAME WHERE THE FIRST TO BE SERVED.”

“But I could not come yester day cause…(DON’T CARE) …"

Customers were amazed they could not get free comics on the day after Free Comic Book Day.

What part of "Free" and "May 7th" don’t people understand!

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