{"id":1136,"date":"2010-12-27T00:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T00:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kommiekomiks.com\/driftwood\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2023-02-04T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T21:12:37","slug":"driftwood-8-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood 8 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years I had been under the delusion that Willie is mostly based on myself.<\/p>\n

Last week I was rewatching all the Alien <\/em>films (such a nice Christmasy thing to do). I had pretty much forgotten all about some of them – the third because it was so bad, and the fourth, Alien: Resurrection<\/em>, because it was such a long time since I last saw it (it must have been in 1997 when it came out). I had totally forgotten what happened in it and what other characters there were besides Ripley and the aliens, but I did remember that I really loved the film. Now that I was going to watch it again I was a bit worried that I would be disappointed.<\/p>\n

But instead, I not only loved it all over again (even if some of the dialogue is a bit stupid), but I also found myself thinking over and over, “OH, so THAT’s where that came from!!” I was really astonished by how it’d had such a fundamental influence on the comics I’ve been making. But how could I have forgotten it? It’s like Alien: Resurrection<\/em> abandoned the conscious part of my brain and instead totally invaded the subconscious part.<\/p>\n

The most obvious and most bizarrely forgotten influence is Call, on whom I must have subconsciously based a big part of Willie.<\/p>\n

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It was a truly surreal experience to watch this film and have the distinct feeling that I knew this character very <\/em>well, and not just from seeing the film once before, thirteen years ago. \u00a0O_o<\/p>\n

And it’s a big relief that Willie really isn’t as much of a Mary Sue as I’d been dreading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many years I had been under the delusion that Willie is mostly based on myself. Last week I was rewatching all the Alien films (such a nice Christmasy thing to do). I had pretty much forgotten all about some of them – the third because it was so bad, and the fourth, Alien: Resurrection, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftwood-chapter-8","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.black-pig-comics.com\/driftwood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}