The saga continues. And we find out Colin’s career, which (unsurprisingly) is the same as my own. This strip is born from my own inner shock at occupying a role of authority and supposed ‘knowledge’. Really, I’m just an overgrown kid who knows nothing. But aren’t we all? Some of us just disguise it better, I guess.
And I have no idea how Colin could ever incorporate SMW into a senior academic English class. Which is why it’s funny, I suppose.
Well…, you could incorporate it as a study of classic themes, i.e. rescue the princess in a pseudo-midevil world, in a postmodern format of video games that deconstructs it somewhat by having it be a mundane plumber doing the hero work, including slaying a dragon, instead of a traditional knight, pointing out how it could even be considered more heroic for Mario. Dragon slaying is in a knight’s job description, where as it ain’t in a plumbers.
See? So much potential, really. You could take it from a ‘champion of the proletariat’ stance and do a political criticism of it. Really, the more I think about it, the more I want to write this paper.
You know what I hate?
How I always got poor excuses for English teachers.
Why couldn’t you have been mine? ;_;
…Oh wait, you live in Canada, I live in Sweden.
…
NEVERMIND.
…I still think you’d be an awesome teacher (a teacher who makes webcomics? I DON’T SEE WHY NOT).
Believe me, most of my students likely bemoan the fact that they have me as a teacher and curse me for being boring. None of them know about my webcomic. I try to make the subject interesting, but I don’t always succeed.
One of the guys from Monolith Death Cult is a history teacher.
Pretty interesting, and apparently not that uncommon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jFQdvaU-JlY
He’s a braver man than I am.
You could always introduce them to your webcomic…
I currently follow an established policy regarding students and my comic: I will periodically admit to certain students that I run a webcomic, but I never disclose which webcomic it is. Some of them figure it out, but I think that if they wish to put in the time and energy, they deserve it.
I had an English Teacher in College.
She was very bright, and very pneumatic.
She invited me over.
I wanted to talk dinosaurs.
You doubt me ?
Who would admit to that !!!!
Your Course is “The Length of Feline Tails during the Judeo-Christian Tradition 1139-1567” ?
That would be fascinating !
You’re missing an opportunity. “Behave or I’ll write you in as a lame antagonist!”
Seriousky, I wonder how you managed to keep your comic a secret. It would take just one student finding it and the news would spread like wildfire.
Well, it’s not a total secret. There are a few students that know, but they’re cool. And they don’t tell. (They figured it out on their own, actually.) It’s not a super well kept secret; it’s just more a desire to keep it from being the first thing that pops up when you Google my name.
Mass Effect would have been a better vehicle for explaining the difference between elegaic hero and tragic hero.
I never played it. (That makes me a bad Canadian.)
If that makes you a bad Canadian then I must be the worst Canadian. I’ve never played Mass Effect and I don’t like sports or beer.
I won`t tell the Canada cops if you don`t.
Canada cops? Canadian cops. Mounties. LONG LIVE MAPLE SYRUP FLAVORED BEAVERS!!!! And bacon. Mmmmm…..bacon. In muh mouf. (munch, munch, munch) Okay. Wait. What the hell was I talking about? Bacon induced amnesia maybe? I dunno. I already forgot….
Bacon-induced amnesia is the best kind of amnesia.
I think Puck just caught a bit of Daphne’s snark. ;P
I would like to one day film Mario speaking Hamlet’s famous monologue. “Whether ’tis a-nobler in the player’s eye to a-suffer the goombas and koopas of outrageous Bowser…”
I assume no one is stopping you.