I'm no comic geek, but I have a couple of friends who are, one of whom worked at a comic book store for a short time. So I ended up subscribing to a comic I found rather amusing: Emily the Strange. She's a dark little 13 year-old, but not creepy. Guests like Ozzy Osborne and Joey Ramone cameo in her comics. Ramone teaches math in her rock issue - "1,2,3,4, that's all you need to know," he professes. Frank Zappa tries to introduced more advanced math involving elevens and sevens, but Joey insists "1,2,3,4..." And Thomas Dolby teaches science; he's "blinded by it" and the students reply "yeah, we know, we know." It's amusing, a good escape at the end of the day. I admit I've even purchased a few products from the website, including the strange mug. When it's filled with a hot drink, smoke shows on the mug -- well, you know, decals that look like smoke. When it cools, the smoke disappears. Cool. Plus, it came with a free little lunchbox of "sin-amints." Further more, she kind of looks like me when I was 13.
On the website, you can join the S.O.S. (Society of Strange) and get updates on goings ons as well and participate in some quirky online community. You can get stuff for your MySpace page, listen to Emily's music picks. She's a fan of musicians like Iggy Pop, Marilyn Manson, Ladytron ,and Siouxsie. For sale, she has tees, and tanks, and hoodies, even Strange intimate apparel, and a bowler hat (everything is "strange"). There are some cool messenger bags, CD cases, and a lightning guitar handbag. My most coveted item is the skull socks or the Strange is Not a Crime Thigh Highs, kind of jailbird socks. I'm known amongst friends for my sock collection, I admit it. When they return from vacations, they bring socks with koala bears, argyle patterns, snowflakes, jack-o-lanterns, and every Christmas, I get green and red socks with wreaths or bells or pine trees from ma. In Minnesota, there's a store called Socks Appeal, nothing but socks. It's heaven.
But I digress.
What I started to say was -- Dark Horse Comic comic book teen, Emily the Strange, is about to star in a new film. Mike Richardson, who was producer for Hellboy and The Mask has signed on as director.
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