Great Krypton Bun Toons! YAY!

Hop, hop…and AWAY!

So, I saw the Man of Steel yesterday with my 13 year old son.

And I asked him, as we were walking out of the theatre, “What did you think?  Did you like it?”

And he said, “I don’t know.”

That’s kind of my reaction…(Slight spoilers ahead)

The cast (except for Amy Adams, who is preposterously mis-cast as Lois Lane) is uniformly great.  The direction is fantastic, the special effects magnificent.  The battle sequences are the most spectacular super-fights ever put to film.  Better, even, than the Avengers.

But it’s all in service of a movie that is geared to make you think Superman is a hateful, selfish, homicidal dick.  The last scene of the movie is Superman needlessly destroying expensive government property, just to be an asshole about it to an American general.

Why make a Superman movie that insists you be terrified and resentful of the stand-offish alien Superman?  Why make a Superman movie in which he NEVER DOES ANYTHING HEROIC?!?!

(BIG SPOILER: move the cursor over the text:  The bad guys are defeated by human beings, Superman is just there to destroy Metropolis).

The mind reels.

Other than THAT, it’s a good movie.  Like THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL meets GODZILLA….only Superman is both Gort and Godzilla in that scenario.

Sigh.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Your BONUS moment involves the story of how I got the pants.

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For last week’s somewhat SUPERMAN-inspired satire, click the hastily drawn image above

for the Bun Toon archive, which features many Superman related posts, click here

Doing the Research Bun Toons! BOO!

My Bun Toon this weekend is going to be my review of the new Superman Movie, but I couldn’t get out to see it last night, so I’m heading off right now.  I can’t Bun Toon while in a dark movie theatre, so it will go up tomorrow.

See you back here, same Bat-Time, same Bat-Blog.

Oh, wait.  Batman’s my regular nine-to-five.  Today is Superman day.

Ty the Guy

Oh, and the above cartoon was from my review of the Brandon Ruined film, not this one, obviously, as I have yet to see it.

 

 

Real Quick Bun Toons! YAY!

Stop reading this opening caption! We don’t have the TIME!.

It’s another one of THOSE Saturday mornings where my wife spent the night with my mother in the emergency room, my cat’s back is basically made of hamburger, my DC project is screaming at me with a major deadline, my Quantum and Woody page is due in twenty minutes, I’ve cancelled a convention appearance, and I still have yet to put out editorial notes on the latest Holmes Inc, which I should have done yesterday.

That means that I don’t have even eight seconds to do this morning’s Bun Toon.  I don’t have eight seconds to be typing this intro.

So I did the Bun Toon in SEVEN seconds.

I might have rushed the colour a bit.

To be fair, I plagiarized this plot from every issue of Daredevil that Stan Lee wrote.  Steal from the best, right?

TY THE GUY OUT!

Your Bonus Good Man Adventure!  The ORIGIN STORY from 2011!  And yes, I know his girlfriend has a different name, I’m not giving out No-Prizes, so I don’t care.

An epic, novel-length adventure for FREE!  Who says this isn’t the Bun Toons era of comics?  Seriously, who says that… I have to change minds.  Point them out to me, goddammit!

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For last week’s musical Bun Toon, featuring the Bunny singing and playing piano…click the amazingly clever pun above.

For the archives of this Shuster Award Wishing series, click here.

for the most recent Good-Man adventures, OCCUPY GOOD-MAN, click here.

 

 

Bun Tunes Bun Toons! YAY!

When something is a pun, it’s automatically a good idea.

To steal a line from an old pot-smoking tax avoider, “The life I love is making music with my friends”, so I felt it was time to share this secret part of my waking hours with the dozens of people who read this weekly webcomic.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Okay, I’ve imported a few more songs to include in the bonus section, linked with some delightful cover art, created by the keyboard player.  Click on the CD cover and hear the song…

from Glenn’s first album “WORKIN’ MAN” this is called THE JOURNEY:  A song which features your humble bunny rocking out on the zydeco accordion (as well as creating the spiffy post-modern ironic cover)

From “Keep on Walkin’”, it’s the single that rocketed to the top of the charts in Sweden (and Belgium and New Zealand!) – the smash hit, “Another Hank Williams Night”. Another cool CD cover, too!

Another song from the newest album. The title song “Chetwynd Girls”. Templeton does Vargas goes Country for the art on the cover, smacks the piano, and strains the vocal chords behind Mr. Reid as well!

and of course, if you’re suddenly the biggest Glenn Reid fan walking the Earth after hearing all this…head on over to www.glennreid.ca and you can check out his other music, his books, t-shirts, and the whole mess.  Tell ‘em the Bunny Sent You.

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For last week’s Bun Toon, which features no one singing (but the fat lady), click here.

for the Bun Toon Archive, which only SLIGHTLY includes singing, click the musical bread product above

Proud Torontonian Bun Toons! YAY!

And you thought public health care was the only thing that made Canada interesting…

What?

What can you say?

I just copied down as many quotes from the press conference and reported them to you guys as best I could.  I might have paraphrased one or two lines, but it’s mostly as I heard it…

Gaze upon it, ye mighty, and tremble.

This is what our city is going through this weekend.

My wife suggested it was like discovering the town was being run by George W. Bush after decades of Jimmy Carter, but that doesn’t do it justice.  It’s more like Scarface after Jimmy Carter….only no one is being introduced to their little friend.

Stay tuned, folks.  It’s only going to get more fun from here on in…countdown to resignation…?

Ty the Guy OUT!

Bonus Joke:

What’s the difference between Rob Ford and Porky Pig?

It doesn’t take two hundred thousand dollars to see Porky’s crack.

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For a link to another true Canadian moment that features Mike Grell and Chris Claremont, click here

For the international Bun Toons, including many American jokes, click the U.N. Bunny above

Living On The Edge Bun Toons! YAY!

Making Webcomics and saving lives since 2010

Sometimes life presents you with a moment of greatness, and there is no choice but to step up and do the right thing.  Today’s Bun Toon is a shocking but true story of one such moment…and how your humble bunny blogger acted.

Try not to admire me too much.

Okay, part of that isn’t true.

I warned Claremont about the bus.  It’s not my fault he ignored me.

There were many other moments ALMOST as wonderful last weekend, and I think I’ve lost my wife to George Perez.  If only the convention organizers hadn’t misspelled my name on my table (they spelled it “H-E-R-B  T-R-I-M-P-E”) the weekend would have been perfect.

Ty the Guy OUT!

Besides working together to create a moment of shame and remorse at my interview panel, Claremont and Grell have teamed up one other time.

If I didn’t think it would ruin someone else’s special moment, I’d go pick this issue up!

Oh, and now that I know that my fellow Quantum and Woody artist, Tom Fowler, reads this webcomic, I`m going to drop his name, just to tickle his ego.

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For last week’s unusual Bun Toon, click on the Rabbit Eared Neil Gaiman above

For the Bun Toon Archive, which almost never mentions Neil Gaiman, click the correct logo above

Grand Experiment Bun Toons! YAY!

Because mixing volatile chemicals will get you nothing but dead.

I’m on the road today, in Ottawa at the lovely Ottawa Convention, meeting with the many happy fans and perhaps one or two disgruntled ones.   But if there is lead in my pencil, paper on my lap and some kind of scanner within a hundred yards of me, I shall BUN TOON, my friends.  I SHALL BUN TOON.

I give you people 48 hours to make this Bun Toon the most viral one I’ve ever done.   You’ve got your work cut out for you, I’ve had a couple of toons that have had over thirty thousand readers…and those ones were actually funny.

Ty the Guy OUT!

And now, the Neil Gaiman bonus moment:

I sincerely hope I didn’t photoshop this image just to increase the chances of this whole thing being reblogged.  That would be wrong.

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For last week’s SPECIAL Bun Toon, written and drawn by my eldest son, Kellam, click the cleverly altered logo above

For the Bun Toon Archive, which almost never mentions Neil Gaiman, click the correct logo above

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY Bun Toons! YAY!

It’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!  Hoo-hah!  This is like Christmas and Hallowe’en rolled into one jelly donut, and mainlined into your fan-brain.  I am joining in for the big day by spending my waking hours at STADIUM COMICS in Toronto, (499 Main Street South, Shoppers World Mall in Brampton) along with Ken Lashley, Marcus To, Adam Gorham, Agnes Garbowska and plenty more makers of super-heroes, cartoons and funnybooks… and I hope to see you all down there for sketches, delightful stories, and big grins on the faces of all the peoples.

Because I am out of the house early this morning, there’s no time for me to Bun Toon!  But rather than JUST running a repeat from yesteryear (which I do at the end of today’s post, scroll down below), I have a brand new, never before seen tale by my eldest son, Kellam, to keep you demanding net-surfers satisfied.  Who says this isn’t the golden age of Bun Toon nepotism?

No more ado.

Art Land presents “HELPING” by Kellam Templeton-Smith:

Because getting your kids to draw your comic strip is a tradition Bill Keane is far too dead to participate in any more.

This story was created in under twelve hours by my son at the most recent Comic Book Marathon, back in April.  The story and the art was completed in one sitting (except for bathroom breaks) while surrounded by dozens of equally devoted creators wrestling with their own muses.  I can barely write my own name when I’m in public, but Kellam soldiered on tirelessly for the duration and created this chilling tale, ad libbed on paper in one swell foop.

Whee.

Ty the Proud Guy OUT!

Since it’s FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, you get more than one bonus moment.

The two paintings above are by today’s fill-in Bun Tooner, my boy Kellam.  I think they’re both self-portraits, but admittedly, the bottom one – with the glasses – looks more like him.  Yes, he has big metal bolt-things sticking out of his ears sometimes.  They all do, these kids today.

(Kellam’s deviantart gallery:  Spartan Ideal)

Here’s LAST  YEAR’S FREE COMIC BOOK DAY BUN TOON:  The rules still apply, but the odds of a John Carter reference meaning anything in the future  dims with each passing hour.

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See you at Stadium Comics at SHOPPERS WORLD, Brampton.

Iron Man 3 has already come out, and my pre-cognitive-review was 100 % accurate! Click on last week’s Bun Toon and see how well my OTHER predictions do…

For the Bun Toon archive (always Free Comic Book Day around here), click the gratis rabbit

Summer Blockbuster Bun Toons! YAY!

The webcomic is free, but we make our money on the popcorn and soda

Hollywood relies on the summer blockbuster as an integral part of their fiscal year.  Without the hundreds of millions worth of income the summer brings the studios, there would be no money left for the budgets of next year’s miserable bombs.  So if you want any more Green Lanterns or John Carters to be made, you have to see this year’s crap to give them the liquidity.

But for those who just want to watch the cream of the crop, don’t worry, I’ve reviewed EVERY summer comic book movie, before any of them have come out.  How can I do it?

I have mystic powers…

I know all…I see all…if only Hollywood came to me first, we could save everyone a lot of trouble.

Ty the Guy OUT!

When it comes to Comic Book based movies, there is only ONE possible bonus moment:

If one considers the high quality talent associated with this film, it’s almost against the laws of physics that this film is so, so, so genuinely awful.

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For last week’s Lois Lane at 75 Bun Toon, click the fun lettering above

For the Bun Toon archive, please click the bunny with the bun

Lois Lane Turns 75 Bun Toons! YAY

Now that she’s old enough to need glasses, does she recognize herself in the mirror?

It’s been a Superman celebration with his 75th anniversary of first publication this week.  Some are elated, some are annoyed the heirs to the Siegel and Shuster families have been left out of this celebration.  Some are annoyed that Lois Lane has been left out of the celebration, as it’s her anniversary, too!  I assume that’s because it’s impolite to point out a woman’s advanced age.

But I’m happy to point the Bun Toon at Superman’s main supporting character.

Mostly because my wife made me.

Here, now…

I didn’t mention that she once adopted a Kryptonian boy, dated Superman’s father Jor-el, and Luthor, and Batman, and Perry White’s son, and she once turned into a giant insect for a while, because you didn’t need to know that.

Happy Anniversary Lois.  

Ty the Guy OUT!

Lots of Bonus Moments today!

Lois Lane has a small importance around Ty Templeton’s Art Land!  She was the subject of our very first post, some years back now: The TOP SEVEN S&M BONDAGE COVERS OF LOIS LANE.

Click here to enjoy the bondage you never knew you’d missed as a child.

AND…since it’s 4/20, and we’re obsessively dedicated to inebriation in all it’s illegal forms, might we suggest you click onto the following cultural essay: THE TOP TEN POT-HEADS IN COMIC BOOKS!

Click here if you have a prescription from a doctor for medical use.

On Wednesday, we said our own personal “happy anniversary” to Superman.

Click here to celebrate Superman’s birthday with a drunken Sitcom star

And of course, there’s the usual links to those BUN TOON things I do from time to time…

For last week’s philosophically challenging Bun Toon, click the men of peace above

For the Bun Toon Archive, click the Singing Pastry