Subject: Re: [FFML] Sam & Max (was Re: [FFML] (Noise) A fanfic I won
From: Sebastian Weinberg
Date: 1/31/1997, 6:30 AM
To: Fanfic Mailing List


On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Terence Fergusson wrote:

: > BTW, is this fic going to be based on the game or on the book that
: > the game was based on?  ("_Sam & Max Hit the Road_, based on the
: > famed beat generation novel _Sam & Max Drive Around in a Car_ by
: > Bucky Kerouac")
: > 
: > 
: > Sebastian
: 
: Whahahahaha!!!  Yes, I can see that working!
: 
: Ahem.  But as I said, I won't be touching this one.  But that doesn't preclude 
: the possibility of some other author picking it up and writing it!  And boy, 
: would I love to see it!

Me too.  I would even *write* it if I hadn't too many projects on
the back burner as it is.


: No, the one I'm writing (at least the prologue, dunno if I'll go any further 
: after that...), is "Sam & Max Hit Nerima", where they're called in to go where 
: the Nerima Police fear to tread.  Oh, and also because being sent abroad on a 
: mission is so much more polite than the term "deported"... ^_^

Cool idea.  Sounds very IC for the series.


: Anyway, I hope someone picks up the Ranma cast-replacement version...  and by 
: the way, since I've only played the game, I didn't know about the book.  Thanks 
: for enlightening me.
: 
: Ah, but hang on, I thought Sam & Max were created by Steve Purcell?

Who do you think wrote the book?  Purcell did a series of Sam&Max
comics long before he worked for Lucasarts.  The figures had
already made cameos in several Lucasarts games before they got a
game of their own.  Very recently a collection of al the old comix
and the one-page color versions was published under the title _Sam
& Max Hit the Road_ bz Marlowe and Company IIRC.

Those comics are *very* funny and wonderfully illustrated.  Only
very few relations to the game, BTW - they just share a title, the
main characters and the screwball humor.  The plots are completely
different.


Sebastian
-- http://enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de/~bastian/ Comics reviewed.
-- "VROOM, VROOM! Ha ha, run for safety, foolish pedestrians!" - Sam lets Max drive the car.