On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Terence Fergusson wrote:
: On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Sebastian Weinberg wrote:
: > On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Terence Fergusson wrote:
: > : 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.
:
: Yeah, I know... Think I got the wrong end of the stick there. What I meant
: was, who's Bucky Kerouac, and what's "Sam & Max Drive Around in a Car"?
Ah, so. Well, in the comic book (Which, incidentally, is named
_Sam & Max Surfin' the Highway_ correctly) there are several
stories with names like _A Bad Day on the Moon_, _Fair Wind to
Java_, _The Damned Don't Dance_ and, yes, _Sam & Max Hit the
Road_. Each of those stories has a little note under the title,
saying "based on <something or other>". The "famed beat
generation novel" stuff I quoted was from the title page of _Sam &
Max Hit the Road_.
: Oh, and it sounds like you're quite a bit more qualified to write any Sam & Max
: fanfic than me. I'll post the prologue once I'm finished with, and see what
: you think.
We-e-ell, I *did* write a little thingy like that over the
weekend. :) Here's the opening:
Ukyou & Kodachi, Freelance Martial Artists,
in:
Cleaning Up Nerima.
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(Based on the Heian Period scroll
_Ukyou & Kodachi Go for a Walk_)
Morning in the dingy appartment that serves as the base for
Tokyo's most feared defenders of Law and Order, Ukyou & Kodachi,
Freelance Martial Artists. Kodachi is boredly holding a fishing
rod, the line hanging in the goldfish glass that is labelled
"Rufus". Ukyou is equally bored, throwing her fighting spatulas
into a dart board, then retrieving them for another round over and
over again.
Suddenly the phone rings. Kodachi, who is sitting right beside it
on the chest of drawers, swivels about and reaches for it
immediately.
Kodachi: [yells] I got it!
With lightning reflexes and pinpoint precision Ukyou throws a
spatula and nails the sleeve of Kodachi's nearly skin tight
leotard to the wall. Before Kodachi can free herself, Ukyou
cannonballs into her, knocking the breath out of her. She
snatches the receiver.
Ukyou: Yes? Yes. Yes. Yes? Yes! Yes.
Kodachi: I love it when you play "Yes-man", Ukyou.
Ukyou: [into receiver] Yes. Holy jumping junebug! We're on our
way.
Ukyou replaces the telephone handle on its cradle. Kodachi has
freed herself from the wall in the meantime.
Kodachi: Was that the commissioner?
Ukyou: Either that or a telephone salesman with a really large
stock of criminal activities to go. There seems to be a crime
wave overrunning the Nerima district.
Kodachi: Oh goody, let's go out and participate.
Ukyou whacks her over the head amicably.
Ukyou: We're on the side of Law and Order.
Kodachi: Oh. Okay. Let's go.
She throws the fishing rod out of the window.
Kodachi: Rufus wasn't biting today anyway. I think he's on to
me.
They exit the appartment. As they walk down the hall, the next
appartment door opens and a young man with a pigtail looks out.
Ukyou: Why, look. It's our weird but friendly neighbour Saotome.
Kodachi: Hello, weird but friendly neighbour Saotome.
Ranma: [annoyed] Look, you two, do you always have to bang
against the walls like that? There's hardly a day were we don't
have a picture fall and break. And the ol' tomboy always gives
*me* trouble about it.
Voice: Tomboy?!
<SPLASH>
Suddenly Ranma is female. Behind her stands Akane with a bucket.
Akane: Who's a tomboy now?
She boots Ranma clear across the hall and out of a window where
she goes sailing towards the horizon. Akane slams the door, and
Ukyou & Kodachi resume their way down the hall and descend the
stairway.
Kodachi: The Saotomes are a truly strange, twisted and violent
couple. I respect that.
Well, that's all he wrote for now. Shall I go ahead and actually
write a full fic with these characters?
Sebastian