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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Harry Lupus Finale Continues!
Dr. X's season finale of Harry Lupus has turned into a summer-long project (presented today in five clickable installments for your reading pleasure). What began as a simple (yet powerful) tale of male adolescent werewolfery and boner jokes has evolved into a complex metanarrative (mostly involving boats and still with plenty of boner jokes) that I think we can all agree is far more enjoyable than Charlie Kaufman's Synechdoche, New York (which many of you hipsters are just now discovering because you won't watch anything until it reaches the bargain section of Liberty Hall Video). Marvel at how Dr. X draws on recent LC posts about Twin Peaks and Grizzly Bear. We think you'll agree that the tale works as a rousing adventure in its own right as well as a startling look into the mind of Dr. X. Also, there are pictures of breasts (which will likely earn us a scolding from our readers who don't like to see titties here) and of cute little bunny rabbits (which makes all the other offensiveness perfectly acceptable).
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I am most impressed with the layout!
That staggering of panels makes it appear that we have important stuff in there.
--And we clearly do.
Yes, we strive for both style and substance.
"Did Lardass have to pay to get in that pie-eating contest?"
--and also: is Harry still part of the Lupus series?
We're getting to Harry!
He plays a very important part in the season finale's Third Act!
It will shock and amaze you.
--You will know how a bear... does things... on a boat. (and Harry plays an important part in all that!)
Oh for the days of teen werewolf tales about...teen werewolves!
My lecture was very important last night!
'sgood. I appreciate the expansion of the cosmology of Harry Lupus. And I like titties and bunnies. But isn't a finale supposed to, I dunno, finish?
I suspect Dr. X is using this extended-finale tease as a commentary on the nature of finales themselves or, more precisely, on what readers expect from them. Introducing this "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" device with "Scruffy" brings the notion of "narrative" front and center, calling attention to the collaborative structure of the Lupus saga itself (meaning is made through the telling and the teller...it is always already unstable, forever under construction). Remember that Richard began this tale with a simple joke about a boy (Lupus) and his "furry boner," but yet that boner generated a surprisingly fertile imaginative construction allowing the boys to weave a yarn in which it seems quite natural (and right) for a man to fuck a bear on a boat, or vice versa.
I thought it was about titties and bunnies.
Valiant effort, Prof. Plum.
Sure, it's "about" titties and bunnies in the same way that Moby Dick is "about" whales.
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