Monday, August 3, 2009

Hating Alien Meeces To Pieces

Superosity is a comic in which an attempt to win a fiance's brother's affection can lead to a mouse-on-miniaturised-Martian war of genocide with stuff like flying buildings and live performance space movies happening in between. This is a good choice for a fresh example to use in case anybody asks you to remind them what makes Superosity so great.

We also now have particular mice established as regular characters. Once upon a time they would be anonymous beings. Giz would interact with these enigmatic beings as though he were Garfield and Mask would interact with them as though he were Tom of Tom and Jerry fame. Now we have Curtis and that other guy have making a return for a second story, after their debut in Mask's guts, and it may be that the Superosity animal kingdom is all the richer for their presence.

It should be noted that the representation of mice as being smitten with cheese is a stereotype, however. Mice like lots of other foods too, and often seem to actually love grain more than they love cheese. We will have to consider the representation of mouse dietary habits in Superosity to be a parody of mouse racism, as it is impossible to accept the possibility that Superosity could be guilty of a hate crime.

10 comments:

zgeycp said...

Real mice also don't walk on their hind legs or talk to dogs and cats.

I think we can allow the Superosity universe a little extra divergence.

Working on a big update to the wiki that should make our tasks easier, gonna try and have it up before I leave Germany.

zgeycp said...

http://www.wikisuperosity.com/index.php?title=List_of_Superosity_storylines

Hopefully this will revitalize the wiki!

Coreyarty said...

Wow, the format still needs to be cleaned up a bit but that must have been a lot of work.

Also, visiting a central opposing nation of modern history's greatest war while Superosity is on the theme of war shows great dedication to Superosity.

zgeycp said...

One does one's duty.

Soon as the format is a little more legible I'll link to it on the wiki's main page.

deepskyfrontier said...

I believe that the idea of mice loving cheese is actually based in the fact that cheese is the traditional bait for mousetraps. The idea was that even a tiny piece of cheese could attract a mouse because of its strong odor. Just as the American colonists made the derisive British ditty "Americans Easily Confuse Feathers With Macaroni", mouse thought leaders have redeployed the cheese meme to represent defiance of human animosity toward mousekind. This defiance is represented by the fact that mouse heroes (many of which hate cheese) will go out of their way to rob mousetraps. While cheese in traps is now a cliche, mice (many of whom are only semi-literate culturally) continue to identify with cheese loving without ever asking themselves why. I believe that Superosity mice range between the literate and semi-literate cheese-loving varieties.

The index of story lines is awesome.

deepskyfrontier said...

I think we should have an article dedicated to inventions by Boardy. Such as "Lie Detector Watch for Dog" http://superosity.keenspot.com/w/20000720.html

deepskyfrontier said...

I meant to change the "w" do a "d."

http://superosity.keenspot.com/d/20000720.html

zgeycp said...

I suppose that's about as feasible as a complete Snap P. Turtle filmography.

deepskyfrontier said...

What does the P stand for?

zgeycp said...

I always assumed it stood for Punk.