INsights: This has nothing to do with the swiss. Unless you want it to.I was watching Starship Troopers again today (love it to death. Insanely great sense of dark social commentary/humor). There’s a line where they just ooze hatred at the idea of having to return to Klandathu to capture some kind of damned dirty smart bug. And I briefly obsessed over how much fun it would be to remake the entire movie - substituting cheeses for the various kinds of bugs. Really, I’d just like to see any form ”big alien battle movie,” wherein the aliens are a tasty form of cheese.
This strip represents the scene that would have to be in such movie (if i made it), where they discover some form unholy god damned “SMART” cheese, which the marines will have to go in and kick to shit. Perhaps with some nibbling. From the bold older men.
I don’t know why i called it Swisswar. … War seemed too epic/simple. I thought Swiss connotated the cheese. I thought a space was unnecessarryy. Because I certainly don’t have the foggiest idea where the swiss stand on war, really. Swisswar almost sounds like a fathomable word. almost.
I left the final frame blank (cramming it’s scripted line back into the third panel) because i thought it funnier to leave it weird. And graphically, I wanted to recreate Disky’s old not-talking arc-smirk. (i did recreate it faithfully. at first. but then couldn’t resist fucking it all up to fit the new emerging vector stylings.)
I’d like to think there is some sort of subconcious double entendre here regarding cheesy movies (or cheese in any form of entertainment). But i haven’t thought this through. Once i got to the point of pondering whether you could really stick a boot up some smart alien cheese’s “ass”, i figured i should stop.
… it looks weirdly chunky/jaggy. Perhaps i should reoutput it at a higher jpg quality. hmm.
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