Steampunk subgenres that I have little interest to see:
- Furrypunk – Nope, too ookie.
- Glitterpunk – Those vampires are too sad.
- Hobopunk – Can’t find jobs, can’t find good equipment
- Slasherpunk – Isn’t that the film “Time After Time”?
- Cavemanpunk – Just won’t work.
- Futurepunk – Oh wait, isn’t that just Cyberpunk?
- Punkpunk – Punk rock steampunkrs in a band
- Mimepunk – Shhhh!
- Stonerpunk – Saw enough of that in High School.
- Bonopunk – U2 frontman gone awry.
- Steam-punky Brewster – Okay, I’m just getting dumb here.
- Feastpunk / Chefpunk – It’s all about the food.
- Pornopunk – I’m sure that it’s being done somewhere.
- Monsterpunk – HEY, that’s what WE ARE!
Please don’t punish me. You made me do this.
- Daniel
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god i love this strip.
Yeah! Flight!
Was I the only one who enjoyed Punky Brewster? (Well, the live action version, the cartoon was rather, “Bwa-what? What show is this again?”).
Giving monsters flight. There is no possible way in which this cannot go wrong for absolutely everyone involved. Nope, none. Safety-safe! :}
Oh, I dunno. I only picked on her because of the “punky” part of her name.
Can’t say that I watched the show. I was doing something else then, I think.
I have to disagree with you on cavemanpunk. (I’m assuming you made this up because I’ve never heard of it, so now I’m just making it up.)
Prehistoric people with wicked technology? Hells yes. Would be like 300 with laser guns. Yes please.
In truth, this makes sense. How did they build Stonehenge? How did they build the pyramids? How did they navigate across the deserts, the oceans? We keep coming up with solutions involving dirt and wood and precariously trips wrapped in leather. The science people will tell us, yeah, this was possible, but risky. Maybe it was easy with the cool toys they had.
Also, I’m really interested in the “punk” part of these things. The thought was that whatever this was, it was a departure from the norm. A sort of counter culture, manifested through this thing. What better setting to critique our current environmental, economic, socio-political situations than people constantly at war with every other tribe?
Well, who am I to say “no”?
Yeah, it just seemed kinda funny to me, as I was thinking of Neanderthals with high tech (as you described). But, I think that those folks who built the pyramids and Stonehenge were pretty much as we are today, minus modern heathcare and diet. I mean, we’re still super-dictated by hunter-gatherer needs/desires, hence my own battles with the never ending desire to eat SUGAR, SALT, and FAT! Primitive man prolly wasn’t so primitive.
Anyway, I’m with you. It could be a cool sub-genre, if done right. Right?
But yeah, the Punk part gets lost sometimes.
I started to go on about Monster Commute and the bigger (social critique) story I’m trying to tell here, but it’s probably just best left unsaid.
You know, I don’t worry abut things like sugar, salt, and fat.
Since I’ve managed to outlive three different doctors by doing the exact opposite of what they suggested I think I must be doing something right since I’m still here and healthy and they’re not.
As I like to say, I don’t have high blood pressure but I am a carrier.
Today’s WebUrbanist made me think of you: http://weburbanist.com/2010/08/21/3g-geek-art-show-ghostbusters-goonies-gremlins/
Enjoy.