tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post15131309240461594..comments2024-03-08T16:06:32.428+00:00Comments on TwoHeadedThingies: Christenings/Weddings/Funerals/Jumble SalesTwoHeadedBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-4590011468292567372020-07-26T13:30:27.531+01:002020-07-26T13:30:27.531+01:00Late to the party here, but I'm another who se...Late to the party here, but I'm another who sees <i>Winebibber</i> as mocking the subculture from which it came. Regardless of what you think to the 'humour' - and I personally think the 'Pastor Pat' strip is gold - there's a certain demographic who can appreciate it for what it is. :)Terry Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01641805384260706563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-4384691028934295392016-04-23T19:47:28.176+01:002016-04-23T19:47:28.176+01:00I think Winebibber makes sense to survivors from t...I think Winebibber makes sense to survivors from the Charismatic/Pentecostal church of the eighties. Many things in it struck a chord when I read it. That said it's still rubbish. Monopodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10577151700144464122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-52573298064843087782015-08-14T06:03:04.056+01:002015-08-14T06:03:04.056+01:00Thanks for taking the time to scan the pages of th...Thanks for taking the time to scan the pages of this ... remarkable document. The whole thing is an in joke? It was pretty convincingly seriously crap. Interesting. I did actually laugh (I actually did) at the pub band 'the Drunken Nazi Atheists'Benjamin308https://www.blogger.com/profile/04571833832134333104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-78614441595733023882015-06-08T14:43:50.525+01:002015-06-08T14:43:50.525+01:00Well I'll be!
The Amazon reviews were the bigg...Well I'll be!<br />The Amazon reviews were the biggest clue, but they pulled this one off on me at least. Religion plays no part whatsoever in my life, so I had nothing to go by on Winebibber other than its face value.<br /><br />The "Trendy Christians" bit, that one had me suspicious, but the rest of it SEEMS to be playing completely straight... Interesting!TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-41922735161511919642015-05-28T18:34:11.408+01:002015-05-28T18:34:11.408+01:00Umm, I hate to break it to you, but it's a tot...Umm, I hate to break it to you, but it's a total piss take. Did the fact that it's done in the style of Viz not at least suggest that possibility? To be fair the whole thing is all in jokes for people who have had to suffer things not too dissimilar from the kind of things that it depicts, but if you had suffered from close contact from crazy charismatics and cheesy evangelicals this was just the sort of light relief that kept you sane. I guess its humour lies in pointing out all the things about the late 80s Christian scene and saying "this is all a bit bloody weird isn't it" only sort of with a sense of affection. Admittedly its kind of hard to explain why certain things are funny, and these aren't the funniest parts of it, but it's brilliant if for no other reason than it seriously fucked off the kind of cheesy, intolerant, humourless religious types that would knock on a stranger's door at 7pm on a Friday evening, bore them to death in an attempt to convert them and then spend an hour on a Sunday morning boring a room full of other people by telling them about it.Matt Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05113670876288157267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-20955624943439256962015-05-28T17:35:00.522+01:002015-05-28T17:35:00.522+01:00I love the Winebibber. But I'm its target audi...I love the Winebibber. But I'm its target audience, a Christian, immersed in church culture who's not afraid to laugh at our foolishness. It's in the long tradition of "holy fools" - revealing truth by poking fun. Yes, it didn't always hit the mark, but that's true of all experimental humour. In its time Winebibber was excellent and it's still a classic.Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18149271944530429183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-72062584481276243542014-10-14T02:50:17.402+01:002014-10-14T02:50:17.402+01:00Interesting, thanks for sharing that bit of info! ...Interesting, thanks for sharing that bit of info! Seems there's possibly a whole world of strange fundamentalist comics out there, perhaps?TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-43187920302655176512014-10-13T14:14:17.184+01:002014-10-13T14:14:17.184+01:00Great post! One of those strips, Coat Pigs, rang a...Great post! One of those strips, Coat Pigs, rang a bell; when I was growing up, we had a whole book devoted to those characters, the much-better-named Gaberdine Swine. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gaberdine-Swine-Roy-Mitchell/dp/0551021357kiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11649171712672732464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-62701922188678856362014-09-26T22:40:50.027+01:002014-09-26T22:40:50.027+01:00I really need to read that book...
Mind you don&#...I really need to read that book...<br /><br />Mind you don't get converted, it's powerful stuff! (sarcasm there, ha!)TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-75894375612906355972014-09-26T22:15:29.107+01:002014-09-26T22:15:29.107+01:00*skips post to comment*
I heard about this ages ag...*skips post to comment*<br />I heard about this ages ago, though I can't remember where (possibly Chris Donald's autobiography, which is a great read, by the way). I've always wondered what the hell a "Christian Viz" would be like. I guess I'm about to scroll up and find out!<br /><br />"For what I am about to receive...."Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14722956860700640056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-56835699261626715162014-09-26T20:53:32.223+01:002014-09-26T20:53:32.223+01:00Well you "got" more than this particular...Well you "got" more than this particular heathen did, ha!<br /><br />That Viz strip's a classic - "Christ on a Bike" is its title, with his wooden chopper, thanks to having a carpenter for a dad.TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-65541706053540319772014-09-26T17:20:59.690+01:002014-09-26T17:20:59.690+01:00I don't get it!!! I read a few of the strips...I don't get it!!! I read a few of the strips namely the weird faceless ghost thing and the Ghostbusters and Snowman strips which make no sense.. The only one I got was 'Methuselah' very mild anti seminism about Jews having short hands and deep pockets.. Was even expecting 'Loch Nes Monster to appear in his strip seeing that Methuselah is a Jew and Nessie the Beast<br /><br />Viz done a strip that depicts Jesus's life riding a magical bicycle. Pontius Pilate has him crucified due to jealousy since Pilate only has a girl's bike. And the Father, the father the son and the holy ghost.. With the Holy Ghost gets a kicking in the pubAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-23502877445306233142014-09-24T21:47:27.570+01:002014-09-24T21:47:27.570+01:00I've just written a big post about this then h...I've just written a big post about this then had to sign in when I tried posting it but it's gone now! Basically, the reviews were so bitter and un Christian like. Both seemed mental, but is that Evangelical people for you? God knows!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250710720015045970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-33516645444452274732014-09-23T23:43:10.770+01:002014-09-23T23:43:10.770+01:00Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I am seei...Thanks for bringing it to our attention. I am seeing this for the first ( and last! ) time!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-1670906446744434472014-09-23T12:27:26.099+01:002014-09-23T12:27:26.099+01:00The dinosaur (with his pleasant enough face, yes),...The dinosaur (with his pleasant enough face, yes), is the Biblical Behemoth - all the way through the book there's pictures of dinosaurs or the Loch Ness Monster, and these are always referred to as "the Behemoth".<br /><br />Bible-folk seem a tad unhinged if we're going by this book alone.TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-291296347676701422014-09-23T12:26:06.315+01:002014-09-23T12:26:06.315+01:00Good point about the parodies - I could picture th...Good point about the parodies - I could picture them in Elephant Parts, easily, maybe even Brain Damage, but as you say, when put in with the rest of the strips, you realise that "surreal" isn't exactly what they were going for.<br /><br />The art gets better as the book goes along, so I'm guessing it was one of those "practise makes good" sort of things.TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-71495936017354288222014-09-22T22:59:22.316+01:002014-09-22T22:59:22.316+01:00Blimey, what on earth is this? I like the green di...Blimey, what on earth is this? I like the green dinosaur thing on the cover but the rest? Eeeek!RetroKingSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05609689348601442117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-63772655166688417602014-09-22T21:49:33.903+01:002014-09-22T21:49:33.903+01:00Wow, thanks for doing this one.. stuff like the G...Wow, thanks for doing this one.. stuff like the Ghostbusters and Postman Pat parodies are so bizzare they would work as surreal humour if they were in another comic, but the rest of the content is so earnest. <br />I did like the jarring idea of putting one of those haunting faceless characters from the Good News Bible http://www.patheos.com/blogs/scriptorium/2012/02/stick-figure-theology-annie-vallotton/ in a humour comic setting , even if the strip went nowhere. Also kind of impressed if that's all the work of one artist, as there's quite a variety of styles there.ajsmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02826165756286974308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-26154792258483084902014-09-22T19:23:45.388+01:002014-09-22T19:23:45.388+01:00"Sterile misery dribble", hahahaha!
The..."Sterile misery dribble", hahahaha!<br /><br />There's another page in there I couldn't even bring myself to scan - a dot-to-dot thing with the "picture" being a Bible verse.TwoHeadedBoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14946450138433182058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341665527709142645.post-68261533273254727712014-09-22T19:13:20.318+01:002014-09-22T19:13:20.318+01:00Oh good LORD! (no pun intended) Now that really is...Oh good LORD! (no pun intended) Now that really is some (holy) shit!<br />I actually saw a copy of this thing on sale in a charity shop many years ago but it didn't interest me enough to even have a quick, cursory flick through it. I can safely say I never experienced ONE sleepless night, wondering what was inside 'that crap looking religious comic thing that was obviously an incredibly tame Viz rip off'. Now I've seen the insides, I predict several sleepless nights, wondering exactly what kind of sterile misery-dribble actually might have laughed at this stuff!Mr Straightmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248257907210303372noreply@blogger.com