SUCCCAAAAS!

[secondlina]

You gotta admit, playing soccer (European football) to solve international affairs and wars would be hilarious and probably well-received by the public.

Oh well. Never gonna happen. A girl can dream though.

My coworkers seem to think it's hilarious i'm bored. They say i'm too used to stressful jobs and that the will take me out of that. I am exagerating though... I mean, it's not even been two weeks. I gotta learn to chill, stat! (that seems like a contradictory sentence!)

This week, I a in love with Jeff Smith, creator of the comic book Bone. I wish I could kidnap him and get him to show me how he inks. There's great youtube videos about that! Look at him go! He's a god!

I think I might try to draw a mock page just to try to ink more like him... His work is just so SOLID. I know the re-published Bone in color and most people prefer it... But I just love his black and white work better. Jeff Smith, Craig Thompson and Terry Moore are artists that draw to publish in black and white. So whenever someone photoshops their comics, it always looks off to me... Then again, i'm kindoff one of those artists too. not a godly one, but a black and white one.

-Isa

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

The only problem with soccer/football is that it does incite violence in people. People have been injured or even killed at games when something causes an upset with the crowd. It's just...awful... If that didn't exist though, it would be nice to use sports to settle differences. In fact, that's one reason the Olympics even originally started!

(Whoo! Vancouver Olympics soon!)

[gigabahamut666.livejournal.com]

*sighs* I'm sorry, but as someone who has regularly been to football games and has yet to see actual violence, I find this comment really unfair on the game I love. Yes, in the 80's my team has been at the centre of some terrible tragedies. At Heysel, when 39 fans were killed when they were rushed by Liverpool supporters (I could go into detail about how the final shouldn't have taken place at that stadium and that there were plenty of threatening Juventus supporters egging the Liverpool fans on, but still, if the Liverpool fans didn't rush them, they wouldn't have been killed). Also at Hillsborough which actually had nothing to do with the fans and was actually due to police error (something which no one has yet to be punished for).

The game then and the game today is a lot different. Because of Hillsborough, football stadiums in the UK are a lot more safer now, the game has been made a lot more family orientated. If I thought she would have been in danger, I would not have taken Megan to one of the games with me when she visited.

The fact is, any sporting event can cause violence. To state that it's only one sport is just wrong. Games in which supporters have great passion over can cause emotions to overspill and create violence. I'm sure the same happens at baseball, basketball, American football. To those who don't know better, American football and hockey appear to be very violent sports, especially when players are beating each up on the field.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Keeping in mind that football is an international sport played all throughout the world, just because it's safe and orderly where you are does not mean it will be the same elsewhere. We do have people who act foolishly at (or just outside) sporting events here in the U.S., it's true, but secondlina specifically brought up football, so I replied to that.

[(Anonymous)]

First off, dude, you're totally european. Second, I kinda agree that in sports, though it is sometimes the athletes that do the violence (such as in hockey where fights are almost enraged... But only in NHL hockey. Never seen any fights in olympic hockey... Because they don't play it for show!) it's mostly the 'passionnate' fans. Heck, in the last few years, in montreal, every time the local team won there was a riot. Seriously. Including things throw in people's windows. Maybe having sports instead of wars would lead to more civil violence?

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I couldn't have said it better myself. I thankfully live in a small area that doesn't usually see fan rioting, but I do watch the news. It is a very real aspect of sports, no matter what corner of the world you happen to call home. (I blame mob mentality. Nothing like a big group of people to commit random acts of destruction.)

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! That would be an awesome way to settle disputes ;)

[neshel.livejournal.com]

You know, I swear I've heard about a book or movie that has a concept like that...

[gullwhacker.livejournal.com]

Isa! NIZE HAT!

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

*gasp* You dare say that there's a sport in Canada more popular than hockey?! Inconceivable! ^_~

Anyway, that would awesome if we did that instead of having wars.

[amelia-seyroon.livejournal.com]

I LOVE BONE! 8D

[mangaka-chan.livejournal.com]

Sad thing is, if it's soccer, the US would pwn China (in men's soccer at least, with women's it's hard to say :\). Even Chinese people (points to self) admit the national soccer team sucks. OTL

[kokumi009.livejournal.com]

It brings the world together, yes? (lol at the hilter reference)
Not to mention how much money can be used for health-care and education instead of those blasted ammunition and tanks.

oh by the way, that Mayan doodle reminded me of the animated movie, Road to El Dorado! love that movie.

[rowenathewitch.livejournal.com]

Soccer as weapon? Where can I sign? We could rule the world 8D

Anyway, since soccer in europe is SRS BIZNS, it's not that detached to politics even in reality: have you heard of the Ireland-France issue? A french player scored a goal irregularly and the referral "didn't notice", so as a result Ireland got kicked out of the world cup. This is resulting in a real political incident between Ireland and France and it's all over the news (I can't believe it and I don't know if I should laugh or cry XD)

The soccer world cup is so funny (expecially if your team wins :P): you see grown up people in television behave like stupid kids, the streets are a desert and the finals seem like a real war

About violence in soccer: I'm with gigabahamut666 here. It's not soccer's fault: I know personally a couple of ultras and I have talked with them. These are people that go to a soccer match and do everything BUT following the match. The head ultras always sits in a place where he can't see the match AT ALL. In the end, it's an excuse for small criminal groups to beat other small criminal groups, they would do the same even at the ballet contest.

Anyway, in England where gigabahamut666 lives the problem is over and it would be really simple to apply the same rules in all europe -_-

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

I totally want to see you in your soccer garb now...


Man, I LOVE Bone!!!