ok. Books.
Well this is a "comic book"
classified as such at least.
But it is in no way:
"comical"
except in its depiction of local life.
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthre...=hawaiian+dick
Referred to as:
"Hawaiian Dick"
an unrepentant disrespectful title for a graphic 'comic book' format storyline of a haole guy newly transplanted from da mainland working as a private detective.
(in real life, you would need to be a real kama'aina to become a private detective. Anyone else would most obviously stick out like a verrry sore thumb! And not be able to get ANNNY where in their investigation.
So right there the premise falls flat as hell.)
SO:
he most definitely is NOT Hawaiian.
Upon further reading he most certainly is a 'dick" or at least those responsibe for this ambomination.
The creators were queried:
you been to Hawaii!?
one sez no.
But i got a buddy in the military there, so i get firsthand info on what its like.
Wrong chucko.
You get firsthand info on what its like only if;
You
Live
here.
THAT
and
ONLY
that.
is firsthand.
Not a military guy's accounts of hotel street if and when he ventures off da base.
da odda one sez:
No.
BUT! I been to mexico. and I passed out in an alley there.
ha.
sad.
and as equally insulting.
We are equated with any other generic subtropical clime!
experienced under a stupor.
what a sad, pathetic pseudo excuse of a qualification to write a "Hawaiian detective graphic novel".
They bring up:
'tiki culture" as their draw. Well, this concept did NOT exist in the 50's. It is a current creation of a mainland clique that was weaned on the Disneyland "tiki room" and has no existence outside of this lil club.
the dick drives a convertible. NO one drives a convertible except obvious haole tourists.
a character within the series is named Kahami, a very unlikely unlocal sounding moniker. (Commie!?)
(unless they consider this to be a generically pretty name (for some unknown reason) and the islands under the rule of Stalin or Ho Chi Min...)
the "dick" wears two shirts AND long pants. AND black leather shoes. NO one wears this alla time, here. Too hot. You are immediately branded a haole FOB.
one would expect to hear; "eh. haole crab. You one real dick. You dress li dat. Stoopid buggah!"
he also wears what appears to be, in C/U shots, (or drawings/panels) a tiki necklace. This was done mostly by California surfers. In the 60s and beyond. Wrong again, chucko!
a female asistant to "dick' sez: well, a 300 pound guy should be easy to find. "
how so!?
many of our bruddahs and local blalahs are about that!
I'm damn near that myself!
they admit to "reinventing" Hawaii.
ok so much for authenticity.
it IS a comic book after all!
yes. very comical.
more later...
Well this is a "comic book"
classified as such at least.
But it is in no way:
"comical"
except in its depiction of local life.
http://newsarama.com/forums/showthre...=hawaiian+dick
Referred to as:
"Hawaiian Dick"
an unrepentant disrespectful title for a graphic 'comic book' format storyline of a haole guy newly transplanted from da mainland working as a private detective.
(in real life, you would need to be a real kama'aina to become a private detective. Anyone else would most obviously stick out like a verrry sore thumb! And not be able to get ANNNY where in their investigation.
So right there the premise falls flat as hell.)
SO:
he most definitely is NOT Hawaiian.
Upon further reading he most certainly is a 'dick" or at least those responsibe for this ambomination.
The creators were queried:
you been to Hawaii!?
one sez no.
But i got a buddy in the military there, so i get firsthand info on what its like.
Wrong chucko.
You get firsthand info on what its like only if;
You
Live
here.
THAT
and
ONLY
that.
is firsthand.
Not a military guy's accounts of hotel street if and when he ventures off da base.
da odda one sez:
No.
BUT! I been to mexico. and I passed out in an alley there.
ha.
sad.
and as equally insulting.
We are equated with any other generic subtropical clime!
experienced under a stupor.
what a sad, pathetic pseudo excuse of a qualification to write a "Hawaiian detective graphic novel".
They bring up:
'tiki culture" as their draw. Well, this concept did NOT exist in the 50's. It is a current creation of a mainland clique that was weaned on the Disneyland "tiki room" and has no existence outside of this lil club.
the dick drives a convertible. NO one drives a convertible except obvious haole tourists.
a character within the series is named Kahami, a very unlikely unlocal sounding moniker. (Commie!?)
(unless they consider this to be a generically pretty name (for some unknown reason) and the islands under the rule of Stalin or Ho Chi Min...)
the "dick" wears two shirts AND long pants. AND black leather shoes. NO one wears this alla time, here. Too hot. You are immediately branded a haole FOB.
one would expect to hear; "eh. haole crab. You one real dick. You dress li dat. Stoopid buggah!"
he also wears what appears to be, in C/U shots, (or drawings/panels) a tiki necklace. This was done mostly by California surfers. In the 60s and beyond. Wrong again, chucko!
a female asistant to "dick' sez: well, a 300 pound guy should be easy to find. "
how so!?
many of our bruddahs and local blalahs are about that!
I'm damn near that myself!
they admit to "reinventing" Hawaii.
ok so much for authenticity.
it IS a comic book after all!
yes. very comical.
more later...
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