The Slater
August 6th, 2004 by gina.revill
I was laughing so hard at this comic my flatmate was a bit worried I’d pop something. It is a work of pure genius. I may be biased. It was written by my brother David when he was about 11. It is online thanks to my other brother Anthony (I have a lot of brothers) who has scanned it for your reading pleasure. But do take his warning seriously-this is not for the faint of heart…
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Flipping too large file sizes for a 56K connection, I will have to wait till I can get somebandwidth!
Stephen Powell
August 7th, 2004
The Slater kicks arse ! He should get a syndicated show. Joss Whedon should write it ( and I should learn how to spell his name right ! ).
Seraph
August 9th, 2004
How could you do this to me Gina. After all the nice things I’ve done for you? Like the time I held the torch for you going down the garden path, then turning it off and running back inside. I only remember that because of the whipping I got from Dad with a fishing rod. Still have the scares. I must admit it is very funny but not intended for public use.
David Revill
August 12th, 2004
Too late now-fame and glory are yours…
Gina
August 12th, 2004
David,
Tell us some of your sister’s secrets, lots of us would like to know!:)
Denise
August 12th, 2004
I know she has a crush on that potato-faced greaseball from the Lord of the Rings movie… but maybe that’s no secret.
Yes, the comic is funny, but don’t sell yourself short, old son. You demonstrate a pleasing knack for sequential art (look at page one of Super Ted).
Your Slater, however, is no genius. And his mate, who looks suspiciously like my old teddy bear, is hardly capable of giving The Slater the runaround in the smarts department.
What does this mean?
It means that on page two, The Slater tells Super Ted that Super Ted’s mission to Earth is over, “…Because we’re all friendly.” Yet, the very next person Super Ted meets is a smirking psychopath who tries to kill The Slater with a death ray.
Having dispatched the villain with a single mighty blow, Super Ted is content (in his own sweet, simple way) to go back home, having determined (don’t ask me how) that we are all friendly!
We don’t need to discuss the Worm story, surely, in which the younger man summons the older man to help him wrestle with a disobedient worm in his bedroom…
*****
And a couple of classic quotes from Slater No. 2…
THE SLATER: “Someone’s robbing the back!” (Whose back, and what could they possibly take?)
THE SLATER: “So long, good fried.” (Maybe The Slater has a suppressed hankering to see Ted grilled—and I don’t mean interrogated.)
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I’m afraid our childhood was cut tragically short before the sequel could be produced, but one wonders what Super Ted said in the report to his superiors on Wakatipu World…
“Well, I went all that way and met only two Earth people. One was a sort of chubby guy wearing striped underwear. He was pretty useless, but his manners were impeccable. The other was an unshaven lunatic sporting an insane grin and a death ray. Of the two, I would say the guy with the death ray was the more interesting!”
Anthony Revill
August 14th, 2004
Well, if I ever had the thought of making another comic, it has gone from me now. Although in your breakdown of it, Anthony, I had a good laugh. Can’t compete with that.
Something about Gina. Ask her how many times she listened to John Denver. I would say her favorite singer, if going on the amount of times she listened to him.
David Revill
August 23rd, 2004
Good god you two-I ‘ve nearly died laughing from Anthony’s description of that comic and now am horrified about the John Denver reference-that is totally unfair-I was under 10 and had no taste…I had no idea you even remembered (I did think he sang Calypso rather well…) If any more secrets such as this come out I’ll be spilling the beans on you two and the noodle incident…
Gina
August 31st, 2004
Well I have to say something now. Can’t be left out. I’d back Gina up on the John Denver revelation. There’s no way he was her favorite singer, (although I do remember his music being played now and then). No, I remember her literally wearing out ‘Air Supply’s Greatest Hits’, with titles like ‘Now and Forever’, ‘Two less Lonely People in the World’, ‘Just When I Thought I was Over You’, ‘Even The Nights Are Better’, and ‘The One That You Love’. The words and music are indelibly printed on my brain. When our parents separated Gina and I were living with our Mum and her new partner Paul in a very small flat and this record was played until it was see-through. Whenever I hear their music it takes me back to those times. Must have been around 1982 or 1983.
Douglas Revill
September 13th, 2004
…anyway - what’s wrong with John Denver?
Douglas Revill
September 13th, 2004
There is nothing wrong with John Denver. It’s just the fact that Gina would hate anyone knowing that she listened to him. I remember her saying as a teen how she couldn’t believe she used to like him. As for Air Supply, there’s some tallent. Anthony’s favorite second only to the Beatles. I remember him saying if the lead singer was a girl he would marry her, or him?
As for the noodle incident, do tell. It’s a bit like before and after photo’s of someone who was out of shape and then got into shape. My boyhood has turned into a manhood.
David Revill
October 9th, 2004
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