Anything, Everything, or Nothing At All

[PowerBook Pete, the Mad Mod]

Leopard v Crocodile!

[Luke Blanchard]

ClarkKent_DC said:

In the foreword to an Astro City collection, Neil Gaiman once wrote that there are really only three plots: Boy Meets Girl, The Brave Little Tailor, and A Man Learns a Lesson.

He must've missed at least one, because I don't think "a reanimated mummy kills off members of an archaeological expedition one by one" falls under any of those. Teleport City's review of The Mummy's Shroud compares mummy films to slasher movies. (Adult content elsewhere at site.)

Ronald Morgan said:

In Sandman he said all stories are the same, somebody wants something.

Throughout The Mummy's Shroud the characters want things, but they want a variety of things and what they want shifts as the story progresses. I suppose the desire that most drives the action is the desire of the tomb guardians to kill those who violated the tomb.

[ClarkKent_DC]

ClarkKent_DC said:

In the foreword to an Astro City collection, Neil Gaiman once wrote that there are really only three plots: Boy Meets Girl, The Brave Little Tailor, and A Man Learns a Lesson.

Luke Blanchard said:

He must've missed at least one, because I don't think "a reanimated mummy kills off members of an archaeological expedition one by one" falls under any of those. Teleport City's review of The Mummy's Shroud compares mummy films to slasher movies. (Adult content elsewhere at site.)

 

Members of an archaelogical expedition? That is, interlopers interfering with things best left alone? That's "A Man Learns a Lesson."

[Luke Blanchard]

This movie doesn't play that way. The archaeologists are likeable. They don't refuse to believe in the supernatural once the murders start. We're supposed to hate the expedition's sponsor and see his death as a comeuppance, but his is the fourth murder and the first three victims don't have anything coming. The tomb's keepers talk about desecration but they're not sympathetic characters.

[Ronald Morgan]

In the old movies there was a lot of talk about how desecrating the tombs made the gods, especially Amon Ra, angry. They have to kill them to appease their gods or they'd be punished too.

[Dave Elyea]

I'd have thought that most of the Mummy movies came down to "(ancient Egyptian) Boy Meets Girl, Then Meets Reincarnation of Girl, Repeat as Sequels Warrant."

[Ronald Morgan]

Fans mourn death of giant 100 foot "drive through" sequoia tree, felled in recent storm.

[Ronald Morgan]

Hostess recalls Twinkies with UPC 888109111571 because of potential contamination with salmonella.

[JD DeLuzio]

Sadly, Hostess Twinkies will never again drive through the sequoia tree.

[Luke Blanchard]

Wikipedia tells me the Pioneer Cabin Tree was only an estimated 1000 years old. The Wawona Tree, which fell in 1969, was an estimated 2,300.

Wikipedia has a list of known ancient trees here. The oldest living giant sequoia known seems to be the President in California, aged 3,200.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

"Sadly, Hostess Twinkies will never again drive through the sequoia tree."

Or Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

Seriously, I've been to Sequoia Natinal Park and it is truly awe-inspiring.

[Richard Willis]

I've been to Sequoia NP also. Apparently, the drive-through tree that fell down was at a California State Park. 

[The Baron]

Apparently, Trump/Hillary slashfic manga is a thing that actually exists in the world.  (Remember, read right-to-left.)