Coffin Comics

Poor Orcs… Can’t ever catch a break huh?

Well, this week’s theme, if you couldn’t tell, is from Avatar. I like the way it ties in nicely with the current conflict between the Orcs and Night Elves. On the one side, you have Orcs; not very diplomatic, stubborn, resource hungry. And on the other the Night Elves; dirty tree huggin’ hippies, I mean, they respect nature and live in harmony with the trees, critters, and stuff.

Warsong Gulch, other than being a mind numbing “capture the flag” game, is the divide between these people and ideals. This is the border between the Orcs’ need for resources (lets face it people, the Barrens and Durotar are hardly more than a glorified sand box) and the Night Elves’ delicate ecosystem.

Kinda sounds familiar huh? Anyways… As we know, neither side will yield or barter for resources, so… we get skirmishes.

Now a thought to leave you all with… When Cataclysm comes and wrecks all kinds of chaos and ultimately, climates change as well as resources, will there still be such a feud between these two races? Will the newly lush(?) Barrens provide the Orcs with enough lumber to satisfy their needs? Or will old tensions persist even though the actual reason for fighting has long sense passed?

(Ok, please note I’m taking a pretty big leap with the guesstimates on this one.  From what I can tell, the image is of the Barrens and from other images I’ve seen online, it looks like the Barrens and maybe Durotar are getting quite a bit of green!  And I don’t me Goblins!  Wow… ok… that was dorky even for me… lol!)

Oh! And the title of today’s mini comes from The Guild’s video “Do You Want To Date My Avatar?” Dang… now I got that song stuck in my head! XQ

Now this is one near and dear to my heart! Since our lovely little economy is down the toilet, and being out of work, you have time to contemplate all the things that went wrong. Of the many blunders made along the way, this is one of my favorites!

$700 billion of the tax payers’ money was sent to the banks to jumpstart the economy. Why not? The housing market was crashing and nobody had money to lend… Trickle down theory, that always works, right? Yeah, always works to make rich people wealthy! Basically, they passed a bill to hand over a ton of money to the banks, but left out the part saying “oh by the way, you HAVE to lend this money out!” I mean, how hard is it? Just a little sentence to create accountability for this massive sum of money. But no… what happens? That’s right, you just have bank owners handing out massive layoffs or shutting down completely and making off like bandits.

Someday, when we look back at the Great Depression II, I hope they play some Benny Hill music as they watch “The Greatest Bloopers of The 21st Century” on the History Channel. Of course, this isn’t what killed the economy… but it didn’t help a whole lot. Oh, and by the way, the trickle down theory NEVER WORKS! I don’t understand why economists think this will, but it never has and never will.

Oh well… what can ya do?