A YEAR OF GIVEAWAYS: The Squirrel Machine!
39 Comments | Posted: April 19th, 2010 | Filed under: Contests
Of course we have three times as many entries for a blasted Avengers book than we do for the one where I give away my comic book babies to you people. Of course we do. I’m not bitter; I accept that more people are going to be interested in what’s up with Wonder Man than anything I might create with my own blood, sweat, and tears. Really.
All joking aside, last week’s winner was…Zak, who suggested that Captain America, Falcon, Black Panther, Songbird, Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch would make a good lineup for Earth’s Mightest Heroes.
This week, we’ve got a new-ish graphic novel published by Fantagraphics, The Squirrel Machine by Hans Reikheit. It’s one of those books I think works best if you know nothing about its contents, but I’d describe it as rural-horror-meets-Arthur-Miller through a distinctly European sensibility. It’s beautifully drawn, disturbing and sad and you can read more on the Fantagraphics site.
How do you win this? Leave a comment with, and I’m going to be exceedingly random here, your favorite mammal that’s not a primate or conventional pet. (In other words, it could be a squirrel or blue whale but not Chris Sims.)
ANYWAY. Leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, April 24, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest a few weeks ago who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are without actually answering the very basic question provided) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
My favorite mammal has to be the elephant. It’s gigantic, but it’s just so chill all the time.
Too many great mammals for one hard and fast favourite, but I could watch otters at the zoo forever.
It’s like if someone took all the “zanyness” from ABC’s late 80s TGIF lineup – injected it into a polecat, and threw it into a lake.
In conclusion, Otters = Good Times.
Manatee. Hands down.
The Platypus. Any animal that comes this close to being a real-life chimera gets my vote.
Raccoons. They look like little burglars!
My favorite Mammal is a squnny, which was the mix of a squirrel and a bunny that used to terrorize me as I walked to my apartment after work, in a Baltimore suburb.
or Dog. I do like dogs.
Have to go with the raccoon. They’re adorable, but they eat garbage and carry rabies.
Giraffes all the way
Since otter and elephant were both nominated already, let me speak up for the humble pangolin, the mammal with scales.
Gotta go with the kangaroo.
I’m gonna say meerkat.
I would have to say Hippogriffs. Sure, they are mythical, but goshdarnit, they’re pretty fabulous, with eagle heads and beaks, and a horse body and…and wings! Who wouldn’t like wings? They’d just be fun to have around.
Great, now I have that They Might Be Giants song stuck in my head. I’m going to go with the first one mentioned in that song: the bat.
I didn’t take part in the Agreeable Comics giveaway because I don’t have a blog or MySpace page, and my Facebook and Twitter accounts are protected so posting links wouldn’t have worked. My Facebook account is pretty much dead anyway: My last update was on December 16th of last year, and my only two friends are my sister, who hasn’t even completed filling out her profile, and my sister-in-law, who’s unfortunately not on speaking terms with my family any more. I only use my Twitter account to follow my cousin’s political movie review tweets, and I have zero followers.
Without a doubt, the otter. And if there are rules against duplication, I’d *still* say the otter, because otters are just that awesome.
Okay, kuratowa already took mine, but I’m not letting that stop me. I mean, how can anyone resist an egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal? Platypus all the way.
coatimundi
I mean definitely animal made from left over parts
I guess the slow loris is excluded because, despite having venomous armpits, it is a prosimian and therefor excluded as a primate.
So I will go with White Rhino. They have the tummy-rub-loving nature of a golden retriever combined with the crushing power of a nearsighted bulldozer operator.
The red panda, supposedly the cutest animal in the world.
The white tiger, because it bit Siegfried and/or Roy, and nobody is not creeped out by those guys.
The wolf. You can fit three of ‘em and a moon on a sweatshirt.
The platypus. It’s amazing what the universe can put together with a bunch of random leftover parts.
Let’s hear it for badgers!
Pig. The most delicious mammal of all!
I like ponies.
Not the first to say this, but the pangolin. It can have a prehensile tail. Picture walking through the jungle, watching the brush underfoot to try not to step on anything particularly lethal and pushing thick branches out of your way, only to have a scaly anteater just drop out of a tree branch and, upside-down, stare at you.
Just STARING.
The sheep. Because they look up, and are not fed, and I think that’s kind of starting to piss them off.
Koala, because awwwwwwww
The naked mole rat — a mammal that lives in eusocial groups, like ants and bees, with a single breeder, and lots of sterile sisters. Weird.
Somehow I never got over my childhood fascination with tigers and ponies. They tie for my favorite, only for lack of a tiger-striped pony…
A mammal that isn’t a primate or a household pet? I’m going to go with dolphins in the hopes that they’ll at least warn me about the Vogon constructor fleet if not take me with them when they leave.
It would have to be the Platypus.
Not only is it a mammal but it’s also a monotreme; ie it’s one of only two egg laying mammals in the world. The other being the Echidna which is my secong favourite and coming in at a strong third but not due to it’s reproductive system has got to be the Wombat.
Beaver – teeth, tail, dams.
American Bison
My favorite mammal is David Bowie.
That is all.
I favor the wise and wily bandicoot, because it has an incredibly fun to say name. And the Koala, because it makes the most horrible scream if you disturb it.
Someone already stole the red panda, but I’m also going with that. The fire fox is just too freakin’ adorable not to pick. I even have a stuffed animal fire fox. It has a sweet list of names: Red Panda, Fire Fox, Shining Cat, and Fire Cat.
Too bad they sleep all day.
Capybarra. Definitely. They’re so ungainly.
Wharf rat.
Ring-tailed lemur!