Patrick Farley reboots Cloverfield

The great (and maddeningly erratic) Patrick Farley has a typically awesome new comic up: "Cloverfield Rebooted," in which the monster's true nature is revealed.

Cloverfield Rebooted (via JWZ)

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snagglepuss

Mothra owns his pansy ass.

The Golden Cake Monster’s, not Patrick Farley’s.
malindrome

Not enough shakey-cam. I could actually see what was going on in that comic. Also, the characters weren’t whiney enough, and I didn’t wish violent, monster-related death upon them.
bcsizemo

Given a choice, I think I’d pay to read that comic over sitting 2 hours to see the movie for free.
http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1nxaQhsaaw
- http://www.facebook.com/Kayube Tom Holmes
  
  This is totally what I thought of.
- Jonathan Roberts
  
  Of course there’s a Monty Pyton sketch of it, too:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1rHYWH8MY
LintMan

Anyone else here reminded of Towing Jehovah?
groves

Why does this make me sad?
- SumAnon
  
  Because you read The Giving Tree as a kid?
  - benher
    
    Welp, a lifetime of burying those traumatic memories, ruined.
- http://arib.livejournal.com Ari B.
  
  Me too. Sad and creeped out. I’m definitely an omnivore, but I draw the line at eating anything sentient. I don’t care if it wants me to, just… ick.
n0mad13

This, I imagine, is what you would see if you looked at a ginger root after consuming a good fist-full of psychedelics.
BDiamond

So, basically, it’s a big Shmoo?
- BDiamond
  
  So no one knows what a Schmoo is? Damn, I’m old…
  - tubacat
    
    I know what a Schmoo is! He lives in a swamp with Pogo and his friends, doesn’t he?
    - http://www.gyrofrog.com/ Gyrofrog
      
      No, no… Officers Fred and Barney’s sidekick! Right?
      - tubacat
        
        Actually, neither– he lived in Dogpatch, Li’l Abner’s world…
hypnosifl

I like it, but is it supposed to be satirical? I mean, it doesn’t seem to relate at all to Cloverfield, even in the look of the monster–is the “concept” here that it’s a joke about how reboots are often totally different in story and tone from the originals?
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504613204 Clyde Shaffer
  
  I guess the idea is that the monster itself is made entirely non-threatening yet the overall piece is actually scarier?
  - Ashen Victor
    
    I don’t know if it´s scarier, but it´s DISTURBING as hell!
    - Halloween_Jack
      
      Yeah, I agree with the commenter who said, ”
      Somehow this feels more horrifying than the original.”
http://www.fark.com/ Two Wolves

Cloverfield groks.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Cory should have noted that the parent page is Farley’s new sketch blog. There’s some great stuff there already. I’m surprised that the Siri comic wasn’t plugged on Boing Boing.
- Halloween_Jack
  
  I think that this might be the best medium of publication for Farley, since, as Cory points out, he can be maddeningly erratic. (I’d get into something that he’d done in the past, only to wait for another installation… and wait, and wait… and then have him come out with something else that I’d be all what is this I don’t even.)