Epic Last Words thrown together by Wilbur
Filed under: mission
The Griffin: Chapter 8
Writer: Dan Vado
Penciller: Norman Felchle
Inker: Mark McKenna
Letterer: Ken Holewczynski
I finally got to find out how he gets into bed with that lovely lady at the beginning of chapter 9. It wasn’t quite the build up I had hoped for, but hey, a supernatural person making a booty call is pretty solid way to get things done. In his defense, he had had one heck of a day fighting people in space and dodging cobalt torpedoes after all. Plus his com padre in space fighting died and issued her last remark. A quote to the effect of , well I may have died honorably, but I’m still dying nonetheless. Pretty profound, and that’s what made me think a bit more about the nature of other people’s final words.I do seriously wonder where the inspiration for a last remark comes from. Of course in comics, stories, books, movies, all of fiction, the writer gets to choose and hand craft the perfect thing to say. Nothing wrong with that, it makes a great story. Unfortunately real people do not get that sort of luxury. It’s not so much that we don’t have a dedicated writer helping us out. In fact I might hire one a bit later in life to come up with a good quote for me. But rather there is the problem of not knowing when and most importantly how you are going to go. That really creates an issue if I proclaim I have died an honorable death at 90 while blowing out my lower intestines on the crapper. Or telling my children I love them while I die from a heart attack from a local hooker.
These situations don’t even have to be so extreme or grotesque. I could be cooking up a nice dinner for myself and accidentally peg myself with a knife. Now the first thing on my mind is A) stop the bleeding and B) get me to someone to tell my last thoughts. If no one is around that is a mighty big problem. I suppose one solution to that problem would be to scrawl “How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?” in my own blood accross the linolium floor.
Maybe I will just strive to make my last words as subtlety confusing as possible. I have a few ideas cooking, and all of them are destined to drive my loved ones insane.
this is such a juicy conundrum! true, last words are much harder to create in real life as death is but a mystery to most of us. i sometimes wonder what famous dead people might’ve said when they were about to pass. like, elvis. i wonder if he curled his lip and said something like, “damn, that banana/peanut butter sandwich is coming back up on me in heartburn form, uh-huh…” or if maybe james dean uttered, “i never even got to kiss rock hudson (sigh)…” i suppose we’ll never know. but if i get a choice, i think i’ll try and say something profoud and/or hilarious like, “what is that smell????” or “if only i’d gotten to _______________” i won’t know how to fill in the blank until death is upon me.
Comment by allison 08.28.08 @ 4:26 pmTo have a good indication of what your last words might be, you would have to know that you are indefinitely going to die, like getting diagnosed with some incurable fatal disease or being put into hospice and you know you will die if the doctors turn off the life support. I think then you would surprise yourself and come up with some pretty cool last words like “If you hit my headstone with a mower I will come back from the dead and kill you.” Or “You will never find my porn collection.” Your right though. What if you have some genius last words but the only one that’s around to hear them is your dog. I don’t have to think about what I might say. It’s just going to be some smart ass comment that won’t be funny at all and whoever hears them probably won’t care anyway. My last words will be written on my headstone, so be ready to see something along the lines of “I want some Mike and Ike” The candy not some guys named Mike and Ike geez get your mind out of the gutter.
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