Movie Punks
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| Movie Punks | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Carrington Vanston |
| Website | http://moviepunks.com/ |
| Launch date | April 2002 |
| End Date | December 2003 |
Movie Punks was a webcomic drawn by Carrington Vanston that ran from April 2002 to December 2003, normally producing three strips a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The comic was about two movie loving punks, Dexter and Seethe, and their interaction with movies, theatres, actors, and directors.
Movie Punks began in a stereotypical fashion of two friends sitting on a couch, commenting on what they're watching, in this case a movie trailer for Star Wars Episode II. From this extremely clichéd beginning it eventually became a much better comic.
Towards the end, Movie Punks started to take advantage of the uniqueness of the web medium in its plot lines. One plotline in particular took advantage of its archive. Most webcomics keep an archive of their past strips, where one can easily hit the "next" or "previous" button and browse through the strips. Normally these comics are kept exactly the way they originally appeared. Movie Punks had an odd plotline which involved time-travel, and at the end of it, there was a message from the creator telling you to go backwards through the comics, where he actually changed the previous comics in the story to show a character traveling back in time through them.
Movie Punks ended its run with one lead character being arrested for killing the other lead character, and closed on a parody of Cool Hand Luke. Coincidentally, Movie Comics also ended its run at the same time, leaving Theater Hopper and Del Mar 8 as two the few remaining movie-themed webcomics.
