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[edit] Hi!

Cool picture on your user page. Funny, you don't look Goth...

Anyway, I wanted to leave a note of support for your books. I'm sorry if my voting a few months back came off as harsh. Also, thanks for your insight on the "Kefka's Revenge" discussion. Feel free to drop me a line anytime you wish. NARF! - Lucky 6.9 04:03, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia widow

This headline link may go from blue to red anytime soon so I'll be brief. I started this article last night and after further reflection and under more sober circumstances I have tagged this article for speedy deletion as I believe it meets the criterion of General article 7 (1.2.7) at WP:CSD. I can't believe that there's an argument going on about whether it should be speedy or not. Geesh. I'm glad it made you smile. hydnjo talk 23:29, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Well it's gone red already. Let me know if you would like a copy to sell to whomever (no commission due). ;-) hydnjo talk 00:01, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Amateur Writerz

hey, awriterz has moved to awriterz.org, please update your link.

[edit] somethingawful.com

Just a heads-up: your site was featured today on somethingawful.com ... thought you'd like to know that.

[edit] The FartKnocker

The FartKnocker

The FartKnocker cover, drawn by Jonathan M. Sweet
Publication information
Publisher Smoking Cat Productions
First appearance The Belch Dimension Comics #19 (Nov 2006)
Created by Jonathan M. Sweet
In story information
Alter ego Marvin Horn
Species Human Male
Team affiliations none
Notable aliases Fatblocker, Heartbreaker
Abilities none, athough suffers irritable bowel syndrome

The FartKnocker is a fictional supervillain in The Belch Dimension Comics. His real name is Marvin Horn, and he is a resident of the Jigaboo Junction area. He first appeared in the Nov 2006 issue of Belch Dimension, in a filler story written by Jonathan M. Sweet and drawn by Sweet under the pen name "M.S. 'Nat' Cohen". FartKnocker is a joke villain similar to Batman's Killer Moth. His bizarre appearance and schtick refers to a joke superhero called "Fartman", as well as to the Frank Gorshin Riddler from the sixties-era Batman series. FartKnocker, unlike any other character in the series, is animated with a split photorealistic head, similar to Saddam Hussein on South Park. The photograph is that of a former business partner of Sweet's with whom he had a dispute.

"Fartknocker" is a term of derision which originated with Beavis and Butt-Head. Its meaning is uncertain, but it has been variously defined as a homosexual, an excessively flatulent person, and the sound a fart makes when it strikes a wooden chair seat, similar to someone knocking on a door.

History

Marvin Horn was a truck driver who retired and opened a small store, presumably in the town the series is set in, Jigaboo Junction. When his business folded, he adopted a criminal persona out of need for quick cash. Because Horn suffered from IBS and flatulated a lot, he took the name "FartKnocker" and donned a costume consisting of a green mask, skintight brown leotard decorated with a fart cloud and the initials "F.K.", grey shorts, and loafers.

His first appearance was a full-color five-page lead story in November 2006 titled "The Foul Stench of Doom!". The title was inspired by a He-Man minicomic called "The Stench of Evil!". Another working title early in the scripting stage was "It's a Fart-Knock Life". The story was unrelated to the main story, "Demi-Jon".

Horn's headquarters was an abandoned bean cannery. He expressed a desire to fight Jon, the leader of the Treehouse Warriors, but was sorely disappointed to find that only Jon's friends Chance, Jimmo, and Jason the gibbon came to call on him. The "second-stringers" explained that if FartKnocker could impress them with his scheme, they would put him on a list to fight Jon in a future story.

FartKnocker ranted and raved and then finally explained his plan. He was going to use a sound wave amplifier to make one of his farts loud enough to cause a massive earthquake inside the New Madrid Fault. When the city fell into the ocean, FartKnocker would take over. (The plan bears a striking resemblance to the plot of a short story Sweet wrote a few years earlier, "La Corneta del Juicio".)

The heroes laughed and picked apart his plan as having several major flaws, the worst of one was that the city would be underwater and everyone would be dead, so who would he rule over? They were constantly rude and condescending towards FartKnocker. Chance mispronounced his name twice, and Jason thought part of his plan--one involving putting a hose up his rectum--sounded "kinda...you know". They eventually grew bored of ridiculing him and left, deeming him not even worth a "fight montage".

A lot of FartKnocker's backstory is based on that of Sweet's ex-business partner, who owned a small engine repair shop that the author managed. Arguments about how to run the business and a vicious power struggle eventually dissolved their friendship and closed the shop's doors for good, and Sweet despises him to this day. The FartKnocker's appearance was based on a photo of his partner that Sweet recolored the clothing on using MS Paint and adding a mask. In the comic the body is hand-drawn, and the head, often shown in bizarre poses and expressions or even wildly out of scale with the body to add absurdity, was simply Photoshopped in later.

Although The FartKnocker never starred in another script, he can sometimes be seen in brief cameos throughout the series. He is an inmate in Apex Asylum in issue #31 ("Little Romeoh-no"). In "The Superhero Roundtable" (#32) he is shown in a new costume resembling a giant red hot dog and now going by the name "The Gaseous Weiner". He frequently is visible as an extra in crowd scenes--oddly enough, in full costume, even in public. Fartknocker is shown to have a preteen daughter (or possibly granddaughter) in "Booting out Bobcat" (#34).

Powers and abilities
The FartKnocker has no powers, unless one counts his excessive farting. He seems to have a sketchy knowledge of science and some small mechanical genius, devising a sound wave amplifier using rubber bands, a funnel, a shoebox, and a garden hose, and a "lead helmet". He claims it is a "prototype" and that he will buy real parts at Radio Shack. To his credit he has done a little research and learned Jon's weakness is toxic lead; however, a helmet he has constructed to weaken him is largely composed of tinfoil. Though ambitious enough, he appears to lack the money or resources to be a threatening or even competent foe.

Sweet has said that FartKnocker is "an allegory for the unrecognized creative genius struggling to be seen by his peers as worthy, but ultimately mocked and spurned".

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  • I remamed and reuploaded the file. By the way, someone hacked the FartKnocker entry and added some insults directed towards me and my work. God help the liberal scumbag if I ever find out who he was. The_Iconoclast 21:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] The Editor's Barnstar

The Editor's Barnstar
I noticed that your edits dealing with cartoon related articles, especially classics were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Editor's Barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 06:05, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Speedy deletion of Pinto Colvig

Disregard -- I was able to revert to an earlier, non copy-vio version... Cheers. SkerHawx (talk) 04:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fear fetish

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