Comic #85 The Eighty-Fifth comic by Jordan Roher

Too Obscure For You?

What’s that claptrap spewing from Kavian’s mouth in the top row? He’s giving Savannah Peter Parker’s speech to Mary Jane from the movie Spider-man. I can’t believe MJ didn’t throw up while he was saying that. “You feel excited, terrified… you don’t really know how you feel.” Ugh. I never forgave Spidey for that.

The second row features another blockbuster movie ruined by a pointless romantic plot. Savannah’s giving Trinity’s speech to Neo at the end of the original Matrix. It was then that I realized how much Japanese influence the Wachowski brothers had soaked up: they’d clearly watched Love Hina, where a nerdy guy gets the perfect girl. Double ugh.

Finally, Savannah’s little women inside her head create a forest from, say, Kill Bill, featuring a similar death list. The title of this comic is about as inconsequential as “The Fourth Film by Quentin Tarantino.”