Sally Forth as Written by a Japanese School Girl
Humor is international, in that sometimes it takes someone several continents away with a preliminary grasp of English to make something truly brilliant.
To wit, I received the following email from one of the contributors at Something Awful Forums:
“I’m Sarah…I’d been posting newspaper comic strips from the states as rewritten by my junior high school students. I teach English in Japan. I’d been considering sending a few of them off to the original writers and artists but never got around to it. Your appreciation for robot monkey-inserts made me regret it, so I wanted to at least get Sally Forth’s re-imagination to you, as it was coincidentally one of the better ones. For the project I took about a week of strips from various comics, erased the dialogue and handed them out to my class of 20 15-year-olds to do as they wished. Sally Forth was selected and rewritten by a happy girl named Makoto. I hope you find it as amusing as I certainly did.”
And so, with that in mind, here’s Japan’s better answer to Sally Forth, which would be no doubt called Ted Forth: Heartless Bastard.
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Ted Forth is a dick.
Next week: Sally and Ted try to patch things up at a Star Wars themed love hotel.
I want to strike him later.
Wow! That is truly bizarre, in a wonderful sort of way.
すごい!
That is the best thing I have seen all week. All hail Makoto!
I think she has a future in comic strips!
I wonder if she was named after Sailor Jupiter from the Sailor Moon show…
“That’s an unreasonable demand!”
Hear hear! Can that be Ted’s new catchphrase?
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These are awesome. “Yoshio has a wife! It’s surprise!”
I think it actually says “It’s surprisey!” which is oh, so awesome.
Brilliant!
You should ask her to do more of these and save them as a buffer to be run in case of illness. The only danger is that the main continuity would lose popularity for not being WTF enough.
…and that’s not so bad, because then you could indulge in your own delightful brand of Sally Forth WTFery.
I am in awe. I’ve never had much interest in manga and anime, but a few more of these could persuade me to change my mind.
And as an added bonus, you now have a backup writer any time you need a vacation.
Lettering needs work, but the script is perfect. Your job is now at risk.
This is absolutely wonderful.
And it still makes more sense than Gil Thorp!