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Broken. You have to click the LINK icon in the toolbar or make a web address a link, like this.
I had no idea what Viz was until I looked. Here's the description from the site:
Viz Comic is a British magazine published ten times a year. Since 1979, its irreverent mix of foul-mouthed, childish cartoons and sharp satire has seen its creators hauled over the coals by the United Nations, questioned by Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist branch and exhibited in the Tate Gallery.
Now well into its fourth decade and suffering from hairy ears, stress incontinence and piles, Viz is firmly established as a national institution, just like Broadmoor Hospital for the Criminally Insane, the DVLA and the Porton Down Chemical Weapons Research Facility.
"Viz" - the name alone reminds me of that video game from the UK for the Commdore Amiga and Atari ST (but never the NES, ha!) from around 1990 or so. A comic so crude it might have influenced "South Park" and "Family Guy", though a lot from late-80s culture could have been inspiration (e.g. Garbage Pail kids), not to mention something no doubt illicit, but I digress. I had no idea Viz was such a competitor of MAD Magazine at the time...
Some of the jokes had some wit - it was a bit hit-or-miss. YMMV.
The comic was apparently drawn in 2017? It's a bit late to parody 1966 Trek while merging 1996 email server connectivity protocol configurations... if critics were wailing over "Spaceballs" being a paltry 4 to 11 years late for lampooning the Star Wars saga, that's nothing less than the butt of a "hold my beer" meme.
Not to mention, manual configuration of email services has been passe for some time now. Given UX and UI quality being even more variable, the old-school email applications - despite needing IMAP and everything else configured - were a bit more user-friendly, but YMMV...
Also, the missed out on an obvious joke by using "Metabilis" instead of "Meatballs". Unless that was the joke.
Also, the comic is too clean. It should be a lot more crude given it's Viz... unless that's another joke?
Addendum:
I had to look up those memories of the good ol' days... wish I hadn't, but here's the video anyway for all to enjoy, should they dare attempt to do so:
Right, here ya go... but it really is a bit crude and I forgot some of the more unexpected moments that appear in-game, never mind some of the more overt ones...
I'm a big fan of Viz although I don't buy it anymore because it's not funny and well overpriced. I bought the issue with this story in it a few years ago and there is another very funny one where a captain of a ship ready to embark on a lengthy expedition is looking for the keys for the entire story. With the familiar coming back to the same place on the bridge and saying "they were here, they were bloody here".
Most of those names are lame. But one of the more clever name parodies I recall was in (I think) a Scholastic Star Trek parody where "Mr. Spark" was a pyromaniac, and the captain ordering "Fire!" had the results you'd expect.
It’s a fairly deep-dive reference to Doctor Who. Metebelis III is a planet ruled by giant spiders, and it proved rather important to Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor back in the 1970s.
In full anorak mode, I have to tut tut the pairing of Jamie, a companion of the second Doctor, with Tom Baker’s fourth. It’s like having Spock serving on the Enterprise D.
The writers at Viz would treat being called sophisticated as an insult. This is, after all, the magazine that publishes such strips as The Fat Slags, Sid the Sexist, Topless Skateboarding Nun and Mickey's Monkey Spunk Moped.
Being crass, offensive, disgusting and vulgar is their thing. You can't expect anything too highbrow from the publication that sells tea towels depicting the Life of Christ with cats, and porcelain teddy bears designed to look like famous serial killers.
It’s a fairly deep-dive reference to Doctor Who. Metebelis III is a planet ruled by giant spiders, and it proved rather important to Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor back in the 1970s.
