An ACSian Will Die Today (Pt II)
To Be Continued...
This issue consists of eight pages in total. Dialogue in this series written by throughglassdarkly.
From our guest writer (throughglassdarkly) for this series :
"I wish to offer my thanks to the following people, both dead and alive, for using their visages in the strip :D ; Burt Lancaster, Emmy Rossum, Ava Gardner, Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Ronald Reagan, Al Pacino, Paul Newman. Glad my efforts had paid off."
And our apologies for the delay for the past weeks, it was due to some technical problem we are having. - Hou
An ACSian Will Die Today (Pt I) < | > Christmas Special, Continued | >> An ACSian Will Die Today (Pt III)
posted by En and Hou at 7:14 PM
Xpress cartooning by two students, En & Hou
reflecting the Singapore
education system and its schools. 
126 Comments:
Interesting, not like your usual work though.
finally! a post!, neways. great work on the art and story (well so far anw)
great artwork.. though hard to understand..
First of all. I wish to offer my thanks to the following people, both dead and alive, for using their visages in the strip.:D
Burt Lancaster
Emmy Rossum
Ava Gardner
Richard Widmark
Karl Malden
Ronald Reagan
Al Pacino
Paul Newman
Thanks Z and acdude, I wrote this series, and I am not en or hou. That explains why this strip is different. :)
Glad my efforts have paid off. I have been watching a LOT of black and white gangster movies/noirs to get a feel of the dialogue and plot, if you like this story, it is recommended that you watch these movies:
THE KILLERS (1946)
CRISS CROSS (1949)
NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
SCARFACE (1983)
ROAD TO PERDITION (2002)
VJCian, this is continued from the previous week. Do follow this story. This is as close to Hollywood as Students Sketchpad has gotten yet. :D
hey just kill the acs bitch can?
acs sucks and what is maent by golden tap? a sort of sexual connortation?
this strip reminded me of sin city. singapore's very own frank miller? whoa.
acs rule the world!
This is so Dick Tracy.
Well my dear Rafflesian, it was just a wry way of saying that the ACSian villain of this story realized that his girlfriend just called the plumber way, way too often so she could let him drink her homemade lemonade, see?
yeah. my sentiments exactly! the whole vibe that's coming from the strip is VERY VERY dick tracy-ish, sin city-ish and mafia-type-ish. definitely one of the best and most intriguing comic styles.
well.. its done great, but i dun realli understand the contents. :)
Meh, the rafflesian asking that the ACS dude die (Come on, suspense exists for a reason) and asking what golden taps meant came off rather amusing to me.
The story is very good thus far, but I'm quite curious as to how long En and Hou are going to have this series going. I'm rather certain a compromise will occur and the story's going to end rather abruptly, or it's going to drag on really long. Well, I guess I'm going to be surprised quite pleasantly how this turns out, I hope.
Anyway, good work thus far on the comic, we all appreciate a change every once in a while, unless it involves Tablet PCs getting damaged. =\
thanks for updating! ;D
Love the art, dont' understand storyline.
fantastic piece of art. although i dont really know what's going on =x
great.
but how do the killings tie in to the st joe's boy?
and could anyone enlighten me on what it meant by the Chink?
haha thanks.
Ha there people of studentssketchpad. i love what you do. i think its real cool. haha.
Okay, throughglassdarkly here for a breakdown of the story so far, we told it in flashback chronological order, so here the story goes:
1. Saint Joe boy Xavier was a down on his luck plumber a few years ago before he was in the gang, and one day he received a call from Giselle, the singer of the Yin Yang Club.
2. They met, they had an affair. But the truth was that Giselle's boyfriend was the evil wheeling-dealing ACSian of Unknown name. (More on him in future).
3. The ACSian gets mad, he kills Father O'Brien, and three of Xavier's friends.
4. Xavier goes to his Godfather, goes on a rampage and enters the den of the Chinese mob to smoke out the ACSian.
Is it any coincidence that the girl's dressed all in blue like *ahem* a certain school.
Hurr,
Chink is an insulting word for a Chinese person. Since the story is set in a make-believe 1950s America, such phrases would be expressive of attitudes at the time.
anonymous,
I don't think the girl's dress sense is anything more than a coincidence. After all, part of the appeal of Sin City is the way Frank Miller uses "trademark colours" for certain characters eg. the Yellow Bastard. In this case of course, my guess is that it's "the Girl in Blue".
Finally! Waited so long for this, but I suppose it was worth the wait. :) Love the not-so-direct humour.
Fellow Annonymous,good point! I didn't think of that.
Rafflesian:
I assume "golden taps" is sort of saying:
Golden - rich (which is associated with ACSians)
Taps - Plumbing.
oh man to those who dont get the point.
the girl in blue is a damm scgs girl. xavier's a josephian. with all the irish roots. and the ACSian and Xavier fighting over the girl in blue.
i dont see the HCI godfather here. and certainly no Rafflesians! X)
Finally. (:
Love the style! And aww, no rafflesians... add them in, please? x) especially those who growl like cavemen!
Great entry by the way, great plot, great storyline and great drawings! And also, great difference from the usual ones. (; The wait wasn't too great though... but you are forgiven. Hee.
wow... yin-yang girl is soooo HOT... great job guys!
but wat abt the huang cheng?
OH YES I LOVE FILM NOIR!!!! :)
aww yeah, finally the girls in blue are getting a comeback! ;) nice incidental tie with sin city, too.
i love the noir feel and the art is rocking some serious boat. ignore all the people who are complaining about it not being like your usual style, experimental stuff is good rather than just the same thing all the time using up material to work with.. i for one am liking the change! (though your chibi stereotypes running around will always be the quintessential SSP feel to me ;))
yeah.. dis is so cool =) the gal in blue =) yayness
Interesting interpretation of the SCGS uniform you've got there...OOH sexy.
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HAHA PIK YANG THE PLUMBER!
well, i for one understand perfectly!
however it sorta sucks. good attempt though. i preferred your older ones because they were more original.
BUT BUT BUT who cares what i think?
hmm just wondering, what is the name of genre that this type of comic drawing and expression is under. yes, looks sin cityish and soap opera.
i prefer strips more related to schools !!
do one on jc leh.. :)
hhaha bold alteration of the scgs uniform! Bibi and Baba would never produce it for us, though, lol.
Loved the art and throughglassdarkly's explanation made me SEE through the glass (pun, pun!) yeah, I understand the whole thing now and NOW i really appreciate it :)
How long is this strip gonna be, though?
AAIIIEEE I loveee the art!! Very pretty. And the story's nice and complex!
3 cheers for studentsketchpad :)
haha..i just wanna say ..i think the scgs girl here is one hell of a sexy character.
Anonymous, the style that this is done in is called Noir. Has its roots in German Expressionism. In the immediate postwar Hollywood cinema a lot of films were dark and shady like this and told stories of criminals, doomed love affairs and generally the darker side of life. Some good examples I have listed above. Sin City is of course another good example.
Anyway, MORE familiar looking folks might appear, so keep your eyes peeled. ;)
reading this i can't help but think this plot's familiar.
desperate housewives plot,
gabrielle had a secret affair with her gardener - teenage boy named john. all this happened when carlos (her husband) was out closing shady business deals.
need i add that they're rich people?
neat piece of work, must definitely laud the quality of the drawings over the dialogue.
the scgs girl is way hot just like MY girl ;)
KILL the josephian
Call me dumb, but I don't get it!
im just dumb i cant get it. anyway why is hc huang cheng appearing in the strip? can explain? haha.
i prefer more relaxed and funky cartoon related to more schools thou
*YAWN*
boring.
it's a pretty good comic, but definitely something not your studentssketchpad audience is looking for. you should set up an alternate blog for such kind of non-humor comics or you'll lose all your audience.
p.s. it only rocks when it's moving; i.e. a video or movie and it's pretty dull when it's a comic.
Looks like some people don't appreciate a good joke when they see one. I personally laughed till I cried.
Don't feel disheartened just because a few people don't really like this sorta stuff; count me amongst those who think it's an interesting new thing to try out!
Seems like to some people, a comic is good only when people laugh.
reaally?? i thought throughglassdarkly did a wonderful job at the laughs..
i thot it was quite funny.heh.
-En
it sucks
Xuanchuan, and all those that STILL don't get it, this strip basically follows the formula of mocking school stereotypes that the strip always has. Except that it recreates the schools and student types as warring gangs and criminals in an imaginary America somewhere either in the 40s or 50s.
The fun-loving, drink-happy, rugby-playing, Roman Catholic Josephian becomes the whisky-swilling Irish Catholic gangster. The materialistic, manipulative SCGS girl becomes the high-maintenance, super-conniving femme fatale, and the businesslike, sharply-dressed ACS guy is the unscrupulous smuggler. HCI becomes the Chinese triad that owns a nightclub called the "Huang Cheng" (sounds like a nightclub name, don't it?), because if you watch all those Hongkie films like KUNG FU HUSTLE the Shanghai mob always owns nightclubs.
The whole point of this strip is that you have to take note of all the details to realize what the creators are making fun of.
agree with previous comment. it's good to know that some people still know how to appreciate good art and scriptwriting. 'nuff said.
love the Noir. really impressed by your artwork guys. keep it up.
throughglassdarkly: a jostein gaardner fan are we? :)
It's very good... though you have to think before you get the jokes though.
Thanks to the Anonymous person who explained it for the slower people...Like me. :x
People who put down this comic because they don't understand it and didn't make an effort to understand it, just go away. Your input isn't appreciated here. Go and find some other blatantly amusing webcomic to read, or go back to making childish jokes about poop and boogers.
i think this is horribly good (:
awfully good, you mean. ARTWORK IS STUNNING!!
To Wicked: If you don't have anything better to say don't say anything at all.
Whoa.. Love the foray into the film noir thang. Reminiscent of Sin City!
you know what en?
if you would just change ur damn bloody f-ed up attitude, you wouldn't be so hated in acjc. Know when to say what and what on earth comes out of that filth mouth of yours.
fyi this has no relation to this blog, or any post.
en sucks,
I do not know how en is really like, but I wish to tell you this. I don't care if he's a jerk or the nicest man on earth, BUT I would believe that if you want to send any personal messages to en, you should do it by sending to the email account rather than the board. This is just being rude and not knowing the difference between private and public.
Thank you.
This one is really clever--impressive work! Thanks to all the people who helped explain the stereotypes; I've been away from Singapore too long. And the art is great, too! Really shows how flexible these guys are. Three cheers for collaborative creative efforts!
waaat? i'm hated? by whom? and u are...?
Er, I believe this is not the place to flame anyone for personal reasons. If you have issues with En, then say it to his face. Don't be a cowardly little rat and post your hate message on an Internet thread.
I would like to clarify that en is a very sexy man,a very nice person and makes a delicious indian chutney
yea... en is a super nice boy!
en is simply like a hero! i got to noe him at an unknown island where we were both stranded at after the lousy duck tour boat capsized and we were swept by a gigantic wave away from sg river. i got hungry, waitin for the navy force to save us and so, he offered me his only mars bar. what a gentleman! but we werent alone on the island. a resident of the island, a 12 feet gorilla had caught the en did not hestitate. he simply threw himself at the gorilla and scared the gorilla away wid his threat of makin it the next major character in the next comics in studentssketchpad!
he is my hero!
acjcian pple jus dunnoe him well.. aww...
interesting! hey how about the pretty and classy mg girls
*snorts*
CHINESE CUTTHROATS!
kill the acsi boy man and let the pirated rafflesian called josephian kill him!
btw burp is a gay called gabriel tong yihan
i happened to have overheard some comments he made about girls. U want me to post them here, en?
I just hoped that public message would cause you to wake up your idea.
It would take a hundred miracles, for any girl who was there, in that room, to not hate you after hearing those.
I'm not going to post it here. u just watch what you say in public.
OH MY GOODNESS! it's worth the wait! hurry go work on the next one! whee! XD
WTF..bloody feminist..
go spread your doctrine of gender inequality somewhere else!
errr...En & Hou, u guys gonna do somthin for ACJC's FUN-O-Rama? my school forced me to buy ACJC tickets! and not all acsi students are that rich.
back to the art, wicked noir styled drawings! really impressed by the change of art style. if only my girl was wearin the blue dress... hahaha... can't imagine wat SCGS girls would be like if they actually changed the uniform to be like what en & hou drew it as.
please ignore your ignorant detractors! i love the new feel of the noir-inspired comics.. and yah tho, there are some parts i'm clueless abt, i still think that u guys(including the guest artist) shld do all genres. it's YOUR blog aftall. PSHAW to the audience.
Cool down people.
Cool down please.. i think you are offended at my slightly chaunvinist ideas.
i said all those things to my guy friends, and i am seriously sorry if it offends you. I sincerely am sorry..
still if you are open minded and game enough to engage in a discussion about gender differences, and the flaws of the feminist cause, and even some of my generalisations, i gladly send you an open invitation to do so over the hotmail account studentssketchpad@Hotmail.com.
please.. don't quote me out of context, especially when i'm just jesting around with GUYS..i admit i say tonnes of stupid things(and lewd)..when i am with guys.I seriously wld have thought twice if i'd known u overheard whatever you heard.
I am really sorry, and i hope you are not too affected by what i said...What say you, would you rather debate over the political incorrectness of what i said in jest? Or defend your statements?.. send your grieviances and augish to the hotmail (studentssketchpad@hotmail.com) please.. here is not the place.. right now it just seems rude to just say i am that hateful..
and lastly, i don't even know you.. and you base your judgement on what you overheard.. the word "hate" is abit too strong isn't it?
I will watch what i say in future with guys in public .. i am sincerely sorry, please forgive me.. I think it would be best to resolve whatever grudges you have against me after overhearing whatever i said in the hotmail.so please... be game.:)
I've apologised.. please accept.
-En
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YK,
Sorry about it, but what gave me the impression of Irish-ness in SJI were:
1. Catholicism
2. The Color Green
3. Rugby
4. Drinking/Clubbing Culture
Besides, one associates Ireland and Italy with the ne'er do wells of Europe. No one associates France with that anyway...;)
two thumbs up for e graphics! but y e last page, e guy looks like he is wearing a skirt? XD
hmm... shouldent call it graphic. shuld call it drawings. haha
nice. been waiting for your update for weeks! takes quite a while for the content to actually sink in after reading though :/ hahaha. nice art too!
Hahahah.. This is new... Pik yang as a plumber! Great job on the artwork and the storyline is really new and interesting.
took ya long enuff to feature sji in a comic(other then the short stint in "lost").. hahaha...
xavier chia pik yang
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
great artwork. that is totally wicked film noir (:
xavier chia wai tuck
of raffles junior college year 1 2006
nah. its xavier chia pik yang of acjc
Top O-level student is from cedar this year! YAY! :D
Don't be silly, en. There's no need to apologize.
There's a term for what a bunch of guys get up to together. It's called "talking cock". The contents therein can be the most offensive stuff on the face of the planet, and it's still ok. And don't pretend that those of the female persuasion don't get up to it too. Who knows, they might be even better at it than we are. There's no reason that they get a free pass with their gal pals while guys have to watch what they're saying.
Basically what I'm saying is, buzz off and chill. If you think whatever he said was offensive, wait till you overhear some NS boys talking. Especially after long lonely nights...
Can you do something new... let the acsians be the heroes and the rafflesians be the loser villians who dies everytime.Nice plot though.But title shold be Rafflesians are nerds.or no one will read it.:D
So cinewhore, have you seen any of the films throughglassdarkly recommended above? You seem quite knowledgeable.
great job with the artwork! and the girl in blue is so definitely SC. singer at the club yin yang? (think: SC crest)and light blue dress/uniform?
nice artwork dudes!!! love the whole thing!
btw, i don't know why rafflesians hate us to the core (neither can i be bother to know why) but rafflesians are usually associated to intellectuals, so try not to make comments that tarnish that image ;)
With fame comes trouble and increased attention which magnify every small move in great detail.
Dear authors of student's sketchpad, i do hope you are not male chauvanistic pigs.
No, in fact as the writer I respect women a lot. It's just that this genre is often defined by gender roles.
@ac guy
well i believe if that acs boys become heroes then i guess the viewership of studenssketchpad will drop tremendously cos everyone knows how dumb acs boys are...
so please do not insult our brother school raffles institution because we do not take well to it you posers.
rg girl
Now now rg girl... That's entirely uncalled for...
rg girl...
just nerd behind a screen.
you think you make up the world?
think again.
Anonymous,
I've seen a couple of them, especially the later ones. There were a few which I saw in film theory classes as well.
The most recent film noir that played in Singapore was The Ice Harvest, which opened around Christmas last year.
http://cinewhore.blogspot.com/2006/01/have-yourself-bloody-little-christmas.html
But one of the most visually and thematically stunning noirs I've seen in recent years has to be the Coen Brothers' "The Man Who Wasn't There". It's perfect.
And throughglassdarkly, I'm wondering how old you are. It'd be a rare JC student with your knowledge and love of the genre.
On an unrelated note, it's been awhile since the studentsnotebook has been updated... Meritocratic Jesus is getting kind of well-worn, I think.
Cinewhore is correct, I am in NUS. But I have had video club membership since I was 14 years old.
throughglassdarkly: Good for you! I wish I had video club membership... haha. I should probably get one, I'd probably save tons by not buying so many DVDs.
Cinewhore.
Try getting Library@Esplanade premium membership, it's the best. At 50 bucks a year you can get up to four flicks a week. That was in fact how I saw most of my listed films.
BTW, cinewhore, can you give me your email address...then we can communicate directly.
Lol nice art! When you include raffles students, though, I hope you don't make them seem stereotypical again. We're not like that, really. (Ok, perhaps only some of us)
AC boy dont so offensive lah!
ahoy! sc girl is hot hot hot ((: no surprise there. i love the jab at the yinyang thing. damn funny!!
i think you draw SUPER well. i cant get over it! whoosh, man!
rg girl, chill man. lay off the ac guys.
meah!
Acs boys are not dumb and neither are rafflesians nerdy. So what is the point of insulting each other?
rg girl 2
i like the fan artwork. very nice
Does the sc girl's butt look a bit too disproportioned to her body? o.O
love the sketches and good job throughglassdarkly.
I'm starting to think that your stories are absoulte nonsense. Your stories are supposed to be "deep", when they're abstract beyond comprehension. Just like picasso and his cubist art.
The art is lovely, and the whole 'gangsta' feel of it really comes through...and amuses me to no end. Love the poking at the different schools, as usual, and the dialogue is really, really IC for the different characters you're supposed to be portraying. So hats off to throughglassdarkly for that!
*grins* And again, the whole gangsta-AU concept is really cool and also sidesplittingly hilarious.
Thanks!
Call me out of date, but what do "IC" and "AU" mean?
Hey can somebody applejack the retard rafflesian who posted comment no. 5?
Ah..sorry. IC means In-Character (for the parts they were supposed to portray, anyway) and AU means Alternate-Universe.
woah giselle is one hot chick man.anyway gj.very sin-city esque...but how come u ppl watched it anyway wasnt it R21? i guess u jus got a pirated copy like me lol
There aren't any Rafflesians in there because they're all government officials, and as we all know government officials from RI don't associate themselves with the dregs of society.
Cheers.
hahaha
giselle is supposed to be an sc girl. hahahha "yin-yang club"
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