Scharpling & Wurster pick their favorite Gems for AV Club

[nowah]

I haven't read it yet, but there's no way it's not good.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/scharpling-wurster-pick-their-favorite-best-show-g,91510/

[Bryan]

Yeah, it's good, and even better, the comment section is filled with bitching and moaning about the slide whistle business. You would think that a group of people who compulsively snark on everything would be a bit more gracious about being goofed on themselves.

[Jillian Barberie]

Man those comments on Tom are brutal---i can barely read them. Nothing like the ire of the ANONYMOUS. FOTS feel free to chime in!
 

[nec13]

Yeah, it's good, and even better, the comment section is filled with bitching and moaning about the slide whistle business. You would think that a group of people who compulsively snark on everything would be a bit more gracious about being goofed on themselves.

Yeah, those AV Club commenters are awfully thin-skinned. It seems like they can laugh at everything but themselves.

[JuiceOne]

I've read through the comments and it seems like it's 30% bitching about Tom, and 70% of people saying "he's right about us" or "I'm a fan" or joking about it.

Not a bad ratio for comments on an interview with a subject who blasted the commenters mere days before!

[dutch]

I hope the AV club runs a story that says "Tom Scharpling Says No Story Too Small for the AV Club"

[Kormodd]

Hahahaha.

[JuiceOne]

That picture is from this: http://www.kirkdemarais.com/printart.htm

Obviously the guy is a fan, and the original pencil sketch is not bad, and is fairly accurate to the reference photos, which is where the issue lies. Here are the reference photos he probably worked from:





Not the most flattering pictures of either guy.

I'm not saying I could have done a better job, but...actually yes, that's what I'm saying. I do portraiture and I could have done a better job.

[MrGtD]

I'm an avid AV Club commentor, and holy shit are those people thin-skinned.  I would be proud if Tom called out one of my lame-ass jokes and did the slide whistle after, because then something good came of it.  I really don't see what's so 'offensive' about the slide whistle bit, he took some lame jokes people made and highlighted how lame they were.  I was kinda dreading that bit coming up, listening to the podcast, because I thought it was going to be too mean-spirited, but it was goofy fun.

hoo boy those portraits are unflattering

[Kormodd]

Wurster looks all right. Tom looks like the drugged-up owner of a riverboat casino or something.

[JuiceOne]

One of the reasons Tom's looks so bad (among other things) is that in the reference photo he's leaning forward, which obscures his neck, and this guy has drawn him sitting up straight and kind of invented this weird slimmed-down 'new neck', which doesn't work at all, since the shadow under Tom's chin would be completely different in that position, given the light source. He's also dialed back the contrast considerably in what seems like a random fashion, which just makes him look old and sickly. And the hair is completely phoned in.

Ugh I could go on for days about this.

[not that clay]

One of the reasons Tom's looks so bad (among other things) is that in the reference photo he's leaning forward, which obscures his neck, and this guy has drawn him sitting up straight and kind of invented this weird slimmed-down 'new neck', which doesn't work at all, since the shadow under Tom's chin would be completely different in that position, given the light source. He's also dialed back the contrast considerably in what seems like a random fashion, which just makes him look old and sickly. And the hair is completely phoned in.

Ugh I could go on for days about this.

You sound like a pro! Do your own portrait! I bet it would be great!