The Dead Alewives' Rob Schrab's "Scud" Omnibus released, & tribute song by Luke Ski at the FuMP!
the great Luke Ski
The newest song from the great Luke Ski
Download the free MP3 now at the Funny Music Project,
http://www.theFuMP.com
This is a song about what is in my opinion, the greatest comic book
ever, "Scud The Disposable Assassin", created by Rob Schrab.
Rob and I used to take improv classes together in Milwaukee. Rob is
one of the original members of "The Dead Alewives", giving him the
distinct infamy of being 'the Mountain Dew guy' in the world renowned
"Dungeons & Dragons" sketch. During Scud's original mid-90's run, he
moved to L.A., where his growing Hollywood workload made him decide to
stop "Scud" at issue #20 with an armageddon-implying cliffhanger. Rob
went on with his comedy partners to create such cool things as the
pilot "Heat Vision And Jack" which starred Jack Black and was directed
by Ben Stiller, "Robot Bastard", "Channel 101", "Acceptable TV",
"Monster House", "The Hell O'clock News" for Tenacious D, he directed
a video for Death Cab for Cutie, and he is the co-creator and director
of "The Sarah Silverman Program". A decade later, Rob felt it was
finally time to finish what he'd started, and created issues 21
through 24 of "Scud", which at long last finishes the story. Image
Comics released them over the summer, and today released "Scud The
Disposable Assassin: the Whole Shebang", an 786 page Omnibus
containing all 24 issues, available at your local comic shop now. Rob
also announced a Scud fan film contest at his website, http://www.robschrab.com,
and has already gotten some great entries.
I have been wanting to do a song about "Scud" ever since I started
making music in '94. The song's time has finally come. Many of my fans
have told me that they would have never seen a movie or started
watching a TV show if I hadn't done a song about it that peaked their
interest in it. My "Scud" song is my ultimate expression of attempting
to achieve that desired effect. The comic book "Scud" is the coolest
thing in my life that most other people don't know about. So as well
as paying tribute to something that has meant so much to me over the
past 14 years, I hope you'll go pick up a copy of the Omnibus and get
sucked into the world of "Scud". And FYI, I am going to attempt to
make a music video for this song before the end of the month for the
Scud fan film contest.
The opening and closing music for the song is by Chris Mezzolesta of
Power Salad, with vocals by Chris and Carrie Dahlby. What else left is
there to say about it, other than... ...It's cool to be a robot.
~ Luke Ski, July 22nd, 2008
For more info on Scud visit it's page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud_the_Disposable_Assassin
Click here to see the cover of the Scud Omnibus, so you know what to
look for when you get to the comic shop:
http://www.imagecomics.com/gallery2/g2data_373ph4nt/albums/comics/2008-07/scudwholeshebang_c1.jpg