Rob Deb: A Comic Book Guy!

Rob Deb lives with his family, probably in the basement, hunched over his computer, stacks of comics, multi-sided die and D&D encyclopaedias, eating pizza and dreaming of women he has seen depicted in hand-painted lead figurines as dryads.

 

Beings

Butoh is a form of dance requiring absolute control. It can move quite quickly, but often, more usually, moves at a snail’s pace, the body creeping in slow motion across a room, or through a complex series of movements.

 

Taniwha Thames

It’s not that you can never return home. It’s that when you return you have become somebody else. Shaky Isles director stressed that Tanwha Thames is still very much in its creation phase.

 

Limbo

“Oh dear,” the little old lady says to Michael as she relentlessly knits a shapeless yellow thing out of an infinite pile of yarn. “You’re not taking this very well.”

 

Barber and Hayward

Two comics, no jokes. At least they were honest about this. Tom Hayward announced, ten minutes into his thirty minute slot, that he had no material, not even his “Have anybody ever/What’s up with that” schtick, and instead resorted to pointing at things.

 

The Rivals

Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1775, then hastily rewritten following public outrage and hurled apples, The Rivals quickly became one of the most popular play of the 18th century and still pretty funny in the 21st