Being a voice actor must be fun

[hebbycakes]

It must be fun to be a voice actor sometimes.

I mean, especially when you get to scream your head off a lot.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=1CDD6EBE468D645B

:D

Comments

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

I dint hear nothin'. :(

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

The file is taped very quietly. You need to turn up the volume. ^^; Sorry.

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

I did. I still couldn't hear anything.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

O_O Odd. One sec. I'll check the file.

It's a .wav file. Could there be a problem with what your using to hear it?

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

No, my software checks out.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Try listening to it via Sound Recorder. That may work.

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Already did. ;_;

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

O_O OH NOES.

Hmm... I'll check the file again. I still dunno what's wrong...

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Can you use the software you have to improve its output?

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

^^; I don't have GoldWave, but I can increase the volume.

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

SAY SAY SAY SAY SAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

U~FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Why'd we start doing this again? XDDD

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Um... because we wanted to?

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that could be it.

OKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Yeah!

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Howard the Duck. Oo...?

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with Howard the Duck?

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

I dunno. What IS wrong with Howard the Duck? Oo

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

In my opinion, nothing.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

I don't even know who he is. Oo

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

...oh. Why didn't you say so? I thought you were riffing on him.

Howard the Duck was created by Steve Gerber in the late '70s. He was a Marvel Comics character but he wasn't a superhero, though he occasionally crossed paths with one (including Spider-Man). Howard often got himself into trouble inadvertently and often became a hero with more reluctance than enthusiasm. A cosmic accident left him stranded on Earth and he contemplated suicide until he met a human woman named Beverly who became his only friend.

The Howard the Duck comics were always written tongue-in-cheek and emphasized humor over action, but always had rich character development and good stories. Marvel treated Gerber badly, however, and even ended up firing him from his own comic book due to their disagreements. Without Gerber, Howard's comic lost its edge and wound up cancelled.

A live-action movie was made in 1986, with Lea Thompson as Beverly and Chip Zien as the voice of Howard. Tim Robbins and Jeffery Jones were also in it. It was written by Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck (who wrote Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom) and directed by Huyck. George Lucas executive-produced it but doesn't look back fondly on it mainly due to disagreements with Katz and Huyck over how the film should have been done. Thomas Dolby did the songs for the film. It bombed big-time and became one of the most notorious movie bombs in history. I confess, though, that I love that movie AND its soundtrack, and I really do hope they release it on DVD someday.

In the early 2000s, Marvel created its adult-targeted MAX line of comics and actually brought Steve Gerber back to do a Howard mini-series. Gerber wrote some of the hardest-hitting humor ever (DEFINITELY not for the easily-offended) and put poor Howard through the emotional wringer, but I found that mini-series hysterical and I still regard it as one of the best comics I have ever read. Since then Howard has been absent from the comic scene, but maybe they'll bring him back again. I hope they do, anyway.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Wow! That made it extremely clear! :D Thanks!

Poor Gerber. That wasn't very nice of Marvel...

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

No problem!

Yeah, Gerber got a bad break. Marvel thinks it knows everything.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

I still like Marvel, but I'm no the huge fan I used to be. Not because of the Howard the Duck series... I just stopped getting Marvel comics. ^^;

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Me too, actually. The X-Men movies have somewhat revived my interest in the X-Men, but not enough for me to start buying the comics again.

In fact the last Marvel publication I bought was the Howard The Duck mini-series I told you about. And that was several years ago.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

I stopped getting the X-men comics when I was 13-ish. The storyline(s) DIED. @_@

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's the truth.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

Wolverine is still my fave, though. My sis and I are upset that Gambit STILL isn't in the X-Men movies. @-@

[the-terrible.livejournal.com]

I must be the only person in the world who doesn't think Gambit is all that great.

[kaiba-katt.livejournal.com]

.o.