While Rob Osborne’s 1000 Steps to World Domination (AiT/PlanetLar) isn’t laugh out funny on everty page, I don’t think it’s supposed to. It has a lot of other things to give beside being a funny book. Like a purpose and a heart. One mans struggle to conquer the world through comics—and the comic he draws nobody really likes, not his wife, not his monkey—has a message. Not one of those pesky morals or anything like that.

“Do something even if it sucks.” Now, Rob Osborne—the real one—knows how to draw but that’s beside the point. The point is to do something. Anything. (Possibly even someone.) To conquer. No matter whose against you, be it a wife, a monkey, a God or family members. Sure, you might not succeed right away, but with time something is bound to happen as long as you’re doing something that makes you happy.

And it really made me want to do a mini-comic myself. To steal a phrase from the time Tommy and I came up with the let’s-write-a-book-and-get-rejected-idea: how hard can it be?

Comments

1. As hard as my dick, while watching Oprah.
   — Ola    (@ 31. October 2004, 15:05)
2. Tommy: you’re drunk? Or is the because that thing I said that you should spend more time with your workbuddies to make you feel better? (And I really didn't need to know about your perverities. You probably have the "you have a car"-episode on computer, DVD, VHS and BETAMAX.)
   — Nicklas    (@ 31. October 2004, 22:48)
3. Hello!
   
   A truely awesome site you have here, I´m bloody impressed by it´s quality in pictures and all.
   best regards
   
   Seppo
   — Seppo Laine    (@ 3. November 2004, 21:15)
4. Seppo: You don’t need to be too impressed. Tommy built the whole thing when he was drunk. Originally, it was meant to be a support site for bukkake addicts, but something went messy, his fingers slipped, and in disgust over the horrible design he created, he gavie it away to Nicklas. Nicklas being the kind person he is, didn’t want to insult Tommy and accepted, even though he noticed every little flaw he saw. But it warmed his heart to see his old friend so happy, and so he was happy about it too.
   
   That’s a 100%, completely, true story. Accept no other versions, folks.
   — Boo    (@ 4. November 2004, 10:16)
5. I wasn’t drunk! Goddammit. I was totally utterly sober, honestly. And, by the way, I didn’t write it. Ola did.
   — Tommy    (@ 4. November 2004, 13:30)
6. Tommy: Well, Nicklas said you did. And since he is our always honest and morally perfect lifelong soulmate and not so secret gay lover I have to trust him. It really was you, you skanky ho.
   — Boo    (@ 4. November 2004, 14:24)
7. Seppo: Thanks.
   
   Boo: gay? Why am I always the last person to know these things? Damnit! Is there a mailinglist or something because really, I seem to way out of the loop. And I think i prefer the version that Henke made the site in playdoh for me. I mean, Tommy’s a hack.
   
   Tommy: to my knowledge, Ola doesn’t enter other people’s email in the email-field. So there.
   — Nicklas    (@ 4. November 2004, 15:24)
8. Nicklas: Actually, there s:
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nicklasisgay/
   
   Don’t tell me you missed it?
   — Boo    (@ 4. November 2004, 15:51)
9. to miss qoute former miss Hanigan “say my name You hoo´s
   — H.Andersson    (@ 5. November 2004, 03:41)
10. You don´t need me, do you? I can stay at home and just listen to The Beatles. Don´t even have to write my own comments. Handy.
    — The Actual Ola    (@ 12. November 2004, 18:44)

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