ScumLife

A couple weeks back my lady put ‘King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters’ onto our Netflix que. To be honest with you, when it came I wasn’t that psyched to watch it. I thought, “How interesting could a movie about a bunch of guys playing Donkey Kong be?” Five minutes into it I was hooked. Once I saw what a prick the quasi-mullet having current-coward-champion Billy Mitchell was and how he was denying the loveable, everyman Steve Weibe his shot at the title, I realized this was more than a documentary about a video game. There was a plot, a story with a hero and a villain, a bully and an underdog.

This film is the ‘Style Wars’ of Donkey Kong, if not all video games. There are a lot of parallels. In ‘Style Wars’ the bully was Cap. He too had a haircut that was made fun of (”this guy named Cap, with his Lucille Ball hairdo”). But the similarities between Cap and Billy end there, cause Cap was a true bad-ass villian, who left us many quoteables. Billy Mitchell is a bitch-ass-little punk who deserves to have his manhood taken at more than just Donkey Kong. Pause. Actually, nah, no pause.

Anyway, I’m not here to talk about Cap or Billy Mitchell. I’m not even here to talk about Steve Weibe. Nope, today I’m here to talk about Roy Schildt aka Mr Awesome, Billy Mitchell’s original arch nemesis. And after watching Roy’s video I realized that, if anyone was to take Billy Mitchell’s manhood at more than just Donkey Kong, it would be Roy Schildt aka Mr. Awesome.

Also, if anyone has any luck finding his book, ‘Mr. Awesome, The Comic Book Life of Roy Schildt”, hit me up because I want a copy. Thus far, I don’t see any proof of it actually existing anywhere.

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