February 16, 2010

Stephen Anthony, Episode V: Anthony Strikes Back

I’m holding my breath that we’ll only get one email today, and writing my critique now:

This baby is pure (brown &) gold.

  1. This headline is dismal. Cooper Std. Black is a reasonable font to use in some circumstances, but paired with a drop shadow and that spray paint, this is a whole different thing. Where did you get that spray paint brush? It is outrageously bad.
  2. Both the “Feb 17 7:05” (Stephen Anthony Time Style #2), and “Go Crusaders” are written in a font which I can’t identify, but if I had to guess, I would say “Comic Sans retarded cousin.”
  3. Speaking of that “Go Crusaders thing, who thought that was a good idea? Is it supposed to look like Homer Drew actually has that on his coat? Was the tie not outrageous enough? This is a failure in every way. I don’t understand who thought this was a good idea.
  4. The black border around the whole thing cuts off the side of the quotation mark on “Come and Play Student Trivia Contest”. So that’s pretty awesome.
  5. MBB? It took me a second or two to figure out that this stood for Men’s Basketball. We all could have done without the acronym though, I believe.
  6. Once again, the use of punctuation here is astounding, “Know your MBB trivia” is a sentence with a subject and verb and everything. No punctuation. “Prizes Awaraded!” is not a sentence. It gets an exclamation point. Awesome

Keep em coming Stephen Anthony, two at a time as usual. I want to click the link to unsubscribe, but just like a car crash, I can’t look away.