Milestones..

That's twenty bucks that Jason owes me. When I first decided to put up a webcomic I didn't think it'd get very far. I figured that like most of the stories I did it would end up a disjointed thing only showed for a bit and then not seen again for a long time. Then I would move on and do something else for a bit and lose interest in that too. But this last year was different. I focused on this so much that I'd actually let other ideas go that I'd have otherwise pursued. A deadline really screws you up that way. But no worries. I got more done because of a deadline. It wasn't just for that twenty dollars of course, but for that elusive prize. Bragging rights. Going for one full year without missing one update. And with that I bid you farewell for a couple of weeks. I'm off to make more comics to make a buffer between the comic I'm drawing and Saturday update.

Rabid..

Just a silly little comic today. It was down to the wire for awhile there. I was still inking the comic on Thursday morning. That's not a good place to be. But I came through another all nighter so you the dear readers can have some measly entertainment on your Saturday morning. Now I know what the writers of Loonatics feel like. If you don't know the subject of this comic, then maybe you own a certain big black speed bump. Then again, they had it on the other consoles. I just can't imagine how that went. But this comic dedicates the announcement of Raving Rabbids 2. Some advice for the people down at Ubisoft: This time include an ENDING!!

Fifty Baby..

It's been a wild ride. Fifty comics. Can you imagine that? FIFTY. That's not like hitting double digits. The most I got out of a comic before this was 10 pages on my Super Mario Brothers comic. On original work, before that it was eight pages on S'mores Force. And I'd still like to do more with them. But that's for another day. This post is about Same Apartment. It's their day this Saturday of Saturdays. Gar, Posey, Mort, and later Mac have been through a bunch of things. When I started this endeavor I was trying to find a bit of stability. While I had some fun with things like Fast Food (the Ronald McDonald thing) and reimaginings of Mickey Mouse, Popeye and the Brothers, I wasn't really thrilled with going on long periods of time with any of them. The Mario Brothers comics would take a month to do with other things in between. And Fast Food was such a random idea that while fun, I couldn't see them really doing much. Then I started reading comics. Web comics. I read through the archives of Applegeeks and VGCats. I thought I could do that. It wouldn't be hard. Maybe a bit of stability. And (as I thought a lot then) if I don't like doing it, I can always just cancel it down the road. Well here we are fifty some odd weeks later (I lost a bit of time in the shuffle of the Fun with Puppets comic I think). I never thought I could get this kind of following. It helped to get my web site up and to give me something to regularly put in my Deviantart page. But it also helped me to make up new characters that I think people connect with. And they turned out more differently than I could've imagined. But I'll save that for later. I leave this entry as a marker for fifty comics in the can. And hopefully more to come.

ReDoo..

Well this is it. That thing that's kept me doing simple comics since last month. It took three weeks and a mad rush at the end there, but here I am, at seven in the morning with a finished comic that's almost nothing but pure experimentation. I wanted to see if I could. Because I don't experiment much nowadays, and I needed to see if I had a detailed dark moody piece in me. Apparently I couldn't do that without some familiar characters, but that's another story. Penny is my own creation though. Mostly. This is a comic page with Scooby and Shaggy a bit older and a bit more weathered. After all, Scooby Doo is about thirty-eight this month. He and Shaggy have been traveling across the country and ran into this girl on the road. Naturally, even though they've been at this awhile, they still manage to run into ghosts here and there. And naturally Penny's not used to this kind of thing. It's a simple one page character study, and I may return to it, but for now enjoy a random experiment. I hope it doesn't stop there, but it'll go in it's box for now..



And here's the Same Apartment comic to commemorate.

Smooth..

Small joke about Wario Ware. I needed a quick one, and I figured, if I don't get this one done, it'll seem too late to bother commenting about the game (if it's . If you're not familiar with it, basically it has you doing a series of actions that are humiliating, but you need to do them quickly and a bunch of series of these humiliating actions in random intervals. You do them so quickly in fact, that you can't think about the crazy actions that you are doing. The game is wonderously fun to play, but very hard to get started. I wrote this with Mac originally, back when I got the game in January. Hope you like.

Borg Jetson..

Quick sketchbook page. I've been watching too much Star Trek!