I absolutely had no idea what this page was going to look like when I started drawing. I basically just had the plan "they put on funny outfits" and whatever was gonna happen happened. This explains a LOT, don't it?
2022-05-25 15:13:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Truly, the work of science and magic at their most dark and depraved... though if Eris had been creating DIGIMON, that'd clearly be a different story, since we all know there's not a single Digimon design that's in any way creepy or unsettling whatsoever.
By the way, has the music cue playe...
2022-05-25 09:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this whole blog is gonna be full of qualifying statements and strained rationalizations and desperate attempts to justify some really half-baked concepts. More than usual, I mean. For one thing, I’ve gotta sell an audience of otaku on an example of Contemporary Christian Music. I know, be...
2022-05-24 13:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post
My ninja skills are SLIGHTLY exaggerated for comedic effect here... but only slightly. I really did spoil their plans to get a bigfoot sighting on me my just wandering right up as soon as they got the idea. It's hardly the first time I've ruined everybody's fun by my very presence. 2022-05-24 08:41:52 +0000 UTC View Post
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
~Mel Brooks
And this is the toned down version. My initial idea was some form of cross-referencing episodes 15 and 17 and drawing the conclusion that unwanted sexual advances are always funny. Anoth...
2022-05-19 17:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I tried to imagine the most generic, all-purpose "anime director" character possible, and it turned out looking like Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno got combined in a transporter accident. Man, there's a freaky thought...
Technically speaking, the "repeatedly" part of Step 2 is untrue, but only because Step 3 prevented me from actually getting into the other parking deck. I really wasn't the one I was supposed to be looking for, though, which I probably would have been able to figure out a lot quicker if the...
2022-05-11 05:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I know it's a pretty big cheat to use copy/paste screencaps for half the comic, but I do NOT trust my ability to draw a spot-on Marlon Brando caricature enough to make this joke land. Hey, at least I'm the one person who would look at this subtitle and make an Island of Dr. Moreau joke rath...
2022-05-04 17:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
...and the worst thing is, I totally relapsed AGAIN over Triad weekend. I've been pretty good about keeping that poison out of my body most of the time, but then the con madness hits, bad choices are made. Also, enjoy the REALLY obscure Homestar Runner reference!
So yeah, that's...
2022-05-03 19:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, you read that title right. I’m doing another set of these anime theme blogs but with songs that *gasp* AREN’T FROM JAPAN! How dare I call myself a weeb? Well, first of all, I don’t. Second, we live in a world where “Roundabout” by Yes can officially call itself an “anime song.”...
2022-04-29 21:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Cue snarky jokes about how you didn't even realize I spent more than FIVE minutes on these things.
No, but seriously, until you actually try to sti...
2022-04-27 05:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
While working on the April Fools comic for 2022, I found myself looking back over the previous joke pages, and was reminded once again of how much I just LOVE 2022-04-26 13:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S NOT DEAD! See? It's still happening! Sorry, sorry, stuff piled up onto other stuff and I lost track of how long it'd been since the last page went up. And for the record, I haven't forgotten about the next Far Out There MadLib series either! I've got the rough d...
2022-04-26 07:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, this sort of thing comes up a LOT when you need to balance the practical need of the bars to restrain a character with the artistic need to actually SEE the character clearly. For some reason, though, the added wrinkle of the shoulder pads just makes it that much funnier to me. &nbs...
2022-04-21 00:45:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I seriously contemplated drawing myself with a fake Jay Leno chin here, but that just seemed like it'd unnecessarily complicate the joke. I ALSO contemplated referencing that thing where China tried to fix a city's smog problem by dynamiting a mountain so more wind would come through, which...
2022-04-13 19:40:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It's kinda weird that I wound up finishing this comic the same day that I ALSO wound up dragging a lot of furniture around my room and unpacking boxes and boxes of old books and magazines. Clearly, I'm not ALWAYS as lazy as the first panel suggests... but it's still a rare thing outside of ...
2022-04-12 23:50:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING QUESTIONS ON THIS TOPIC.
...though it IS kind of funny how sometimes the loud idiot can be my very LEAST favorite part of a show, and other times my MOST favorite. I think it's largely a matter of that character's placement in the broader context of the show. &...
2022-04-06 12:31:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, we covered the redhead half of this couple in the previous blog, so it only stands to reason that the green fishbowl would follow right after. Yes, just in case you missed the explanation last time, the half of Xeselgrox & Hanes that has a green tentacle face is NOT the one called "Xese...
2022-04-01 09:27:05 +0000 UTC View Post
You have no idea how proud I am that I made it this far into the series before making an RPG joke. But seriously, this is ABSOLUTELY how I play RPGs: the slowest, boringest, most grindiest way possible. I went back and played Mario RPG for the first time in years not too long ago, and...
2022-03-30 05:23:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, for me at least, picking up on what's going on in the rest of the room is a BIT more important than just being aware when somebody else is about to walk into me. In fact, if you're following me on Twitter during a convention trip, you can roughly measure which parts of the weekend a...
2022-03-28 13:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post
So, back when I was doing Giant Gorg, I was TOTALLY convinced Tominic was only in the show to tragically die at some point, seeing as how he was the only member of Team Good Guy who never showed up in the opening. I was 2022-03-23 09:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I really genuinely thought I’d already written this blog at some point, to the point that I had to back through the whole list of published blogs and double check that it wasn’t already there… TWICE. I dunno, maybe I started working on it but got distracted and never finished it, or man...
2022-03-22 17:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Lina Inverse would make a terrible YouTuber. She's too reserved and drama-free. But seriously, guys, they do the "Lina eats a crapton of food" gag SOOOO much!
Also, confession time: My original idea was to also have a whole column of Slayers-centric YouTube stereotype thumbnails...
2022-03-17 18:14:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey look, we’ve hit peak obscurity! Yes, I made Character Soundtracks for those two random nitpickers who have to constantly babysit Aunt Domino! THOSE two! Who even remembers those two exist? Did you? Don’t lie! But yeah, I did this. In fact, I kind of did it twice! It’s pretty clearly est...
2022-03-16 01:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, here we go again with more of these things!
And just for the record, the only exaggeration on this page is the cliff at the end, and even then only barely. My directions really did inexplicably send me down some unfamiliar bypass one morning, and I really did nearly crash on some...
2022-03-15 04:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, this is what I think the first time I see ANY form of laser blade in a work of fiction.
Also, it's always nice to see Yoink getting to perform the role she was originally intended for, blatantly quoting other works, instead of being relegated to me getting all meta about recycling m...
2022-03-10 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is smart, clever, satirical pop culture parody, right here. And if you think it's too obvious, well, my other idea for episode 6 was to draw Rezo and Zelgadis appearing on an episode of Jerry Springer. An obvious Star Trek joke was ABSOLUTELY the better option.<...
2022-03-02 08:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I really take pride in my ability as a writer to be VERY SUBTLE.
Fun Fact: the plan for the last panel was to be a regular, on-model drawing of Jenna... and it just didn't wanna happen. I had to erase and start over five or six times... and finally just gave up and drew a chibi Jenna ...
2022-03-01 02:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I had a really really REALLY long, rambling introduction for this blog that wove through everything from the repetitive themes in the films of Jess Franco to studio recordings vs. live performance in improvisational Jazz music to the nature of stand-up comedy to the fandom reactions to earl...
2022-02-27 01:31:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, the previous Character Soundtrack was for one half of the Xafri Twins, so I guess it’s inevitable that the next would be about the other half. And since Mahizam is a girl who runs around in tattered jeans, leather boots, studded belts and a big ol’ biker jacket, all topped off with a ma...
2022-02-25 01:48:08 +0000 UTC View Post