Stealth Led Zeppelin references

     Something something obligatory "hue hue holidays am I right?" joke.  After Remembrance Day I'm mostly catatonic until the new year, leaving my room long enough to go to work and take maybe 3/5 of my required bathroom trips.  I did manage to do some other things though.  After the last update I wanted to try slapping together in a simple comic strip format.  I used to make shitty ms paint comics all the time, and if Reddit is any indication, people are still in the habit of making atrociously terrible ms paint comics.

     There's a lot about slapping together a readable comic strip that I just plum forgot.  I'm the kind of guy that has to step on the rake 30 or 40 times before I make the connection that it's going to smack me in the face, and even then there still isn't that much hesitation.  The biggest problem I have, paradoxically, seems to be effort.  Well, not effort, so much as detail.  I've been binging on Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin (he works on Regular Show, which, heck yeah), and the most striking thing about it is the relative simplicity of the art.  Not that he isn't like a million times better at arting than I am, it's just that very simple looking Kate Beaton/Pendleton Ward style that's huge right now.  Even if you don't count the art itself, there's just little things about comic format that don't occur to you until it's maybe too late.  Here, look at the four panels individually, and then see what happened when I tried to smoosh them together. 

     I had this idea a while ago I call "Shitty Wizards".  The Harry Potter books/movies are fun but who can identify with the popular jock, the popular smart girl, or the popular ginger? None of us, we're all fat jerks.  We can identify pretty hard with the kids that hang out by exit 6 smoking all day, though.  Hogwarts must have had at least some of those. 

     It's all photoshop seams up in here.  I hope it doesn't take another year and a half to get a little good at drawing backgrounds, because someday it would be cool to have well designed and coloured sets as a backdrop for the easiest possible fart jokes.

The man lied.

      Hell yeah, I am a pro at angry dejection.  All in good fun.

     You know what, looking at it now, the sloppiness is pretty endearing.  It's like the backwards E on a child's lemonade stand, or if my name was followed by "age 8". 

     It's still pretty difficult for me to draw someone twice without making them look totally different.  Photoshop cheating is the best.

     Enough detail was lost that the reference I made in the book in the first panel wasn't legible.  To make up for this after the fact, I just jammed it in to the last panel pretty blatantly.  It sort of makes it look like he was just reading the liner notes for IV at the time, which is something I bet 16 year olds don't really do anymore.

uh well uh anyway I'm not good at goodbyes so