A possible back cover for the hopefully imminently imminent self-published first volume of the bimshwellian comicoid. In fact, the exact same volume that was hopefully imminent a year ago. That plan got shoved behind other things, which then got shoved behind other things. After 11 months of such shoving, the management got confused and accidentally shoved the first shoved item in front of something else, and my intention is to act on it before ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGHGHF I’VE BEEN SHOVED
On this occasion, I wanted to give potential viewers a sense of the content without needing them to have any existing idea of the characters, and without having to read much. And also none of the actual pages work on their own anyway whatever your casual tolerance to mass wordage is.
Next comes an alternate version, that while personally amusing to me, distracts from the one joke, that I need to get out without dwelling on, because it is not very special and has almost certainly been done in some form previously.
Also, Yibrik may ultimately be too strange to appear within my best-attempt-at-normal-person bait. Further, within what is to be the book, yib only does appear in one frame, unacknowledged, and speaks in one other frame, unseen, so nobody would have any reason to attempt to figure out what its problem is.
However, I may use some variation on this version for the interior pages of the third/sixth chapter (keeping in mind that book part-1 will only be half of internet part-1), by which point yibrik’s strangeness will be more welcome, and the spectacle of kumquat going shopping at a conventional supermarket, with pog and yibrik, will be more apparent as strange, and likewise welcome in its strangeness. I meant it here to be strange, but now realize it is likely to be taken in the Pixar mundane-conditioning sense of strange, where we see monsters going to a normal-looking school or deformed insects driving in normal looking streets and aren’t even supposed to think there is anything silly about that, which will work in my favor because as I said I need to get normal people to look at what I made, because weird people usually do not have as much money, except when they want me to draw something else.
Of course usually only weirdos read comic books, but you know what I am committed to this and need to do it just to stop fixating on it, so I desire that you stop second-guessing me!
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Charmlaton sez:
Very interesting. I’m afraid I prefer the simpler version, for the reasons that got it to be the official back cover. But does this mean you’ve also figured out a permanent title to your monster series?
Frimpinheap sez:
“bimshwellian comicoid” is the absence of a title! The front cover image I made just says “bimshwel” on it, which I think suffices for an informally distributed work, though I wish I could think of something else that I liked better.
Charmlaton sez:
Remember, normal people like puns and wordplay. If it can make a good tagline for a blockbuster, it’ll work for your comic.
chesse20 sez:
good joke lol pog loves shopping cart
Spamster sez:
S-SELF PUBLISHED!?
It’s so hyperactive it published itself?
Frimpinheap sez:
My self! Its self is content to wait for somebody else to help, and I am the only person who will. And it has not yet occurred! The only thing that has happened is pog has loved shopping cart.
Indighost sez:
Yibrik is my favorite character in the comic. He has the best personality
chesse20 sez:
this isn’t related to the post, but there seems to be some experimenting with the sites layout going on
pzkfw sez:
NORMALLLLLLLLLLSSSSSSSSSSS
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[…] theoretically this is actually part of the better comic strip, but I don’t know where in the “story” it goes. possibly in some part that has not yet been made. or perhaps before. It was made for the back cover of the first printed book a longer post with an alternate version is over here. […]