a recurring and stupid problem.
this is not the new comic strip page that I threatened last time! That is complicated. It will be better than this. Still probably underwhelming. But building it is complicated.
I think you will definitely need to click on this in order for the text to be legible. apologies for not making it permanently unlegible!
when I show nonsense like this, it is crucial to not make viewers uncomfortable and think I am looking for [ity compliments or trying to intimidate them into sharing posts that they don’t want to, and resenting me, since the character in these dumb comics on many occasions shares my experiences but is not meant to “be” me. As much as I have dwelled on why they do or do not, I have never asked somebody to share one of my posts! And I do not reckon I will. Hopefully changing the character to the jerk fish form I have used a few times before limits that somewhat. I only call its usual shape a “snake” because before I did people would call it a worm, and worm is an extremely vague animal name. Earthworm seems to be implied, which is an entirely different phylum from snakes and other commonly anthropomorphized animals, lacking what we think of as faces and limbs entirely, and non-annelid “worm”s are even further from that, and I am not comfortable with that manner of inaccuracy.
also the “normal” comic strip has not been cancelled. I do not know that I have ever cancelled anything. except for minor works like “goldilocks and the berenstain bears” which only existed on school computers when I did not have a home computer, I have been thoroughly unable to cut my losses in life, creative-ish or elsewise or elpsewise (though never nemitzwise since nemitz is highly foolish).
this has been going on for years
2024’s edition is yet un resolved
I read too much weird garbage about people who I do not understand
i inadvertently rather like the little red-cloaked creature
page 3-64 of the bimswellian comic strip. the last row likely requires more coherence and hopefully it will be within my power to give it some before anybody sees this. but greeps it would sure be nice if I got stuff right the first time and also that trusting in obscurity giving me extra time to fix problems wasn’t the only thing that allowed me to meet imaginary deadlines.
at what point does it become 4-1? i am uncertain. i might need to show the next page checking back in with the gnomes in the apartment first. as usual, as always, i am not entirely sure what is coming next, but now that i have passed through i think the last of my 10 plus year old semi-scripted sequences I am less sure than before even. There are still some semi-scripted sequences but they are merely 10 minus years old.
page 63 of part 3 of this
you will believe i still cannot draw the lopemobile without looking at my own references from over ten years ago
ALSO I neglected to check that the title tag on the previous page 62 “This is one frame too many with nemitz in it” showed up properly and failed to notice that it didn’t due to a repetition of 61’s :”I hate this page because the bowtie meep does not get beaten up during it.” As the bow tie meep does not get beaten up on either page it is very possible to believe that this duplication was deliberate. In the future I will strive to have the bowtie meep get beaten up on every page so no such confusion can occur.
i ALSO failed to notice that the “comic strips” link at the top of the page did not work, making that one tab out of six with any reason to be there. The url WAS valid before all the security certificate shenanigans of the past few years. It should work now although I still have yet to upload the other pathetic snake comic strips from where I stopped with them during the initial announcement that I had made a page for them in 2022. Thankfully this is not pathetic enough to have an additional comic strip made about it and added to the badcklog.
the NEXT page should be available before july 19 ends, but I also thought that about July 15, which is why I didn’t say anything.
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page 60 of this
possibly you will be disappointed but it was necessary. I can change the specifics at a later point (as I apparently have done with the scenery in this room numerous times), and to a degree before the next page. somebody I last saw 11 years ago and who no longer exists in any form I am aware of told me never to show this but
that person later also sternly reprimanded me over tumblr for my complaining about excessive quantities of unremarkable nearly identical fanart units and built a shrine to a team fortress 2 character in its home and so I generally do not regard its opinions highly
the “original” design for this character, when identified internally as “pico de gallo,” before I decided on traits that will not be evident until the next page, called for it to have a single eye stalk. However now that Gidjmerg exists and also has a single eye, even stalkless that makes them seem more related than they are. It was also rather bulky but it looks too jabba the hutly the way I tried and decided against here. apart from any of that I don’t want to add more characters that are hard for me to draw, however infrequently they will be seen.
this character didn’t necessarily exist in the old comic strip that kumquat’s ancestor and pog came from, but I also remember drawing it holding a doom chaingun back when I thought that was a “cool” thing to draw. Almost as much as holding a wine glass, even though I had no desire to drink wine and 20 or more years later I still haven’t.
I also drew proto-kaklabesk holding a wine glass, in one of the very few surviving fragments from my earliest doom edits, which is perhaps why I ended up putting its weaponry in the same category. I couldn’t find the chaingun drawing in this sketch book, but I did find numerous pictures of
proto-lope physically assaulting nemitz which hopefully is all the information you need about how my thinking has changed since then. I can’t say nemitz doesn’t deserve it but lope simply isn’t that dangerous.
page 59 of this.
It still does not address lope (the lizard), the gnomes in lope’s apartment or the elpsemitz situations which I also set up without concluding, but I think this is important since I laid out the next lope part over ten years ago before the character gidjmerg existed, and so I feel it necessary to explain why gidjmerd is not going to be accounted for in it. Or at least I do not expect it to be.
the “art” work on this page is particularly questionable. I tried that third row at least four different ways. The usual gripe, not enough space for all the junk I want to force in. Then three years from now I will either think it looks fine or that the solution to fixing it is obvious. Unless to spite myself having said this I will be just as confounded, so I anti-spited that by drawing attention to it, but then re-spat by drawing attention to my drawing at-AGHGHGHGHGHGHG I’VE BEEN RECONFIGURED
page 3-58 of this
I changed “gitchmerd” to “gidjmerg” because it was brought to my attention that “gitch” can refer to underwear. as “merd” will, with the simple addition of an E that goes unpronounced and thus may be imagined as present even when it is not, be a french word for excrement that is considered more obscene than the ordinary french word for excrement, I considered the combination of the two undesirable to have people think I might have intended unless I did, which I did not. It is enough that the drawings are crude without the names also being so!
I will ideally have amended the previous instances of the name before you see this but unfortunately was not able to before I saw this.
imp fact I think it was only said one other time, on page 3-52 and that was simple to correct, although I thought the letters there suddenly seemed too skinny to be legible, and that I would need to later redo the other word spaces also to make them match the one I just did, but NOW they do look more read-ready than the comparatively bloated and irregular alphabits I just added. I also noticed that the telephone/meep’s column did not match between the two pages. I suppose there is no great necessity to keep those consistent, which is good because I would also need to check every other page it appears on and see which was more prevalent and likewise fix the rest. Lack of fixing is not the majorest problem with this production!
page 3-57 of this
once, if ever, I sort out also what the gnomes in the apartment and kumquat outside are doing round-about this point, this may be a higher numbered page. for now i have a fairly loose mental grasp of what is going on since I jump between so many slow, uncompletable projects, so I need to follow this thread in a fairly linear manner to have any control. I know enough that it doesn’t risk tangling with the others for a while. the next two pages are likely to be mostly yelling over a telephone and elevator usage. Those were not in the plan, so I ought not try to manage several additional plans with additional unplanned nonsense simultaneously.
I also should finish uploading pages from the shoddier comic strips. I say that now because I do not expect to do that now.
I avoided knowing or caring who Elion Muskzales was for years, and he suddenly became relevant enough that psychopaths I was within the pretend internet social radius of started talking about him and I still don’t understand what is special about him because there are a lot of shoddily managed businesses out there. Yale New Haven hospital is full of nonsense like this; it bought every other hospital, and then had freedom to make everything worse, charge customers more, give them less, promote more boneheads, cut benefits to and assign absurd shifts at random psychologically damaging hours to the actual good people working for them, and all that sort of thing. And as far as I can tell that is the ultimate goal of capitalism and it is all the rage hatred and fury right now. Any business entity that ISN’T that WISHES it was that. It just doesn’t always have a singular funny-looking billionaire mascot with a stupid name at the top to adoringly attribute every asinine and or misanthropic decision to. Of COURSE Trump fans love that creep. They WISH they could have that much money and so little regard for humanity. I don’t understand that at all either, but again it appears to be common.
I am not sure what the rainbow grunk is. Initially it was all green, then I added more colors, and wondered if I should change it into gummy bears, but I don’t think i could make anything that small read as bear-shaped if I dumped the time into trying. but this is progress, for me, since in the past I WOULD have dumped that time and had nothing of value to show for it. Which is not to say I have time to spare, now. I merely incurred less time debt.
I still haven’t fixed the broken image gallery system. I suspect that I cannot. The descriptions for how to do that, as is typical, assume I didn’t just run some automated installer years ago and then edit stuff AROUND that in order to just barely get it to work, and actually understand code or am paying someone else who does. Does this LOOK like a website that has enough going for it that its owner can afford to pay people?
I also don’t have time to keep making these dumb little comic strips. When am I going to be able to get back to my dumb big comic strip if ideas for these that seem manageable enough to try and make keep coming to me?
i was for some reason thinking of the remake of the old 1989 Capcom Ducktales NES game that i guess is itself fairly old by now, evidently having been released in 2013. I have long been of the belief that old games like that worked specifically because they had cheap graphics and text only dialog, if any.
systems and gimmicks that function in corny old low budget video games just make me uncomfortable when the graphics are high definition and voice actors are yabbering on constantly
I thought it was stupid when I first saw internet dorks hyping up the concept before it was released, but I did relent a bit maybe a year after it was released and watched a few minutes of that game and it made me uncomfortable. I have not checked on it since then or if the villains make any direct spoken acknowledgement of Scrooge trying to plunge the end of his cane into their craniums, and it may yet be some time before I do, if I do. What I know does go on is Scrooge saying nonsense about Mrs. Beakly’s baking skills while he is jumping 30 feet into the air and being chased by mummies, because one of the power-up items happens to be a cake. I can accept a dumb CAKE in a crypt in a stupid 8bit nintendo game that gets instantaneously absorbed by the protagonist with a bleep noise, but not if that protagonist starts talking about what a great cake it is. Then I wonder why a cake is there and how even an enchanted talking duck-humanoid is able to consume an entire cake that fast and actually be better off for having done so.
this attempt at a Final Fight version doesn’t quite work since I can’t draw haggar without meticulously copying the sprites and depriving them of energy with my unintentional vampirism
also clicking on that won’t make it any bigger because
the system I upload large artwork pictures to, whose code bits have NOT BEEN TOUCHED since ever, possibly jealous of my several-years inoperable “recent comments” box on the sidebar, broke down for no reason between when I started this website entry and now. All the pictures are still there but the sub-website they formerly could be uploaded to and more importantly browsed through on became just that text there. This website is so dysfunctional that it causes computer programs to get depressed and kill themselves.
Also consider that Hulk, transformed by magical gamma radiation into a being of monstrous size that common people are afraid of, is still smaller than a city mayor elected by them who presumably is too busy going to meetings and managing budgets to work out at all.
Nobody should ever talk to this serpent
the depicted dialog is simplified for brevity and exaggerated to make the orange creature seem more pathetic; the interview proposer in reality was humble and cordial about the matter and I talked too much to be understood easily so that I seemed like I was claiming to have never done anything as an artist when in fact it was recognition and a sense of validity that I worried was lacking. It just FELT like this.
I decided against this conclusion because:
I, whom this character shares many traits of, do not own a gun
I cannot draw guns well
a lot of people don’t have the background to find an implied suicide attempt of an immortal fictional character funny, and they may be better off for it.