more of this is absolutely what everybody wanted.
it is not a complete waste since the seeing what complainers fixate on can help me to know what I am unclear about and what they absolutely will never accept any level of clarity on. Which still accomplishes nothing long term but it momentarily satisfies my curiosity, potentially. So it is probably only about 85% waste.
speaking of cults,
Why? Tom Cruise isn’t French and he definitely isn’t an olympic competitor. He is an actor who pretends to do amazing things but in actuality is the top spokesman for a billionaire cult that actively harms its own members and tries to destroy former ones who speak about it. I realize that describes all billionaire cults but the important thing is that Mr. Cruise represents one, not which,
page 3-“54” now of the bimshwellian comic strip.
most of june twelfth was spent adding in pog and yibrick to the frames where I had not yet determined what they were doing. I thought about kumquat trying to shove yibrick in where the dope was and yibrick objecting but it did not work with any of the views of kumquat already there. this backup strategy does make me consider that yibrick’s “hair” was added primarily as a thing by which to grasp the ball-like creaturoid.
this page shows the back door, which is why the colors are different. i have done a horrible job keeping up with my various changes to location designs since I often draw something with a plan the first time, put more thought into it the second time, forget about it, and then look up the first version as a reference when I draw it a third time. at that point I may have been sick of my past self and decided to simply show another side of the building that I could not contradict a previous edition of.
the characters are more important, so naturally i spend even less time designing those.
june 13: I should have another comic page update at some point this day. it has a lot of stuff wrong with it and i should have prepared something else instead of thinking I could get it out yesterday. fortunately I do this for free and nobody except me looks at it until I announce it elsewhere so failing my imaginary deadline also does not matter to anyone except me. What is your problem(s), me?
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page 3-pre-65 of the bimshwellian comic strip
i forgot that i wrote this before posting the most recent page. it needs to occur at some point prior to that. There is also another to be displayed immediately after this one but evidently not to be finished immediately after and thus it is not here and there is for now a gap in the revised numbering.
i additionally need to do something about the gorf gnome pages ago reporting the location’s address as “dumpling and drab,” as that would seem to indicate a place on a corner, which this structure is not, and already was not before I wrote that. the building’s name could be “dumpling and drab” but if i am going to name buildings i might possibly be able to think of a better one than that. But I also thought the same about the possibility of naming me the humanoid mutant “bimshwel” after this website url and so put off doing that for years and eventually went with bimshwel anyway. The important thing is that Richard Krippendreyfuss is no longer at the top of this page.
oh fleeps I forgot that there are two extra pages with kumquat that I MEANT to draw and add in somewhere before this point. so I will definitely have to do that and amend the page numbering accordingly. OR show it later as a flash-back scene but i never established that flashbacks exist in this story except briefly and narrated by a character and this part isn’t that. I could NEVER make this comic strip as a profession.
another bit to mention, when rendering this page, the first order of business was to check the previous page these gnomes appeared on, 3-49, so i could be sure of what lines from the script they had already said, and i found their dialog quite hard to read. i recall being concerned about its legibility before but i am surprised now that I then allowed it to be that bad if i was concerned about it. and it got WORSE across just the eight frames on 3-49. Thus I spent some time fiddling with that and it SHOULD be improved now, but i initially drew that page AFTER cleaning up text on older pages than that, at LENGTH, for printing. how could i still produce such unreadable letters and leave them that way?
in editing that text i have forgotten whatever distinctions i originally intended for the two gnomes’ letter styles, but legibility is probably more important than that. As long as the speech container baubles are distinctly colored and or clearly identify which figure is meant to be emitting them it isn’t necessary for the letters to look different in each.
ANYWAY
page 3-65 of that is tentatively the last page of this section and available. this page has loads of problems but seems legible enough for the moment.
ironically elpse could probably join this club since biv also hates dumb little critters yet loves clobbering [th]em, but alas is cursed by looking sort of like them, and by occasionally getting followed by the worst of them
i identified “rootkit and pipkin” a few pages ago without having a plan for what they looked like or what they were going to do, though the essence of this scene has been around a while. i have also an old idea of an antagonistic duo that are always referred to as a pair despite one of them only ever standing around and doing nothing, maybe not even speaking, but I am not sure if this is the place to use that, if anywhere there is. that is the real reason the last frame is vague; I am not 100% certain of what figure is being shrouded there. i HAVE sketched the next page with one in mind and this shape presently correlates with that, sort of, but I might change it!
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!