Hey, just one stupid comic page this time! (plus the second half of the previous, just because I like making people scroll vertically) Someone told me I might have more friends if I tried that instead of waiting a long time to finish three pages. Although this still took a long time.
Indeed, though there’s just the one page and with very simplified backgrounds, my nemitses, it’s still been a month since the last. I did do a bit of work on the backgrounds, and the fact that I ended up removing them anyway should give you an idea of just how hard I was having to work at it. Sometimes things just don’t go the way they seem they should. Also, no one will jump on your hand if you ask.
I did use some of the time to give rudimentary coloring jobs to- rudimentary. I love saying rudimentary. I must think that makes me look sooo smart. But at any rate you know I’m never satisfied with rudimentary so naturally you can’t see that yet so whatever it was is just as white as before.
You might be surprised to find out how few people are willing to jump on your hand. Well, I was. One seemed just about offended that I would request such a thing. Crimps, all you have to do is step on it. I’m not asking you to lick it (I know full well we can’t even lick it no more). I don’t even want that. How often do I ask anyone for anything? Saying I’m doing it for “research” doesn’t help, either. Although that is completely true, that it’s research. I know a standard sized human would hurt me, but I need to know how much because I can probably downgrade it in my mind to find out how much some purple muppet, probably weighing less and better insulated would hurt dumb old nemitz.
ALSO: for some reason it really bothered me that I had to remove this “gag.” I have a vast archive of wrong things that just had to go, but unknown forces led to me typing junk about this one.
I planned the viewpoint change wrong, and it’s still wrong, and I couldn’t put this there anywhere without having to explain why it wasn’t in subsequent backgrounds, and by the time that part of the room is visible again this is no longer hypothetically potentially funny in my mind to see there. I guess I’ll have to save this one for the movie! Ha h-sob sob sob sob sob sob sob sob.
Although given that the angle is still wrong and my main reason for not just starting the page from that side, NEMITZ being at the front, doesn’t really matter because nemitz ends up isolated at the left, the “start” of the frame anyway, plus awkward, at the point when it is meant to be least conspicuous; when its hand-like-thing is landed upon. If I’d just gone with a normal side-view I could put in my stupid elbow drop scene in frame one and get those fools out of the way in time for stupid nemitz to get bopped in frame three. I told you I’m bad at backgrounds. But I couldn’t do that because the switch would be so abrupt from the previous view, even though the turning of the imaginary page would likely excuse this. Oh, trouble!
Mxy sez:
Maybe it’s the current angle of my laptop’s screen, but the panel of Nemitz on the lower left corner looks impressive. Even if it’s just an unintentional optical illusion, I had decided this was my favorite page yet long before seeing it.
A whiskey-flavored jelly bean sez:
I said you might be able to acquire more readers, not friends. You’d be surprised how hostile readers can be.
Also, the text is rather more difficult to read on this page, especially on Gorp’s part. Indeed, I can’t make out at all what the transactions mentioned in the last panel are supposed to be know as (“pulpe hases”?).
Splachtempf sez:
mxy:
Before seeing it? Did you get an advance braille version?
That frame was supposed to look better than the others, but I unfortunately quite quickly ran out of signs of disgustingness I was willing to draw, and then there was a lack of additional objects in the space to add unnecessary details to, which I would do to compensate for the lack of unnecessary details on the central figure. Oh, what a mess. Even if what you say is true I must still work to perfect my battle techniques.
bean:
Perhaps it is good, then, that I rarely read.
I used a new, thinner-pointed pen. I think it is almost out of ink, so if anything follows it may be spared.
Pulpe hases are probably funnier than purchases. Originally the line was supposed to be something briefer which sets up the next panel better, but you know me and my jokes.
Sometimes I forget things aren’t readable since I already know what they say. And sometimes I know but I put them in anyway because I have a serious problem (as on page cf.). I suppose I could always illegally download one of those 300 dollar all capital but non-shouty-looking “comic book” fonts, but then I might feel compelled to inject Stan Lee ray-exposure-based character origins into everything.
Mxy sez:
I never read a comic before touching the preview pages! But, in this case, I meant that I liked the page before seeing the panel.
Splachtempf sez:
That’s probably just because you missed the sexometer.
Mxy sez:
JA!
I am laughing in my native language and agreeing with you in another language, both at the same time.
A frisky, favored, gelly bein' sez:
I dare say that you’re agreeing with him in at least five other languages, at least that instantly come to mind.
Also, it’s rather creepy how this entry increases in length every time I look at it. It’s rather like the opposite of the entries halved to give the appearance of great prolificness. Let us hope, however, that it hasn’t gotten completely out of control, and continues to lengthen itself perpetually of its own initiative.
Splachtempf sez:
Slengof, am I the only person who knows just English? ‘Tisn’t fair!
This is about the original size. The extra parts just didn’t seem quite ready at the appointed time, and seemed overwhelming, besides. As always, I gave in, and decided the extra information wasn’t worth a second entry number; altogether it’s only worth a third!