page 4-1 of this. fewer panels than on previous pages, which seemed necessary to have the fewer, consequently larger panels that are here make any sense due to how many characters I found it necessary to cram into them. They may not make MUCH sense but I have options for dealing with that once I figure out how at a later point without having to disrupt the layouts of subsequent pages as was usually the case with altering earlier sections in the four row format.
The next page will probably also be like this one, as I initially set them up as a single four row page, but after that i have no idea about the shape of to any degree, including the future of the pointy pog-lookalike whose origin is in my terrible old 1995 comic strip. i needed something to incapacitate the gnomes here but did not decide what until i drew it, as the “plan” only concerned the aftermath of them being incapacitated, not the incapacitator.
the first frame (of the new page, not the grey mess above here that I cannot attempt to explain) also made me consider that i showed a bunch of “gardening robots” an entire numeration ago but never bothered to draw in any garden.
I was gladdish to see that apparently i did bother to add in some mild shrubbery at whichever page this is but i have no recollection of intending that as the “garden.” Brubaglid, the landlord or custodian or angry parking lot person of otherwise non-specific role could simply have a screwy concept of what a garden is but the presence of numerous robots should at least suggest some task for which they are used, however poorly.
i also never drew the robots again. i intended to have a scene where they had a meeting and complained to each other about their circumstances but i either never wrote it down and forgot it or wrote it somewhere that i never found again.
I drew them in here, THEN remembered that they would still be broken so I removed them, THEN i saw that one of them escaped mostly intact, so that one I unremoved. But it ends up being so small here that its nature is unclear.
Anyway brubaglid may go around to other properties than this one and may have more robots than the ones elpse damaged, so so so so sudio i hate that song. I heard that at the supermarket once in 2022 and it is about 95% studio production. A towering heap of 80s noises and reverb effects loudly fighting each other trying to cover up a terrible song. I was offended by what utter dreck and a waste it was. Phil Collins contributes almost nothing to it. Any name brand dorko singer could take his place there. And the album cover is literally just Phil Collins’ face. Not even his whole head. It should be producer Hugh Padgham’s fingers and a bunch of dials on the cover. And the SINGLE cover is literally the same picture of a face again with different text and with the face colored blue, as would eventually occur to any mass of body parts that you severed from the circulatory system. Friggidee diddledee feep.
ADDITIONALLY I have crammed in some vegetation here and augmented at least what was on the linked old page. i can’t do anything about the pages in books that have already been printed though knowing me i will probably attempt to update them to some degree regardless, even though the shape of the building also changed and maybe the less i try to retroactively bring into coheesion, the more what I don’t bother with is excusable.
The important thing is that I got this out before the year changed. I don’t have time to think about why that is important. Now I have ten days to make a dumb video that hopefully amounts to more than the absence of what I didn’t do this year, and will still take longer than that even if it amounts to less.
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pinduQUANG! sez:
wow, that train of thought was absolutely derailed by the songwriting of Phil Collins. Imagine having that kind of power over people! But this peek at your early comic art was pretty hmm, interesting! and I didn’t expect to see a Rocko’s Modern Life reference in there? Boy howdy, I bet that show never had an episode where they trapped people in bubbles shot from a bubble-bullet-bazooka, but it definitely could’ve benefited from it!
Frimpinheap sez:
about eleven years after that I watched every rocko episode on the nickelodeon cartoon cable tv channel and found some parts of it pretty good, though not to the degree of the furry fandom absolute worship of it that came a few years after that. I still hate hey arnold and doug and presume i would hate real monsters, the other show the lame dialog was going out of its way to reference.
and just YESTERDAY i allowed a youtube playlist of phil collins music videos to run, wondering if I had made an unfair statement, while trying to assemble my own year end video. I was struck by the massive gulf between his tolerable upbeat songs (even if i find them less tolerable post-80s, on account of the 80s production being what I actually like) and the profound misery of others. I can’t stand it.
The videos themselves have a weird gulf between ones that seem to be making fun of the idea of music video culture and others that are complacent with it (like sussudio), just regular footage of guy existing singing. And ogopogo does he love fake old timey black and white. I started skipping them once I realized the 80s and or positive energy had run out and I became annoyed enough to not merely disregard them.