Page 12 (eventually, scroll down I advise) of that.
The imagery is somewhat underdone because my mouse sustained injuries recently and evidently lacks the strength to complete most left button presses. I actually subconsciously started to feel bad for the miserable thing and would highlight commands with the cursor and press Enter instead. I’m assuming nobody cares what the interior of the lizard’s “car” looks like, nor the laws of perspective it violates.
With this the last of the initial drawings from 2001 are covered. I’m not sure if I beat the deadline to hide them all before they were fully ten years old, but fortunately I suspect you don’t care about that, either. So now we are getting into the remakes of the remakes. The new pictures aren’t totally necessary, but they must change slightly to accommodate more competent and less fonty word layouts. Yes and also the fact that the next few pages are mildly illogical in their current forms despite being themselves attempts to amend a not-quite-sensical script. It’s sort of like when you build a new bridge to replace an old one but people still drive on the old one and you can’t just take it down altogether for a decade or so, and build the new one next to the old one, in a less ideal spot, meaning it will never be as good as it could have been. It’s not like that at all in the respect that my old comics get very little traffic. Ha ha, like car traffic on the bridge.
I blame the previous paragraph on my broken mouse also. I have the power. What’s important is that there are no ten year old drawings left. Just seven year old drawings. Don’t tell me I began the task of replacing the ten year old drawings three years ago. I already know that. I just said so.
empanadas are not welcome here
Enry Eegens sez:
Ugh. Even though it’s looking in the opposite direction, I just know that thing is thinking about how wonderful it mistakenly imagines its bow tie to be in the first two panels in which it appears. But it’s usually thinking that, so this shouldn’t be surprising. It should further be noted that the bow-shaped, tied part of its bow tie is absent in the second panel in which it appears, making the accessory look more like a scarf. This, incidentally, looks less terrible, which is something of a relief, but less true to the character.
For the most part, this page seems to hold much more closely to the earlier version than the previous revisions. I have to admit though that I think I prefer the original version of the last panel, as views of rooms through doorways or other narrow passages which provide a framing effect have always been among my favorite types of compositions. Maybe that might not have worked so well with the Moofinator ovoid in the corner, though…
Zinkugel sez:
I didn’t even notice there was a frame in the old version of the frame. I will see about reorienting the image once I retrieve my mouse replacement. I intended to have it a week ago, but rhubarbrhubarb.
The reason for the better match is that this is not the oldest version of this pageoid. Or it is, but only because it did not exist initially. I had forgotten, and I wondered why I couldn’t remember, until I checked my pertinent image directory just now… initially the chair user skips straight to the “my light has burnt out” part and there was no bow tie creature at all (I believe that first appeared two years later in an unrelated context, and not even obsessed with its bow tie. I merely always remembered that it wore one). The light simply burns out to keep us from perceiving the other side of the chair. The lizard drives off toward its home, confidently assuming that the package was stolen by kumquatola (at one time that was the name) or pog, rather than lost. After it arrives it becomes very worried for a reason I cannot now discern, my not having established it as pathetic prior to that point, and jumps out the window on schedule. And I think now that it should not own such a large apartment either, and if I get to re-redrawing that it will be tiny in addition to squalid. I’d best get on that soon for the upcoming new pages will have this also as a destination or at least scenery, unless I change my mind again. Even if I do, the compulsive need to adhere to my several year old script if there’s a single line of dialog in it that I like should keep me in line and searching for awkward compromises.
Yes so up to where odz and sireagonal are about to be shown to their room, where I stopped, that all was considerably modified before it appeared on this website, and so subsequent alterations need to be less extreme, for the most part. At that time of 2004 or 2005 gosh I only wanted to change what seemed most necessary to change, believing shoddy, inconsistent artwork was acceptable so long as the story made sense. And it didn’t, but it made more sense than it did before then.