The top three up there are my very favorite comics.
LDC #6:
The "blood" in #6 is red glitter nail polish. That is totally my dad in panel 2. He won an award at his company, Redneck Trailer, the same week this comic went up for the first time, and he thought it was pretty funny that he also made an appearance in an "avant-garde" comic at the same time. From panel 7, "Socialism: Communism With A Smile!" is a phrase I find inherently hilarious, although I did not make it up. I stole it from my brother, who is a lot funnier than I am.
LDC # 7-8:
These are my adventure game tribute comics. I really like the way the black background with the white text looks, and it is pretty evocative of text adventures, but it killed my ink cartridge. The rest of the background is filled in with construction paper. Most of this comic is Infocom (specifically Zork universe) and Lucasarts in-jokes. I suppose it's funnier if you are familiar with those things.
Overall, I thinks these are the strongest comics because the are the most verbose (teh funnay, such that it is, was always in the words) and visually interesting. The art is not great, but it works the best it ever did in LDC #7-8.
Outtakes:
What was happening here was I was going to do a rock-opera epic homage, because I was obsessed with Tommy and the Monkees movie (see earlier post) at the time. I really have no idea what I thought I was going to do for dialogue. The dude there is supposed to be the poet ("play the goldfish!") from LDC #1. The backgrounds are bits from the local newspaper, a phone book manga, and an old Flipside, I think. I do think it looks quite nifty, and it is too bad I never thought of anything to write.
That's the end of the comics unless I get a wild hair and draw some more. Click to make big and enjoy.
