Comic posted Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004

Posted: 9:01 am, Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Swear to God, two more days of this little storyline, then a completely random strip on Friday. Honest.

One of the things I really need to work on in this strip is the backgrounds. My entire life, I've eschewed backgrounds, leaving my characters to contend with a world that consists of them and a heavenly white void, and, perhaps, a desk or something. So I've gotten better on that regard - that H2 strip was on a background of blue, everything else has some shit in the background. Now my problem is that the characters are invariably standing in front of the most interesting of the shit in the background. See the orange staircase thing in the last panel? That's there in all four panels - just Pete's on top of it. I've got to stop doing crap like that. I mean, it's nice that it's there, and I suppose now that I've mentioned it, you all know it's there, but for the most part, it would be ideal if it were actually visible without me saying "there's an orange stair-thing behind Pete."

The other thing I really need to work on in this strip is to make it not suck.

I am shocked - shocked! - to see an animated .gif of the Texas flag at the top of this site. There's a story behind how I found that site, it's just not interesting.

There's a story behind this one, too - RAW sent it to me. It's Regis's CD. He does a duet with Ronan Tynan, the Irish tenor who will sing God Bless America so that it last 25 minutes during the seventh inning stretch of any playoff game that the Yankees need to keep the opposing pitcher off the field until his arm tightens up. The song is Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral, which, if I didn't know any better, I'd say was Come On, Eileen. In fact, I don't know any better. I think they're singing Come On, Eileen together. Still not worth $24. Other celebrity CDs that I would have to imagine blow ass: Bruce Willis's Return of Bruno, and somehow a collection called 'Classic Bruce Willis'. The Hoff (the song Hot Shot City is particularly good). Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner apparently combine in an effort to rupture the space-time continuum. Somehow, a duet of Jackie Chan and Ani DiFranco. Kathie Lee. (Does that count? Was she a singer first? I don't actually know.) No CDs by our buddy Kirk Cameron, but he is in the Growing Pains movie on Saturday. I can't tell if this is new or a rerun of the Growing Pains movie from 2000, but I'm sure as fuck not watching to find out. I love you guys, but not that much.

Those delightful JibJab guys are back at it. Not as good as This Land, but still worth watching.

Big week ahead - the Sox-Goat Fuckers conflagration commences tonight, the final presidential debate is tomorrow, and the Irish are playing the University of Navy at the Meadowlands on Saturday, so RAW, Sweaty, E and AD Creany, Attorney at Law, are all coming to crash. Also, I plan on baking a pie at some point.

bullfrog