page 772 – This Level’s Boss Fight
If it ever becomes my job to make my baby nephew take a bath, I’m totally doing this.
So, yeah, despite my best efforts… well, no, it wasn’t my best efforts, that’s part of the problem. Either way, I’m still working on Conventional Wisdom’s Anime Weekend Atlanta comics, which makes it kind of a miracle that I got anything else finished at all. But miracles DO happen, my friends. Not only did I finish the new comic you see before you, but NEW VOTING INCENTIVES ARE BACK! Rejoice and be glad!
And if that wasn’t enough, I also managed to get this week’s Patreon comic done in the middle of all this, too! Speaking of which, if you haven’t already signed up as a supporter yet, you’re about to have an even bigger reason to do it. Remember how I promised some other Far Out There content than just these weekly comics? Well, as soon as the Conventional Wisdom update is finished, I’m gonna make good on that promise! GET HYPED!
EDIT: Oh, by the way, I was gonna wait a few more weeks before updating the Patreon Gallery, buuuuuuuut I like the cover of the cover page for this series enough that I went ahead and made it available for everybody!
(Historical Notes: I actually used that WAY TOO SCARY drawing of Blip for an ad flyer… because that’s the sort of image that would make ME curious. That said, I’m not pleased with how the color turned out here. I think the action is such that SOMETHING out of the ordinary is excusable, and the clash between red and blue is always appealing to me, but it’s WAY too hard to make out Blip in the bottom panel. I wanted to try and do something to either make the background lighter or make Blip darker, but all that screen tone made messing with the brightness too messy to attempt. Drat.)
@ Historical Notes: That’s a shame. Honestly, though, you probably would need to make the background lighter AND Blip Darker in that bottom panel. I mean, I get why the blue is so dark, you changed the colour and kept the brightness from the red, but Blue covers up dark/black better than Red does.
@ Comic: I can see Bath Goblins being a thing if FOT. Either as a Mad Science Experiment to keep the lab clean, but escaped and successfully reproduced in the wild, or as a “chemical pet” (similar to Blip) for kids to play with during bathtime, which produces cleaning fluids (like liquid soap) when immersed in water, with the tagline “Fun in the Bath for all ages”.
The ideal thing would have been for the blue to be a gradient, dark up top to clash with the red, but lighter down below so that the darker details stood out more. But as I said, that’s not something I could fix in editing. I’d have to completely redo at least half the page, and that wasn’t happening.
You’re right, though. There’s probably a whole line of Blips for specific weird purposes, some of which we’d be better off not thinking about.
With Blip, I was more under the impression that Blip himself was the Generic Non-Branded version (which is why he was so cheap), while there are Brand-Name Versions of the same basic concept that may have more specific purposes, like making little kids happier to have baths because they get to play with their pet.
That’s a pretty good explanation, the Cap’n definitely isn’t the sort to pay full price for an fancy anything.