Far Out There

Here’s a fun little story for you all: These Christmas comic aren’t the first time I’ve tried to flesh out Far Out There’s Nitpicker’s Guild a bit.  Way back in 2016, I’d already done a page that dropped some random names of other nitpickers. That’s all it was, though, just names.  In the comments, I actually apologized to Future Me for not bothering to work out what those names would look like when we actually saw them.  Well, joke’s on Past Me, because when the time to draw some new Nitpickers DID come, I totally forgot that page existed and made up all these new characters completely from scratch.  Here’s the thing though, one of those random names was “The Xafri Twins” …and here we have a pair of Nitpicker twins, who were absolutely NOT intended to be a callback to that.  I mean, the second I actually DID remember that previous dialog, I renamed the new characters to fit it, it’s too perfect not to, and if I claimed to have planed it out from the beginning there’d be no evidence to the contrary.  But no, you all deserve to know the truth.  All you aspiring writers out there need to appreciate just how much “foreshadowing” and “planning” is really just flailing around at random, then desperately trying to pull it all together like you MEANT to do that.

(Historical Notes: I deliberately wanted the twins here to have names that people would have trouble telling apart… which of course meant than I’D have trouble telling them apart, too.  The closest thing I could come up with to keep the two separate is “Big HAIR for Ma-HI-zam.”  Let’s see how long it take me to slip up and get them wrong in a comic!)