page 1261 – *taps on glass*
Well now, HERE’S something I haven’t done in a while. Since I’ve been busy getting another batch of Conventional Wisdom comics started, today’s page isn’t really finished yet. Yes, the one that I technically started working on TWO WEEKS AGO. Rather than risk yet another completely delayed update, I’ve decided to play the ol’ “posting the work in progress” card. So, for at least the next few hours, enjoy this look at the VERY rough (in some spots placeholder) art while I work on the polished up final draft. Sometimes a page really requires the art to be finished up in order to even understand what’s supposed to be happening, but I think this is a case where the writing is intelligible even with just the rough doodles. But yeah, there’ll be a fully edited and colored in version sometime later today, so be sure to check back for that!
EDIT: OKAY! Finished comic is up! That took… MUCH longer than I’d expected, so I guess going ahead and posting the rough version was a good call, huh? Oh, and because the new site doesn’t automatically save over the original file when I swap it out for a new one, we’ve actually still got the first version preserved for posterity! Now you can do a Before & After comparison to fully appreciate just how much I had to do to make those pots and carts look not terrible!
OTHER EDIT: New TWC Voting incentive is up!
Avi, you have JUST received a crash course in how to look adorable. I know that you weren’t paying any attention to it, so you probably missed it, but if you learnt how to reproduce that one trick, you might be able to get your parents to pay proper direct attention to you… for a maximum of five minutes.
No guarantees. It’s only a POSSIBILITY.
To be fair to Avi (there’s a phrase that doesn’t get used very often), that’s as much a fault of his parents as it is him. It hardly excuses how he acts towards everyone ELSE, though…
It kind of does, though, as I suspect that at least a good 95% of his personality towards others is the result of compensating for the misparenting or nonparenting. That last 5% is all him, though. 😉
I understand that Avi actually managing to look adorable would only make his parents pay attention to him for a maximum of five minutes is the fault of his parents. As is his entire personality effectively being “obsessive attention seeker” the fault of his parent’s overwhelming lack of attention.
All of “The Super Stupendous Justice Hero’s Club” have their own pitiful parts. Avi’s extreme levels of parental negligence & Hiro’s sport-based competitive losing streak are the two obvious ones. I think that Tarkus’s health worries probably stem from somewhere worthy of pity, and Lynne being ignored by pretty much anyone he wants to talk to is probably worthy of pity, too.
He’s *really* going to have a tough time as a Nitpicker if he has problems with being the focus of attention. Perhaps he may be more suited for Nitpicker Admin. than field work? Like Wilkins?
Someone needs to keep everyone at Nitpicker HQ fed.
It’s been hinted that Marshall going into nitpicking work was more his family’s choice than his own (though it’s apparently not something he likes talking about)
Huh, well I apparently interpreted that backwards. My assumption was that Marshall’s family owned gourmet restaurant/s and he’s an Apprentice Nitpicker to get out of their control temporarily. After all, the only two things that seems to be against Marshall being an incredible Nitpicker is his shyness and his LACK of standard levels of autonomous & highly dangerous hijinks creation.
Of course, he’s currently partnered with Mariska & May, the former of which is only matched in auto-hijinks by Ichabod and the latter seeming to be intending to fight to reach the level of Ichabod & Mariska’s auto-hijinks, if not surpass it.
I can see how it could be read that way, but just between you and me, if I was writing Marshall to want to get away from the influence of chef parents, he wouldn’t still be cooking of his own volition.
That’s an intriguing idea, though. With all the ways the Nitpicker’s Guild has to protect its members from various consequences, it really COULD be a good career path for somebody looking to get away from something/somebody. Hmmm…
My thought process was that he enjoyed the cooking and feeding people, but he was in a position where he never had any freedom. So to get some freedom, he left to get far away from his parent’s restaurant. If working as an apprentice Nitpicker also allows him the seed money needed to start his own restaurant, far away from theirs, all the better.