page 40,000 (as in April Fools)
Insert obvious and unconvincing author comment attempting to convince you that Far Out There is now a Warhammer 40k fan comic and this is completely serious and blah blah blah you know the drill for April 1st by now.
…okay, that came across as more grumpy than I’d intended, but I’m still a little sore that I didn’t get to put anywhere NEAR the amount of detail into this as I’d hoped. I really wanted to drive home the silliness of these tiny little boy heads poking out the top of GARGANTUAN Space Marine armor, but I didn’t even get STARTED inking this until around 3am. If I’d seriously tried to polish the art the way I wanted, I GUARANTEE I would have fallen asleep before the page was done, and it wouldn’t have made it online until after everyone was well and truly sick of all this April Fools nonsense (Hahahaha, see what I did there? I implied people aren’t already sick of April Fools right from the start!) not to mention that it would have eaten into the time I’m supposed to be working on the next REAL page.
Oh, and speaking of working on other stuff, Conventional Wisdom has some special new stuff going on too!
(Historical Notes: Before anything else, I should stress that the only stuff I know about Warhammer is what I hear from watching random YouTube videos. That aside, I do wish I’d had time to polish the art on this one up some more, because the basic idea of using stuff like Gright and Scribbles as heraldry is honestly pretty funny and could do with more fleshing out. But, you know, running late and all that. And, of course, the attempt to use a stock fire background without actually coloring the characters in just doesn’t work the way Past Me always seems to think it will. This is actually the “improved version,” where I’ve cranked down the saturation inside the lineart to try and keep the characters more distinct from the background. It’s another one of those cases where I can only do so much with that Past Me gave to work with. Also, it hits me as REALLY weird that, for all the stuff the Wayback machine skips over, it really seems bent on preserving the April Fools pages. Sure, if you’re gonna try an maintain an accurate record of internet history, focus on the pages that deliberately lie to the reader. Good plan, guys.)
Come on, are you really suggesting that focusing on pages that deliberately lie to readers is not, in general over the whole internet, an accurate depiction of what the internet is all about? I can’t think of how anything could possibly more genuinely representative of the internet as a whole than that. (Even if it’s not true about your particular site)
That’s… actually a perfectly valid point.