page 615 – DRAMATIC SCOLDING
Okay, so here’s the thing: I was busy working on Conventional Wisdom’s Katsucon update a lot longer than expected, and didn’t even get started penciling this page until 1 am. When that happens, guess what? Suddenly this page has super dramatic lighting that I don’t have to color in!
Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaah… sorry to be cutting corners this time. Also, sorry I realized WAY too late that they layout here is off. There should have been three rows, not two. The first panel should have been the whole top row, so that we could see a sky with dramatic lightning and crap. The 2nd and 3rd panels should and been the middle row, so that the whole bottom row could be the last one. Then we’d have more room to see Megaweapon squirming in terror. That’s always good. *sigh* The things you realize at five in the morning.
Well, as much as I hate to say it, all that early morning last-minute scrambling means no new Voting Incentive today. I know, I know, but I don;t have another convention until late May, so this shouldn’t happen again any time soon. In the meantime, you can always vote anyway and continue to appreciate a future where uniforms can double as wetsuits!
(Historical Notes: I forget if I mention this elsewhere, but this is one of the better “plot hole turned into a plot point” moments in Far Out There. I had to explain why we never saw Megaweapon at the Mad Science convention, since I hadn’t come up with the Hector Kids at that point, so we had that throwaway line about him being grounded. Except, of course, why would a kid being grounded be brought on the trip in the first place? Pretty much everything about Augusta’s character and her relationship with both Dr. Hector and Megaweapon was originally conceived just to explain away that logical inconsistency. Truly, 90% of all creative breakthroughs are just mad scrambles to clean up after a mistake.)
Is it finally my time to start being a Nitpicker? There is a typo in 2nd panel, 2nd dialogue bubble.
Been slowly rereading everything from beginning, man, I have forgotten a LOT. But I think now I’m getting to the point, where teen me never got to.
While older strips definitely caused me if not to go “Oh yeah, that happened!”, then at least have some feeling of deja vu, but now it feels like completely uncharted territory for me, excited to see what happens next.
Also I saw more typos before, not sure if I should have written them down, since figured they weren’t really important, but if you ARE actually fixing them in older strips….. oops…..
The typo is using “but” instead of “butt”. It should be “I wouldn’t butt in on you being such a terrible brat,…”.
@ Fludi: Please comment on pages referencing Nitpicker’s never seen. I want to see the creepy girls with eyes in their hair and other characters from Mothership Charlie at some point, and want to know if there are other referenced Nitpickers who I have forgotten.
I think I mentioned this elsewhere, but the really infuriating part is that a lot of the typos in older pages WERE fixed back in the day, but the fixed versions of the pages went down with SmackJeeves & I only had the typo’d originals saved.
You definitely have in the earlier strips, and several times.
Did SmackJeeves just go down one day with no warning? Wasn’t there for it, so kinda curious how it all went, though I can imagine it was frustrating either way.
I remember there being about three different sites I read Far Out There on. One of which collapsed suddenly and without warning, though I don’t believe it was the Smackjeeves Site that did that. Though, I might be misremembering it, as I do remember that one of the sites underwent a massive overhaul, to the point where I believe the comments section became unusable, as well.
Far Out There started on what used to be called “Drunk Duck” (not “The Duck Webcomics” which, last I checked is actually still around. However, they started forcing all comics to use a single page template, so I moved to Smackjeeves. That stuck for a whiiiiiiile until SJ did basically the same thing and re-formated everything to a single, phone-oriented format. That’s when I started building THIS site and began re-posting everything here. halfway through that process, the re-designed Smackjeeves totally shut down. I think there actually was prior warning for the first SJ redesign, and I just never saw it, but I’m pretty sure the final shutdown was fairly out of the blue.
Oh I see, interesting. Force-reformatting sounds like a rather “shoot yourself in the foot” kind of move, wonder how many artists did it peeve off.
Also, here is some sudden fanart! https://imgur.com/eOfheJa
Awww, thanks!
Drunk Duck went down for about a week, and rebranded into “The Duck Webcomics”, with the URL for Drunkduck leading to the newly named website. I even know when that happened, as one of the webcomics I was reading never updated again due to the change. I believe it happened around September 2013.
I’ve had a notion for a while now to spend a few days queuing up the decade-plus of newer comics to The Duck, just to see if I could get away with having a page a day going live for, like two and a half years or whatever. Of course, that’s just another thing where I’d never actually have the time to set it up, but it’d still be an interesting stunt to pull…
I shall try to keep in mind from this point onward.