CLEARLY THE MOST IMPORTANT HOLIDAY FAR OUT THERE HAS CELEBRATED ALL YEAR!!! (Historical Notes: I will absolutely, positively NEVER do another birthday comic for myself.)
Posts Tagged Alphonse
When you open the Life Day book, there’s a sound chip inside that plays a really compressed version of Jefferson Starship’s “Light The Sky On Fire” (Another reminder that there’s a FarOutThere.com now, which will actually have all the comics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Well, this is it. The last regular comic I posted on SmackJeeves. There’d still be the first few Christmas pages to go, but this was the final “plot-relevant” page to go up for well over a year. At[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: It’s odd to talk about anything being “subtle” in a page with this set of characters, but I like the subtle bit of storytelling in the lighting of the second panel. I know, I know, I like that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, just looking at this page at a glance, what’s the punchline? Where’s the “cymbal crash” that makes it funny? I’m not just looking at it, I WROTE it, and I’m still not sure. That’s because, again, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Again, it really annoys me how much these pages are stretching out so little material for so much. Yeah, there’s all these details on the boxes that we wouldn’t see if this was just one panel in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOA this page turned out cool. I mean, the top panel could have been better, because at first I’d planned to do this as an animation and avoided gradients, but other than that… MAN. The whole reason I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Even at the time that this page came out, I think Past Me was annoyed that I’d forgotten to put in some kind of establishing shot to show that there’s a screen on the wall they’re looking at. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: I’m pretty sure Past Me was focusing on the way Tabitha isn’t actually offended at Layla not trusting her or the way Bridget actually IS offended that somebody would disrespect her Momma like that or the general bait[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Those faces were waaaaaaay more fun to draw than they had any right to be. Anyway, look! Another midnight update! And this one was loaded DAYS in advance! I should really have busy, distracting weekends gobble up my time more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…