Not crazy with how I handled the talking over the phone speech balloons here, but they had to happen this way in order to make the comic work.
This one is really much too wordy for a four panel comic, but I ended up rewriting it at the last minute to flow better… which ballooned up the text count as well.
Sigh… too much text again, but sometimes you have to just give up fucking with the script and just get the thing done.
I went through a bunch of names for the super heroine character, originally it was going to be “Princess Beatdown” but that just sounded weird. “Princess Punchout” was also a choice for a while.
Hey, let’s make a comic with as a few words as possible for a change… Ah fuck it, this is too hard, I’m just going to do a fart joke instead.
“Hey, I’m leaving the country in a few months, you know what’d be great? Drawing a comic where an implied real congressman gets shot in the face. Yeah, that won’t bite me in the ass or something later”
Actually, Lieutenant Libre’s infamous flatulence and digestive trouble was caused by his love of a delicious but culinarily questionabe Pho sold in one of the Arizona neighborhoods he patrols, but due to over-sensitivity from a childhood of being accused of acting too white by his peers, he lies […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Things art school utterly failed to teach me how to draw #267: A man in a whirlpool about to be flushed down the drain of a large transparent tube. Thanks a lot, SCAD!
I actually had to research how fighter pilots and astronauts do go to the bathroom for this comic. I originally thought they just used a catheter and everyone agreed to just never talk about that embarrassing and uncomfortable part of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…