This strip is #2 in the original run dating from my university days.
I have to state that most of this artwork was generated at top speed, because my time was at a premium back then. In retrospect, I should have chosen a simpler style, because my characters go (seriously) off-model all the time. Just looking at this particular strip makes me shudder. I just want to shout “Get a smaller forehead!”
The gag here was intended to become a recurring joke where Puck talked to her brain. I never actually revisited the concept after this.
I sympathize – my characters’ eyes used to reside in their upper foreheads for some reason – but this art is actually pretty great for first starting out!
I really had no excuse. These were rush jobs. I was a much better artist than this, even at the time, but I generated these on very small panels and didn’t put any care into them. That’s sort of why they hurt me to look back on.
The early art in this comic is … serviceable. It’s okay; we can tell what we’re looking at. I guess that’s all that matters. But it’s just sort of a shock in comparison to the current art.
I sympathize – my characters’ eyes used to reside in their upper foreheads for some reason – but this art is actually pretty great for first starting out!
I really had no excuse. These were rush jobs. I was a much better artist than this, even at the time, but I generated these on very small panels and didn’t put any care into them. That’s sort of why they hurt me to look back on.
Looks good to me.
The early art in this comic is … serviceable. It’s okay; we can tell what we’re looking at. I guess that’s all that matters. But it’s just sort of a shock in comparison to the current art.
Why is puck so hot? I want to have #$%# #@! with her and #$%& her $#^% and I want her to @#$^ me $#%^ #$^% and #$%^ her @#%# on my #$%^.
Eloquently put, friend.
WOW !
I need to try that with my Girlfriend.
(if I had one)
Such elegant and erudite elocution delivered with earnest excellence expressed so easily!
@CH
That’s seven e’s !
Not bad.
Brain, you crafty son of a gun.
Shame you didn’t revisit this idea. It could have been fun.
I still might go back to it. Eventually.
I like the brain thing. It’s cute.
She’s an anchient spirit of yore! She need not conform to your notions of “stability” and “Rigid Bone Structure” and “Consistent apearence”!
Yeah, the brain concept never came back, but it really should have.
Nah. Her ebb has significantly raised. It was a low bar, but enough to not imagine floating brains any more.