Jim-kun pops the second most important question he'll ever ask.

The one before "Just how phracked in the head am I?"

So, Mimi, is you participating in the Great Project, or is you not?

I dig when he says 'all natural fibers'. i mean, if i was a living costume, i'd be ashamed to be made of poliester, i guess.

New Scarlet PI strip.

No mispellings that I can see in this one. He even got "amateur" right. Maybe he's got an editor now? Like, maybe his mom?

Edited by author 11-29-2004 12:23 AM
Fistlekits:... I feel the perfectionist instinct, too, believe me. But.. it's a GONTERMAN parody! You are dumbing down a significant talent.. does 'perfection' even enter the argument? ;)
What Bill said - it helps the gag if, despite best efforts, actual talent still shines through ;)

Updating on the Vixen-Adam HOT-CHATTING-ACTION thread - they are now discussing how they got their names. It's RIVETTING, lemme tell you...
One of Davey's last lines made me O_O, though...:
Vixen's fox pet Todd hops up on the bed as they're talking..
Adam chuckled and smiled at this as the three are close, and it appears that Todd was enjoying it the most.

Oh please Guord, don't let the PET get involved!...

What got me thinking.. would we do better if we were on meds/high like DVK?

Duuuuude! The mullet's talkin' to me!...

(Checks the fridge)...Both can be arranged.

fridge? psychotropical turkey? hallucinogenic salad?

What got me thinking.. would we do better if we were on meds/high like DVK?

As my friend, do you really want to condemn me to reading lots of Davey's atrocious art and even worse grammar/writing?

Of course not! We're not looking for verisimillitude. Find an old National Geographic with an article on foxes and a JCPenney catalog, then just paste 'em up in a way that follows the script.

Without any neurochemical intervention? Or without being paid?!

(Checks the fridge)...Both can be arranged.

Ah, back at the dorm with all my drawing supplies and scanner. Can't wait to get started on this project!

Lilly: That sucks you won't be joining us... but hey! You can be among our first beta readers! Isn't dat speshul?! Well, maybe not.

I'd rather have us e-mail the finished panels to Bill than post the links here, feel vastly inferior to other peoples' drawing skills, and make a mad dash to do "corrections." As a matter of fact, I believe that we gotta resist making corrections whatsoever to our work.

(You won't believe the battle I had with myself over the cover I did. I finally decided to leave it as it is. The desire to make every piece perfect... that is the curse of the artist.)

you could just make a collage if you wanted to.

Yeah, but you know, I'm really not into this whole comix thing (my longago Love and Rockets addiction notwithstanding--not the band, Los Bros Hernandez, yo!), so that would mean I'd have to do research. As my friend, do you really want to condemn me to reading lots of Davey's atrocious art and even worse grammar/writing? Without any neurochemical intervention? Or without being paid?!

Besides, I'm about to start going through the, "Will I or won't I?" of making vs. buying Xmas cards. Y'all have yer fun, I'll cheer from the sidelines. (Much to my infinite amusement & disbelief, I once got ?scouted?rushed? for the cheerleading squad at university, so I'll assume that makes me qualified enough to cheer & encourage you all forthwith.)

Edited by author 11-28-2004 07:15 PM
Well, no. "Very cool," but not "mandatory," Queen of the Clever Collages..

Hey, now, no pandering to my ego! That's no way to get me to the post office tomorrow! (Actually, I probably *will* mail your package tomorrow...though damn MST for ruining the term "package" for me! [As well as, "batch," "basket," "area"...great, now I have to go home and haul out my Crash of the Moons tape.])

Though speaking of...I basically agree with your semi-long-ago assertion (and Ernst's more-recent one) that the Sci-Fi Channel's eps of MST3K are insanely inferior to those from the Comedy Channel era, except for a few instances. I'll take The Mole People or Revenge of the Creature over The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman or The Incredible Melting Man (title?) any day. But that's just me.

Edit: For inspirational purposes, I've put the 2 images we've already seen on the page.

is this gonterman's 'inspiration' or normal, non stealy inspiration?

Bill beat me to the point seconds before, Lils. you could just make a collage if you wanted to.

What I get for forgetting to come up with today's pseudonym before I posted. Again, for emphasis--doh! (Did you guys know that when the Simpsons is dubbed into Spanish, Homer doesn't say that? I tried to explain to young Zef why it's funny, but had to attribute it to weird NorAm cultural peculiarities [which of course can be used to explain away absolutely anything]--anyone else care to take a swing at it?)

BTW, Mr. Spaz, those Russian photographs were awesome. I didn't have time to look at much, comme toujours, but it was especially fascinating to see what the environs close to Ekaterinberg looked like around the same time that the Romanovs spent their final months there. (Yes, I'm morbid as all get-out--like that's a news flash.)

"Do I hafta? Do I gots to?"

Well, no. "Very cool," but not "mandatory," Queen of the Clever Collages.

It'd be very cool if every one of you regular Comments readers makes even one drawing, artless or not.

Do I hafta? Do I gots to? Will there be a substantial penalty for early withdrawal, I mean, for abstaining? Do I not get to hang out with all you cool kids anymore?

An erect member, I am sure DVK knows what that feels like (with his right hand)!

From the little I've seen, plus the numerous comments herein, I'd have to concur his right hand is usually engaged elsewhere. Being a righty who draws with his left hand would explain a lot, wouldn't it? (Oh, but wait, that's supposed to stimulate brain function. Never mind.)

Edited by author 11-28-2004 07:18 PM
When I mentioned a long deadline for the pics, I meant the completed ones. Ernst is right; we'll need a set time for people to place dibs. Tuesday 12/7 sound good?

Here's the product, with the current dibs called. I'll update as we get more.
For submission of finished art, my email is thoughtviper # fastmail.fm. Use "phrack" in the subject line, please.
Edit: I didn't make it clear, but for dibs, you can just post them here so that everyone can see. That way, I won't get home from work and find that several people dibbed the same panel. (For the record, Mr Spaz has dibbed all of page 3)

Edit: For inspirational purposes, I've put the 2 images we've already seen on the page. All the others won't be published until the final product is released

Oddly enough, I was expecting that sentence to carry on: "...to wonder over to the water troff with and cool things down before anything too upsetting happens."

I add a vote to send panels to big for a big reveal. I would dispute the lack of continuity errors in the original canon; they're just disguised as inconsistency of art ;-) There should be some kind of very broad deadline for the real artists to stake their turf, just so the sick stick figure stickers can figure out what's available in time to hash something out for the overall deadline.