With Friends Like These... #23: The Question.
First, the strip:
With Friends Like These... #23: The Question.
Second, the footnotes:
This is the first strip I've done with no dialog to speak of, although I suppose the thought bubbles probably count for a lot (I'm kinda in love with the cuckoo clock). This is also the first time I've drawn Lilly. Which is kinda funny, since she a) wasn't in the original strip thumbnails, b) wasn't in my rough pencils, and c) wasn't actually there when the question in, um, question was asked. Siamese added in post-production, yo.
This is one of those strips that's based on real-life events (unlike, say, the ones where we discuss Rand's secret superpowers and how they improve Erin's day). Lilly was absent because I was in Seattle when the email arrived, sitting at Tony's dining room table and smacking my head vigorously against the last few chapters of Newsflesh. Suddenly, bing, my inbox is telling me I have mail from Beth Runnerwolf, the Head of Programming for Conflikt. Well, that's spiff. Probably something about my concert. So I open it...
The staring blankly into space was followed by loud and vigorous threats to Vixy's life, while Fishy pointed out, quite reasonably, that if I killed his wife, he would be forced to avenge her, and that would definitely cut into our available time for playing Rock Band. So I didn't kill her. Lucky Vixy. (She later assured me that she hadn't known, so it would have been a wrongful death, anyway.)
I'm gonna be a Guest of Honor.
Dude.
With Friends Like These... #23: The Question.
Second, the footnotes:
This is the first strip I've done with no dialog to speak of, although I suppose the thought bubbles probably count for a lot (I'm kinda in love with the cuckoo clock). This is also the first time I've drawn Lilly. Which is kinda funny, since she a) wasn't in the original strip thumbnails, b) wasn't in my rough pencils, and c) wasn't actually there when the question in, um, question was asked. Siamese added in post-production, yo.
This is one of those strips that's based on real-life events (unlike, say, the ones where we discuss Rand's secret superpowers and how they improve Erin's day). Lilly was absent because I was in Seattle when the email arrived, sitting at Tony's dining room table and smacking my head vigorously against the last few chapters of Newsflesh. Suddenly, bing, my inbox is telling me I have mail from Beth Runnerwolf, the Head of Programming for Conflikt. Well, that's spiff. Probably something about my concert. So I open it...
The staring blankly into space was followed by loud and vigorous threats to Vixy's life, while Fishy pointed out, quite reasonably, that if I killed his wife, he would be forced to avenge her, and that would definitely cut into our available time for playing Rock Band. So I didn't kill her. Lucky Vixy. (She later assured me that she hadn't known, so it would have been a wrongful death, anyway.)
I'm gonna be a Guest of Honor.
Dude.