Grand! Theft! Andy!

[penrod_pulaski]

Dearest friends,

My new comic is available for your reading on Top Shelf 2.0!

Comments

[pierreispierre]

hahaha, that was great! Very much appreciated, though I imagine one would grow bored of the recounted scenarios pretty quickly..

[penrod_pulaski]

haha, thanks. If you had infinite lives, would you not also devote a few weeks to rampaging? working to cure cancer and self improvement can wait a bit.

[pierreispierre]

Of course, it'd be pretty great to just freak out like that. Think of all the parkour one could try out!
But if everyone else were to be constantly freaking out and murdering me like that, I'd get annoyed after a few weeks. :P

[penrod_pulaski]

true, true. let us hope the prophesied zombie epidemic never comes.

Lickety-WHOP

[lewbasnight]

Hee hee the sound effects are excellent. I was wondering what you had been up to, and now I know. I read about a lot of these incidents in the Sun-Times, but I didn't realize it was that Andrew Lorenzi. The headlines should have read "Local Cartoonist Runs Amok."

Re: Lickety-WHOP

[penrod_pulaski]

ah, thank you! I loved the sound effects, I wanted to reach back into some classic cartooning (Bushmiller and Crane!).

I've been wanting to print GTA in a nice little mini, and I think a fabricated newspaper page would be a fun little addition.

[davario]

A real treat, as always. I read it again and again.
Jumping off a building has never been as fun.

[penrod_pulaski]

thank you so much, Dave!

[vogdoid]

I love it. Now I want to try that game. Though I think I'd prefer if it had no talking and the art was like your comic.

[penrod_pulaski]

Thank you! I love Grand Theft Auto, and for months I'd agonized on how to explain my affections in a comic. My first attempts were sorta clinical and betrayed the immature identifications. Here, I tried to just translate it as directly as possible.

If I knew how to program video games, I'd make a real Grand Theft Andy (and thereafter never again see the sun)

[crapjournal]

This is so great, I really love that ending. Just a great rhythm throughout.

[penrod_pulaski]

Thank you, my friend. As intuitive as this was, I worried about balancing the narrative momentum throughout. I'm happy with it, though.