On Vacation

If this seems rushed, it's because I scribbled it out before I left for Florida.

Anyway, Dragon Quest IX is awesome. Does anyone else have it?

Never ask Gerard Butler what part of Greece you're in.

Here is the exciting conclusion.
If you caught all the references, you're awesome. I'm not going to explain them all, though. You can use the picture's rollover text to see what games I'm referencing. Play them yourself!

Hnnnghh... Too Tired.

This one is kind of a work in progress... It's also a two parter, so I'll be posting the second page next week. I'll try and add some backgrounds, shading, etc, to this page.




Nintendo Power had an article on the games people should be playing but aren't, so I thought I would draw a comic referencing every game on the list. Now, if you want to make any sense whatsoever out of this, you'll have to play each and every one of them! Muahahaha! Anyway, have fun trying to guess what I'm referencing.

That's supposed to be a giant fire fighter with an extinguisher in the last frame. Sorry. These things are hard to draw.
I wonder if the phrase "giant cyclopean firefighter" will work in Super Scribblenauts... Only time will tell.

I've been playing a lot of "Sin and Punishment: Star Successor." It's pretty good. The only sin is that the plot doesn't make any sense in an otherwise sweet game.

I just did a very quick colorization of this one. I'm still practicing my Illustrator skills.

Anyway, try to guess how much of the following story I made up.
I got to the office this morning, and there were two birds flying around, chirping maniacally, and roosting on the lighting fixtures. We couldn't figure out how the birds got in the building. They didn't have IDs. I guess they convinced somebody that they left their IDs in the car so that they would let them in the door. Birds are weird.

Kitten Icarus!

I finally bought Illustrator. This thing took a long time to draw! Part way through, I got hungry, and had to cook some burgers. I was suddenly attacked by an angry pickle and a hot dog! I had to fend them off using only a pepper shaker!!! It was then that I began to wonder... is a Cylon just a cyborg made of nylon? In closing, real winners don't use drugs... unless they're in some kind of illegal drug using contest, which is wrong.

I Broke Something When I Fell Out of the Blimp

This is what happens when you mix up the ant/in and the ant/out connections on a VCR: You turn into a weird monster. It's been known to happen to literally millions of Americans every year. Something must be done about this problem! In conclusion, I really am not very good at Monster Hunter Tri.

Myyyyy braaaaiinn huuuuuuurtssss...

My eyelids hurt.

I was eating a sandwich, and I thought to myself, "What if if Microsoft released a really crummy version of Windows that nobody liked, and then released a new version a year later, as if in apology?" I'm Charles Work, and Windows 7 was my idea.

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Man, that took a long time to draw. I hope I'm getting the hang of Illustrator. I'm probably going to stick to pen and paper comics for the most part, though.

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It's taking some work, but I've almost figured out how to use Illustrator.
The penguin is playing Fire Emblem, if you hadn't guessed.
My cat is sleeping on the floor a foot away from me while I type. That's about as cuddly as he gets.
I couldn't put Top Hat in this one, because he had to go try to close that oil leak. It didn't work.

A tornado narrowly missed my house, but I still managed to get my comic posted. That's how devoted I am.

I didn't shade this comic, because I'm trying to work on it using the free trial version of Adobe Illustrator I just downloaded.

I bet you're wondering why this comic looks so terrible. It's a long story, but in short, it turns out I don't know how to use a fountain pen.

I think it's funny to use out of context sentences at a crowded restaurant to make it appear you're discussing something interesting. I.E., "Anyway, they found his teeth in it."

Some cartoons would have you believe that swallowing a tiny computer wil let you sing in auto-tune. In fact, it will only get you banned from Radio Shack.
I swallowed a stick of gum. No special powers...

Can you tell me two things she did dumb when running?

I got that WarioWare D.I.Y. game. I made a microgame where you beat up a car like in StreetFighter. The day after that, my brother crashed his car. I have to be more careful about these things.

You Call This Bacon!!??

I finally finished Cave Story. That game is awesome. Who thinks I should try to make something like that? I have a great idea for a game based on my comic. Does anyone have any suggestions? I think I would try to use Flash, since then it could be played without downloading.

Note: May not have happened.
Has anyone seen my eraser? I left it around here somewhere...

I'm Not Wearing Lipstick!!!!

I'm trying to get some Flash software so that I can make cartoons and games. The software I need, though, costs a thousand dollars. That's a lot of money for a hobby. I'm guessing I won't use a third of the features I pay for. I wish they had some cheaper introductory version. Anyway, Cave Story is awesome.

NO TITLE FOR YOU!

Not much going on this week. Sorry if this comic isn't funny. I had to spend my afternoon doing taxes and stuff like that.

I played that game Sands of Destruction recently. It wasn't that great. It would have been better if it was a lot more challenging. Also, some of the characters tended to say the same things over and over in battle. It started to go a little something like this:
"Here comes the paaaaain!"
"It's probably my fault."
"It's probably my fault."
"Here comes the paaaaain!"
"Here comes the paaaaain!"
"It's probably my fault."
"I'm not afraid of this power anymore!"
"It's probably my fault."
"Here comes the paaaaain!"
Still, one of the characters, Taupy the bounty hunter teddy bear, was almost awesome enough to justify the rest of the game on his own.

Anyway, I have Pokemon Soul Silver now, and it's going pretty well so far. I wanted to spend my weekend playing it, but instead I squandered it doing my taxes... Sigh.