Archive for ‘2010’
Let’s spelunk through my hard drive.
Hey, remember Quake 2? Ahahahaha. So, like, people would build models for it so they could play as different folks in multiplayer. That was apparently easy enough, but easier even still was drawing up new skins for these models.
Here’s a Ruth skin I created in 1999 for someone else’s Rei Ayanami model.
She died a lot.

I’m not sure why Ruth was the hardest to get in the mood for drawing alternate clothes for. I had a more difficult time thinking of her wearing something other than the first-day’s outfit for some reason. The green and black is basically perfect. Not any other dumb stuff.
But now that I have the hockey jersey in her arsenal, though, I’ve changed my mind. That’s totally Ruth. She will check you. And not out.
You will suffer grievous wounds.

Today’s midday post is a little different from the others. This one has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age at all, and everything to do with people on Twitter and Formspring asking me to put back online my greatest webcomic of all time.
LAWsome.
Back in 2004, when It’s Walky! was ending, I was struggling to find a new webcomic idea to follow it. It’s Walky! had left some big shoes to fill! My only recourse was to take the strip’s most popular characters, lawyer Bart O’Ryan and that asshole Mike Warner, and give them their own series.
Alas, it was too much for the world to take, and I had to settle for a less potent webcomic sequel about toys or some shit. But today, collected together on the Internet (and digitally remastered!) for the first time in half a decade, I give you LAWsome:

Hello everybody who’s visiting from Something*Positive! (Randy lost a bet.) I hope you enjoy my simple strip about a co-ed college dormatory.
If you’re new here, I’ve been posting my “model sheets” which show alternate outfits for the characters into the blog day to day as they show up in the comic. Today is Sarah’s day! I think I’m gonna go mostly purple, magenta, and green with her, as you can see, with lots of layered clothing.
A version of Sarah appeared in one of my older webcomics, but she didn’t get much chance to shine there. This will be different this time! The interplay between her and her roommate, Joyce, is going to be one of the big focuses of Dumbing of Age.

Today’s midday update was gonna be Sarah’s “model sheet,” predictably, but I spent noon-ish cranking out the beginning of the last Joyce and Walky!s. (Five pages!) Instead, have a sort of 3/5 day update which consists of this Comics Alliance “pros and cons” review of Dumbing of Age:
‘Roomies’ Webcomic Creator Heads Back to College in ‘Dumbing of Age’
I’ll give you Sarah tomorrow. She’ll still be relevant!