I’ve had this one in the “personal favourite” category on the site for a long time. There aren’t a lot comics from the Eurocom / Windows Journal era that I can actually say I like the artwork for, but this one turned out surprisingly well.

I just realized I often use the phrase “turned out” as though good artwork was an accident, because with the Eurocom tablet PC it almost always was. That was a finicky piece of hardware to say the least. It had a screen protector that made slow movements extremely difficult, so almost everything had to be done in quick strokes. It also had a habit of…how to explain? Pretend you’re carefully drawing a line and somebody behind you nudges your elbow. Basically, this PC would randomly simulate that effect. Something to do with the touch screen, I’d imagine.

So yes, it was a pleasant surprise when I could gently coerce that machine into producing a comic with artwork that was actually any good. Shortly after writing this I got a Wii, and then canceled my subscription to World of Warcraft; I had some fun while it was on, and I’ve been tempted to go back a couple of times but I would definitely never do PVP again. Awful.

Oh, and here’s a fun fact: that is supposed to be a sinister mist wreathing the feet of the giant character UGonnaDie. You know, so that you would never actually see his feet move and he’d just drift ominously around the landscape. [May 3, 2011]