There was a Youtube link to the Moroder song I had in mind but the link eventually broke and I can’t remember specifically which one it was any more. In any case, it doesn’t matter – the song didn’t actually make me sad. I’m sorry if you just now realized that sometimes I write things in my comics that aren’t true. [October 2, 2012]
The ugly bird-things in panel 2 were actually supposed to be normal birds. I’m not good at drawing animals, however, so when this thing came out of my first attempt I decided to just roll with it. As always, here at Interesting Times my laziness quickly becomes an “artistic choice”! [October 2, 2012]
The real joke here is that Dad actually doesn’t read this site regularly. To my knowledge he’s seen maybe a dozen comics total. But…*sniff*…I’m not bitter [Sept.4, 2012]
You’ve probably noticed — having of course read every single comic up to this point, right? >:| — that when it comes to making up brands, advertisements or store names I tend to make them sound vaguely hostile. Using ALL CAPS certainly helps get this across. I’m not sure what it is about the idea that appeals to me, but I suppose I find it funny to imagine that they would just Give Up Being Nice about getting you to buy a dog or peas or whatever. They’re thinking listen, we can beat around the bush all day but we both know you are just going to buy a dang dog eventually. Let’s get this thing done. [Sept. 4, 2012]
I’m very happy with the 2nd panel. I feel a sympathetic tingle whenever I look at it, despite usually being bite-free. [Sept. 4 2012]
None of those things happened at the wedding. BUT I did manage to sneak lots of video game music into the reception. My aim was to pick music that didn’t sound out-of-place or call attention to itself, but if other nerds were actually paying attention I wanted them to feel rewarded for being in on the joke. And By George I do believe I succeeded at what I set out to do. [Sept. 4 2012]
I was wondering what I’d written in the first panel so I went back to my workfile and enlarged it. Here we go:
The reason I was interested is that usually I just write nonsense, and do it small and messily enough that when the comic is resized it looks like meaningful text but isn’t. I’ll scribble phrases like “don’t read this please” and what have you. Here I probably spent more time on the first panel than the entire rest of the comic put together, and I guess I’ll always wonder what motivated me to do that. [September 4, 2012]
I am perhaps inordinately proud of the game I created in panel 1. There’s the Star Wars and golf hazard references, of course, but if you ever played Microsoft Golf way back in the day you probably heard your Male Golfer say “it’s in the sand” with utter kill-me-now resignation more than once. [August 7, 2012]
