Category: friday mailbag

Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "Get to the choppah!"

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(to journalcomic at gmail dot com don’tcha know)
and also keep sending those guest comics!
got some good ones so far, stranger!

BEGIN COMMENTARY: Sometimes, what I like to do is lie to readers. Of course there was never any Predator hidden in the specific comic I refer to nor any other. Okay, “lie” is a very strong term. I like to play small practical jokes in which I make up things that are totally untrue about the comic. (I exaggerate about myself all the time — why wouldn’t I exaggerate about the site itself a little?) I suppose my hope is that one day I will get an irritated email from somebody who says “You know I actually went back and checked out all those comics and there are no Predators anywhere! >:(”

Anyway the tendency to lie about past comics is a running joke of mine, for myself. I guess I really am a jerk sometimes?

P.S. I really like panel 2, and I did a surprising amount of research on how to do the Predator cloaking effect for panel 3 before giving up and faking it myself. I don’t remember what I ended up doing (all the guides are for Photoshop, which I wasn’t using) but I think it turned out nicely! [March 13, 2012]

Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: "Why Chad Kroeger Hates Me"

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BEGIN COMMENTARY: There are two things I want to clarify about this comic, although I’m sure neither of them actually requires clarification; I know the anime-style speed-lines in panel two are going the wrong way, so no need to point that out. And in the last panel, the name of the song I’m humming is “stress”. It’s not that I’m particularly stressed.

Also, when reading it over now I like the way I say “constructive criticism” when the actual panel looks more like I’m saying “HEY KROEGER YOU SUCK” [March 13, 2012]