And now, the #120s!

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What a mess this comic is. Which is a shame, because there's some really good ideas in here.

LE had the idea of doing an "alternative ending" comic, and she came up with the idea for both versions of the ending. In presenting it however, I really botched it. I should have released two separate comics, one with one ending and one with the other. In fact, I decided to fix this mistake - so, to see what should have been all along, here's the two comics: Version 1 and Version 2. Which do you prefer?

This was my first comic after the Comics Forum became a separate forum for the general artwork forum, which is something a bunch of drawers, sketchers, etc. had long been clamoring for. Unfortunately, it came with a fair amount of "Comics aren't real art - you just use sprites!" attitude, which I hated beyond comprehension. I think I'll do a blog post about this at some point, but it's hard to write about without getting angry enough to smash your keyboard.

Anyway, I like the thought of portraying the general artwork people as sprites - that which they seemed to most hate. Yeah, taste it you snobs. Although I wish that joke was better told now.

And the idea behind VC going "Whoa, how'd I get here?!" in the first panel is that he suddenly appeared in my studio without knowing how he got there. ...Why I didn't just explain that in the comic is beyond me. Man, my comedy was off back then...

I'm pretty fond of this series. I loved using the Bionicle comic backdrops for Voya Nui - it was a nifty way of marking the location and it was my way of honoring the great artist they hired for the comics that year. By stealing his work. And the characters allowed for some good jokes and a decent plot. Heck, I should have probably done more installments - but copying those backgrounds and trying to fit your sprites into them actually requires a surprising amount of work.

Now Comic 125 is missing from the list, but this time I actually have an explanation for this - it was a holiday comic. And not just any holiday - it was International Tahu Day! For those who weren't there, ITD was a holiday planned in secret by a bunch of members here on the forums - one guy thought of it and PMed his friends, who PMed their friends, who PMed their friends...eventually it got to me. And boy was I excited. We changed our avatars and banners to one portraying Tahu and posted on the forum a bunch that day. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, when we tried to repeat the idea with other Toa, it started to fall apart - fewer people were interested and eventually the whole thing stopped. But it was fun while it lasted.

I actually did cut the rattler off a rattlesnake once. A rattlesnake once wound up on our porch and my dad decided we had to kill it before it got to one of my little siblings or our cat. So we killed it (sad, I know), and at some point I decided I wanted to keep a souvenir from the experience, so I got a sharp knife and cut off the rattler. I still have it in a box somewhere.

...Please don't call PETA.

I also wanted to show my appreciation for Leppy Razor 360 kit here. That was probably the single biggest thing to happen to the Razor kit since its creation, and it changed my comics forever.

Ah, Ko-Kong. Another "What would have been..." moment for my comics.

I got the idea of doing a parody of King Kong after seeing the Peter Jackson adaptation (which, despite its many flaws, was still pretty entertaining). I consulted with LE, and she had the idea of making Kong a large, beastly Kopaka (cause Kopaka likes LE, get it?). I had a great idea for the end of the series, which was based on The Producers - in order to cash in and make as much money from the opening of the Kopaka showing on Broadway, LR purposefully releases Kopaka so that the show gets crashed. I loved the idea, but sadly that was the only good idea I had for this series. And faced with the prospect of actually having to tell a story to get to that final funny scene, I couldn't bring myself to actually continue with it. So it ended here.