Well, I think it's about time for another one of these! On to the #150s!

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*squeals with delight* Man I was excited about this comic. The coloring, the action, the killer dialogue...this is where I would show Larry and Tarry's kicking-butt-and-taking-names side. I mean...MAN do I love this comic. Woo!

Though in retrospect I could have done away with that intro. There's some decent jokes in there (I think the "It's one of my FAVORITES" line comes from those South Park DVDs where every episode starts with Matt Stone and Trey Parker saying that the episode is one of their favorites), but it takes away from the action and drama of the rest of the comic.

Also as you can tell from reading the rest of the series, the Birth of UM storyline was as much an excuse to explore Larry and Tarry's origins as it was to explore UM's, and in the end it became more about Larry and Tarry. I guess I just cared about Larry and Tarry more. Or, more likely, I just wanted to show the gritty, kicking-butt story more than I wanted to show the mystical story. Ideally I would have found a better balance, but there you go.

In case you couldn't tell, LR was having a dream.

Given the length of Comic 154, I'm just going to link to it.

Hole. Lee. Shmokes. If it wasn't for that standard guest star room background I don't know if I ever would have managed to finish this comic. I mean...Holy cow. It's by far my longest comic.

I'm pretty sure the idea of the guest star room control getting mixed up with the neighbor's garage door opener was Jphyper's idea, so kudos to him there.

Geez, there's just so much in this comic. I guess the thing I like most was that I made fun of a bunch of guest star cliches here, namely Star Wars fans and violent guest stars (I still get a chuckle out of the "Not another one of you creepy violent types" line). Though the best guest stars are the ones that give you more to work with, and there's a few of those in here, namely BioNinja and Sura-Z (seriously, how fun is Sura-Z's thing? That is awesome!), and referencing my indifference to Philipnova was fun to write, even if it was sad in its truthfulness.

Not a whole lot to say about this one...I like Ricardo's body design here - I knew I wanted him to look somewhat alien but still fit in with the Razor sprites, and it worked pretty well. And I like all the background flourishes, like the bulletin board in the ninth panel and the bridge in the fourth (foreshadowing!). The binocular view in the twelfth panel is definitely a throwback to Tintin.

Really don't have much to add here...Originally, I had an idea that the professor would turn against UM after being captured, but after I took an anthropology class from a guy who was only the funniest, coolest teacher I ever had, I decided I just couldn't make the professor a bad guy.

I like the idea of Larry and Tarry being Robin Hood-like figures here, trying to help this neighborhood that's on hard times.

Ah, and the introduction of Tarry's love...Though I'm really not sure why I felt the need to insert Susanna. I think the idea was to differentiate Tarry from Larry a little, with Larry being slightly more cocky and Tarry being a touch more gentle (only a touch though, their personalities are still pretty close), giving the edge to Tarry when it comes to Susanna's love. Introducing Susanna also added some drama to the series, which was welcome.

But I'm still not completely sure I made the right choice with giving Tarry a girlfriend...I mean, I don't regret it, but I wonder if it muddled up the relationship between Larry and Tarry - they're two parts of the same whole, you can't really have Larry without Tarry or Tarry without Larry. But I had also wondered what exactly the relationship was between Larry and Tarry - at times I thought of them as twin brothers (and they do get referred to as "twins" by other characters once in a while), but at other times I wondered if they were just very close friends, or even (prior to introducing Susanna) if they were gay. Ultimately I decided it was a question best left unanswered, but inserting Susanna into the mix just seemed to confuse me that much more.

It's amazing how much time I can spend thinking about these two characters. They're like real people to me, there's just layers and layers of personality to them for me, and I only barely tapped into that with what I did even across all of my comics.

Well, enough of that serious stuff, back to something silly. Boy, did I enjoy making this comic. I had found a decent fire kit on the internet, Jphyper had sent me an idea about Kyeti being windblown into something (given that he was made of crystal), and I decided it had been a while since I had given SK and VC a spot in a comic. All these factors combined into a comic that was just goofy fun.