Love Robyn when she takes charge. Now the Chevy is a convertible… except to really be a true convertible it has to GO BACK with the roof over head. Hmmm, perhaps Robyn didn’t think that through. We’ll find out Friday! Oh, Jeff in the third panel cracks me up…
They do get to California, really… BTW, just to remind you all that, like his creator when he was 20, Bud drives a 1969 Chevy Caprice.
“Hello Goodbye” originally had a comma in its title (Hello, Goodbye) but Capitol Records here in the US messed up and left the comma out on the single, so the title was changed slightly. English majors were pissed… I picked it not only because I’m a Paul fan (love his bass playing) but we say “Hello Goodbye” to the cars in the comic today. We’ve had our fun with the Firebird, and now we get to drive a good old Chevy with 350HP V8 with 10:1 compression. The old girl hauled ass for a family car. And she had an 8-track! Weeee!
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I actually like the sketched look for today! Of courses – the colored look better, but it’s always interesting seeing the initial concept of a comic strip! Love the Vet!
That’s what I get for doing a double-tall comic on a Wednesday. Bad planning on my part. I can normally crank a “standard” 3 or 4 panel comic out in about 4 hours, if I’m prepared and no one interrupts me. But today’s is like two comic. That big panel with the car, and I had to layer Robyn separately, UGH! Then I am trying to keep the panels looking different so I’m using foreground/background action to liven things up too.
I know, be quiet Byron, it’s only a cartoon! 🙂
3-4 hours…ha! I don’t spend more than 45 minutes on my stuff…hmmm I guess that is why it shows.
Yeah, for comics done the way I do 1977, 3-4 hours seems average. If were to do a simple cartoon style and no color, I’d get them done in about an hour or so. I shot myself in the foot when I introduced the ladies and started drawing more realistic… damn those girls!
The comics with just Bud and Jeff do not take as long… no curves to fuss over.
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Hope that Chevy has a chassis.
The Sawzall and its clones are just about the best fun you can have while taking stuff apart. I used the Porter Cable version, called a Tiger Saw, to remove the frame of a ratty old back door so I could replace it with a prehung Stanley door. The frame had a steel “security insert” in it so I needed something with a bit of oomph, toolwise.
I fitted an all-purpose blade into the monster, gripped it firmly, the shaft jutting forward aggressively in the glare of the morning sun, it’s very presence screaming my superiority over all things with my manly tool, pulled the trigger and began the cut at about waist level on the non-hinge side.
The blade got about halfway through, then the vibration shook out the two thousand or so tenpenny nails the various owners of the place had driven in to “fix” the door over the years. The entire frame ripped out of the house, still gripped by the blade, whereupon it was thrashed into matchwood by the sheer vibratory power of the reciprocating saw.
Much manly hooting and screams of domination over all material things then ensued, along with primal screamed challenges to all rival cro-magnons who would dare to suggest they were my equal.
Then I nailed up the new door.
Are you keeping track of all this stuff? I’ve got a great movie script with your life story written all over it…
I know I’m not the only person in the world to do crazy shit, but it’s nice to meet others that have some how managed to survive as well…
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I thought he was writing an excerpt from one of those trashy romance novels…
Hahahaha! Women are SO clever and inventive, aren’t they? 😉
Your post just showed up in the Spam folder. That’s weird… so sorry it didn’t appear sooner. But to answer your questions, yes, women are clever!
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Don’t mean to be a bother, but- being a Beatles fan- wasn’t Hello Goodbye in ’67? Isn’t that about 10 years off?
Never a bother… my general rule for song titles is that the song had to have been release BY 1977 (as in that year or prior) OR the group doing the song has a 70s tie-in. I used a Talking Heads song title from the 80s once, but my “out” was that the Talking Heads released their first album in 1977 (oddly enough called Talking Heads ’77). So I give myself some room to use songs from other years or decades.
Hey, if I only used songs from 1977 I’d end up using “You Light Up My Life” from Debbie Boone AND we don’t want that to happen… ACK!
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That wouldn’t be to bad. There are all manner of things that you can light…
You are getting crazier day by day!!
CRAZY!
Thank you sir! I’m trying. Besides, I could see Robyn totally doing that too…
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I dig double-sized comics! And chicks with power tools. Good job, Byron. It was well worth the extra wait.
Thanks! I try to stay on schedule, but…
Yeah, I like these bigger comics too, but they take forever to do. If I did them in B&W with little shading, I’d knock some time off, but I’m so into the color look on the web. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t type thing…
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Something about a woman working on something mechanical just gets my motor running 😉
OH yeah! Not sure what’s up with that, but it is kinda hot. 🙂
*laughs* I had just been thinking that. The image of a brawny barefoot brunette in a tight halter top ripping the top of a car with a reciprocating saw just strikes me as… yeah, “hot” doesn’t quite cover it. I’m not sure there’s a single word in English that bears testament to that incindiary level of Sexy. (No wonder I was such a sucker for The Plasmatics…)
See now I know “Hello, Goodbye” was a Beatles tune because I played it a few days ago on The Beatles: Rockband 🙂 As for the convertable… that’s cool man.. but what if it rains?
Check Friday’s comic… that’s coming!
Having women handy with power tools is a mixed blessing…
But they do look good with tool belts strapped on… oh, I’m getting faint… 😛
If you value your car and keep auto repair and insurance down keep Robyn away from the tools she doesn’t think it though.