Well, like George Lucas himself, I finished this comic, then decided I wanted to “improve” it by adding some “special effects” and re-releasing it. But being as I didn’t want to wait 20 years to post a newer version of this comic, I have posted the “new” version here, and the “original” at my deviantART page, which you can find by clicking here.
My feeling was that in the original, you did not get (readily) that Bud and Jeff in the 2nd and 3rd frames were being viewed from the ladies “warped” point of view. The version here I think clearly hits you that they are being viewed by “purple haze” eyes. I also love the shadow effect in the 4th frame.
But, you be the judge and let me know which you like. Point of view is very hard to show sometimes in comics. It’s easy with video, you just lower the camera, add a fisheye lens, take it off the tripod, add some blurring effects and BINGO! you have someone who’s high showing you what they see.
What do I know, I’m just a cartoonist! 🙂 I love this one either way.
Discussion (17) ¬
I’ve always felt that hospital dressing gowns were not ideal wear for fighting men.
The Force is strong with this one…
Bongs?
Are those what i think they are, or is my mind just permanently in the gutter…..
I like this one better, though I might have enjoyed it even more if you had already set a precedent for what Stoner-Vision™ looked like. I thought you were showing ACTION! sequences and that the girls really did see a wookie walk by. (There’s a fire-breathing dragon, why not a wookie?)
Moving forward from here though, there are about a zillion jokes you could play with using the Stoner-Vision™ device. I think you’re on to something here…
RE: Kevin – Yeah, when the comic first started I toyed with Stoner Vision concepts but never from any one character’s point of view, until this one… so yeah, now that I’ve introduced it, the effect will have more meaning.
I was afraid people might think the character’s were just blurred as they’re “fighting” with their “lightsabers” but oh well…
😀
RE: Cherub – Yep, a bong is a water pipe. You can smoke other stuff in it, but why? 🙂
No I think cherub means dongs…
A bong is something utterly different….
Utterly indeed… 😀
I was going to Toshi Station to pickup some power converters. Then I got high…. R2, Roll another one, would ya?
Why…?
WHY did I have to search for “bong” and “dong” in Google (with SafeSearch turned off!!)??
Damnit…
This page is great!
This “remastered version” is much better than the original. The StonerVision(tm) 🙂 is very cool, but the gold goes for the guys’ shadow over the girls on the last frame. Very nice indeed!
Just one question: why did you draw the real Vader/Ben lightsabers, not the ones the guys assembled by themselves? It would match better with Bud’s mask.
Great week to ya!
RE: LordBeavis – Nice! If a stoner had a droid to do the rolling, we’d never leave the house… 😀
RE: ferabreu – Oops on the bong/dong thing… yeah, some references to dong are going to take you to websites you’d probably not want to see…
The real Lightsabers vs. the bong versions was a real quandary for me. If I drew the lightsabers as bongs I felt it would tip the joke too soon… Also, I wanted to draw the “real” lightsabers as they just look freakin’ cool.
BUT… then I wanted Bud to be recognizable, so I drew him in the face mask from the Latvia trip (when he discovers Jeff has brought only one change of clothes for the trip). I’m just going with “It’s how the ladies are seeing them in their current “state” and it’s a mixture of real and hallucination.” That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
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That’d be “your”, not “you’re”. >_>
Holy crap… see, you look at something and never see stuff like that. Thank you!
But next time give me a hint where the boo-boo is… I looked at that about 5 times before I realized it was wrong. I am getting old you know…
🙂
Wicked awesome, man! 🙂
The last time I smoked pot, in 1978, I go so stoned,
everything went black and white.
And then my vision divided into squares;
when various squares started blanking out,
it scared me so bad I haven’t smoked since.
And that was using a water-pipe.