I dug out this comic from 2009 as I used it back then to experiment with adding Halftone dot patterns to the comic to emulate what it would like if it were printed in a newspaper. It was way too much work to do on daily basis back then, but it was fun to play with the effect. In 2009, I was drawing the comics in Manga Studio (now Clip Studio Paint) but had to add in the color and shading using Photoshop as Manga Studio at the time was more about B&W manga art than full color comics. When Manga Studio was upgraded to full color support, I stopped using Photoshop. Today, I rarely use Photoshop in the process of creating my comics as Clip Studio can do just about anything Photoshop can as far as comic creation goes.
The original comic is from November of 2009 (read it by clicking here) while the gang was in California as part of the year-long story arc that I called “Road Trip”. The “Road Trip” started off as a small series of comics that I did in 2007. The 2007 comics are rarely seen as they are just terrible (at least to me). But the idea of doing a story instead of daily jokes was born in 2007 and fully realized in 2009 when I stopped doing the joke-of-the-day type comic and leaned toward telling an overall story of the gang from 1977. I am a storyteller, not a comedy writer.
And the term Wayback Machine is from “Peabody’s Improbable History” as seen on the “Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” back in the early ’60s. Mr. Peabody’s machine was actually called the WABAC machine, a play on the name of the UNIVAC computer, the first commercially successful computer introduced in 1951. Trivia: the UNIVAC weighed 8 tons and used over 5,000 vacuum tubes. Imagine having that in your house to browse the internet for goofy webcomics!
Since this is a repeat comic, it possibly falls into the “Second Hand News” category. I also just dig this tune.
I get Bud thinking aviation blond implied pilot unless one noticed Lorraine’s dyed her hair do not eye brows and lashes. Bud didn’t think pubic hair which seems to prove women can be gross. I’m glad I don’t do their laundry since they don’t wear under smelly pants ewwww and another reason not to get laid. I remember working at a ice cream business and working with a guy who told gross jokes around the girls and I. But was put in his place because one of the girls big sister incidentally sweet heart was the manager. One of my former room mates like to call himself a virginarian slurped yet was upset about pee on a bathroom floor. Which is odd he is with guys what does he expect? I pee sitting down so he never bothered me. Anyway avoid mention such grossness ewwwww.
I generally don’t resort to “toilet humor” of this kind, but it fit the moment at the time.
That’s like the moment in “Diamonds Are Forever,” when Bond first meets Tiffany Case, she’s a blonde, walking out of the room (topless, but only from the back). When she walks back in, she’s a brunette;
BOND: Weren’t you a blonde a moment ago?
TIFFANY: Hmmm, could be.
BOND: I usually notice, whether a girl’s a blonde or a brunette.
TIFFANY: And which do you prefer?
BOND: Oh, as long as the collars and cuffs match…
Took me YEARS to figure out what he was talking about!
I remember that scene, and yeah, it didn’t sink in until much later. The expression “the carpet matches the drapes” was one I heard a lot.
Nowadays it’s all ‘hardwood floors’ so there’s no matching required 😉