Originally Thursday and Friday’s strips were combined into a single four-panel strip. But after finishing it, and realizing this was how I was ending my Thursday, leaving me with no idea how to cap the week off with a Friday, I decided to go a different direction. I drew some extra panels and expanded the one strip into two, prolonging the doubt as to the vigilante’s identity, plus providing a few extra beats for Danny’s reaction. I think it reads a lot better! Plus we got that extra day of people trying to hammer out whether this was Sal or Amazi-Girl or, uh, Faz.
Definitely glad I got that last panel of Danny in there at the end. It wouldn’t have supported a Friday strip all by itself! My retooling gave me the timing I really wanted.
Anyway, this strip is the last one in the first Dumbing of Age storyline. Monday starts “Uphill from Here,” featuring everyone’s first day at classes. Fans of my older work might yet see even more familiar faces.
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But can even Amazigirl defeat the dreaded gazebo? Tune in Monday to find out!
Nobody can defeat the Gazebo; it consumes all it sees.
Gazebos will tear you apart. Here’s a story of a tabletop rpg for evidence http://www.brunchma.com/archives/Forum13/HTML/000133.html
I wish I had done much better research. This is a far better article about how gazebos will mess up your day and murder your parents: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_and_the_Gazebo
Tales of killer gazebos, you say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyb26_jNxQE
I like this version better…
The way you drew her in the second panel, her cape looks more like overly long hair, which is why I suspected Sal.
Yep.
Usually making two comics out of one feels like obvious fillerpuffery, but this works a lot better as two. Even without the daily webcomic’s need to have a beat/ending on Fridays, the pacing and content work much better across two comics than just the one; it still would have worked better like this even in the middle of the week.
Good call!
I can’t wait for the first official storyline. 😀
Very very good call on making this two. It is far better and was funny to wait one day for the reveal (a weekenend would be much though :P)
I still don’t get how so many people in the comments were already sure it was Amazi-Girl when 1. up until then the comic had been at least reasonably realistic, enough so that the presence of any kind of masked vigilante was enough to take me by surprise and 2. Amazi-Girl had very little presence in Shortpacked! in the first place. I was wondering why you were taking so long with the Sal introduction and then got hit full force with a WTFBBQ by the reveal panel.