Today’s midday post is a little different from the others. This one has nothing to do with Dumbing of Age at all, and everything to do with people on Twitter and Formspring asking me to put back online my greatest webcomic of all time.
LAWsome.
Back in 2004, when It’s Walky! was ending, I was struggling to find a new webcomic idea to follow it. It’s Walky! had left some big shoes to fill! My only recourse was to take the strip’s most popular characters, lawyer Bart O’Ryan and that asshole Mike Warner, and give them their own series.
Alas, it was too much for the world to take, and I had to settle for a less potent webcomic sequel about toys or some shit. But today, collected together on the Internet (and digitally remastered!) for the first time in half a decade, I give you LAWsome:
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Man, you were bringing your A Game on these strips, Willis! To be able to draw Mike and Bart in the exact same place and pose EACH time? Pure talent. I tip my hat to you.
The poses aren’t the same – look at O’Ryan’s arm! That be some dramatic variety there, heck yeah!
To tell you how long it’s been since I’ve seen these, in my memory… they were in color. 😛
One reader colored them, but these are the originals.
Wait.. LAWsome has no exclamation point… IS THIS DUMBIVERSE MIKE AND BART O’RYAN!?
Benabus colored the original Lawsome strips. You can find the first of the colored ones here: Colored Lawsome. (click Next in the upper right for each of the others)
Ah, thank you sir. It’s really cool seeing this stuff again after how many years. I can barely remember the days when Shortpacked! had an actual forum.
Thems were the days. Back before I had a life 🙂
Expect to see Mike’s new drinking buddy, grad student Bart O’Ryan.
I was one of those people. Thanks for this.
I like the idea that they are laughing at and dropkicking things, even a mailbox. 😉
This is truly a masterpiece of kicks and giggles.
This should definitely go in one of the books.
I see this as a precursor to Batman Punching People. Which, again, makes me want to see a Batman vs. Mike battle!
It probably was good you didn’t make it a full webcomic back then. Web 2.0 wasn’t in full swing yet. You definitely would have broke the internet with all that Lawsomeness.
Why did I crack up laughing at the Mailbox one? I mean I knew I was expecting something different with number five but man. Why did I laugh?
Ah, nostalgia…
Any chance of new LAWsome in the future?
Clearly, the next five opponents for the LAWsome team should be (in no particular order):
A puppy
An American eagle
A rival webcomic author
A group of protestors
God
Bart O’ Ryan.
Should be.
The Dean.
You kidding me? Its going to be the (a) Big Boss, or maybe even Head Alien. Bart O’Ryan is probably going to be the guy in charge of finances who refuses to give financial aid to the main characters who need it.
Or, y’know, law professor.
I laughed.
I thought there was going to be pregnant woman.. and then the mailbox happened.
Hahaha! I love Lawsome.