Close Encounters of the Turd Kind
One thing I’ve always admired about our simian friends up in orbit is that they’re no slouches when it comes to current pop culture. They may be off in the distance, but they do make the effort to keep up, especially Bobbo, who probalby watches about as much TV as I do. And he doesn’t have TiVo, so it’s even more of a time investment.
It’s the busy season around here and we haven’t even gotten to the holidays yet. We’ve got a Halloween comic forthcoming that involved intensive labor outside the walls of the four-panel strip (it involved tactile displays of artistic expression as you’ll soon see).
Mostly, we’re trying to figure out how to top our first 100 comics in what is now clearly the Second Round. I told PJ we should start encoding pornographic content into the hidden bytes of each strip, but he said that would take even longer and might offend some subconsciouses.
So we’ll keep at it if you keep reading.
Invasi……*snore*
Every time I catch a bit of that show there’s someone talking all tense-like and cold as if we really care who’s had their insides replaced by aliens or not. Either that or someone is opening their eyes menacingly while submerged in a bathtub right before a commercial break. Where I’m from (the mean suburban streets of Converse, TX), we call shows like that “where’s the remote.”
Guy: Man, have you seen that new show Invasion?
Guy 2: Naw, man. Why, what’s up?
Guy: Nigga, that show is where’s the remote. Gave me a boregasm or somethin.
Guy 2: Word…nigga.
So yeah, Meany’s looking a little different in today’s strip. I think I like this new look, and hopefully it will help me keep his appearance consistent. That’s always been a problem with drawing Meany. He’s gone through a bunch of different looks (mostly dealing with the shape of his head) over the run ofSpace Monkeys!
I suppose the important thing is this new style is more fun to draw, and I think it makes Meany more unique. Maybe now he’ll lighten up a bit? Maybe? Oh, okay, fine.
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