Try a Little Renderness

So we're definitely not the first folks to comment on the issue of over-rendered anatomy with a limited polygon budget but that doesn't stop it from being funny. The fact that Gamebryo is currently being used as the engine for Warhammer Online doesn't mean that some truly ancient build out there wouldn't be licensed for a lower-budget MMO.

If you're not into the whole Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game genre, the more generic MMO (minus the RPG) concept is being deployed on a massive scale across intellectual properties that don't necessarily warrant it. Hello Kitty has one for Heaven's sake. Once Blizzard proved you can basically take a built-in audience and print money with a subscription model and regular updates to an elaborate chat program, well I guess everyone figured it was time to jump on that digital bandwagon. God help us all if the makers of American Pie actually tried this...

Mariah Carey-oke

It happens to the best of us. We think we've got a little bit of privacy in our workplace, in our homes, in our cars, but inevitably we find that privacy shattered at the worst time possible... ...while singing "Fantasy" by Mariah Carey.

Man, this comic honestly took the longest of any of them so far because I'm introducing 2 new characters and trying to decide best how their interaction will dictate the way that their characters are presented. I am of course putting WAY too much pressure on a single strip but I wanted to get the tone of it just right. It is now 1 am and my ability to rationalize this issue is weakening rapidly so I might as well post what I've got and call it a night. I know it is a week late but I hope to do better next time. We'll get back to the dirty jokes soon enough, don't you worry.

~Russell

No Comic This Week

Wow. how mopey can I get? I had an idea for a strip for this week (several, actually) but when I sat down to draw it, two nights in a row, I found I had crap for motivation and crappier crap for output. I let it slip this week because I figured I could get away with having my cake and eating it too on Wednesday with some Frolf but I got home at 9pm and by then, I was in "coast to bed" mode. I find myself in similar straits tonight without the benefit of something to build off of from yesterday.

This means that you, both of you, the loyal readers are now screwed out of a whole week's worth of pent-up anticipation. And for that I am deeply sorry. To both of you. Support system or not, I need to be able to make a strip happen without getting distracted. That didn't happen this week. See you next week.

I can has hygiene?

I swear this is the last "lolcats" picture I make. Really. Okay so let's just admit that it is a dirty little secret of mine that I enjoy Icanhascheezburger.com for reasons I can't explain. Let's just say that bad grammar and cute pictures of kittens doing mundane things somehow appeal to me. It makes me wonder sometimes whether that means years of watching cable television (especially recently) has lowered my taste in humor and entertainment enough to make such a genre even palatable in the first place.

As my cohort can confirm though, I am easily amused. Perhaps a little TOO easily amused. Combine this with a fear of letting my cat anywhere near my bathroom lest it abuse my dental maintenance tools in any way, and well, this strip has way WAY too much of myself in it...