Dropped my towel!
on June 14, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: Joyce the Squirrel
Characters: Joyce Brown, Sarah Clinton
Location: Joyce and Sarah's dorm room
shut up joyce sexiness is fun
also used just to attract a readership: jokes, good art, storylines, reliable update schedules…
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FANSERVICE!
Willis not having a reliable update schedule? I thought he always kept updates in his magical hat ready for whenever needed.
Fortunately, you got all of those things in spades in DoA!
He’s got all of them in “go directly to jail” cards in Roomies.
Also I actually kinda wanta draw Fanservice of Roomie’s Sarah. DOA Sarah’d be super against it, But Roomies Sarah seems like she’d be more open.
Please, redraw that last frame, if only so that my brain will stop interpreting it as Sarah shedding her skin.
Stupid samey crosshatching.
She is emerging from her chrysalis in order to grow up to become a beautiful butterfly…I mean lawyer.
SARAH REVEALED.
Also everytime I look at Roomies Sarah, She doesn’t feel black. More like she’s really hairy or covered in scars.
I never saw it that way. Probably because I read a lot of Peanuts growing up and, not having much else to go on, my brain just kinda accepted that this is how you draw black people in monochrome.
Yeah…I dunno. It’s mostly because they…NEVER cover her entire body.
Neither did Franklin’s, if I recall correctly. It always seemed to be just on the edges.
Gonna go consult my collections.
I’m so accustomed to seeing DoA’s Sarah, with her head-hankie. Seeing her without it here in Roomies kinda makes her look… I dunno, naked or something.
also the fact that she’s naked.
She is also QUITE something.
I believe the word is “headscarf”.
And with that the epic battle of Young Willis vs The Furries comes to an unsatisfying end.
At least everyone knew it was All Just A Dream, since the beginning, and he didn’t pull it out at the last second.
In this libido-challenging discussion, are we really going to use the phrase “pull it out at the last second”?
Yes. Deliberately so.
At least I didn’t phrase it as ‘even though everyone was enjoying Willis wrestling with his Past self, at least we all went in knowing the dream would be a tight fit for this type of media, when Willis finally revealed what was quite evident from the beginning. Meh, at least he didn’t just pull it out at the last second.’ (For all the Arrested Development watchers, Tobias-speak)
FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP
Strange, if I’d been reading this at the time I’d have been worried that it was about to stop dead … when I was banging on about the Sleep Of Reason kickstarter, well… the comic Seago was drawing literally did just come to a blind halt at the point where a character was stunned into dropping their towel (not that we got to see anything).
…or was it that they DIDNT drop it, whilst pointing at a scary thing we never got to see, and the other character they had attracted the attention of by screaming was annoyed by that? I can’t even properly remember, it’s been a full decade or more since I saw it, and it those neurons could quite easily have been overwritten with other material now.
Either way up, there was a suggestion of dropping towels in a 1990s black and white comic, which in some way has now crossed paths with roomies twice in one week. These last few days have just been far to coincidental for comfort. I’m going get a cup of tea and have some lunch.
The punchline is sex! AGAIN! Who ever would have seen it coming? It’s only been sex EVERY SINGLE TIME in this story except for the prop humor that some people thought was also sex.
I love metahumor as much as the next writer, but it can be a dangerous drug. It often feels a lot more clever than it is, especially when we’re just starting out.
It’s useful to contrast this story with the three-strip start of the “Innuendo” story in It’s Walky, which had the same sort of wink-wink ooh-aren’t-we-naughty spirit, but manages to be a lot more fun, partly because David was experienced enough by then to do this kind of thing more deftly.
http://itswalky.com/d/20030310.html
http://itswalky.com/d/20030311.html
http://itswalky.com/d/20030312.html
Just putting it out there, I’ve never read a furry webcomic for the sex-appeal. I can get that anywhere.
Uh… Congratulations?
The difference between sexiness and all that other stuff when used to attract readership is that most of that other stuff is seen as necessary. Or at least the comics are assumed to need some level of them to be taken seriously. Sexiness, unless it’s a central theme of the comic, is usually seen as extraneous and therefore can feel like transparent pandering.
On the flipside, sometimes the OPPOSITES of what you said are ALSO done for readership. Gag-a-day instead of story lines so that the comics are instantly accessible to new readers. Purposely simple or unrefined artwork so that it looks cute, silly, or cartoony, or so that you don’t have to focus on anything but the information that pertains to the joke.
I think this is the funniest strip yet.
Originally posted:
January 8, 1999