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on September 22, 2012 at 12:01 amThe first Roomies! strip, originally published on September 10, 1997. Check out the Batman and Rebecca St. James posters. Check out the… more Joe sexually assaulting people.
What.
The first Roomies! strip, originally published on September 10, 1997. Check out the Batman and Rebecca St. James posters. Check out the… more Joe sexually assaulting people.
What.
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I’m starting to sense a theme here.
Phones?
Climbing?
Batman, of course.
Batman climbing a phone?
To be fair, Batman is a pretty good theme.
That “AIEE!” — I know it’s probably the chicks upstairs, but the part of me that hates the prospect of Joe actually being able to manage this likes to think it’s Joe because his foot slipped.
I like this interpretation. Thought just because I find it funny. Not because I don’t like the idea of Joe being able to manage climbing to the next floor up.
Art-style Whiplash!!!
This is going to be sooooo much easier to read than my first archive binge.
But it’s gonna take you seven years.
I’m always shocked when I go back to this early in the archives and realize how much Willis’ art style has improved. It happened gradually, so I never notice while I’m reading, but then I look back and am amazed.
I know, It’s really amazing.
as someone who tried to learn to draw for a long, long time (and failed miserably) seeing how good he’s gotten is really incredible. The only other artist i’ve seen make such a huge leap in skill from start to present is Gabe from Penny Arcade. It really makes me wonder if I could have stuck with it.
Not read Jeph Jaques stuff, huh?
At least with Willis and Gabe, you can see the potential for what’s to come in the early stuff.
Jeph…Jeph…great googly moogly. One is tempted to suspect he has a ghost artist on the later strips. Possibly John Waltrip. He and T Campbell did a guest strip once where John successfully aped Jeph’s style. (Note to Jeph and John – I’m joking! But if Jeph ever loses a hand in a terrible random thresher accident, he should definitely call on John to take over the art.)
Hah! Jeph? Check out early Schlock Mercenary. Holy Cow. Nowadays it looks fantastic, and is probably my very favoritest web-comic, but in the early days, it was, um, different.
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This. Jeph Jacques’ art has improved amazingly since #1. In fact, doing a Questionable Content archive binge, you can pick out about 3-4 different “eras” of stylistic changes, that are all improvements upon the last one. It’s remarkable!
Do you remember spiral chorded home phones? Padridge Farm remembers.
Wow Danny gained alot of weight in what had to be a week or so.
Hm…I’m not seeing it. We only really have the shoulders to go off of and they don’t look that much broader.
Hmm…maybe it’s just me then. He just looks…chunkier too me.
It’s all jawbone.
One of my favorite things about the art from this era is that everyone’s hair has so much volume you’d think the air in Indiana was 10% hairspray.
That’s a weirdly placed “AIEE!”–it looks like it’s coming from someone standing behind the curtains in Danny and Joe’s room.
Joe’s lower body is clearly visible from that close to the window, so the burglar hiding behind the curtain has a good view of his ‘response’ to the women in the apartment above. I’m not sure why this burglar subplot was introduced and never followed up on.
A rare early appearance by Dina.
Time to get this show on the road!
Anyway, this is definitely a solid “first strip”. This strip and the next one establish the essential characterization of Joe and Danny immediately.
Pervert and idiot, respectively.