I think this is the story line when It’s Walky! Finally makes the leap from being pretty crap to being pretty great. The character art is expressive and has some real weight to it. Almost all the jokes and gags hit. The character development was great too, but that was already the comic’s strength.
To be honest, I seriously doubt I ever would have slogged through early It’s Walky! if I hadn’t encountered it archived with that awesome intro you drew after you became good at drawing comics. Though probably some time before you really established yourself as the best cartoonist in the world, as far as I’m concerned.
So it’s been fun watching young Willis learning about the world and himself and how to draw and write. (I doubt I could have ever made it through Roomies again without the commentary.) But I expect it to be more fun to read now and into the future. Of the past. The present past I mean. … The comics after this one.
First panel…that’s me in high school…and when home during university (thus having access to cable, and the channels the cartoons were on)…and the period between leaving university and finding a job…and any day of the week I didn’t have to work in the morning… … This would be me, now, if anyone showed cartoons in the wee hours of the morning, any more.
Yea, Saturday morning cartoons were a highlight of my life, particularly when I lived in places that had cable, so I could watch the cool American cartoons, and not the stupid Spiderman/Hercules/Rocket Robinhood I had to watch on Canadian peasant vision.
Wait MIKE is the Darth Vader fan … but I can’t picture him liking Phantom Menace … but it’s still likely he didn’t put up a fuss about the poster if he’s a big enough fan … but oh no I’ve gone cross-eyed.
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MIKE: “I’m not really gonna kill you over the TV thing.”
WALKY: “That’s a relief!”
MIKE: “Now, about that Phantom Menace poster of yours…”
“Little Anakin reminds me of you.”
“D’aww!”
“You are both annoying.”
It’s still a cool poster!
I can’t see that now without seeing Keith Knight’s “parody” version =p
I think this is the story line when It’s Walky! Finally makes the leap from being pretty crap to being pretty great. The character art is expressive and has some real weight to it. Almost all the jokes and gags hit. The character development was great too, but that was already the comic’s strength.
To be honest, I seriously doubt I ever would have slogged through early It’s Walky! if I hadn’t encountered it archived with that awesome intro you drew after you became good at drawing comics. Though probably some time before you really established yourself as the best cartoonist in the world, as far as I’m concerned.
So it’s been fun watching young Willis learning about the world and himself and how to draw and write. (I doubt I could have ever made it through Roomies again without the commentary.) But I expect it to be more fun to read now and into the future. Of the past. The present past I mean. … The comics after this one.
First panel…that’s me in high school…and when home during university (thus having access to cable, and the channels the cartoons were on)…and the period between leaving university and finding a job…and any day of the week I didn’t have to work in the morning… … This would be me, now, if anyone showed cartoons in the wee hours of the morning, any more.
Yea, Saturday morning cartoons were a highlight of my life, particularly when I lived in places that had cable, so I could watch the cool American cartoons, and not the stupid Spiderman/Hercules/Rocket Robinhood I had to watch on Canadian peasant vision.
But but … HERC! HERC! Come on Toot we need to save HERC!
You take that back. Rocket Robin Hood was awesome.
Maybe it’s actually a Weird Al poster?
Originally posted:
October 27, 2001
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Wait MIKE is the Darth Vader fan … but I can’t picture him liking Phantom Menace … but it’s still likely he didn’t put up a fuss about the poster if he’s a big enough fan … but oh no I’ve gone cross-eyed.
I wonder if he was able to placate him with some Clone wars.