Hey, baby
on November 20, 2012 at 12:01 amChapter: Obligatory Flashback Sequence
Location: La Porte High School
It’s the first on-panel appearance of Sal.
One thing that’s striking me over and over as I’ve been uploading these old strips is the truncated sentences. I wrote pretty huge and messily, and so I’d often have to cut off Joe or whoever mid-statement because I’d run out of room. This was fixed later with the introduction of the Walky Font, which allows me room to cram actual complete sentences into comics!
So just, uh, imagine Joe is legitimately trailing off into some objectionable territory, instead of getting throttled before reaching anything remotely throttleable.
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Actually, I think it’s better if Sal just cuts him off immediately because she can clearly read his intentions right off the bat.
Dear God, Sal actually used a door!
yes and no, she didn’t walk through it so maybe she thinks of it as an over large purse
I like to think she picked up on that smarmy smirk and didn’t need to hear what Joe had to say to know he deserved to be throttled.
And now joe sounds like Sylvester.
I think that Sal throttled Joe preemptively, just on the off-chance he would say something that deserved it.
He doesn’t really need to say something questionable. Joe can make sound like an innuendo.
In your endo…
What the HELL is wrong with Joe’s eyes?
You know, the way you shaded Sal’s hair was actually pretty impressive, considering your color limitations. I mean the way you could color something only half black and still make it appear all black.
What’s up with Joe’s eyes in that 2nd/3rd panel. He looks like he’s already been slapped silly.
I appreciate the fact that young you didn’t have Danny say “Was that a GIRL that stuffed you in the locker?’ just sayin’.
Never mind all that… Danny’s head is on backwards!
Hey look, Joe’s Canadian again!
“You know, High School can be a very sexy place, full of mystique and wonder. I’d be happy to show you all of the wonders of my penis and the various positions it can conform to”
I started off writing Zapp Brannigan and ended up writing Faz. At no point do I think that sentence ever actually captured the character of Joe… oh well… it’s there now, and it’s not like I can just not post this comment…
How the hell did he fit inside a locker? Those things are tiny to begin with, especially for a human and Joe’s a big guy.
Originally posted:
November 20, 1997