Spaghetti stain
on June 16, 2013 at 12:01 amOh, hey, look, it’s Roomies! Redux.
So, like, in 2004 or so, four whole years after Roomies! was over and done with, Keenspot did this thing with some newspaper in the middle of nowhere wherein … something. I can’t remember what we got out of it. Perhaps links? I know I didn’t get paid. Not that I expected to, I don’t think. I was just a comic drawing fiend and wanted to draw comics to appear in a newspaper, even if it was only ever in a single newspaper which I would never read.
The newspaper didn’t want storylines, they just wanted gags, and so I grabbed up all of my stand-alone Roomies! strips and… huh. Like, twelve. A whole twelve strips out of Roomies! could be published as stand-alone gags. AND SO BECAUSE I WAS INSANE I started drawing new Roomies! strips. Stand-alones. Well, some very loose continuity.
And since this was a newspaper, Keenspot had us encode the, uh, rating of each strip within the filename? For example, today’s is rated n0l0v1o0. I can’t remember what N stood for, L is obviously Language, V is Violence, and o is… Other, maybe? Anyway. I had a few V1s in my day. Oooh, and I spot a V2. Well, let’s face it, newspapers don’t care about violence. It’s the language and sex that getcha in Hell.
Yadda yadda yadda, these strips take place at this point in the continuity. All of the characters I care about (meaning everyone except Mary) are around to play with, so I got some pretty good strips out of it despite the restrictions. Most importantly in the long run, I learned that if I want to play with these characters in this setting again, I kind of have to start over from scratch so that I have the most freedom.
Nudity?
Sure, why not.
I think c. Was asking for it, not about it…
Can’t it be both?
She didn’t let go for 2 weeks.
Happiest weeks of Sarah’s life.
And characters making physical contact qualified it for a violence rating of 1? Or perhaps the presence of something being mistaken for blood that isn’t even visible because it’s black and white? The lines indicating that Joyce is moving?
I guess the implied violence of “you have blood on you!!!1”, even if spaghetti =p
And you never even got to see the newspaper?
Man, that sucks.
Cool. New (to me) strips!
You didn’t get paid for these? No wonder you got burned out =p
Danny, stop lying. We all know you fought off a hundred men and a bear.
… Nah, that’d be Howard. You know how badasss Howard is.
Did Danny glue that glass and plate to his tray?
I keep looking forward to seeing the newer strips put into continuity. I keep wondering how you’re gonna handle the ones that give a few spoilers for It’s Walky, though.
What kind of spoilers? We’ve already seen the aliens and all the future abductees have been shown already.
There’s actually an upcoming Roomies Redux strip that foreshadows who Joyce eventually marries. AK probably meant something different though.
I was kinda trying to avoid specifics, but basically there’s a Ruth story where she tells Danny about something that happened to her in high school, and it has some background references to things that come much later.
is it just me or does Danny look disturbingly like Jason in the last panel
Impossible. Jason wouldn’t be caught dead in a spaghetti-stained hoodie.
Or even a clean hoodie.
Art Evolution!
Oh come on man, don’t let her touch you. It’s bad enough your support her delusions by being her friend.
…Crazy Stalker Roomies!Joyce does not mesh well with Joyce being rendered in an art style that actually makes her cute…
Originally posted:
October 28, 2004