whew glad i saved all of these in a word doc. you guys know the deal. come here each week to read why this week's comic was funny...to us!
remember, they're not just liner notes: they're LINEAR NOTES!
1. ok, most of you know this story. we had a stalker fan who in the height of his fanaticism called terry and mike on their home and cells phones to discuss movie deals he made up in his head. mike eventually told him off and a few days later he posed on AIM as a friend of the original stalker boy. he told mike that stalker boy had killed himself and left his money to terry and warhammer minis to me; leaving nothing to mike because he was a huge jerk. we obviously saw through this ruse.
2. most of gang entertainment is affiliated with the catholic church. therefore...
also thats supposed to be the ranklin bass bumble snow monster from the rudolph holiday special. in case you didnt have a childhood.
3. a now overused joke amongst the gang is saying "thats what she said" after anything someone says that can be remotely interrpreted as sexual.
it found its way into the comics cause i couldnt think of a better idea that week. and now you enjoy them regularly when i also cant think of an idea that week.
4. at this point i was REALLY out of ideas. and this being only the fourth one...things were looking grim. so i figured id introduce some of the girls of the gang which would eventually be in uic adventures. then for sick kicks i dressed them in my favorite video game character outfits. thatll teach em.
oh and in case you didnt get the refs: kelly=kos mos (xenosaga) nato=morrigan (darkstalkers) erin=lulu (final fantasy X) amber=master chief (halo). im so awesome.
5. ok, this one i dont think anyone but me got. another joke around gangtown is joey's evil twin...boey jigio. get it? HA
ok so the baby has little fins, the idea was that the baby would have such an indeniable trait of the father that the whole idea of doing dna tests was inane. funny funny.
6. i calculated that all the problems in my life would take me two weeks to sort out. therefore i drew one panel and a script, and made mike run it for said time. im allowed at least one of these every 50.
7. haha...so great
8. ok, so this is based of the beginning flame wars on our forums where a certain individual could not get the idea through his head that we WERENT going to dub over godzilla movies cause he wanted to see it. then stalker boy showed up and it all went to hell.
9. more thats what she said awesomeness. i thought of all of these while enjoying a bath.
10. happy presidents day! joey is supposed to be john wilkes booth, im supposed to be abraham lincoln. ill spare you the history lesson. my versions alot cooler. i should write my own textbook.
11. a pokemon parody. again, awesome satire of joey.
12. a take on harem manga. im a big fan of love hina and tenchi. anyways for those that dont know, harem is a genre of manga/anime where a boy, through complicated circumstances, ends up living with a whole bunch of hot girls who secretly like him. hilarity ensues as he accidentally peeks at them in the hot springs, or mistakenly plugs their ass with his penis. yoowwwza.
13. the first arc used in miniventures, attempting to poke fun at the 2-bit operation that is gang entertainment. thats the juggernaut fighting a trex on a pair of breasts in the last panel. the height of my creativity for that week.
14. next we take a crack at joey's alcoholism, our collective acting talents, and pedlya's (a fan a forum user) hopeless crush on eileen.
15. yeah i have no idea. i was looking for a way to make fun of mike, and theres only so much to do. hes skinny....hes a nerd. you get it.
16. april fool's day, stupid! joey reminds everyone why hes not funny.
17. this was in response to terrys hypocritical views on anime. he hates anime yet, he likes most video games which are considered anime too. plus eileen wanted to be drawn as sailor moon. thats the joeymon from 11 that terrys kicking.
18. to further infuriate terry, i replaced him with an anime version of himself. blame the typo in konnichiwa on mike.
19. this thats what she said i had been waiting to do for a long time. i have a whole section of my assignment notebook devoted to these one liners so i dont forget any. these are the cream of the crop. also introducing jakes as a character, not just on view screens.
20. while at a pappas party the guys got around to bitching about how gang miniventures is mainly tyler adventures with guest stars mike terry and joey. which is what any awesome person would look forward to seeing.
but jay and pap wanted in, and i wasnt doing anything better for that week. the humor in the strip is that they are in it for a panel, and then i go off and do something awesome. namely saving a mermaid from a sea vagina or whatever that thing is.
the other people in the background are bill (cut off on the right) quinn (guy in the suit) jakes (go banana sign) vicky (behind jakes) super fan jeremy creek (btwn jay and quinn) erik morales (indestinguishable shadow on left) and ben (indestinguishable shadow on right). the other sign says "MOAR" an internet typographical pun on the word "MORE". paps shirt is suppossed to say "IRON PAP" which is his halo account handle. i used it in our first great inter-gang halo death match and became jays greatest rival.
21. this is the start of a new arc which should of had a predate before terry was killed and replaced with terry-san. but i forgot to add it, so just imagine. asshole is the name of a card game that we like to play when drunk and to get drunk. its fun and kind of like war.
anyways jay is the gangs official party coordinator, for when jay is behind the setup the party never fails. however he sometimes gets a bit too excited, and soon myspace, facebook, your cell phone is flooded with up the the minute updates on the said event. his famous quote is "i'm gonna need your money" for his schtickler rules on payment.
22. so much to mike's chagrin this is the first tyler-free miniventure. but it will also be the LAST tyler-free miniventure. in fact we're now calling it "tylerventures starring tyler and sometimes a half naked eileen". cool? cool.
so here we see eileen rambling off the actual list of supplies used in the last inter-gang hoopla. silver bullets are the gang's nickname for coors, and the $6 vodka refers to skol vodka. costing the aformentioned amount and coming in a plastic handle, skol is quite possibly the worst vodka you can drink, and the guys hassle me for referencing it often because its one of like 4 types of alcohol i know. we're not all drunken masters like joey and jay.
as you can see in the last panel jay turns into a brutish orc when he drinks. his drunkeness goes through several phases. in the comic hes has just crossed the threshold of the screaming (3rd) phase into the throwing things (4th) phase.
"you kids like drinkin?" is some inside joke mike and terry once told me and then began to use to peer pressure/scare me into drinking with them.
23. continuing with the jays party arc, everyones favorite person (tyler) is back and ready to pee. there is actually such a bush that has been raised on the alcoholic piss of a thousand gang members right outside jay's garage. its not nearly as exciting however. problems arose when making this comic. how the hell do you make a bush look like it was raised on alcoholic piss? i liked the final result more than the ideas brian and i were tossing around (having penis heads as buds and giving them teeth and castrol gtx hats).
24. i thought i wrote this before but anyways, could have been a mess up on the forums. so anyways this is a bridge for #25 basically. mike and i are considered the light-weights in drinking, since mike weights 110 lbs and i can count the number of times i've drank on 4 fingers.
eileen's line is a ref from LOTR which im sure NONE of you got.
the final panel is a take on a friend of our's (maritza) video project. her friend owns a monkey who is deathly afraid of a rainbow colored feather duster. in one video project she did with the monkey, you can see him slowly look at something offscreen with abject terror, backing up into his cage as it gets closer, shaking his head. soon the object of fear (the feather duster) enters the frame and the entire situation becomes too hilarious to bear.
25. ok, the final payoff. i wanted to do something special with the 25th miniventure, so i decided to do a spread and color it. but what could i possibly draw?
well at a party earlier this year, mike was regailing me with the tale of terry playing asshole quite drunkenly, slamming down cards and challenging people left and right. at some point they likened him to a mad octopus, throwing cards all over the place. mike said, "you need to like draw this picture of octo-terry for something." and like how most gang projects begin...one stupid was enough for me to make this entire dumb story arc to fit octo-terry into some context.
jakes has a viking helmet cause. eileen is a showgirl for fan service.
26. ok, so this is the official start of vol 2. which should be comprised of #26-50. just cause i cant fit anymore in the current binder.
so today i sat in my hammock and thought of a bunch of crazy crap and his was the first one that came out. im most comfortable with exploiting nato cause i know her the best, so thats why she was chosen.
for the few that don't know what warhammer is, its a fantasy strategy board game, with orcs and elves and dwarves and undead and all that cool stuff. you buy units of fighters, special character, monster, war machines miniatures (what have you) painstakingly put them together and hand paint them, then play a turn based game involving complex rules and dice to simulate battles. it was awesome in high school before i had a girlfriend/expenses/jobs. check it out
www.games-workshop.com
the hand gesture im making the last panel is the patented gang "wait" gesture made famous in all our movies.
27. so in a few years, mike becomes a kung fu master, terry loses an eye, i get a few upgrades and joey loses his body due to liver complications. who would have thought?
so in case you didnt know, jeremy creek (aka dbzruler) is our self proclaimed number 1 fan, and can actually back that up. hes such a huge fan that his mom got terry, mike and jakes to come all the way to iowa for his 18th bday party. he also recently came to gang fest 07 along with his parents (who video-taped us the whole time....just a little bit creepy.)
anyways theres pictures floating around of the boys wearing somberos at jer-bears 18th, so it seemed only natural he would adopt one as part of his daily wardrobe.
ALSO mike apparently made an executive decision to change the original caption of "DS7: Doin' Each Other" to "DS8". i would like to clarify that mike has now royally fucked us into producing those next two diasterpieces by 2012...while I was trying to give us some leeway. but most ancient civilizations believed that the world was to end in 2012 so i'm not going to sweat the small stuff.
28. wow i sure make fun of terry a lot now a days.
ah that's better.
anyways, this is his revenge against terry-san issue. i was hoping to use terry-san in more gags but now he's dead. unless i clone him.
29. guest month was a great idea i had when i asked some of the gang to think of funny ideas for gang miniventures. then i had an even better idea of asking them to DRAW the ideas for me too, leaving me to do virtually any work cause mike edits the pictures into nice panels and does the lettering on the word bubbles. lol genius.
but it didn't work out so well, since eileen is the only one that will be writing AND drawing one. i still have the responsibility of drawing the rest, and translating brian and mikes unintelligible ideas into pictures.
but i digress. now eileen tells me that the korean in the first and last panels spell out "i love pizza!" and "kittens!" respectively. if i didnt forget what she told me online like 3 weeks ago.
the forums users should obv now this but, it is believed that eileen and tyler are simply meant to be, thus their inevitable wedding will be the robotic event of the century. the illustrious guests would include from left to right, that robot from invader zim, bender from futurama and c3po and r2d2 from star wars. also if you spell c3po phonetically like "seethreepio" youre a huge fag and should never have friends.
30. brian should prolly explain this moar, but heres what i learned from it.
"tonguing" is something you can also do to a trombone.
"f-holes" are those f-shaped holes in those guitar wannabe type instruments.
sharp dicks are no fun, you could put someone's eye out.
see you in 7.
31. i bet mike has something better he could add, but basically discussing which gang member will get married first is a popular topic when the boys get together and knock back a couple of cold ones. we'll see just why jay got tricked into taking the plunge next week!
32. this is part two. im so f-ing tired right now. andy woke me up. ive had like 4 hours sleep. apparently jay gets bamboozled into alot of things, mike could prolly tell you moar. oh and mikes shirt has captain americas shield on it.
33. so the problem with me writing for characters like pap is while we're buds and ive vicariously grown up with the boys of evergreen through the doin stuffs....i still dont know quite everything about them. i remember consulting terry on this and he said something like "well, as long as theres a ford, or an enterprise, or a dolorian or a pirate ship in it, it'll prolly be a good pap joke".
the decision was made to make a papmobile out of these combined vehicles, and was just going to be a stand alone miniventure. the sheer ridiculousness of pap riding in such a vehicle and thinkings hes cool while doing so is more than enough humor than im normally allowed to publish weekly. but we worked it into the jays wedding arc, and it worked out great.
34. i just had to do a guitar hero joke after the fun time we had playing in terrys basement the last time we all hung out. which was to do the gang wars commentary. it only lasted a few hours, but we laughed our guts up, mainly at jeremys expense. lol anyway the joke is that fantasy does not beget reality. terry and i arent rock stars, we're two dorks in a basement rocking out in front of eileen.
as far as eileen showing any sort of compassion for her brother, im pretty sure her caption would read "my turn".
ALSO i almost forgot to mention the posters in back are all parodies of blizzard games. from the right you have Star Craft Boob War (Brood War) with a pic of a busty kerrigan, next is WarCrap (WarCraft) with an orc and a human about to poop on each other, and finally Diablow (Diablo) with a...well i dont know if i even want to tell you what i was trying to draw...
35. this one mike gave me the idea for when i was talking to him on da cell phone last week. he was talking about how the latest gang shoot went very smoothly even with terry heavily involved. he then theorized that the more terry is involved in a project, the more he'll actually give a shit.
i thought back on all the previous gang film shoot, and found that with the exceptions noted in the comic, this hypothesis was true.
terry usually gravitates to any and all boobs on set, and a favorite tyler/terry past time on set...or anytime we're with mike is to make fun of him behind his back. this ranges anywhere from making fun of mike's weight, geekiness, sonic affinity or inability to be cool. however the mike jokes that nearly get us kicked off our own set are the musical ones, where we sing the melodies of ytmnd related songs to the word "mike", ceaselessly.
36. 36. holy shit its my birthday! i turned 22, and since i didnt have a better idea that week i drew a birthday pic of me with my REAL friends.
from left to right: aspen mattews (fathom) boba fett (come on) vincent valentine (final fantasy VII) felicia (darkstalkers) moonknight (marvel) rei ayanami (evangelion).
other ideas included a sugar free caked served upon joey's dead body.
37. ok this is one NO ONE would get except me, mike, and erin; and even then that's stretching it.
so erin's friend dave drew a sweet comic book cover of erin fighting a dinosaur and she put it up as her current myspace pic. the caption read "Dave is the greatest artist ever! "
to which mike responded "Tyler's gonna take offense to that "greatest artist ever" remark, provoking a draw-off of epic proportions featuring cartoons of you in less and less clothes! "
and to which i responded "oh come on, im not THAT petty!
spectacular work here, id buy it!"
the rest of the comic has to be self explanatory from here in on in order to be funny. the idea of the drawings being an erin calendar came last minute.
oh and mike's shirt says "world war mike" a ref to "world war hulk".
38. this is a take on mobile suit gundam. from the beginning of uic adventures the model for the robot (tyler) has been based off gundams (wing gundam in specfic).
in basically every gundam story, a young boy from a space colony gets sucked into a galatic war by stumbling into a prototype weapon (gundam). in the gang universe it happens to be amuro jakes (a pun on amuro ray from the original mobile suit gundam, although both look very similar) who falls into tyler.
optional caption for the last panel would read:
Tyler: are you crazy kid? i'm a washing machine, not a mobile suit!
39. this one i came up with in the shower, which as described before, is where i get my best ideas. my funny bones have been pretty dry this weekend, and i wanted an excuse to draw joey having a tea party with mr. wiggles.
40. the question (in case you didnt get it) if you could be one xman, what who would it be? there comes a time in every geek's life when he must ponder this question. nightcrawler IS the obvious answer, although im sure mike would rather be captain america if he could.
poor eric is left out of our nerd talk most of the time, unless were talking about computer games before 1997. theres a sea anemone on his shirt. and mike's shirt reads "civil mike!" another lame parody of a marvel comics event.
41. last week's ds4 commentary party went well, until jay realized we were doing a commentary...jay takes unkindly it seems to parties that dont involve his house or his exact plans. even if we tell him before hand...
to be fair though jay bought ALL the alcohol we drank. what a guy. ill keep making fun of him for the next two weeks though.
42. more hilarity of what actually went on at ds4 commentary night. terry's party was a family thing more than a carnival though. so the elephants and balloons and clowns are all fictious. the drunken joey to the right of the clown however was very real.
slykasvania is also a real soverign nation at the time of this posting.
43. the epic conclusion. this is joke on one of the many times jay has earned the title "the most unreasonable man ever". jay only knows one way to apologize, cause bodily harm to himself. coincidentally he also does this when he doenst get his way aka jay's way. normally he doesnt jump off roofs, but he does usual drink an unhealthy amount of alcohol in one gulp.
44. kicking off a series of halloween type miniventures, here comes the gang girls shopping for costumes! the little pumpkin in the corner is supposed to be carved like tyler. the girls are in their fall clothes which is just stuff i remember them wearing a lot. kelly in her jean jacket. amber in some juicy brand sweater (which when she wore one for the first time caused much confusion, why was she advertising that her chest was juicy?), nato in her batman hoodie, and nato in a harry potter jacket. lol another terry rapist joke, cant get enough. also joey is fat.
the joke about amber looking different is actually moar than a haircut. amber is the one jerkette i have to most trouble drawing. since the girls change their jair every week its hard to find a style that is recognizable for all of them. ambers short hair i originally drew her with was making her look too manly. i re-did her brow a bit too and made her eyes smaller.
45. so mike's supposed to be dressed up as captain america, and terry is vergil from devil may cry. the mr. forberg joke goes all the way back to ds1, which you just might be familiar with. im sure mike can elaborate, but the basis of the joke was the gang making fun of their creepy english teacher who would pop out of mike's garage. i used the actual screenshot from the back of ds1 as a reference.
still don't understand why he screams his own name.
46. your standard sick thats what she said with a halloween twist. joey is dressed up as tweedle DUM, eric is poseidon, bill is a bottle of miller, jay is a hell knight from hell, jakes is sherlock holmes, and i'm thor.
47. this is the start of an arc that will obv go to 50. this is based on a current gang joke about pap and his methods to attract women. perhaps one of the guys wants to go in detail but basically pap becomes the ultimate attention monster and will go to any length to get a girl to "jump into bed" with him. he also has some sort of hotness dampners in his brain, so severe he can no longer distinguish a hot chick from a dumpy one.
dannys boys is the name of a bar where pap has some sort of connection. if i remember correctly he hangs out with the owner's girlfriend or something. i think everyone already knows where this is going.
48. so the main joke here is the ways pappas thinks that he can appeal to women by "being cute", which are listed in the comic. pappas is relentless, thats why its the job of mike and terry to totally cockblock pap anytimes he pulls something like that. usually they swarm him, and use his own medicine against him while screaming "I'M BEING CUTE!".
49. you know this is leading up to something big...
thats supposed to be kelly in the last panel. or is it nato? you cant really tell cause i drew it right before i left to see beowulf (which was awesome) and ill never color it. lol take that loyal fans!
50. originally this was just going to be us fighting a pap that may or may not look like the hulk. it seems every 25 issues or so someone turns into a monster, and i didnt have a better idea than this "world war pap" one at the time. however, as the deadline came closer i realized i didnt want to waste the 50th miniventure on something so stupid, so instead i wasted it on something slightly less stupid, RESIDENT PAPPAS 3 PAPPASIS...
anyways i had a lot of fun doing it, except for craning my neck in coloring postion for a day...i dont know how comic artists do that day in and day out, but i better get used to it (if im so lucky). i even went out and bought a new marker for the lickers/joeys vest/my bandana. my favorite thing to draw and color were the lickers.
the cast is as following: reprising their roles in resident evil tge we have from left to right::joey=barry, tyler=joseph, terry=wesker, jay=chris, mike=brad. the girls were a bit different and only occasionally fit their looks but nato=rebecca, kelly=claire, amber=jill, erin=ada.
whew....50 more to go...wait what?
51. this weeks show brian and i in out natural habitat/brainstorming sanctuary...taco bell. many a genious idea has been sprung from such gatherings. brian brings up a valid point though...i seem to always have to justify whatever i draw, i cant leave loose ends or leave people thinking...wait...what? the resident evil idea came out of no where as i mentioned before and i feel i had to make an explanation. so therefore i find out im free to draw whatever i want. so i reused the mermaid joke from #20. lol.
52. woweee, one year already. seems like yesterday i was telling mike "hay we shud dew a weeklie webcomic u no?" and mike was like "ok". ive very much enjoyed doing gang miniventures, keeps me on my toes and gives me something to do each week between 10 and 12 sunday night.
so yeah, people or things you might not recognize in the picture: to the right of my head is HAN then JAY then PAPPAS then the little floating thing in the distance is JEREMY. the little flying hunk of foil between eileen and kelly is SLADDY if you remember from the first uic adventure made and gang miniventure 11. thanks to everyone who has helped inspire a gang miniventure. lets make the next 52 even better!
53. if you didnt get this, your parents prolly didn't love you enough to get you cable. either way if nickelodeon's fine programming never graced your pre-teen eyes, you had a shitty childhood.
"legends of the hidden temple" was and is the BEST game show ever created. it was also really fucked up if you think back....
so youre divided into teams, theres a giant stone maya head that talks to you, and a cut away fortress with hidden mayan guards waiting to pounce on you if you stepped in the wrong room. trippy, was i the only kid that wanted to have their birthday party there?
oh back to my story...so yeah youd do all these physical and mental challenges, ie obstacle courses and 20 questions...then if you didnt suck you would earn like two pendants of life at most. the pendants of life allowed you to bypass a room in the final challenge/dungeon place that had a mayan guard in it. if one of those fuckers jumped out off the sponge pit room (cause there was ALWAYS one there!) and you didnt have a pendant, you totally lost and the weirdo carried you off. i remember seeing like ONCE some kid go through the whole temple, get all the artifacts, beat down both mayan guards and escape the temple before time ran out. it wasn't so much a kid as it was chuck norris, but still, this game show was brutal.
for more info you should check out:
http://www.geocities.com/nicklegends/
54. merry xmas 2007! so i wanted to do another xmas related pic for this week and it took me like 2 hours to just come up with this. hence why it is the first time i've ever handed in a miniventure late i believe. i wanted to think of the most cracked out xmas adventure the gang could have...and i came up with snowboarding away from a snowman head in candy land. check out the awesome buildings! thats a graham cracker windmill. lol what will i think of next?
55. i wanted to do something new years related. mike and i were talking about how crazy this new year's party is going to be since theres so many people cramming into pap's apartment. mike predicted that joey would kill jay in a drunken spree. but i figured if someone would die, it would probably be an unimportant character like eric. you know, someone whose death wouldn't be to consequential but you would still feel kinda bad. the cowboy bebop opening theme "TANK!" parody art-style came at the last second, and i even decided to color it!
mike does not actually smoke cigarettes.
56. the aftermath of new years. well, eric weber did show up to the party so i felt bad about killing him off...which i was really prepared to do cause theres kinda no reason to draw him anymore. but uh, pitt didn't show up so i gave him the axe instead. an eric for an eric is a fair trade.
there were tons of little jokes throughout the night which will no doubt be fleshed out eventually here. but the ones that made it to this miniventure were a bit obscure. the yellow thing on erics head was some weird pillow thing that pappas owns. it found its way on to the heads of many during the course of the night. i colored it to make a bit of a sin city reference.
"find jays pants" is another favorite new years day activitiy. while i stepped outside to pee the others were trying to call his cell phone, which was inside said pants. as i neared the balcony i heard a distinct miiiike ring tone from above me. jays pants were buried under the snow on the balcony above. i won!
57. pretty self explanatory, our animation specialist barry knapp is f-ing awesome. the bottom of the first panel should read "lava bath" not "labyrinth". which makes the comic cyclical and funnier. blame mike for bringing the unfunny which he wont EVER dare change.
58. the guys usually make fun of me for going home early and or being babied by my mom. terry made up the whole joke about me being tucked in and watching my gundam reruns. i added the resident evil part. which is partly true. resident evil does get me worked up before bed time. in resident evil 4 the zombies are called "ganados", which is spanish for cows.
los ganados are known for screaming unintelligible things at you in spanish, but sometimes you can make out what theyre saying. usually it has something to do with dismembering you.
the sheets and bed are based on my first bed set i ever had. the stuffed octopus monster is based on a cthulhu plushie i own in real life, his name is "pussy".
59. i always joke about the kind of movie joey would make, had he any ambition whatsoever. it would prolly look like this. more to come.
60. Taken from the forums:
Terry: it's good to know you're capable of making a coherent movie; However.... I believe there is no better snake in the world than me.
Eileen: Tyler
Brian: Tyler
Terry: tyler would never be able to complete a mission cause he'd be getting calls from his parents which would alert the guards. and then he'd have to go home.... so you both fail
so i made a hilarious comic of it. thanks guys. keep'em coming.
61. I drew this with my left hand and after 1 large beer. Ever wonder what its like to be drunk with the gang?...well here it is. We drunk call our past teachers and rawk out to itunes on shuffle.
62. a post valentines day miniventure since i forgot it was coming up last week. obviously you can see i didn't have any material anyways so i resorted to making fun of joey.
normally mike and i go out of our way to flirt with sarah, joeys current girlfriend, cause we like to wear him down emotionally as well.
hence the joke about mike going on a date with her.
THEN to further ruin joey's day, nato and i show up with valentine cards but not for him. cause nato once actually brought us all valentines at school. mine was the best.
mike was baffled and thought i drew sarah in the comic. although its clearly nato...doing something nato would do.
63. another new years joke. writing credit goes to terry on this one. i forgot how we got on the topic, but we started talking about pappas video game where all you do is press one button to breathe, and if you let him go to long without breathing, he dies; resembling very closely pappas real life day to day struggles.
64. should of done an n64 joke. oh well. anyways the idea of introducing karly as a mistaken kelly clone is something ive been kicking around for awhile. and only until a few weeks ago did i have the funny idea of making kelly clones a free giveaway. the timing with the new store was just luck.
65. this is a take on the cg movie "beowulf". in the movie theres a scene where beowulf boasts about killing a legion of sea monsters, but his comrades joke about how he exagerrates the story more every time he tells it.
which pretty much fits jay's "60% rule". if he says its a large amount, then its about 60% less in real life and vice versa.
66. lol im not sure how to explain this one. basically more humor about how im still treated like a 10 year old.
67. mike came up with the idea/layout for this weeks. realistically i would prolly be the last person to move out, but in the context of the comic it works better.
the mike and tyler crib would indeed be full of toys and devoid of women.
the video game we're playing is "avengers vs gundams" which would just be logistically impossible (gundams being several stories tall).
for jay and joey's pad description all mike wrote was "obviously..."
im pretty sure they wouldnt last one weekend before they died of alcohol poisoning and leveled their place.
EDIT: terry came up with this weeks outline. mike was the messanger. eitherway...good miniventure, team!
68. lol april fools! this is a long standing joke we have about pappas and his random ideas. one day he was just sitting in his pappas chair...thinking...and he decided "miller".
69. thats what she said...with a twist! thats right i've finally milked these long enough to do a womens pov....or a mens pov depending on how you want to look at it.
70. so this was drawn in preparation for my long trip to wisconsin for the filming of "public enemies". it doesnt really go anywhere...but you can see the same blizzard spoof posters from #34!
71. terry kicked off guest month with pretty much the same plan that eileen had when she did her first miniventure. totally original. i dont understand why mike was "asked" and not "forced" to shave his beard.
the biggest accomplishment of this miniventure was terrys artistic decision to put mike in a turtleneck sweater...something hes never worn in his entire life. needless to say terry started a new trend.
72. next was mikes contribution. more jokes about jay the abusive boyfriend. once again we see mike depicted with a turtleneck sweater. also im told that blob in the last panel behind jay, is his shadow...with bullhorns. nicole's thought bubble is something she actually wrote in the condensation on a car window.
73. eileen was too lazy to draw the minimum of three panels, and she called her crush on me "fake". such mendacity....
74. once again...jakes taking it to the full extent and keeping the mike turtleneck sweater tradition! at first i thought jakes was supposed to be morpheus from the sandman comics...
75. how many weeks in the making? 6? 7? whatever...its done. the reason for the delay if you havent guessed was my involvement with the movie "public enemies'.
i had major issues with spacing and who was actually going to be in the picture. sorry to those that got shafted...better luck next time. surprisingly no one turned into a monster in this one.
the actual print is two large pages...which ill post here at some point since they look much more majestic.
color placement was also a big issue here...and is for me always. i will literally spend hours contemplating what color everyones pants will be so that nothing clashes or is used too often.
all the little sea creatures were added to please my gf.
this is also my tribute to michael turner...my absolute favorite artist, who recently died. rest beneath the waves, friend.
76. this was the first miniventure i had drawn in weeks! i wanted to celebrate my return with something ive been waiting to draw for a long time.
one day when terry was really laying it into mike...mike said something to the effect of "all the wrong and evil you have caused people terry, will one day hit you like a train".
so of course i pictured terry running from a giant mike train.
see if you can find the hidden naughty bits in the picture!
77. there was originally going to be another beach themed arc leading up to #75, but it had to be canceled because of my jorb. this was going to be #74 and was a great contribution from brian.
since we first popped in endless ocean for wii, we joked about the similarity between brian and eileen...and the male and female characters in the game...but i could never really flesh a joke out of it.
brian came up with this one in exactly 23 seconds.
the tyler fish is actually and invention of my gf. who always said the robot's head looked like a fishie, and has since became her pet name for me.
78. ive recently been on a sonic games kick, ever since gamestop had their games day sales...which was more or less a sonic days sale. pretty much every sonic game thats come out in the past 5 years was on sale.
i also wanted an excuse to draw sonic and the gang. so gang heroes was an obvious choice...
standard personality jokes ensued.
79. mike and i couldnt get enough of all the possible team combinations, i felt i had to do a sequel. the decision to make ben, erik and quinn robots was a spur of the moment deal...as was making them quote iced earth lyrics.
80. i wanted to do a booshe fighters comic, but i couldnt think of anything really funny to do with it in just 3 panels. so when i wasnt able to make the #80 deadline, i decided to use #80 and #81 to try it out.
basically all i did was parody characters. theres nothing really funny in this one. zordon is a giant mr. russell head (our cinema teacher) the booshe fighters have helmets based on the booshe fighters in the final jerkoff (crocodile, banana and quadralateral) and the putties are smutties...with giant cocks.
81. they really should of used those damn guns more...why didnt anyone end bulk and skull's lives?
82. this wasn't a planned take over. i just couldn't think of anything better to do with the normal crew. notice how the actual gang members....sonic caricatures aside....haven't been in a miniventure since forever? the last panel is a mock of the old gang logo, if you didn't catch that.
83. as i mentioned before on another thread, when thinking of how the elders would spoof gang miniventures, i went and looked back at all the previous ones (as i do every 5 days anyway to remind me how great i am). basically, all i got was alcohol and physical violence gags. there you have it.
84. fan service is a term not everyone may be familiar with. its used to describe how a writer or artist blatantly appeals to the fans or more specifically perverted fans. ie....draws naked women.
85. scrapping for more ideas, i decided to make a female elder. using a pornstar as a model, of course i had to make a boob joke. im pretty sure someone else has thought up "world of walkcraft" before...because that's all you do in the fucking game until lvl 30...then its "ridecraft".
86. i'm not totally sick of doing miniventures. but i am sick of drawing joey. so i decided to permanently kill him off. he won't be missed...
87. the joke about mike being in indiana relates to the yearly trip that some of the boys take there. i honestly dont know what they do other than drink and splash around in pools cause the only girls that go are nicole and sarah. mike won a gigantic stuffed tails tho, i mean he could at least fuck that. but anyways mike has been trying to get me to make dvd covers for something i prolly cant disclose of right now. as of today, 10/10.08 i still havent done more than a rough draft.
88. this i just thought of on a whim. i figured id just be harsh on myself, instead of tossing anyone else in the spotlight. although i was sorely tempted to do jay, who is currently the gang member i hate most. the "minerals" part is a starcraft joke. if you dont get it, im not going to explain it to you because youre a piece of shit.
89. this is one of my favorites for so many reasons. it seems everything worked our perfectly, theres an homage to michael turner and theres a non-offensive joke which also provides a topical and important subject that needed to be addressed in the gang universe, mike and joey's first apartment. it also shows that i can be seriose too sometimes. michael turner still remains my favorite artist, in the most honest sense of the word. i was very upset when i heard that he has finally died.
90. this one primarily serves as a bridge to the longest gang miniventure arc ever so far. its basically us in a world of warcraft type universe. the idea was that everyone in the room, which oddly includes people like eileen and eric weber, is sucked into the game. i took my own advice about "not having to justify everything i draw" on this one.
91. the gripes and complaints i got about this one were astounding, and for once not from mike! apparently people like terry and jay didnt understand this isnt supposed to be EXACTLY our characters from warcraft, but more what we would be transformed into if we were sucked into a fantasy MMO. so you can imagine the uproar that making jay a minotaur character when papas plays a tauren in WoW made. oh! and also jay's character is called "jaywolf", so how come papas has a wolf head helmet? WTF TYLER DONT U KNO NETHING? also some people didnt catch that eileens in space armor. weeks of erratic conceptual design went into this so give me a break off that kitkat bar guys.
92. so basically this is an attempt at a joke about different abilities or spells or skills or whatever you want to call them, in fantasy games. the 56 near mikes head for the non fantasy rpg gamer, is a damage indicator, showing how much damage a certain attack dished out. its not clear exactly what sort of interface the jerks have in-game to pick their spells, by that "no one press anything" warning. but it doesnt matter.
93. more penis and boob jokes. scrotius is my favorite territory, fyi. if we were in wow, by the palm trees and such, we would prolly be in stranglethorn vale. the "a sea serpent" is a throwback to our film teacher mr. russell. who randomly on one of our tests printed a picture like that with a caption under it reading the same thing. its become a little joke for me to add it wherever i can now.
94. just a way to get the girls involved and a replay on this 4th wall gag that i can draw the girls in whatever i want. in-game it looks like were in azshara. kelly is supposed to be a valkyrie, natos a snake charmer, erins an enchantress and ambers some sort of draenai engineer. i dont know guys, just go with it.
95. this is a joke about something that happened to us while playing wow. we usually play on ventrilo with headsets so we can talk to each other. so anyways we were in outlands right after doing the blood furnance instance, i think, and someone outside put a buff (a temporary charm that raises stats or does good things to your character) on jay. so of course jay got pissed off for no reason and terry was like "YEAH YOU TEACH THAT FUCKER TO PUT A BUFF ON YOU!"
the foreground joke was an excuse to draw kelly naked.
96. that's what she saids need no introduction. they're all game WoW game references. the first refers to inventory bag slots, where you keep items you collect in the game. the second, to "cooldown" time. certain items in the game can't be used again until a certain amount of time has expired. the third is a jab at how when you try to use your mount inside a building or any interior, an error message displaying "you can't mount here" pops up. this shit writes itself.
97. in WoW a common practice for high and low levels alike (but mostly nubs) is to unequip all your clothes and perform the /dance emote in towns and the starting areas. i felt i had to highlight this great social ritual.
98. bascially set-up for #100. the scarlet monastery is a infamous and great leveling and gear grinding instance in WoW. an instance is a separate dungeon that you can enter with a party of 5. in rpgs in general damage you cause is categorized to coincide with enemies weakness and resistances. hence, terry forshadows at the coming onslaught.
"lay on hands" is a healing spell in WoW that just sounds fucking funny, so i had to make more rape jokes about it. eileen is sure catching a lot of flack in these.
99. i think we brought up pap's inability to judge quantities before, thats where the "A LOT" jokes come from. the skull symbol is a reference to wow. When something a much higher level than you, the profile doesn't display the level of the creature/character but a skull symbol. its like the games warning that if you fuck with them, you will die.
finally, the triumphant return and untimely SECOND death of joey bigio. ive been waiting to do that for weeks.
100. as i have been quoted, ive been thinking about this one since around #25, when i decided i would make a habit of doing something special for the quarterly issues. i figured the ultimate for 100 would have to be us fighting a dragon. the whole arc in fact was going to be more final fantasy oriented, joke-wise and costume wise.
it just so happened doing this arc coincided more with all of us getting into wow. or rather me and brian getting into wow, as terry, jakes, jay, pap already played....(and despite the whole video he orchestrated) and mike wussed out.
in retrospect it was a much better decision because i felt like any final fantasy related joke i would of made would of already been covered in the "guide to random encounters" video in the DS series.
as with any of these big spreads, the hardest part is the "blocking" or planning out of whos going to occupy what space. im pretty conscious of not leaving big clumps of dead space and keeping balances and color connections in check.
i spent weeks trying to design a foe for us to fight. for a while i thought of something along the lines of a hydra, so i could have a head in each panel, elminating a lot of dead space. then i figured we needed some more human-sized foes as well.
i originally drew up some naga-esque dragonkin dudes, with some four-legged dragon pets as adversaries. but that was a little too much. instead i tried to model some elder-looking fantasy bad guys. the fact that their robes are scarlet and theyre in the scarlet molestery is purely coincidence too. i just didnt want to color them black like the dragon. orginally, the colors were reversed and the dragon was to be red, and the hooded gents black.
the best idea i had was to not put the drawing together horizontally, like #75, but instead to connect the pages vertically. it would of been too long and stretched out looking. you also wouldnt of gotten a sense of how big the dragon hydra monster is.
designing the hydra monsters head was the next biggest challenge. i wanted it to be unique, so i started searching for animals to model it after. what i found while searching for reptile skulls was a hippo skull. they are very cool and evil looking. the only parts i modified was the cheek spikes and triceratops looking head crests.
but yeah, all in all i just wanted to mention a bit about all the planning that actually goes into something like this.
101. mike had a good idea to release this early and just bump up the rest of the series. although the joke is just stupid and has no political validity in the least, it is more poignant before the election, rather than after when everyone is just going to be pissed off anyways. i suppose it was my attempt to be topical, but all i could really think about was $%#*#@^*^ on palin's %@$$#(*&.
102. i first got this idea from a cartoon network commercial where a bunch of statues outside of a CN exectutive's room are talking about gene simmons pitching ideas to him, one was "KISS Babies". this made me lol like none other. it seems every dying franchise pulls out the "Babies" version of their characters. the one exception is "Muppet Babies" which was much better than any other "Muppet" production.
that's supposed to be mike's giant panda featured in the earlier DSes. the wall is supposed to be a recreation of that famous japanese ukiyo-e print. i do realize it doesn't look like a wall at all. thats why i added the outlet.
i told mike after drawing this that never did i forsee myself drawing a dead baby in this comic. lo and behold.
103. i hate how the biggest struggles in comics never are truly resolved. i'm at an advantage since i don't have to keep any continuity or keeping the series going.
thus, we get to take an objective look at what would happen in the miniverse. first, i think we can all agree mike and terry's gay affinity for one another. which would lead to violent pent up sex, followed by terry killing mike on mustafar. dur...
second, i wanted a happy ending for eileen and tyler. the two best characters. all the original robots eileen drew in #29 are present.
third, (the most outrageous ending) is brian beating wow. cause there is no real way to beat wow. but brian should find a way so he can go back to some semblance of a normal life.
dead joey....one last time.
104. being the 2-year anniversary of miniventures, the 100 issue anniversary of the jerkettes and the last miniventure, i had to go out with a bang...and tits.
thank you to everyone who helped keep miniventures chugging over the past 2 years. which is prolly nearly everyone here on this forum (as most members have been in at least one, or contributed their humor or artwork!)
i especially want to thank my editor mike, who never didn't give a damn, no matter how un-funny they were.
if more people valued food and cheer over gold...it would be...a merrier...world...
but merry or sad...i must leave it now...to do uic adventures...
(mine)
It was more of a continuation of Eve's post when she said "(mine)".
