October Wallpaper: Brain-o-Mat
Shaenon: It’s very cruel of Jeff to make me draw things like the Brain-o-Mat, because drawing things is hard. But at least it gave me an excuse to create this advertisement for St. Charlie’s most popular, and most likely only, 24-hour brain dispensary.
As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, I will send you a link to the wallpaper. Each wallpaper acomes in two different aspect ratios (regular screen and widescreen) to fit most computer monitors, and in both Mac-friendly and PC-friendly orientations.
And as a bonus, your donation will also get you this classic wallpaper:
Because puppies!
Channing: I try to be respectful, I really do. But sometimes one’s story just happens to have a massive, edificial art-deco vending machine-style replicator in it, and what the heck else is one supposed to do? I keep telling Shaenon she always has veto rights over the ridiculous things I tell her to draw, but she’s a trouper. Next storyline will be much simpler. Honest.
Shaenon: Jeff is lying. I can’t even tell you what’s in the next storyline, it’s too much.
The brain/spine combo REALLY looks like one of the Silverfish.
“Fiend Without A Face” on a platter. Tasty!
to quote Dr Narbonic, “Hehehe”
Shaenon@Skin Horse: “I can’t even tell you what’s in the next storyline”
Shaenon@Narbonic: Director’s Cut “I drew some boss [REDACTED] scenes in this and the next strip, but I’m drawing better ones now for Skin Horse. Like, right the moment. It’ll show up in a couple of weeks. ”
ok, [REDACTED] may be in the next storyline, or it might be in the current one but it’s still a slight hint at what might be comming.
ps: for those wondering why I redacted ….. well ….. “spoilers sweetie” 😉
If you want to go and find the [redacted] then it’s not my fault:-p
(TUNE: “Singing In The Rain”, Arthur Freed & Nacio Herb Brown)
We’re serving you a brain!
We’re serving you a brain!
Such a tasty cerebrum!
Some smartness you’ll gain!
We’ll send right away
A dendrite soufle!
Who snacks on an axon?
“It’s me!” you will say!
What we’re serving to you
Will increase your I.Q.,
In your choice of a sandwich,
An omelet or stew!
On St. Charlie train,
We will always remain!
Unswerving, we’re serving you a brain!
Probably a car race. ‘Cause Shaenon can’t draw no cars…
Cars aren’t mad enough. I’d imagine more a wacky racers (an OLD Hanna-Barberra toon) style w/ Foot vs Madbloods robot spider vs St. Charlie vs some sort of mole-machine.
Besides – there is always the “That 70’s Show” method (MASH used it too) – characters viewed thru the windows w/out ever showing the vehicle.
That’s an effective trick, but Shaenon’s used it already, more than once. “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And All the Lovely Ladies,” “Choose,” and probably some other storylines featured car scenes rendered that way.
My theory is, the strips in the next storyline will have lots of [redactedness]grey fills[/redactedness].
Valid that she’s used that, but doesn’t change the fact it’s an effective way out of drawing cars or other vehicles. I vaguely recall that she’s done that w/ Nicks windscreen – windows only shown w/ people in the seats.
One of the things i’ve loved about Narbonic and now Skin-Horse is that everything is like mad-libs w/ an underlying plot.
You never quite know what is going to happen next, but you can tell you are going somewhere, and it is going to be fun.