Unused Strips
Shaenon: Looking through my thumbnails, I found a few strips we sketched out but never used. I don’t think we’ve ever shared these before. If we have, pretend we didn’t for my sake.
Channing: We must be okay, because even I don’t remember the first one. The second one is a couple of authors doing that thing where we recognize a problem that no one cares about and that everyone can easily make up their own minds about, panic, and start writing stuff that no one needs to fill a hole only we perceive. It’s an author thing. I believe I panicked first in this one, which is typical.
Anyone who *doesn’t* let you talk [caterpillars] about All-Star Batman and Robin shouldn’t be allowed on the internet. 😛
Talk [smuckers] about The Brave and the Bold, though, and [froth] is gonna get real.
I would definitely encourage Nick to talk SHIFT about All-Star Bat-Psycho, also known in the biz as ASSBAR even though there is no second ‘S’. It’s just that unpopular.
I had been wondering how Moustachio and Nick got together and seemed so friendly with each other…
By the way, good thing you keep these Sunday Specials just here, rather than putting ’em up on GoComics—’cause this morning it looks like all of GoComics is down. At any rate, I can’t connect to it. (Just venting.)
They might not be narratively necessary, and likely they would just slow down the action, but they sure are adorable.
I enjoyed them.
I like the second strip a lot; the opportunity to use it just never came up for some reason.
if you didn’t have to draw your strips in advance, you could have had it saved for when a comment asking that appeared. It would have made it even funnier!
Personally I liked the first strip better.
It brought back memories of Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
The circle around Sweetheart’s head in Strip 1 Panel 3? I thought she was wearing a Cone of Shame at first.
Heh. “Fullmetal Receptionist.”