This is a little later than normal, but with good reason! I’ve reworked some of the behind the scenese stuff so that I can color these about 100 times faster. Normally it takes me about an hour and a half to create the strip depending on how much crazy stuff they put in there. With my new process, I can crank it out in about 30 minutes. I still have a little tuning to do, but it is now a lot easier!
I also grew tired of the 4-Block layout, I like this way better.
(It looks like we need to tweek the layout a bit, it looks fine in firefox, but in IE, the image looks scrunched.)
I am a fan of back and forth dialogue. Tom is not. I like this discourse between the 2 quite a bit, with Derek being all rational and Moe being the id. Tom would rather they just stand there and look at each other without speaking.
David and myself both took turns a week or so ago writing ‘Tom friendly’ Monkey House strips, look forward to those!
But for now any strip that ends with ‘Fear the Awesome Fury of my Super Monkey Balls’ whups a llama’s ass.
I agree with the 4 panels going straight across most of the time, but there are some times when it works better as a square. But now you can go either way! In fact, I’m looking forward to some fancy Frank Miller artwork soon. In double-fact, I’m going to work on a script for one right now!
In other news, oddly enough, this strip didn’t show up in my RSS feed as new.