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Original version of April 4th:
🕑 Added 2017-04-11 21:34:48 +0000 UTC This isn't the extra I planned to post, but it's something, for the moment. :)This is the original version of the April 4th, 2017 strip. The idea was that Swamps had a wall of snapshots of Sandy, one of which was from one of the parties, in which she had apparently gotten a tad inebriated.
I liked the gag but I thought it really didn't fit with Sandy's personality- and I didn't want to add in a five-strip fight between the two, after Doc spots the pic. :)
The other "photos" are various bits I've done over the years- the oval one on the left and the reclining one at the bottom were from some very early T-shirt sales promotionals I ran. The one up top with the mistletoe was used this past Christmas (and it's a colored version of a sketch that was used as a holiday filler several years before that.
(The oval one got reworked years later for the 2009 "April Fools" gag. :)
The one above Doc's head was another one originally intended for a T-shirt sales promotional but I don't think I ever used it, and in the middle panel, the standing silhouette is artwork from the cover of book 5: "You Only Ref Twice".
(Also in that shot are several 'filler' pics- an Iron Man wallpaper image, the leopard from an Apple OS, a winter road scene, and some paintballs.)
The 'check out these babies' Polaroid is just a low-res scribble done specifically for this comic, and squashed even further to 'scale' it to the comic. Sorry, there are no details, and no, I didn't save a copy.
And last, you can see an early rendition of the "butt shot" (named elsewhere as "The Glorious Bottom" :) ) in the middle panel.
Doc.
Comments
jay maechtlen
love the 'ball been hammer' bit! - it took me moment to look close and see why the ribbon was important!
Looking at yesterday's strip about the Dew spill. I remember seeing the actual news article and thinking "its a good thing that isn't Doc's Dew or they would have to quarantine the entire area as a Hazmat location". It would make Love Canal look like a pristine greenfield site.
