A Newcomer Approaches..

Introducing a new format in this one. I originally made the horizontal comics to save time on the thing and it worked for those little comics like say this one, but unfortunately for a comic of moderate size like say this one or this, required more space and got crammed (I even had to make that last one a little bigger to accommodate all the words in there). So I thought why not instead of trying to cram everything in a small space like that, why not just do what Penny Arcade and PVP do and just extend the comic down a little. So I took my 11x6 comic and extended it down into an 11x12 comic. And in doing so, shot myself in the foot. Because, like I said, I made the original horizontal comics smaller to save time. Maybe I just don't know the term streamlining..

But enough about me.. This comic's about Mr. Ashley Denver Gorey. He's a professional gamer, and I don't know if there are too many of these guys running around, but let's say in the Same Apartment world there are. It's pretty self exclamatory, he tests games and on the side plays in tournaments. He and Mac work well together don't they? This comic was done because while we had some wonderful jokes to go with the guy, we had no way to introduce him. We thought about doing another comic like Mac's introduction, but that seemed like a retread. See Denver is what Mac was originally. When she was first thought up she was going to be this antagonistic gamer to contrast Gar's more zen-like perspective. So the only things we could think about for his intro was Mac's story.. But hey I thought, why not just put him in there? And then we thought about the intro to the comic and the three main characters (it burns to look up those hyperlinks, you'd better appreciate them). So here's Denver. I hope you like him. Or hate him. He's just that kind of guy.

Same Apartment Treks On..

That was a wonderful break. Well break implies that I took one, but you get the idea.

I saw Star Trek last Thursday. It was a blast. Sure there are some naysayers out there, but I'm easily pleased (let's not forget my opinions on Speed Racer). A successful reboot if I ever saw one. You should go see it. Anyway, this continues the tradition of the movie comics, started way back with Spiderman 3. Last week (the one that got cut) was ironically the Wolverine comic (and no it wasn't because the movie wasn't up to snuff, just the comic), and no, Gar wasn't dressed as Wolverine in that one either. About midway through the inking process I just started to think to myself "This isn't working." Maybe something will come out of it, but if it doesn't then I'm not too broken up about it.

Oh, and just about everything from this comic is from something. I'm not going to say what. You should already know. And if you don't.. I'm taking away your nerd license. Just in case you need a hint?