How about the fact it’s likely she’s attempting to destroy her sister’s political career because despite all her talk of being an adult in control of her body, she’s still a petulant child who wants everything her way?
I think he has magical audience-predicting powers. Probably in the form of a computer that sees the comments sections of strips that have yet to be published.
MM
You say “magic,” I say “lots and lots of experience.”
Spazman
you say “lots and lots of experience” and I say “Delorean Time Machine.”
Wandering meme
Can’t we all just agree that the Willis works in mysterious ways?
he’s like the force: trust in the willis people!
(seriously though, he’s a precog.)
Roborat
I was thinking hot tub, that way you get a relaxing soak at the same time.
Allen
There’s an Early Edition joke in there SOMEWHERE, i just have no idea what it is.
Out of curiosity, how far out exactly is your buffer?
Like I can’t imagine it’s a full month or something ridiculous like that, because when you go on cons, or have some other disruption, you do have some filler, or slow down updates so you don’t run short, so how far in advance do you draw? 1 week? 2?
David
It’s a month.
Thor
Could you do a symposium to teach other webtoonists how to do this? While I enjoy a large quantity of the webcomics out there, I can’t help but think that most of them would be much improved if they weren’t coming up with their next strip a few hours before they posted.
David
Well, what I did was start drawing Dumbing of Age really far ahead, not start publishing it until after I’d amassed a buffer, and then maintain that lead day-to-day with the same desperation as if I had no buffer.
That’s a situation that’s hard to recreate if you’ve already been drawing strips for years.
Shortpacked! doesn’t have the luxury of such a buffer. Right now I only have Thursday’s done, for example. But too much of it is a reaction to current pop culture events, so…
I wouldn’t always knock the few-hours-before strip creation mentality. Some of my best strips have come from fevered desperation.
fellixe
I really enjoy when long planning mixed with spontaneous inspiration converge. It seems like all of my favorite webcomic artists all discuss having a solid long-term structure they work from and yet seem to comment all the time about aspects of the comics that came up last minute. It was one of those things that seemed to really be working for IW and got me hooked on it. IW’s story was so complex there clearly had to be a lot of planning behind it, but then it was always so full of those spontaneous interjections that brought reality to the lives of the characters. What writing I’ve done has reinforced this as well. No matter how detailed a story I might be working on it is still those last minute pushes when I’m in the zone that yield some of my most satisfying creation.
Can be a real challenge, though, when a character develops so much on the fly that they become a preoccupation. Here you’ve created a being to serve a purpose and then in the middle of having them fill that role you realize what an interesting person they are and how much time you’d like to spend getting to know them. One piece I did still hangs half-completed out there in the intertubes. Fanfic of fanfic of a really obscure but popular piece of fiction where I had taken a short story of my own and wove it in with characters and settings that I was borrowing and even chatting with their creator on how to handle. But even with well defined characters in place and a long-term plan in mind up pops a character I created as an accessory who was so compelling that half of the story in it’s current state features her as a lead.
I’m not well educated on writing but it seems that it can be a constant battle between hitting the intended goals and keeping the Muse from running off and taking everything somewhere else altogether.
lightsabermario
Am I the only one who read Seerow’s question as: “How far out exactly is your butter?”
Willis is a precog! Capture him! (oh the money we’ll make!)
Roborat
Ummm, if he is a precog, you will never be able to catch him.
begbert2
Unless he predicts that you’ll catch him, and thus resigns himself to the inevitable in the most literal possible example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
‘Why are you wearing your underwear on your head?’
‘Because I foresaw that I would.’
‘Why would you see yourself doing something like that?’
‘Well, I’m doing it right now, aren’t I?’
117 thoughts on “Brought”
Jen Aside
Well, she asked for it.
Rodrigo
AUCH That is a third degree burn!
I hope she says: “Oh, but I’m still just warming up…”
FlashXX
BAM!
Wandering meme
In the words of barney stinson:
“challenge accepted!”
Plasma Mongoose
You need to ease it in before you roger her with your hard questions.
Zippy
Ze word is “Rodger” :p
Plasma Mongoose
Nice Joyclops grav BTW.
Rex Hondo
I thought the word was “Joe.”
Plasma Mongoose
True that! in that case, you ‘JOE’ her with your hard questions.
Zippy
No, because if “Joe” was a synonym for “Rodger”, then the phrase “I wouldn’t even Joe her up the butt” would be redundant.
David Herbert
Yeah, just ramming in can cause damage.
A. Colunga
*giggle… hard
Plasma Mongoose
That is why you need alcohol as a social ‘lubricant’.
Wandering meme
Especially for those huge, throbbing questions that grind against those sensitive spots that get her hot and bothered.
Your conversation may reach its climax before you satisfy your curiosity.
A random reader
I like where this is going.
Plasma Mongoose
To an R-Rating if we keep this up. 😀
Wandering meme
Bow-chica-bow-wow.
Someone had to say it.
Plasma Mongoose
MEOW! =^_^=
Krylani
Giggity giggity!
Blob Marley
In the biz, we say “brown-chicken-brown-cow.”
Roborat
Threads like this are why, sometimes, the comments are even better than the comic.
Plasma Mongoose
We aim to please!
murrkitteh
For a nickel!
David Herbert
How about the fact it’s likely she’s attempting to destroy her sister’s political career because despite all her talk of being an adult in control of her body, she’s still a petulant child who wants everything her way?
Plasma Mongoose
I cant wait to hear the answer to THAT one. 😀
Wandering meme
I got a better question joe lovers: “what do you say to the assertion that you faked the orgasm?”
iSaidCandleja-
Hey, taking pleasure in destroying other people’s success has nothing to do with being immature. Just look at Mike.
Daeva
Well, it looks like SOMEBODY has been reading the comments section.
NCP19
Hear hear!
David
I write these way too far in advance for that to be feasible.
Ridureyu
Or you use a time machine.
George
I think he has magical audience-predicting powers. Probably in the form of a computer that sees the comments sections of strips that have yet to be published.
MM
You say “magic,” I say “lots and lots of experience.”
Spazman
you say “lots and lots of experience” and I say “Delorean Time Machine.”
Wandering meme
Can’t we all just agree that the Willis works in mysterious ways?
he’s like the force: trust in the willis people!
(seriously though, he’s a precog.)
Roborat
I was thinking hot tub, that way you get a relaxing soak at the same time.
Allen
There’s an Early Edition joke in there SOMEWHERE, i just have no idea what it is.
Creaks
Definately a time machine.
If I had a time machine Id open a restraunt.
Daeva
Hehe, I figured as much, I just find the image of Dorothy poking her head over the edge of the panel to read the comments incredibly funny.
Seerow
Out of curiosity, how far out exactly is your buffer?
Like I can’t imagine it’s a full month or something ridiculous like that, because when you go on cons, or have some other disruption, you do have some filler, or slow down updates so you don’t run short, so how far in advance do you draw? 1 week? 2?
David
It’s a month.
Thor
Could you do a symposium to teach other webtoonists how to do this? While I enjoy a large quantity of the webcomics out there, I can’t help but think that most of them would be much improved if they weren’t coming up with their next strip a few hours before they posted.
David
Well, what I did was start drawing Dumbing of Age really far ahead, not start publishing it until after I’d amassed a buffer, and then maintain that lead day-to-day with the same desperation as if I had no buffer.
That’s a situation that’s hard to recreate if you’ve already been drawing strips for years.
Shortpacked! doesn’t have the luxury of such a buffer. Right now I only have Thursday’s done, for example. But too much of it is a reaction to current pop culture events, so…
I wouldn’t always knock the few-hours-before strip creation mentality. Some of my best strips have come from fevered desperation.
fellixe
I really enjoy when long planning mixed with spontaneous inspiration converge. It seems like all of my favorite webcomic artists all discuss having a solid long-term structure they work from and yet seem to comment all the time about aspects of the comics that came up last minute. It was one of those things that seemed to really be working for IW and got me hooked on it. IW’s story was so complex there clearly had to be a lot of planning behind it, but then it was always so full of those spontaneous interjections that brought reality to the lives of the characters. What writing I’ve done has reinforced this as well. No matter how detailed a story I might be working on it is still those last minute pushes when I’m in the zone that yield some of my most satisfying creation.
Can be a real challenge, though, when a character develops so much on the fly that they become a preoccupation. Here you’ve created a being to serve a purpose and then in the middle of having them fill that role you realize what an interesting person they are and how much time you’d like to spend getting to know them. One piece I did still hangs half-completed out there in the intertubes. Fanfic of fanfic of a really obscure but popular piece of fiction where I had taken a short story of my own and wove it in with characters and settings that I was borrowing and even chatting with their creator on how to handle. But even with well defined characters in place and a long-term plan in mind up pops a character I created as an accessory who was so compelling that half of the story in it’s current state features her as a lead.
I’m not well educated on writing but it seems that it can be a constant battle between hitting the intended goals and keeping the Muse from running off and taking everything somewhere else altogether.
lightsabermario
Am I the only one who read Seerow’s question as: “How far out exactly is your butter?”
Wandering meme
Only one explanation then…
Willis is a precog! Capture him! (oh the money we’ll make!)
Roborat
Ummm, if he is a precog, you will never be able to catch him.
begbert2
Unless he predicts that you’ll catch him, and thus resigns himself to the inevitable in the most literal possible example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
‘Why are you wearing your underwear on your head?’
‘Because I foresaw that I would.’
‘Why would you see yourself doing something like that?’
‘Well, I’m doing it right now, aren’t I?’
MarcinMN
No offense to the comments section…but don’t flatter yourselves. 😉
By the way, those are excellent questions, Dorothy!
Plasma Mongoose
If we don’t flatter ourselves, no one else will. *pouts*
Wandering meme
OMG UR RIGHT! My poor failing self esteem!
…*whispers* iamgreat,iamgreat,iamgreat….
Plasma Mongoose
THERE THERE…
Henry
Never, ever tell a journalist to “do their worst.”
dchorror
Not like they’re looking for an invitation.
Spazman
Or a nickel.
Wandering meme
For your penis.
Henry
In your FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCEEEE.
Roborat
Aaaaaaand here we go.
Jackson
I’ll bring the femurs.
dchorror
I read this as you saying they’re worse than Mike.
Ridureyu
Quick, Roz! Ger her drunk, stat!
Ridureyu
Oh wait, she’s underage.
Quick, Roz! Stuff her with skittles, stat!
Wait, that only works on Robin.
Plasma Mongoose
Quick, get Joyce to distract her with a tract! STAT!
Then again…
Ridureyu
The only solution is for Roz to set the place on fire.
Yes, fire. Fire saves all.
Plasma Mongoose
That or hot random lesbian sex…
ALostProphet
Not a WBC rally.. 🙁
“Aww, now I’ve made myself sad…” 🙂
Kernanator
“There is no problem that can’t be solved with an explosion of the right size, in the right time, and the right place.”
ALostProphet
“As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it can solve approaches zero”
Wandering meme
There’s a penis joke in there somewhere…
Zippy
“If in doubt, C4”
fellixe
C4? You sank my battleship!
Plasma Mongoose
But you still got your patrol boat thou.
iSaidCandleja-