If you haven't been reading this comic and its associated comments recently, you might be lost.
After one appearance in one panel of one comic, the Muscley Guy with a Bird-ish Nose and Sweet Sunglasses, became a topic of debate. Did this character have a nose or a beak? The answer? Eh...who cares, he was a throw-away character for crying out loud!
What happened next was a suggestion. Bunny vs. Muscley Guy. And now, it's a reality.
Four pages, or at least it would be if published - the last page is big enough to be two pages.
Enjoy! As usual, click for a larger image.
12 comments:
Are these bunnies from West Virginia? Because THAT would be a good reason for the white & pink bunny to REALLY MISS his favorite cousin.
But now our favorite one-panel wonder is roadkill. Ripped of the only life he ever knew and thrown into The Great Wastebasket. While the bunny cousins can enjoy his Sweet Sunglasses and wicked cane. Bastards...
.Sigh.
I now have a new favorite comic of yours. I have to say that I didn't see that coming and neither did muscle guy.
Totally
Fucking
Awesome.
-Scott
Ya know,
I've run into literally dozens...perhaps THOUSANDS by now...of people while stoned and operating a stolen school bus, and NOT ONCE has the blood exploded out of them with such force.
...I'm jealous of a damn bunny.
...I gotta kill more people until i get this RIGHT!!!
Now that I've studied that first panel more, I find it very strongly resembles a scene from Season 1 of the Pokemon animated series. Dan has gone to such lengths to research his characters, giving them depth and reference that transcends the comic, creating a meta-existence where these characters, these -people-, will truly live forever.
The scene in question is a spooky clearing in the deep woods, where wild Pikachu (Pikachus? Pikachii?) dance around a ceremonial stump chanting a song composed of fragments of their name (which is the only word they can speak). "Piiiika, Pi, Pi Ka PiKaChu, Pi pi, Pi PiKaChu, Chuuuuuuuuu....."
It still haunts me.
huh?!?
Look at them there, rocking out under their homemade sign with the endearing backwards 'e'!
And what are those two off to the side behind the trees up to, eh? That should be the next story arc. Making new bunnies? Fight to the death? Resolving some heartbreaking interpersonal conflict? Plotting the demise of whoever next wears the Sweet Sunglasses of Fate? Gossiping about the other bunnies? Planing to freak out the 'squares' by thumping their feet to sound the alarm, when no alarm needs be sounded? Perhaps even debating the merits of their firmly established procedure of not fouling their own nest, unlike friendly but unsanitary gulls?
If you ever go to a convention and do commissions, I want the bunny rocking out with Slurms McKenzie. Hell yeah.
Do not discount the rapid ascent of side characters. Segar's Popeye was a throwaway character in Thimble Theatre, but he took it over and now nobody remembers the other guys.
Of course, Segar never drew bloody vaginas mounted to pimp-canes like you did here.
I have to say I am sorry to see the bird man leave so soon. Maybe he can hatch a new body out of his bloodied shell like Spider-Man did in that god-awful "The Other" story. Or maybe there is an erotic bird lady- now a widow- that will take up the anti-bunny cause?
The most unfortunate thing about this comic, and I only just realized it, was the little bunny peeing on the tree in the lower right hand corner of the first panel didn't come out as clear as I wanted it to.
You can't even tell that there is pee; just a big splash of yellow.
Oh well.
Thanks for all of the support on this storyline. Doing these four pages in three days, of course it was only a few hours here and there, was a great exercise. Of course, the most difficult and time consuming part was coloring the big panel on the last page(s). I used six different shades of red for the blood!
I guess this was my way of gearing up for the upcoming 24 hour comic day in October. The only difference? I can't pre-plan the story. Curse you Scott McCloud!
And by the way...whoever said that the end of the pimp cane was a bloody vagina? Hilarious. It does look like a bloody vagina. Believe me it was unintentional.
Look at the second frame closely. Doesn't it look like the bunny with sunglasses has a big, pink helmet? I know it's supposed to be another bunny, but it doesn't look that way...
I'm glad to see you're finally using full color on this strip. I always felt that bright colors work best for wacky comedy strips.
Yeah, the urine kind of looks like a smaller, yellow bunny.
As for 24-Comic Day, I don't think the rules are set in stone. You can plan ahead of time, but I've heard you get more out of it if you don't.
So, like, it's Wednesday.
Do I get a comic this week?
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