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Hiatus catch-up part 3 - BMZ - Help

Added 2025-01-07 22:40:26 +0000 UTC

Second part of the Joe catch-up, in which he hits rock bottom and gets some help.

The beard was an almost unanimous improvement so I felt a little like shit for taking it away for a bit but I figured it would drive the self-loathing home.

Some details about making these (might as well add some value if you guys have already seen these):
1) I hadn't settled on a species for the guy Joe is attempting to catfish at first, I ended up making him a kangaroo and then rewrote the dialogue to give him a bit of Australian slang for funsies.
2) I had drawn Joe as just a one-off picture like 5 years ago, I figured it would be funny to give a mechanic character that name, so he'd work at "Joe's Garage" which is a Frank Zappa album, and here the reference is more overt than ever.
3) Teo (Miles' badger friend) is a psychotherapist. I was going to go with a generic well-built guy but it was funnier to make him a character Miles knows that we've already seen. I generally prefer to be vague about character details because it gives me room to fill them in later with something that makes for a decent joke, had I answered "Teo is a graphic designer" or some shit I would either have to retcon that or not be able to do this.
4) The cat lady from Outclassed makes an appearence here. She had already appeared in a BMZ strip giving Miles perfume when he didn't have time to shower after spending the night with Boomer, but I prefer to use her sparingly to not overdo the bit.
5) Joe shows up to his first appointment dressed somewhat decently but gives up by the second one, the two-seater shirt is basically him bitching about not wanting to go. Boomer is also a little more formal than usual since he's... a boomer and doesn't know how therapy works and if there's a dress code and figured he'd go with a safe option.
6) The elephant therapist is not named here but I went with Horacio. I'll be giving him some more characterization (he's going to stick around Joe-centered comics, and also be in Outclassed 2), but you can tell a bit from his character design already. I went with that name because of a stupid dad joke that works better in Spanish (because 'elefante' doesn't have an H): "Dad, is 'elephant' spelled with or without an H?" "It depends, son, the elephant I know is called Horacio."
7) For part 8 I actually animated an audio I had saved in my hard-drive for a while because I figured it was too good not to use. Sadly Patreon doesn't support video so I'm uploading it as a gif but you can see the full thing on Twitter or BlueSky (though it's in Spanish):
https://x.com/nanoff94/status/1834969935040147495/video/1
https://bsky.app/profile/nanoff.bsky.social/post/3l44qgwea6q2b
A bunch of people, mostly anglophones, were asking me if it was my voice. Not really, it's from an Uruguayan comedian's podcast. The guy used to make raunchy comedy videos since before Youtube was even a thing so he's fairly well-known in the hispanic corner of the internet.