Hey wow! A callback all the way to page 15! HOLY CRAP that was a long time ago!
And speaking of callbacks: Yes, the rent-a-cop-bot is a reference to The Killer Station of Deadly Doom. The film studio probably bought the same model.
2023-02-02 11:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
MAN this one will seem completely meaningless to anybody who hasn't seen the episode... let alone remember really stupid memes.
For the record, the runner-up idea was to turn those magic ball things into a reference to the movie Phantasm, but I didn't trust my ability to draw an anime version of Angus Scrimm.
2023-02-02 06:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, before I do anything else, let’s shut down the most obvious joke before anybody has a chance to event think it: The band Super Furry Animals are not furries. Learn to tell jokes that weren’t born on The Internet, guys.
Anyway, I’ve already told the story of how my childhood full of Oldies radio morphed into teen years getting way into Psychedelic music, and how probing the depths of THAT led to discovering all the modern Indie bands drawing from the style around the turn of ...
2023-01-30 12:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not even much of a Lord of the Rings fan, and even I know the explanation for this. It's an entire generation's "Why did the Death Star have such a vulnerable weak spot?" plot hole that isn't one.
Also, in my headcanon, Gandalf follows all fantasy heroes around complaining about fanboys.
Oh, and don't forget! The vote for the NEXT Weekly Anime Comic is still open! (and a...
2023-01-27 13:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I've seen the way YouTubers get their Godzilla videos flagged. I absolutely believe that Toho would take a demon dragon to court.
And remember, everybody: you all need to vote on what the NEXT Weekly Anime Comic will be once Slayers wraps up! And if you're a patron for more than $5, there's 2023-01-19 02:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I bet you thought I'D forgot about them too, huh? Nope, this series is still going, just shambling along at the slowest speed possible. Like all my other projects, really. Clearly, my whole creative output is well-represented by a hoard of zombies (Sorry, I'm just coming off of several straight days of an intense cold medicine regiment. I haven't exactly been at my funniest lately.)
2023-01-14 23:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post
"Also, make sure to avoid the social media tablets. Everyone complains about how bad the current tablets are, but every time they try to carve new ones they just turn out even worse!"
I mean, yeah, I know a form of The Internet already existed by this point of the 90s, so I'm not exactly being CLEVER by equating the Caire Bible desert to the information superhighway, but that's just where my brain immediately went.
Also, count your blessing I didn't start doing these comics ...
2023-01-12 00:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, right? We're a week into January and somehow I'm STILL inflicting Christmas content on you? How could I POSSIBLY have any holiday content left after everything I inflicted on you all over December? Well, to tell the truth, I don't REALLY have any new Christmas stuff... but I've got some OLD Christmas stuff that nobody saw the first time around!
Yes, in a twist that honestly shouldn't surprise anybody who's been paying attention, I got on such a roll creating ar...
2023-01-07 17:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I really shouldn't talk, I'm on record as once thinking somebody was cosplaying as Sgt. Slaughter, when it was the real actual Sgt. Slaughter. But since when have I let a chance to make fun of stupid young con-goers slip past?
Anyway, that's the last of the leftover Cosplay America 2022 pages. A pretty decent amount of content for a weekend that I basically spent all weekend ditching, h...
2023-01-06 11:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time again already? Well, not really, but I don't like to rush things. It's been a while since we last had a vote, and even longer since it was more than just a basic "Yes/No" choice, so I wanna make sure there's plenty of time to build some hype.
And yeah, after two seasons of Slayers and a season of Cardcaptor Sakura before it, I'm REALLY itching to watch some...
2023-01-05 13:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Also, it was raining really bad yesterday. You write what you know.
No, but seriously, Yoink does have a point. Even before Tumblr and DeviantArt, people were still making episodes of shows exclusively to fuel fanart.
2023-01-05 08:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's an episode about sports in which multiple characters shout about "GUTS." Do you seriously think a mind of my vintage WOULDN'T immediately go to the Nickelodeon show? I mean, the alternative would be to make a Berserk joke, but that would almost certainly require going in directions I don't feel like going in.
But yeah, I now choose to believe that the Claire Bible is carved onto a piece of The Aggro Crag.
2022-12-31 12:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so the past several years I did a countdown of what my most listened to Christmas songs were, helped along by the fact that some computer swapping meant my iTunes play count was reset, so I could start f...
2022-12-26 06:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The pulsating, multicolored light of the sun washed in waves across the rocky surface of Scintillantem Contingent. The strobing spectrum of the star was spectacular, but also the only color on the entire vista aside from grey and slightly darker grey. Scintillantem Contingent itself was every bit as drab and unremarkable as it’s sun was mesmerizing, a barren lump of rock and sand with no resources or to speak of and an atmosphere choked with toxic dust. Even the colony cities were dull and ...
2022-12-25 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems like every year I talk about wanting to do “A Far Out There Christmas Carol” as the big holiday project… and every year it doesn’t happen. There’s always a very good reason, of course: the fact that it’d be EASILY the biggest Christmas project I’ve ever done, and would take WAY more than 25 pages. Still, every time the ACTUAL Far Out There stuff winds down, and it sinks in that yet another year has gone by without this pet project ever being realized, I can’t help fee...
2022-12-24 06:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Heck, I'd SO forgotten about this bit, that I'd already started penciling an entirely separate comic before the scene hit. Originally, I was gonna make some form of joke comparing the reclusive guy with lots of dolls to your stereotypical otaku... which in and of itself would mostly just rip off the Digimon Ghost Game comics I've been doing lately.
And the worst thing is, I really SHOULD have seen more Iron Chef references coming, since I absolutely believe that Chairman Kaga is a...
2022-12-23 11:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post
OKAY! I spent all month spamming Patreon with these blog posts, time to gather 'em all up!
If this is the first one of these posts you're seeing, some context: I put together a whole bunch of playlists of what kind of Christmas music the various main characters of Far Out There would listen to, accompanied by rambly blogs about said music. In some cases, they explain why the character would listen to these songs, in other cases it just why I like them. Either way...
2022-12-22 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
If it felt weird to not have Tax come immediately after Stilez, trust me. This is ABSOLUTELY the one that had to come last. Even if I could imagine anything following this one up, I can’t imagine any of you would be willing to actually stick with me after this. Those who saw Tax’s regular Character Soundtrack know I went out of my way to fill it full of song that are hyperactive and shrill and annoying. Hey, guess what a lot of novelty Christmas songs sound like? Oh yeah, Tax’s playlist...
2022-12-22 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, yeah, who else could it be right after Alphonse? Once again, though, I find myself in a bit of a quandary when it comes to picking Christmas songs that Bridget would listen to. Her original Character Soundtrack was full of loud, fast, messy Rock songs, and unfortunately there’s not a lot of Motörhead Christmas songs out there for me to use here. Plus, Stilez already kind of claimed most of the good Heavy Metal songs, and anything else I found would just sound like more of THAT set ...
2022-12-20 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, Tabitha’s Christmas soundtrack required me to look at things a bit differently and think a bit harder about the song selection. This one, though? This was easy on several levels. For one thing, it’s Alphonse. We already know he likes sophisticated Classical music, and it’s not as if there’s not plenty of orchestral Christmas albums out there. What’s more, I know this because that’s actually the kind of Christmas music I grew up with. In my formative years, the holiday season...
2022-12-18 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, here we go. This is probably the biggest departure from any of the original Character Soundtracks, and it’s at least partially a matter of grim necessity. Tabitha’s regular musical preferences are very much in the Stoner/Doom Metal direction. Lots of Black Sabbath and bands who wish they were Black Sabbath. Sadly, there’s just not a lot of Stoner Metal Christmas songs out there, short of Bob Rivers’ “Iron Man” parody “Santa Claus,” and I can’t exactly stretch that one ...
2022-12-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
...but that's just ridiculous. I mean, what kind of absolute lunatic would actually try to create something based on a Mad Lib? That'd be stupid!
2022-12-15 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, THIS is gonna be really quick. Just in case you don’t remember, even though it’s the sort of thing you could probably figure out without being told, Stilez’s Character Soundtrack is full of Power Metal. Big, dumb, loud exercises in guitar shredding and silly lyrics, perfect for a big dumb loud catgirl, right? And no, I’m not going to try and get creative on you all and present a totally different side of Stilez for her Christmas musical tastes. She’s still all about the audio ...
2022-12-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
HOW AM I STILL ABLE TO FIND SONGS TO FILL OUT THESE BLOG LISTS? I mean, I know exactly how, it’s because the music industry has long been full to bursting with writers and performers all desperate to...
2022-12-13 13:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Technically the newest character to get a Christmas Soundtrack this year, though anyone who’d been paying attention knows that May was appearing in Far Out There for YEARS before she was technically “introduced.” And since most of those early-bird cameos were in Christmas comics, it’s only fitting that she gets her half hour of holiday fun as well! Anyone paying attention to the regular soundtracks knows that a hyperactive girl like May was best represented by 60s British Invasion tun...
2022-12-12 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time we had an extremely 60s Christmas playlist with Trigger, and this time Jenna brings us an extremely 80s one! Yes, in keeping with the heavy reliance on frothy Synthpop in Jenna’s regular Character Soundtrack, I decided her Christmas one would have to lean just as hard on songs that were either authentically 80s or at least deliberately borrowed from the DayGlo sound of the era. And let me just go ahead and say right now that Jenna’s lucky I’m only doing these Christmas playlis...
2022-12-10 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Now things get a bit weird. Trigger’s official music of choice, as befitting a kid who runs around in barefoot hippie garb, is Psychedelic 60s music. Specifically, of the sitars and power chords variety. Alas, the 60s counterculture wasn’t especially big on celebrating commercialized versions of Judeo-Christian religious holidays, so there’s not many Psychedelic Christmas songs to chose from. And the few I c...
2022-12-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Some background for those of you not familiar with late 90s anime drama: Lost Universe is a kinda-sorta-not-really-but-maybe spinoff of Slayers by the same author, which got an anime adaptation of its own that was... legendarily bad. As in, the name of one of the episodes became otaku slang for "bad animation" for a while. While much of the problem stemmed from bad management and the industry as a whole getting hit by economic woes, it'd also didn't help that there was...
2022-12-08 09:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
...so instead I spent the evening sitting in the parking lot of an entirely different hotel.
Seriously, half the reason I went ahead and did the whole "pictures of the old Animazement hotel" thing was because I worked out a winding backroads way to get from one hotel to the other without actually having to brave the traffic that would ABSOLUTELY have plagued any trip back. And even then,...
2022-12-06 12:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, you want some Christmas music but don’t wanna stop listening to rock? Well GOOD NEWS! Layla’s got ya covered! Layla’s musical tastes are well established to be stripped down, riff-heavy Rock and Roll, and you might be surprised just how easy it was to come up with a decent mix of tunes that bring the electric guitars but still have that Christmas spirit!
But before we go to far, I do want to make one thing abundantly clear: The Kinks’ “Father Christmas” will not be appe...
2022-12-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post