Kitchen Mafia

Sometimes i worry that i only do kitchen gags when i'm feeling lazy or uncreative. But then again, they're still my favorites.

Go Go Taiko: Conclusion, revisited

So i did this sort of as a favor to Mike. Well, i say "a favor", but really he never asked or even expected me to do it. We were just talking about his taiko comic and how he'd never really concluded it, and he joked that he was just going to do one last strip saying "and then everybody died. The end." And then i objected, saying that all his loyal readers would get no satisfaction from that ending, and he retorted that it would be better than no ending at all, and then i reflected on how that conversation would actually go were he a storyteller and we his audience, and this is the eventual brainchild of that conversation.

I actually made a version of this about eight months ago, before i started making comics on a regular basis. I like to think that i've learned a significant amount in that time, one of the first and most important lessons being, "don't try to stuff eighteen panels into one page." There are some other slight improvements to timing, wording, aesthetics (or i like to think so, anyways) and layout, and knowing what i know now i think i'd have preferred to take a few new photos, but all in all i think that it's somewhat better.

Mike's comics are here.

My original attempt (sigh) is here.

Turducken

Turducken, for those of you not in the know, is a holiday food centerpiece in which a chicken is stuffed into a duck, and the duck with the chicken inside is then stuffed into a turkey, and the whole thing is then roasted. I've never tried - or even seen - it myself, but i've been told that it is delicious beyond that which words can describe.

Evolution

Concerning the numerical nature of wheels and awkwardness

Oldie but goodie. If you were somebody that i ran my comics by when i was at UCSD (i.e. all of you) then you probably recognize this one. But, you know, drawn better. So that's alright, right?

Also: link a brother. True story. It's okay, though, Mohammed. I know you've got to go and be a doctor and save the world. But - but i can dream.

100th comic!

Well. I say "100th comic", but really, it's harder than that to define. I would more specifically say that this is the 100th picture that conveys an idea - not all of which i would necessarily define as a comic. I mean, would you count dragon-roasting-hot-dog as a comic? Or the goodbye san diego stuff? Or the last strip? And this isn't even beginning to get into all the MQ filler that's been thrown in. But. If you just count some sort of art with some sort of idea as a comic, then this is the one hundredth one of those that i've put on the internet.

I return from my sabbatical!

"Sabbatical?" you ask, going through the archives, "what sabbatical? It looks like he did a strip yesterday!" In truth, gentle reader, i did this very clever thing whereby i abused a blogger mechanic that records all blog posts as having come from the moment they were created, not the moment they were posted. And so while it may appear to the untutored eye that the comic strip for monday, october 20th segues neatly into tuesday, october the 21st, that is in fact a lie. In reality i have been on a three and a half week sabbatical.

And by sabbatical i mean i got really tired of my glitchy copy of photoshop and used the fact that i was near my one-hundredth strip as an excuse to cop out and not deal with it for awhile. I'm going to try to catch up with two to three strips a day. Yeah. That's going to go well. I know. Just... just bear with me here, okay?