Here’s the email I got from Josh when he sent me the artwork for this week’s strip:
“BATTLE DAMAGE!
Here are the new ones!
RIP Auto fire and Chunky Salsa.. *sniff
such a short life..”
Yes, fare thee well, Auto Fire, Coal Miner & Chunky Salsa.
Maybe. We’ll see.
Here, after my bit of explanatory prose, are some awesome sketches of the strip “Dig It!” and Tuna’s first steps in jail to meet my personal favorite villain, Dead Beat. In case you haven’t caught all of the gimmicks associated with Dead Beat, they are manyfold that reveal themselves throughout every strip he’s been in. Yes, we’re needlessly complicated enough to do that to you.
I always thought that the hand pose that Dead Beat used in the above panel was funny, sorta like he was in the middle of a bad slam poetry session.
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Some really rough sketches from the strip Dig it! that we published a few weeks past to give you an idea of how Josh comes up with the elements of the strip. Writing dialog for Dead Beat was really fun, like putting together a puzzle: you had to think about what he was trying to convey to Tuna and further the story along, write it in the way a beatnik would’ve said it, then add as many death and/or zombie references in there as possible. Much later, Josh and I discovered that he was–in some ways–a meta-gimmicked villain, because outside of the fusion of beatnik/zombie/deadbeat dad we developed for him, he had already been beaten by Tuna and now just spends his time lazing around in jail.
We overthink these things. And yes, we know. Anyway, enough deliberation… click on any of the images for a massively massive version:
More more more to come!
Got my Corporate Sting #06/50 print yesterday! Thanks guys!