Yet more evidence
Tag / Smith
A real adult conversation
I’m 53 – you would think that by now I’d understand the obsession grownups have with property prices but it hasn’t happened yet. Gardening and golf also remain a mystery. However, I’m alarmed to find I’m starting to see the point of slippers.
Evidence
Here we go, this is the culmination of two years of plotting and build up that started in Romney Marsh a couple of summers ago…
Back to reality
Back to ‘reality’, so the colouring returns to normal.
Scritch Scritch
Bullet time
Recreating a few of Keanu Reeves’ iconic freeze-frame poses from the Matrix. Every movie for the next few years sped up and slowed down their action scenes at random in a me-too fashion, mainly because digital editing software had just become available and every editor in Hollywood was using it for no other reason than because it was there.
Agent Smith
There was an Agent Smith in the movies, played by Hugo Weaving. It’s OK, I can reveal he’s a virus. It’s not like it’s a spoiler – the films are 18 years old now! And besides, after the first one they became incomprehensibly muddled anyway. If I remember correctly, in the last movie they saved the universe by switching it off and switching it back on again.
1000!
As ever, I’m desperately trying to catch up on the blog, having put all my energy into keeping the GoComics site where all these strips get premiered up-to-date. It’s late November 2016 as I write this, so I have three packed months to catch up on. In that time I’ve played FDR in Annie at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings (a lot of the following strips will have been drawn during rehearsals or between entrances during the show), made a whistlestop trip to the States to attend my Mother Law’s funeral, and attended the death throes of American democracy. I would have updated the blog while I was in the States, if only I could remember the password for WordPress! So here I am doing it now.
It’s strip number 1000! I thought I’d go all meta for a bit…
Nine nine nine
And this one is a lot of story threads being joined together and becoming something else entirely. Obviously this is a left over from the Olympics, but it was also going to be used to herald a big change to the strip as well, which has now been postponed until after the millennial celebrations of Strip 1,000 on Monday.
Don’t worry, it’s not a big fundamental change like what has been happening to Girth over the past few weeks. Instead I’ll be making a popular occasional character a regular, something I’ve been working up to for a couple of years now…
All will be revelaed in a couple of weeks’ time…
Peek at you
This week is very much made up of left over gags from other weeks, being used as filler while the counter in the corner of the top right frame ticks its way up to the big 1,000. So here’s a gag from the long grass series that was too good to waste. Originally a kangaroo was going to appear in the penultimate panel, but in between the writing and the drawing of this strip, Pokemon Go took off, so I replaced the Roo with a Pikachu, and the gag became about ten times better.