Posts filed under The Girl Who Hates Fun Part 2

Bullets, Bury Yourselves in Me

RIP Leonard. I should do more honor to this character in the blog post than I did in the comic. Basically this character was initially supposed to be a stupid joke for this strip. I still love that strip, mostly because it has no real punchline — it’s just this kind of stupid escalating situation based on the hilarious idea …

Six Shots, Big Money

At a certain point I just gave up trying to make all the Noam panels look exactly alike and tried to make each expression slightly different, yet somehow corresponding to a real emotion that Noam might be feeling. This was necessary for sanity. FOR THOSE OF YOU JUST COMING IN: Noam is Elvira’s younger brother, with whom she and Our …

Graf Zeppelin

The script I wrote back in September 2011 for this scene just has “ludicrous airship” written; there were a lot of designs, including gigantic hollowed out bombs, the starship Enterprise with a bomb for a saucer and a kind of dias with couches where everyone sat, etc. This seemed the most imposing and the least odious to draw over and …

An Ancient Conflict

So here this is, for what it’s worth. I’m not totally happy with this, but it Gets the Job Done. The right thing to do would be to split off a new subplot here actually following Elvira attempting to live out this Ghost List, show her gradually developing ennui, her realization that Life Is for the Living, and some kind …

Volcano Party

I just wrote a long and thoughtful post about this and about other recent stuff in my life and as I was about to post it I hit the back button on the browser and lost everything. It was seriously like 5,000 words long or something crazy, and I’m not going to replicate it. This should be an object lesson …

Executive Thinking

This scene needed a lot of rewriting and rearranging before it worked okay. Please check back Thursday, when we catch up with Elvira Ellison, and learn some things that ghosts are better at than living people.

Dreams of the Everyday Housewife

Who knows what, exactly, the titular character means by the statement in the last panel? I don’t! Next update will be TUESDAY, and will feature Dascha Rand talking about EXECUTIVE THINKING. I’m also almost done with the penciled pages for this whole chunk of the storyline. It will wrap up on April 26, a Thursday, assuming everything goes okay as …

G. T. T.

The writing on this isn’t my favorite thing in the script, but I do like the first panel. And I guess this serves as a quick and useful recap of exactly what the “motive force” of the “plot” is right now for those who have not been following along scrupulously since like 2009. Next update will be THURSDAY and will …