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.
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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 far as getting pages inked (which is never a safe assumption.) The comic BAD MOTHER will start on May 13 (or Mother’s Day, ha ha) — I haven’t figured out what the update schedule on that ought to be yet. I’m working on the script for the Last Big MWHF story, which will start running once or twice a week or something like that concurrently with Bad Mother in May, and I’ll probably end up doing one off MWHF strips like, until I die, beyond that. These are my plans as of right now. Maybe they will change! Who can say?
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 feature Milton Frogman saying that HE CARES NOT FOR CIVILIZATION. See youse then
She gets that!
I’m currently working on the Big Finale Storyline script for this comic, and this is probably the closest thing to a “moment of truth” for this character that we are going to get. I felt that in order for the character to not be like, systematically loathsome, we maybe needed some kind of moment where human sympathy at least puts forth a showing against brutal consistency. Maybe this weakens the Ending I have in mind, but I don’t know that anyone is going to remember this comic anyway by that point, other than the pretty okay pinup kinda drawing in the top panel. Maybe it would have been better just to have the top panel. I don’t know anymore what is good and bad; I only do. The unexamined life is the only possibility now.
During the production of this comic I managed to spill a whole bottle of ink pretty much over the floor of Geoff Sebesta and Gewel Kafka, who were good sports about the whole affair. If you aren’t covered in ink at the end of a good day of drawing you are doing something wrong with your life.
New MWHF comic TUESDAY, featuring a ROBOT and a TIN CAN PHONE. Some Boat Girl & other such characters over the weekend; check back.
I still think it’s really funny that Dascha’s McDuck Industries-style umbrella corporation is called the Rand Corporation. It is one of those subtle pleasures.
Hey, so one of my authors from back in the day at Seven Stories Press has a FANCY NEW BOOK available. She’s called Anna Anthropy and the book is called Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, and it’s essentially the Understanding Comics of videogames: why they are a Valid Artform, and why you should go off and make one right now. You can even buy the book directly from an independent store near you via the power of IndieBound, or read an excerpt, or do any number of things. (One of the things should maybe be helping her have a book tour, since, um, the vagaries of independent publishing are not really sufficient to give her one otherwise.) I am nothing but delighted by this book and I suspect you will be too!
Next update for MWHF is going to be THURSDAY, and it will contain the words “narcissistic necrophilia.” But IN WHAT CONTEXT??? See you then.
Shockingly, this strip wasn’t in the original script for this storyline, and you have Rocksalt pal and fantastical cartoonist Geoff Sebesta to thank for it. I was worried that Elvira lacked any major agency, that she was just kind of a bummer along for the ride, sort of inevitably when the whole point is that she has no power to affect things in the world beyond as a kind of conscience figure for the title character. I brought this up to him — I think we were cooking eggs or something at the time? — and he said: “You can’t give one of your characters a superpower without exploiting that superpower. What can ghosts do well?” For this strip, and other strips along these lines, we must thank him.
This phase of our neverending storyline is almost dooooone
Let the record show that this is the first comic uploaded to the new site, slowly developing, waxing. Let the record show that I can use apostrophes now in the post text, if it’s suitable to me to do so. Let the record show that without a lot of figure drawing classes I would have really messed this up.