Comment on 16 of <MIMIC>
UrbanMysticDee, 28 Feb 2013 04:30 pm

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All the characters except Max the cat and Sally are scientists in their late 30s or older. This is the oldest cast in any of my stories.

Serge Masse is the visiting specialist from Nantes. He's a old friend with Malcolm, the lab's director. They did work on disease in Côte d'Ivoire and Uganda in the early 90s.

Jeff Martel is 60% Jeff Goldblum, 20% David Duchovny, and 20% bullshit I adlib.

Sam DeMarco is based on someone who gave a talk I watched once. Max is her cat. She's probably the most bull headed and demands concrete evidence for everything and talks about the "elegance" of viruses and survival of the fittest bullshit.

Funland Dairy 3 1/3% Milk.

I drew this page at 4:28. The clock says it is 4 even.
Serge's mug has an AQAL symbol on it (all quadrants, all levels, all lines, etc.): roughly I, It, We, Its. There are many Integral references throughout this story. See if you can find them all.

The refrigerizor is a left hinge, like mine. The factory setting of all (or most) refrigerizors is right hinge.

There really is a business called "Hana's Donuts" in Kansas City, Kansas. I had no idea until I looked it up today. I based the box on an Entenmann's box. They make assorted doughnuts in boxes of a dozen and chocolate in boxes of ten. Always buy the chocolate ten box because the chocolate in the assorted box always comes sticky for some reason. Their crumb coffee cake is probably the best product, but it's $7, so it is a special occasion item. Their chocolate chip cookies are made of crack or something because once I open a box I have to eat them all. Sadly, they discontinued their filbert danish ring (a filbert is really a hazelnut). That was a quality dessert.

This page took over a month to do because my sciatica kept me from sitting long enough to work on it seriously.

Comment on Teaser: Bad Economy of Westbound!
UrbanMysticDee, 09 Jan 2013 03:11 pm

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Can't wait!

Comment on 070 of The L
UrbanMysticDee, 05 Jan 2013 09:26 pm

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The original dialogue for this page really sucked, so I ad libbed some new dialogue. I really don't know what happens next (between the end of page 70 and the beginning of page 71 is a couple of days). I leave it to your minds to figure out.

The effect with the teal and black in panels four and five was inspired by a similar effect in comic called "Borrowed", which is done by a friend of mine (on page 23 he had black background with a teal shine in the middle, whereas I have a teal background with a black shine in the middle). Here's the link: http://www.borrowedcomics.com/

Hero is not exaggerating about the heat. Briefly, during the Holocaust, the Earth's temperature increased to 400 degrees and started fires all over the world that were soon extinguished when the ice caps melted and flooded everything. Now, the average daytime temperature is about 110 to 130 degrees, and there is not going to be one drop of rain for five years. Having long, thin limbs and little body fat I do just fine in the heat, and cannot stand the cold. The nice, dry heat is probably the only good thing about the world in The L.

These are two of the best outfits I have ever designed. I drew the final picture twice, giving Mandy two different shoes because I had trouble deciding on which was best. In the end it doesn't matter because her feet get cut off anyway. Now you know why Mandy is always wearing something on her neck – to cover that grotesque scar she has.

I always buy my boots and machetes at the same store so I can see how they look together. I model a lot of the poses and outfits, and I did not notice it at the time, but when holding a machete in repose it hangs at a certain height that kind of looks inappropriate. This was not intentional innuendo, I swear, even though the dialogue could be taken that way, it's just where I found it most natural to hold the thing.

In case you are wondering, my (distant) ancestors were the Romans, and they did not wear trousers.

Comment on 15 of <MIMIC>
UrbanMysticDee, 30 Dec 2012 06:19 pm

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The last page of the year!

You know that last panel is the best one yet (I like the ones with the sink and the bloody door better).

I began MIMIC in December 2011 with the intent of seeing how far I could get in one month (7 pages). In one year I have finished 17 pages, and what a busy, crappy year this was.

Comment on [A1] of The L
UrbanMysticDee, 09 Dec 2012 01:02 pm

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The page title is "Alpha 1", because I don't know how far into the 200s (300s?) it will be. I figured that since the story officially begins in less than two weeks I should put this up, just in case it actually happens. Those four years, since I started this, damn.

Bouvet Island (owned by Norway) is the most isolated place on Earth. Pictures of the island in its desolation are frightening. The island is an important sea bird sanctuary.

The Admiral inadvertantly looks a lot like Saddam Hussein.