30th Jan 2012, 12:00 AM
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Author Notes:
Well, lots of things going on in this one... Some nice story development, a bit of suspense that I'm sure will be relieved in a timely manner. June's pretty sure you're going to focus on the 'sensuality' of the scene though.
And come on, of all the webcomics out there, this was one of the cooler ways to cause a change in clothing, don't you think?
So, we definitely hit 20 on TopWebcomics for over a week... I'll admit, I was surprised. Compared to some of the comics on that list, we're not getting anywhere near the readership numbers. So I guess our readers are just really incredible in these supportive things...
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Take care, and have a good week! We'll see you on Thursday :D
User comments:
From the proverbial mouth of the artist herself... So that is canon then? TOGM is now going to be 'a necrophiliac yaoi comic about cultured zombies and the last human on earth'? :P
Also, apparently Robert isn't as cultured as he pretends to be! Cutting up a JoCo shirt like that... Disrespectful!
@Magravan&Skrael: Guessing that "Alice" is John getting Lisa's name wrong?
It doesn't look yaoi to me. It looks like Robert's checking for broken ribs.
Does this mean that, with all his smartiness, he has all (or at least some) of the medical knowledge of the brains eaten in his zombie pyramid scheme?
@Frosty - Geez, a few boy nipples and you're broken? :)
@asheswillfall - Sometimes I wonder when you guys ask these really spoilery questions if you think I'm going to give you a straight answer :)
@Tiber - The 3rd panel is supposed to be a fair amount of time afterward, given that John's had some time to rest, gotten his fluids back up and everything.
@MarshmallowGherkin - Ahahaha.. If she wants to start writing it, maybe :P
@model S - It is definitely not, given that I have no idea about that stuff at all... And if we did show Alice, it'd be Alice as I need her to be, even though her name was borrowed from aok666 :)
@aok666 - Yeah, I was just coming up with random girl names to use as a code, and happened to see your name on the Facebook page comments. Ta dah! :P
And that's certainly a good question about Lisa / Alice :O
Regarding the bruise, June was commenting that this is the first time that she's had to draw a fresh bruise that she can remember, I believe. She's more used to the faded bruising, artistically :)
The shirt had to go eventually, as much as I like JoCo. This seemed like a great way to deal with it :D
@PhilC - Mission accomplished!
@T.Gatto - He did indeed put the IV in, and is taking care of John's medical needs. Think Flowers for Algernon, he's just capable of vast amounts of knowledge...
@aok666 - Pretty much ;) His capacity for knowledge and his ability to access new information is superhuman.
(My dad always says that his memory is like a sponge: soaks up everything, but under the slightest pressure everything falls out again.)
What is that even supposed to mean?! Resident evil science is hilarious.
@Skrael - He wasn't out to kill him, just incapacitate him.
@aok666 - That pretty much sums it up, yes. He was just kicking him to add insult to injury...
@Mirefrost00 - Well, Alice might have been very good at remembering, but memory is not a strong suit of John's ;)
@aok666 - Uhm... I don't know that the Resident Evil movies were something I'd feel too badly about having missed... Some of them are pretty terrible.
As for Thomas, Dr. Murphy and Robert, I tend to joke around a lot with the people I like, and they aren't always the kindest jokes.. It's bad enough that we've designated Monday as the day where we all mock each other... It's kind of hilarious, and bond-y in a twisted, almost brotherly way.
@BeeSharp - The game science seemed cool, if stretched... The movie science ...
@aok666 - It's interchangable, maybe? Either that, or someone from Resident Evil has been editing the Wiki entry to cover it up ;)
(I don't get out much and from a corn growing state)
I'm getting the impression since there wasn't any proper chat bubbles and was still having what seemed to be a conversation, that he was talking telepathically?
2) There are proper speechbubbles in panel 1, in panel 2 they'd have to point offscreen (usual procedure with speechbubbles is that if you can't see the face they're coming from, they have no pointy bit). Look at Robert in panel 1 and you'll spot his headset - he's talking over that.
first is to answer june's question about how john didn't die: i have a martial artist friend ((he knows like 5 different styles)) who's about the size of chad, great guy, trying to get him into the comic. i'm about john's size ((i'm actually 6 foot 2, 120-130 pounds)) one day through a series of events involving an apple splitting perfectly down the middle on his ear, which pissed him off, he went all martial arts on me, with a very powerful knee to the chest, so much so i coughed up some blood, no bruise though, i was winded and nearly knocked out from the force, but according to him unless the sternum was broken or ribs punctured lungs any hit to the chest would be non fatal, unless the strike knocked your heart around and disconected something. then you'd die of internal bleeding. but that's a diffrent story. chad's kick didn't have that kind of force, you'd have to be the flash and kick the same spot over and over to do that, or superman, but superman could just rip you in half with less effort.
as for the second fold: i wanted to ask james: did you see that we FINALLY got our first comic up? ((i wiped the other 2 cause they were in the way))
If you rush a miracle, you get a rotton miracle :)
@aok666 - That's a good question. :D Fortunately, I have the answer. And it's a good answer too. ;)
@Guest - I don't even want to know what kind things you've been looking up on the internet that you'd know more about an enema bag than an IV bag ;)
I don't think that we're ever going to see enema bags in TOGM, sorry ;)
@aok666 - Yes, definitely.
@asheswillfall - Someone already answered, but yeah, JoCo is Jonathon Coulton, who is both the writer of the RE: Your Brains and a very cool guy. We have a picture of June and I meeting him and him holding a picture with John wearing the JoCo shirt.
We also met Lar DeSouza from Looking For Group / Least I Could Do at his concert, so it was kind of like geek heaven ;D
In the case of spoilers, I already think that I give way too much away in these comments ;)
And no, the 2nd panel doesn't have proper chat bubbles because he wasn't directly in the panel. I was trying to limit the amount of art I was having to cover up, especially because you couldn't see the face.. I guess that was an experiment that failed.
@aok666 - Yeah, pretty much exactly what you said. Although I didn't realize that it was convention to not have the pointy bit in this case.
@model S - And yet in some cases, you can kill with a lot less force than you'd think it would take. Sometimes things just survive that shouldn't, and sometimes things die that shouldn't. Life is strange like that.
Annnnnd, no, I haven't seen it yet. I'll go look for it now!
@T.Gatto - Well, they look pretty similar in general... That was part of the deception in the first place, that they look so similar. I think that Thomas just had a negative attitude, whereas John's been able to experience a lot of positives despite being in this less than ideal world ;)
And yes, obviously Thomas had seen enough to start the rebellion ;)
@aok666 Alice!!! :D
@aok666 - And we appreciate your restraint ;)
@model S - Which is always good for the whole not dying part of life ;)
@Crazedredleg - Haha, if he got too insistent, I could suggest a Karl / Chad yaoi subcomic :P (Though, that might quiet him and stir up a bunch of others...)