Parting Shots

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

The sacrifices I make for my comic strip…

You may have noticed the authenticity of the character design for Percy the Biker. This is because I am dedicated to bringing you the best comic possible no matter the cost to my personal mental health.

When I decided to put a biker in the comic, I realized I wasn’t exactly sure how a biker would dress during the summer, so I went to a number of different motorcycle websites, only to find nothing but pictures of the bikes, but no bikers. I then decided to go to Yahoo! Profiles and type in the search field Male age 25-35, and under the interests section I typed "bikers."

I might as well have typed in "Gay Sex Pornography" in the search field. I still have no idea how bikers dress because I was not able to find a picture of a male biker who was in fact wearing clothing of any kind. I quickly gave up my search when I saw what kind of results I was yielding. If you have a problem with Percy’s outfit, well then you may bite me.

I’m not entirely sure what the update situation is for while Emrys is away. I heard a rumor about a guest comic or something, but it’s his job to update the website so I’ll let him worry about that. I know I don’t have anything prepared for over his break, anyway. At The Amish Van, we have a very nice system worked out – I draw and Emrys stays out of it. He … I guess it’s called "HTML’s", and I stay out of that. I pretty much have no idea what I’m doing with websites and if I tried I would no doubt have the entire site destroyed by the time he returned. We both deserve a break anyway.

That’s it for this update. Peace out kids.

-Kevin

Tuesday, August 05, 2003

As many of you may know, I work as a janitor at a local University. As many of you may not know, this job is not as hard, boring, annoying or disgusting as it may sound. Today for example, I watched VH1 on a big screen HDTV for about an hour until a couple of coaches walked into the TV lounge I was in. So, hopefully I won't get in trouble for it, but really, I'm a student worker, so most likely, one of my superiors will get in trouble for not keeping a better eye on me and that superior will make me scrub toilets for the next three weeks and let's face it, I had to do that anyway.

- Emrys