VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

INsights: hehaehahehahe.

The thoughts that make me laugh, the guts behind this one, are so insane.

I wrote this a long time back, when talking to my girlfriend about giving blood. it’s just something i don’t plan to do any time soon. it’s my blood. maybe for money.

Word wise, this was all about combining the act of giving with the act of recycling. your blood for the needy. your recycling for the planet. As a kid i used to say “back to nature” a lot, before throwing something off into the woods. like a half eaten hot dog. So the idea was that we’d think Disky was giving blood and doing a good thing, and it’d be funny to see that he was fucking it up, by just pouring blood onto the earth.

This didn’t really work out when prepping the art. i didn’t want to cram “giving blood” into the first panel. I also failed to draw the reality of a deck in the third panel (in a way, i was trying to reference the earlier strip where a spider’s web catches a fly, because both of these are based on the second story deck at my apartment, where I often go out to smoke and think about writing).  

Because I could see it wasn’t really going to look as awesome as I’d pictured it, i started giggling at the idea of just covering the last half of the strip with a blood bath. If you look close, you can see Viddy’s jubilant face behind the blood in the last panel. To me this is psychotic joy. I was going to have him saying something sinister and weird. but then i figure the blood bath would say it. The blood kind of sucks. i guess. hard to pull of in vector form. or maybe i’m lazy. I put some word bubbles in the fina frame’s blood. just to reference the last strip.

Now that I’ve layed out everything that (i think) i was thinking that night, it doesn’t strike me as being so funny. hmm. more of an abortion mid joke. hmm. i dunno. I should have destroyed the 4th frame i think. and made more realistic blood and paper-texture, like you were reading it in the sunday paper. hmm.

Anyway art wise, i really like the background. but only because of some photoshop tweaking and lame-filter abusing. (cloud effect) on 2nd and 3rd frame sky. subdued blue seems to feel like a pleasing conformity to reality. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t come across that Disky is out on a deck. with his arm over the rail. gushing blood on the ground. oh well. i hope people notice his shadow in the first frame. but probably not. oh well.

Since i created a fist for Viddy in the last strip, i felt a need to show Disky’s fist in this strip. i kinda like it. better than the last time we saw their hands. but it still doesn’t feel quite appropo. at one point I was going to have them using tape-spools and disc-reader-arms.  but this would just confuse the point that we’re seeing their arms. hmm. i dunno. For now i’ll stick with the sickly little arm twigs.

eh. what else? the title is just a quick misspelling of blood, because i’ve been playing too much Too Human, and thinking of everything in old wonky Norse english.