Hey wow! A callback all the way to page 15! HOLY CRAP that was a long time ago!
And speaking of callbacks: Yes, the rent-a-cop-bot is a reference to The Killer Station of Deadly Doom. The film studio probably...
2023-02-02 11:31:08 +0000 UTC View Post
MAN this one will seem completely meaningless to anybody who hasn't seen the episode... let alone remember really stupid memes.
For the record, the runner-up idea was to turn those magic ball things into a reference to the movie Phantasm, but I didn't trust my ability to draw an anime version of Angus Scrimm.
2023-02-02 06:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, before I do anything else, let’s shut down the most obvious joke before anybody has a chance to event think it: The band Super Furry Animals are not furries. Learn to tell jokes that weren’t born on The Internet, guys.
Anyway, I’ve already told the story of how my childhood full of Oldies radio morphed into ...
2023-01-30 12:10:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not even much of a Lord of the Rings fan, and even I know the explanation for this. It's an entire generation's "Why did the Death Star have such a vulnerable weak spot?" plot hole that isn't one.
Also, in my headcanon, Gandalf follows all fantasy heroes around complaining about fanboys.
Oh, and don't fo...
2023-01-27 13:43:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I've seen the way YouTubers get their Godzilla videos flagged. I absolutely believe that Toho would take a demon dragon to court.
And remember, everybody: you all need to vote on what the NEXT Weekly Anime Comic will b...
2023-01-19 02:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I bet you thought I'D forgot about them too, huh? Nope, this series is still going, just shambling along at the slowest speed possible. Like all my other projects, really. Clearly, my whole creative output is well-represented by a hoard of zombies (Sorry, I'm just coming off of several straight days of an in...
2023-01-14 23:42:24 +0000 UTC View Post
"Also, make sure to avoid the social media tablets. Everyone complains about how bad the current tablets are, but every time they try to carve new ones they just turn out even worse!"
I mean, yeah, I know a form of The Internet already existed by this point of the 90s, so I'm not exactly being CLEVER by equating t...
2023-01-12 00:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, right? We're a week into January and somehow I'm STILL inflicting Christmas content on you? How could I POSSIBLY have any holiday content left after everything I inflicted on you all over December? Well, to tell the truth, I don't REALLY have any new Christmas stuff... but I've got some OLD Christmas...
2023-01-07 17:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I really shouldn't talk, I'm on record as once thinking somebody was cosplaying as Sgt. Slaughter, when it was the real actual Sgt. Slaughter. But since when have I let a chance to make fun of stupid young con-goers slip past?
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It's that time again already? Well, not really, but I don't like to rush things. It's been a while since we last had a vote, and even longer since it was more than just a basic "Yes/No" choice, so I wanna make ...
2023-01-05 13:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Also, it was raining really bad yesterday. You write what you know.
No, but seriously, Yoink does have a point. Even before Tumblr and DeviantArt, people were still making episodes of shows exclusively to fuel fanart.
2023-01-05 08:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's an episode about sports in which multiple characters shout about "GUTS." Do you seriously think a mind of my vintage WOULDN'T immediately go to the Nickelodeon show? I mean, the alternative would be to make a Berserk joke, but that would almost certainly require going in directions I don't feel like going in....
2022-12-31 12:04:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so the past several years I did a...
2022-12-26 06:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The pulsating, multicolored light of the sun washed in waves across the rocky surface of Scintillantem Contingent. The strobing spectrum of the star was spectacular, but also the only color on the entire vista aside from grey and slightly darker grey. Scintillantem Contingent itself was every bit as drab and unremarkable as i...
2022-12-25 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems like every year I talk about wanting to do “A Far Out There Christmas Carol” as the big holiday project… and every year it doesn’t happen. There’s always a very good reason, of course: the fact that it’d be EASILY the biggest Christmas project I’ve ever done, and would take WAY more than 25 pages. Still...
2022-12-24 06:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Heck, I'd SO forgotten about this bit, that I'd already started penciling an entirely separate comic before the scene hit. Originally, I was gonna make some form of joke comparing the reclusive guy with lots of dolls to your stereotypical otaku... which in and of itself would mostly just rip off the Digimon Ghost Game c...
2022-12-23 11:12:42 +0000 UTC View Post
OKAY! I spent all month spamming Patreon with these blog posts, time to gather 'em all up!
If this is the first one of these posts you're seeing, some context: I put together a whole bunch of playlists of what kind of Christmas music the various main characters of Far Out There would listen to, accompanied b...
2022-12-22 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
If it felt weird to not have Tax come immediately after Stilez, trust me. This is ABSOLUTELY the one that had to come last. Even if I could imagine anything following this one up, I can’t imagine any of you would be willing to actually stick with me after this. Those who saw Tax’s regular Character Soundtrack know I went ...
2022-12-22 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, yeah, who else could it be right after Alphonse? Once again, though, I find myself in a bit of a quandary when it comes to picking Christmas songs that Bridget would listen to. Her original Character Soundtrack was full of loud, fast, messy Rock songs, and unfortunately there’s not a lot of Motörhead Christmas song...
2022-12-20 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, Tabitha’s Christmas soundtrack required me to look at things a bit differently and think a bit harder about the song selection. This one, though? This was easy on several levels. For one thing, it’s Alphonse. We already know he likes sophisticated Classical music, and it’s not as if there’s not plenty of orchest...
2022-12-18 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, here we go. This is probably the biggest departure from any of the original Character Soundtracks, and it’s at least partially a matter of grim necessity. Tabitha’s regular musical preferences are very much in the Stoner/Doom Metal direction. Lots of Black Sabbath and bands who wish they were Black Sabbath. Sadly, t...
2022-12-16 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
...but that's just ridiculous. I mean, what kind of absolute lunatic would actually try to create something based on a Mad Lib? That'd be stupid!
2022-12-15 23:59:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, THIS is gonna be really quick. Just in case you don’t remember, even though it’s the sort of thing you could probably figure out without being told, Stilez’s Character Soundtrack is full of Power Metal. Big, dumb, loud exercises in guitar shredding and silly lyrics, perfect for a big dumb loud catgirl, right? And ...
2022-12-14 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
HOW AM I STILL ABLE TO FIND SONGS TO FILL OUT THESE BLOG 2022-12-13 13:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Technically the newest character to get a Christmas Soundtrack this year, though anyone who’d been paying attention knows that May was appearing in Far Out There for YEARS before she was technically “introduced.” And since most of those early-bird cameos were in Christmas comics, it’s only fitting that she gets her ha...
2022-12-12 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time we had an extremely 60s Christmas playlist with Trigger, and this time Jenna brings us an extremely 80s one! Yes, in keeping with the heavy reliance on frothy Synthpop in Jenna’s regular Character Soundtrack, I decided her Christmas one would have to lean just as hard on songs that were either authentically 80s or...
2022-12-10 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Now things get a bit weird. Trigger’s official music of choice, as befitting a kid who runs around in barefoot hippie garb, is Psychedelic 60s music. Specifically, of the sitars and power chords variety. Alas, the 60s counterculture wasn’t especially big on celebrating commercialized versions of Judeo-Christian religious ...
2022-12-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Some background for those of you not familiar with late 90s anime drama: Lost Universe is a kinda-sorta-not-really-but-maybe spinoff of Slayers by the same author, which got an anime adaptation of its own that was... legendarily bad. As in, the name of one of the episodes became otaku slang for "bad animatio...
2022-12-08 09:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post
...so instead I spent the evening sitting in the parking lot of an entirely different hotel.
Seriously, half the reason I went ahead and did the whole "pictures of the old Animazement hotel" thing was because I worked out a wi...
2022-12-06 12:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, you want some Christmas music but don’t wanna stop listening to rock? Well GOOD NEWS! Layla’s got ya covered! Layla’s musical tastes are well established to be stripped down, riff-heavy Rock and Roll, and you might be surprised just how easy it was to come up with a decent mix of tunes that bring the electric guita...
2022-12-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
