LiA 71 - Pellet Talk

[Bear]

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When the first idea came to mind about a Pac-Man comic, the idea I had was that Pac-Man would come home, upset at his daily grind and Ms. Pac-Man would serve him a drink. After loosing himself a bit to the rat race and relaxing, he unexpectedly loses it, tossing his pellets ending with his eventual passing away in a doctors office with the classic Pac-Man death animation.

Somehow, it turned into this, which Pie and I ended up laughing at quite a bit. Even when working on it I would think that this comic is so f'ed up and a bit too out there. It was a pretty dry week for ideas, sadly, and looking at this one now I'm wondering if it is too suggestive...and that we might be falling into a bad pattern of having too many suggestive / mature comics, and I definitely don't want to get into a rut or tried-and-true routine.

I suppose that's how it is as we keep trying to grow and improve - we have to keep trying to find our voice and work at making good stuff. I wonder how it is for other creators like Anthony Clark of among others, who seem to have charming / cool comics on a consistent basis. A lot of times making a script for a comic takes a lot of time and energy for Pie and me, and I would wonder if they have as much trouble as we do or if they are just really talented and generate cool stuff with a lot more relative ease.

Ahh well...hopefully Friday's Persona Overload comic comes out well...which will probably be posted late Friday evening. Damn it I hate posting late in the afternoon or early evening of our scheduled update days...I've always had a big problem with being punctual. >_<

[RollCasket]

I said it on one of the other threads but I don't have a problem with suggestive stuff and it does help to add some uniqueness to the comics. I think as long as you keep a good balance you should be fine =P

On this one though I think I just got hung up on Pacman saying he's "collecting pellets" which is fine cause you think of the game, but then Mrs. Pacman has someone else's pellets which is the suggestive part, but then you think where is Pacman getting his pellets from? It kinda throws you in a weird loop. I always kinda figured the pellets were food, and of course there's the Mrs. Pacman game, so I think if Pacman had said something like "how'd it go for you?" and then upon inspecting be like "The pellets I get don't have tails..." or something similar to not recognizing them. Then maybe for added shock value he eats it =P

[Bear]

You know, it never even occurred to us where Pac-Man gets HIS pellets. When I read that I quite literally LOL'ed. Well played Roll. hahaha