I once briefly considered making a separate comic that was more deliberately autobiographical and featured a character whose likeness was based on myself. Then I realized I just like my dude character design too much and that the other comic wouldn’t be much different anyway. So yep, it’s just going to be dude and smiley guy for the foreseeable future.
I’ve never been good at April Fools gags. I’m sure there’re more computer related ones out there to be had other than making a screengrab of a person’s desktop their wallpaper, but I’m not dedicated enough to the day in order to figure one out.
For those who don’t know, it’s Shift-Command-4
I’ve long wondered how on earth I’m going to keep Kick in the Head going and still fresh every day. Every day it gets harder and I believe at this point my New York experience is tapped out. It’s time to move to a new city with new annoying things to deal with and new reasons to be annoyed at people. So you’ve read your last subway related comic and now it’ll all be about rush hour, traffic, smog and people who chew their steak but don’t swallow it.
Starting today I bring you “Kick in the Head: Los Angeles Edition, now with more right turns on red!”
I have absolutely no idea where this comic came from. I was on the subway last morning going to work when I was feeling that a lot of my comics lately haven’t felt much like comics to me. My comic does really boil down to me complaining about things, but sometimes I feel it’s more me complaining and less me taking the irritating and translating it into a funny little story. I have a friend who refers to my comic as my “Daily Complaint” (you can check out his new webcomic here) which I really can’t argue with. I remember a time he was taking a class in college for humor writing and one assignment was to write a list of things that irritate him. Somehow he couldn’t come up with a list. So I tried to demonstrate by writing a list of things that annoy me, and ended up with a page and a half within the space of a few minutes.
Anyway, back to this comic. I was just trying to think of something totally off the wall so I just thought of what he would do if he were to meet someone who looks like him, and maybe I went a little overboard. I’m not sure how people will react to this one. Plus when I actually drew this at about 11:00 pm last night I realized that today was April Fool’s Day, and that I should’ve done something appropriate. But I think this is silly and absurd enough that it fits the bill. A while ago when I was switching the generic smily guy to having the overbite I experimented with changing the main character to be the same, but as you can see it doesn’t really work as well as without. Plus I like how exaggerated the smile looks with the overbite.
If I were ever to introduce a new character (which I won’t) I would use this as an excuse.
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