Monday, March 3, 2008
Dying for a subject change
This is what went through my head, although perhaps in gentler terms. All the strips have been about the webcomic creative process. I Love Stupid TM isn't supposed to be the thrilling tale of a guy who makes a webcomic. It's supposed to be a random mix of funny thoughts and conversations. So, it's time to change it up. Ironically, this realization itself backfired and became yet another strip about the strip. Last one though, I promise (at least for a long while).
Ned's accusatory finger-pointing and belittling words are directed at me, and no other webcomic writers or artists. So it almost makes sense through the second frame, where instead of pointing at and lecturing Rob (the webcomic author in the comic) he points at me (the webcomic author in real life). So he's pointing at his creator, not his audience. But then I decided to translate that to him pointing at someone in the comic world, so we've got Tim standing there in the third frame. And the nonsense becomes a joke.
If you still don't get it, and you think this is stupid nonsense... you're probably right.
(The title is taken from the song "My Stupid Mouth" on John Mayer's album Room for Squares 
