Archive for July, 2007
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Adam and Fred sure do a lot of walking around. I guess it’s better than having them stand around in a room though (unless the joke calls for it.) Walking around is good though. It makes things more visually interesting, and as a side effect, it’s also good for you. I would go so far as to say that Jetpacks and Timemachines (the best slightly sci-fi comic on the web) encourages healthy lifestyles. Isn’t that nice?
In this comic, I introduce a new character… The local neighborhood crackpot. Adam and Fred do their best too avoid him, but it crackpots can sense that sort of thing. They’re in for a diatribe, but luckily, Fred manages to dole out some wit to make an escape. Adam tries some wit too…
Also, I love the term ’snark’.
I’m curious, how does everyone feel about ‘the announcer’? I’m going to develop the character more down the road, and I’m really going to try to add more depth than the standard “sign waving doomsayer” I think.
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My plan of posting drawings on the other three days a week is coming to an abrupt end. I’ve decided that my time would be better spent writing more. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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In today’s comic, Fred is pursued by a bee. Action Ensues.
This is one of those one’s I’m not crazy about. The idea worked out a lot better in my head, and also, I did a terrible lettering job on at the top of the comic. That’s just embarrassing.
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Time for illustration number two… Adam in the weeds. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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JP&TM: Adam talks history.
The Rundown: First line of panels – Adam and Fred walk out of town, and Adam makes small talk. Fred, being somewhat nerdy and overly logical, is basically hardwired to hate small talk (and he probably sucks at it too.) Fred has a problem with Adam mocking the past. This sets him off on a linguistically logical nerd rant (which I illustrated by using the old “crooked boxes on a black background” device. This might not have been the best device for this. Perhaps I should have only made the last frame crooked. Any view opinion on this?) In the last row, I used a silent panel to try to illustrate the tension you could cut with some sort of futuristic plasma cutter. Luckily, Adam can float through that sort of thing, and so he walks by Fred, and the conversation begins again. If you can’t tell by the last panel, I have some sort of preoccupation with old school joke set-ups.
On a side note, I have changed the posting schedule. I now post these larger comics on tuesdays and thursdays, and smaller drawings and illustrations on a monday, wednesday, friday schedule down below in the secondary blog section that I’m not sure if anyone scrolls down to check out. Does anyone scroll down there?
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Adam, Fred, and serial all climb upwards towards their lair in the treetops. It must annoy a cyborg boy when some darn monkey just swings past him while he’s laboriously climbing up a tree. Those rungs must be the futuristic versions of the old classic “boards nailed to tree” that were always so effective. I must have some addiction to the word ‘must’. I’ll stop now.
Anyone who is curious why there’s no full size comic today should probably look at the post below this one about the changes I’ve decided to implement. Check back tomorrow for the first larger sized comic!
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I mentioned it in my post with friday’s comic, but I’ll go into more detail. I’m officially changing my comic posting schedule. The changes will take effect starting monday.
The Changes:
- The comic page size is going to increase. The size ratio will be 4:3 (width to height) The reason for this is so that if I so choose, I will have a submission ready for the launch of the new DC comics site ZUDA. I’m not certain that I’ll submit right away though, I might wait and see how things pan out initially, but I’m not sure.
- The larger format comic pages will only be posted twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- Additional content will be posted on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in this part of the site. This content will consist of single panel jokes, sketches, or just single panel snapshots of the JP&TM world, with a brief associated blog post. I’d like to think this will help me flesh out the world of Jetpacks and Time Machines a little more, and at the same time ease the sting of the loss of a comic a week for any die-hard fans out there.
Hopefully these changes will lead to a more satisfying JP&TM experience for everyone, but if anyone has a problem with the schedule change, feel free to speak up, otherwise, I’ll see you five days a week. Thanks for reading!
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Ok, First new comic since getting the new tablet. It’s pretty freakin’ awesome.
This is part two, continued from wednesday, so if you’re new, you might want to read the previous comic first, of course, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already read the comic, so I don’t know why I added that explanation. In this comic, Adam and Fred Stand Before Grandpa. They’re welcomed into the organization. Four Words: Villainous, Evil, Ruthless sponges. I’m not really clear how those vary from regular sponges. Needless to say, Grandpa uses atmosphere to his advantage and Adam and Fred are in! They have their mission..
It’s typical… I was a little ahead on my deadline, so what did I do? I decided to make a bigger comic with some serious drawing. It’s a constant problem. I only mention it because I’m afraid things might be changing here. I think I’m changing the schedule and the format. I’ll post more details this weekend in the news section.
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I’ve got a couple of comics that I’m going to suggest that people check out:
I’m biased, because both strips are done by friends of mine, but I think they’re both great. Don’t take my word for it, check ‘em out.
What the heck are you still doing here?
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I hate chores. I hate the tediousness. I don’t mind a tedious and repetitive task though, what I mind is a tedious, repetitive task that will never, ever, EVER stay done. Stupid sisyphean chores. I did a really good job mopping the floor last week, why won’t it stay clean!?!
I blame entropy.
In this strip Adam’s Grandpa is faced with household chores, and in contemplating aforementioned chores, he is forced to deal with his own irrelevance on the world stage. It sounds deep, I know… but it really isn’t.
I’ve got a couple of technical issues with this strip. The second panel didn’t come out quite like I envisioned it. Certainly I think it does the job of communicating what it is meant to, but I wanted more shadow of the giant spaceship. I’ll have to work on it. I also tried to make grandpa’s word bubbles ‘electronic’… I really want to make a font for grandpa, and I think I will when I have time, but until then, I’d better work out my electronic speech bubbles.
-oh, and on a side note… today is the day! Today I get the package in the mail! I’m really excited. It could revolutionize, or at least speed up my production! (Right now I work digitally with a standard wacom tablet.)
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I’ve finally learned my lesson. I need to set my deadlines a little in the future. That being said, I’m on time, but now I’m tired, so I’ll write up a clever post, or at least record my thoughts about this one in the morning. Thats for reading.
Update: 4:34 (Arizona Time)
I changed my mind. I’m not going to add a clever post. Instead I’ll just post what I’m thinking about this joke now.
This was my first foray into the school interior. I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but I hate drawing interiors. They’re boring. I suppose they’re the hardest thing for me to draw right now, because I need to work out how to create more vaguely futuristic items that I can put into them. That’s why I just did lockers in school this time. I don’ t know what the desks and chairs look like yet. I should have thought more about that in this joke though. I guess I’ll do that later.
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Part Three of Three here.
If you want to check out Part One first, You can check it out here.
I almost split this into two jokes, but I didn’t want to stretch this story out any longer. I imagine it might be difficult to follow a story when it’s stretched out into three comics a week, let alone going past the weekend into the next week. I really had to push myself on this comic and on this whole story line. I might not have been entirely successful in the execution, (I should have thought this one out more, no pun intended) but in attempting this, I learned a tremendous amount about what I can do. I’m toying with the idea of going back and tweaking the first couple strips in this series, then posting all three comics together on sunday. I think it depends on how much I can get done this weekend.
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Jetpacks and Time Machines is a comic in development, but it didn’t officially start here at this site obviously. While I won’t go into a lot of detail about my comic creation history right here, what I will do is post a link to the blog that started it.
In a nutshell, it’s the beginning. I decided I needed to get focused on my comic, and to that effect I started a blog. If anyone is curious to see a bit of my thought process that went into JP&TM, that’s where it is.
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Ok, only five people might be aware of this… I’m one hour late posting this comic. I needed the time. I posted monday’s comic early, and look where that got me?
This comic is the second part of the joke from monday, so if it seems especially unclear as to what is happening here, that’s why.
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I really struggled with this comic. I still feel like I need to explain it, which I think is a bad sign… I’m not going to though (must be strong…)
This one is to be continued…
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