Ref: Glove I like how Percy’s short speech ties everything back to the dreams in The Fountainhead. It also amuses me that both times that Jorocks has been called the titular name of this arc, he hasn’t actually been wearing […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ref: Percy gets attention | And again A while ago on Twitter I mentioned that I wish I would have given Percy ear hair. I satisfied this urge with Jorocks’s elf form. I was happy for a change with how […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Refs: Gogol | First appearance of Gabriel | Ding-dong? | Left behind I know, I know, you all wanted to see elf-Jorocks. He’s still getting dressed. But hooray, Percy now owns the North Pole! Yes, there would probably be a huge […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ref: The Shadow! | The Shadow? | THE SHADOW. Couldn’t resist the link pattern above. 🙂 It is, of course, a reference to The Gamers. Nikki is really hard to draw shorter than Percy! She’s a little too tall in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chris putting on the sunglasses that he found is a reference to Pokémon X and Y, where the default character design has sunglasses on his or her hat. Personally, I thought they looked dumb and switched the hat decoration immediately, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ref: Percy is short | Elf Nikki | Lord of the Necklaces reference This commentary really has nothing to do with the comic above, but a general announcement that I’m rather excited about. At the end of the next story arc, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Refs: Panel 1 Flashback | First time combined forms are seen SO MANY WORDS. This is the shortened version, too! At first I was just going to copy-paste the old panel in for Panel 1, but coloring and sizing would […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ref: Elf Clones | Allowing Emotions The problem with drawing a comic that often strays into sci-fi is that it tends to require a lot of exposition. I really honed down the script, but even so it tends to get […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the comic that I mentioned on Twitter a while ago about how I was getting a real Lit Brick vibe from this script. While many comics make parodies of famous literature, it was the “Devil Went Down to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In case it wasn’t clear, Roark is referring to the Pearl Harbor attacks in Panel 1. The Fountainhead came out in 1943. I was going to make the connection clearer, but this strip is wordy enough as it is. Anyway, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
