June 21st,
2008
The
ULTIMATE Guardian Collection
It's here
folks. The Ultimate Guardian Collection.
This collection features all of the Blockhead Comics that ran in the UCSD
Guardian during
Winter and Spring quarters of 2008, as well as the last comic of Fall 2007.
(Which is featured above, as is clear from their talk of the coming Winter
break.)
This first comic of the Winter '08 quarter was the beginning of my second
attempt
at putting a story-arc type thingy in the Guardian. I think it went reasonably
well,
it had a beginning and a middle and an end and everything.
Is this scenario starting to feel familiar to any readers out there?
Like, ALL of you?
Some girls grow out of this type of behavior, others don't.
See, she doesn't care.
And no lesson is learned, but the point is pretty well driven home in the
last panel.
Having finished this arc, I polished off the rest of the quarter with a
few one-shots.
I'm rather proud of this one... I should have been a philosopher.
And seriously ladies, lay off each other.
Give each other the freedom to explore... after all, soon we'll all be dead.
Another fun fact is that the comic above was not the original one that I
had written for that week.
The first one that I wrote was rejected by the editors. I was quite proud
of my edgy self.
You can find the original on the forum
if you care to look.
I call myself "King" in my head.
I'm far too sarcastic and far too practical about things like this.
And so ends the Winter '08 quarter, in a way that is more true-to-life than
I'd like to admit.
I'm currently preparing for my final assault on the Temple of Chaos.
I started Spring quarter with a one-shot.
I wanted to do another story-arc, but I wasn't very organized this time
around.
I started the arc here, a scathing self-parody.
I'm not actually sure if my strategy is really this god-awful, or if I just
need my own place.
When you do stuff like in the comic above this one,
stuff like this can happen.
As you can see, this comic has nothing to do with the two preceeding it.
I hadn't planned far enough ahead or gotten organized enough to do the arc
consecutively.
This made it awkward when I eventually came back to it, because I had to
squeeze a recap
into the first panel.
Still, I'm happy with this one-shot comic. Recommended reading is such a
joke.
Do professors not realize that we have other classes, other obligations,
other interests?
Certain basic human needs that must be tended to?
As a commuter, this is sort of my life every weekend.
Now that I've graduated, maybe I should look for a place...?
And here we return to the arc. Sadly, this is as far as I got with it.
I wanted to continue the story with the guy having a triumphant realization
that if we own our feelings, we don't have to fall victim to them. Declaring
that he was
"bigger than love," our hero would happily decide that he would
be friends with the girl after all.
Unfortunately, the quarter was a bit of a struggle academically, and I couldn't
figure out how
to squeeze all of that sentiment into the little four-panel format.
And I couldn't figure out how to make it funny either.
The arc remains unfinished, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Another comic celebrating the annual Sun God Festival, which is still the
one day a year
that every UCSD student gets drunk and wanders around campus.
This technique was one of my favorites.
This comic ran just four days after the California decision to legalize
gay marriage.
I guess that's one of the advantages of not working ahead.
The guy on the left is me, verbatim.
The girl in question was actually 27, not 22, but I changed her age for
the college audience.
Ending my cartooning career at the Guardian due to graduation seemed so
boring...
I decided that pretending to be fired would be a fun way to say goodbye
and also
to be totally politically incorrect.
Note the shameless plug.
