Jeremy: At some point, you all might be able to see the full glory that is the background used in today’s strip. I would have had to make the characters pretty small to show you the details of the full building facade, plus I wanted to keep the panels tight, so you would only see one character entering from the left at a time.
Speaking of characters, our friend in the brown bomber jacket with the handsome goatee is based off of none other than the gentlemanly Lancastrian David Moulton, who was so kind as to bring us on the Lancast to do an interview a while ago. This tour stop in Lancaster will allow us to have at least a few more appearances of friends in the area, or characters based off of people we know.
Jeff: Yeah, part of the reason for this whole stop-in-Lancaster storyline is to give us a chance to throw in some fun cameos of not only people we know, but places we’ve been. Up until now, most of the background details are just stuff that Jeremy and I have made up on the fly, but now, we’re dealing with real places, and it makes the characters themselves feel a little more real. A little more grounded. Well, except for Elle right now. Girl is nowhere near “grounded” at the moment.
There’s a joke in there about being “grounded” and tying that in with “coffee grounds”. You have permission to synthesize that joke yourself. But know that the chuckle it garners had its genesis in me.
When are they going to be in NYC?
Who knows really? That’s the existential question of the day, isn’t it? Haha seriously though, I honestly don’t know. Depends on if we come up with a storyline that brings them to the Bigs Apples.
Heeeeey…wasn’t that??? And I know that guy!
Having some de ja vu there??? LOL
Nice cameo by Inky the Mule and Shadow. Somebody better give Elle some coffee quick cause she’s definitely about to go postal.
The zoomed out view of the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design you posted this morning on Twitter looks great Jeremy.
Todd, what’s especially funny about your remark of Elle going postal, is that where she currently is in Lancaster is pretty much caddy-corner to where the downtown post office used to be
And thanks for the compliment on the College twitpic. The beauty of living in the town where we are currently doing the story, is that I can go out and get great art reference photos of exactly the scene I want to portray
I think the creators of this blog understand what Bal & Stan are going through, dealing with Elle’s coffee craze. You boys are writing and drawing from experience. Pretty sure Nean would agree with me on this one.
On the advice of my attorney — not to mention other husbands everywhere, I politely refuse to respond to that statement in any meaningful fashion. Ahem.
You know what? My wife needs a gravatar. I can’t see her eyes when she posts comments.
You don’t need to see my eyes to feel my judgmental, disapproving gaze.
Can you add me as a homeless person? PLEASE!!!
What do you think this is? All Request Central, or something?
Besides, I wouldn’t want to bring to reality the vision I already have in my brain of you being a homeless illusionist who does cheap, street-corner tricks. It would spoil the magic of my dreams.
HAHA Your dream world is an amazing place
If by “illusionist” you mean “man-whore” then you are dead on the money.
All the fame, all the glory, all the power! It’s gone straight to my head. I can see it now, a spin off comic featuring Directions Guy. A mild mannered super awesome dude who is always around when people need directions. But… are the directions always right?! Find out in the upcoming daily comic How Do We Get There.
Hey, nice gravatar, Directions Guy.
This comic is all KINDS of trouble. I personally was hoping that Inky might trip Moulton, but no so much luck, or vice versa.
Welcome to Ouro David!
This post just made me laugh. Can’t wait to see who else shows up!