Let's Be Friends Again

freddie mercury gets it together! by way of chris haley with inspiration from, i’m going to guess, bryan lee o’malley. we’ve met o’malley (lee o’malley? are both last names necessary here? strunk? white?) at three cons now, and he actually recognizes chris’ face without any telltale signs of fear. this says to me that he possesses, at the very least, neutral feelings towards chris! or he masks his terror well.

edit: i neglected to mention the coloring was assisted by april steele, who, legend has it, is for real.

I wrote all previous updates on this site using, for the most part, only miniscules.

It was a conscious decision I made at some point, but I can’t remember why or what point it served, and, in retrospect, it seems sort of pretentious, so I’m not anymore.

There’s been a proliferation on the internet in the use of improper capitalization, and here I was following along like some sort of internet sheep, prancing alongside those who practice such English skills as would break my fourth grade teacher’s heart. My rationale was that what you’re saying isn’t as ‘serious’ if you don’t make the guys at the beginning of the sentence stand out. It’s harder to be criticized if you’re typing your shit in a form that can’t be held up to the elegant Elements of Style’s standards.

This discussion begs the question: Who gives a shit?

Gentle reader, nobody gives a shit, so here’s a picture of Freddie Mercury as the Green Lantern of Sector 2814 fighting Darkseid. An oldie, but never before seen ’round these here parts.

- Curt

So here’s the full on picture of Chris as done by Liefeld for some unknown Alan Moore book.

The impossible muscles, the distracting lens flare, the hideous signature at the bottom: yes, this truly is some sort of art, the kind I’m not sure has been defined yet. Can we call it anti-art? It’s like wrapping all the way back around the circle from pretentious and you come back perilously close to where you started. What the hell am I talking about, I sort of lost where I was going.

Lots and lots of thanks to Justin Stewart at http://justin3000.blogspot.com/ for risking his corneal capacity to color that abomination!

And finally, I leave you with a few words from Chris. I think he was feeling left out because I get to call him an idiot every day while he can only look up and shake his fist from the comments box.

The new comic is based on an actual conversation between Curt and I that really stuck with me. I then told Curt we should make it into a comic. Such is the nature of the collaboration. The portions featuring crying, pleading, and more crying have, of course, been omitted so as to keep things as light as a summer’s breeze around these parts.

Rob Liefeld was not the original funeral portrait artist, and even though making fun of Rob is like shooting apples in a barrel (full of apples), it was classier than Curt’s original joke.
The original joke was probably funnier, but we are nothing if not classy.

The part of today’s comic that features me requesting something of Curt is 100% true as it really is something I made Curt promise me.
Seeing how he’s going to handle things though, perhaps I should try to institute some further stipulations.

The guys at Fused Film have been putting our single panel movie themed strips up real weekly like.

We’ve covered the forthcoming sequel to Manos: The Hands of Fate (Also known as Hands: The Hands of Fate in Spanish, or Manos: The Manos of Manos in Esperanto), a casting choice that might have perhaps saved Frank Miller’s The Spirit, and the Thompson Twins Tintin cameo.

When we had the idea to do the Thompson Twins strip, I was thinking of Nelson. I still wanted to just go ahead and have Nelson be in Tintin. I think I would like Nelson in anything, really.

Maybe Nelson as Asterix and Obelix? Nelson as Encyclopedia Brown? Nelson as Bert and Ernie? All great ideas. Never steal them.

Here is a picture of myself and Chris all done up by a real artist – Jemma Salume.

So the new comic won’t be up until tomorrow. I know, I’m frightened as well.

But, meanwhiles, here’s a picture done by the excellent Jemma Salume that’s been all colored up.

It’s of Chris and I’s alter egos – The Enthusiast and Mr. Fahrenheit Jr. – mixing it up.

Spoiler: I win at the end.

I accidentally left the file for today’s comic (a preview of which you can see above) on my work computer.
Which means, we can’t post it until tomorrow.

I’m sorry.

So, to make it up to you, I am going to share a thing we did for Fused Film quite a while back that you may or may not have seen.

Perhaps you have managed to forget it, but a terrible movie of “The Spirit” was made last year.

We made up a movie we would rather see..

Hopefully there are a few MST-ies amongst our readership.

1) Is that title implying that we aren’t really friends?
I don’t know how newspapers work.
If you’d like to read the entire article, you can click here.
If you would not like to read the entire article, then you can pretty much click anywhere else on your computer screen. Anywhere but that one particular place would be where you want to click to not read it.

2) If you’re on Facebook and you’re reading this, let’s be friends (again) on there, okay?

3) BUY OUR BOOK! Seriously, Sarah Palin’s book is outselling ours right now on Amazon. This is an outrage! Are you going to stand for that?

And hey, if you have a copy of our book already, and enjoyed it, why not write a glowing review of it on there? Like Eugene did.

4) Curt’s exploits with the French police last night have pretty much insured there won’t be a new comic up today, but there will be a new one up very soon (like tonight or tomorrow), I promise!

5) Until then, here is another one of the sketch cards I did to raise money to pay for my plane ticket to SPX.

Batman is very popular apparently.
I don’t recall who this one was for, but I hope they liked it.

xo
ch

Let’s do a blog!

1) Check out this sketchcard I did for one of our favorite LBFAns.

I am still taking commissions for sketchcards if more of you are interested. Just email me (see the ABOUT section for my email) and maybe we can do a thing.

2) We’re getting word that people who have ordered our book from Amazon are starting to receive them. If you have done so, please feel free to take a picture of yourself reading it or holding it or just proving you have one or whatever and we will post it and link to whatever you would like us to link to for you.

3) You may not have noticed yet, but there is now a little button below the comic on the right hand side that says “LBFA Vol. 1! Buy it here!”
Feel free to use that to buy our book.

4) We’re still working on deals to bring LBFAV1:UP to a comic store near you, but that could be a while.

5) If you’re new around these parts or if you just haven’t done so yet, why not join our Facebook group? We post things over there that we don’t post here. I’m not really sure why, but there it is.
Also, please feel free to meet and hook up with someone who is also a fan of ours, because that is the kind of thing we would like to facilitate. Hook-ups.

6) If you have not heard the official Let’s Be Friends Again theme song that Adam WarRock (aka Eugene Ahn) wrote and recorded, GO LISTEN TO IT RIGHT NOW!

That’s all I got.

xo
ch

Get a load of Sinestro over here..

(You can click on it if you like.)

Another sketch for another internet compatriot that guessed my Halloween costume in my Halloween-Costume-Guess-O-Rama-Contest-A-Thon on my Twitter.

When people are willing to draw things for me, I generally ask for one of two things, Superman riding Devil Dinosaur or Scott Pilgrim and Superman high-fiving.

Nate Bellegarde ( www.fetorpse.org ) is a dude among dudes, one of my all time favorite artists, and has once again raised the bar beyond belief..