I think the middle two panels were a shout-out to another of the strips that were running in the Indiana Daily Student at the time. It featured two dudes, one a white silhouette and the other a black silhouette. It […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back in the Nineties, superhero comic books were slightly more up their own asses than they are today. But not by much.
Here’s another of those gags I stole from myself. In fact, I think a lot of this was just reinterpreting that old Robo-Vac comic book in daily strip-sized chunks.
Early in high school, our local comic book store, back when La Porte, Indiana, actually had a comic book store, had a contest. Submit a comic book, and the winner in each age category would get a buttload of store […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At first I was wondering how Joe and Danny didn’t know Robo-Vac’s origin even though they were fans of the character. But then I realized that, well, this is the vintage first issue, so maybe the origin’s been rebooted and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Get it– oh, wait. No dumb wordplay today, sorry.
Get it?
Robo-Vac was a superhero character I created out of LEGO (TM) brand construction bricks when I was in middle school. I decided that in Roomies! he would not co-exist with the its characters, but be an element of their pop […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was the intended “cliffhanger” for the first year I mentioned earlier that missed its scheduled mark. You can see I was really trying with the anarchist shapes and swirls in the background, attempting to make this look dark and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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