heroes for sale (or rent)

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 12:41 am

alright, you may have noticed that i've missed about three weeks worth of comics. although at this point that's only four, that number could quickly get away from me if i'm not careful. so you may be wondering, what's up with that? why did joe fall so far behind?

well, i don't feel like drawing polytheism for dummies. i dunno, it just doesn't appeal to me with now, i mean a sitcom about people with the powers of god? when i wrote it it sounded cool but now i feel like doing something else, something more...how-you-say...rpg-ish.

what you may have noticed on the site today is what's now known as Heroes For Sale. it has no planning ahead, no plot in mind, no villain as of yet, i just felt like doing a fantacy story so i did it. this is what pickle jar is all about!

actually the heroes don't even have names yet. i'm thinking the one with the sword'll be called Grin, and the one with the elf-ears will be Digo. if anyone has any other ideas, i'm all ears.

anyway, pickle jar is back! so don't you worry your pretty little head. a'ight, peace out holmes

ZOMBIE USER 8601 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8601** » Mon Jul 22, 2002 12:18 pm

Yay, welcome back.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Tue Jul 23, 2002 4:20 pm

in the spirit of pushing on until you go too far, what does everyone thing of the website, v2.0? i'm still tweaking, but still what do you think?

ZOMBIE USER 8601 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 8601** » Wed Jul 24, 2002 1:11 pm

It still looks pretty cool, except for the fact it's a bit crowded and your not sure where the links are at first glance... i dunno, maybe make some more space? or make it less busy? Mind you, I like how the explaination of pickle jar kind of fades into the background at the top.

El Cid · Post by **El Cid** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 10:27 pm

Name someone/thing Astegival (Ass-te-give-uhl)or Astegval (Ass-teg-vuhl). Don't care what, don't care whom. Just do it.

I think I agree with Chikita Banana about the new site design, though it does give you a little better acess to stuff like "Commision the artist and what have you."

SuperJoe · Post by **SuperJoe** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 11:03 pm

I think the blonde should be Flank and the pointy eared on should be Mutton.

And El Cid's name sounds like a bad guy to me.

I've got a bad guy to go with that name, but my shitty drawing isn't good enough for you, eh, Joe? Eh?
You bum.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Mon Jul 29, 2002 11:29 pm

Astegival huh? i'll see what i can do

god, i can't believe i just used a smiley.

oh come on joe, i'd love to see your bad guy! although i kinda did already have one in mind. no idea what he's doing that would cause the heroes to go after him, but i know what he looks like. that's half the battle.

El Cid · Post by **El Cid** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:28 am

Smilies: useful internet syntax or death of the english languedge.

AAAHH! IT'S GOT ME!! IT'S GOT ME BY THE LEG!!!!

Come on SUUUUUUUUPER Joe, we wanna see the drawing. You and REEEEEEEGULAR Joe could have the 1st Annual Pickle Jar Message Board villian off.

And if I might change subjects one more time, Joe, I heard you asking once in your little bloggy thing below if anyone actually read it, and I'd just like to say I do. That's half the reason I come to any web comic actually.[/list]

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Tue Jul 30, 2002 10:11 pm

actually an annual villain-off is a really good idea. if my forum was more popular i'd actually do that...but as is we'd only probably have two contestants

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 10:52 am

now check this out

some of you may have noticed while paging through my archives that there were a few days when the comic wouldn't load or had a similar problem. there are a number of reasons for these, ranging from equipment failure to laziness on my part. but no matter, because i recently went through and fixed all of the holes in the archives. so now there are four pages that i'm sure none of you have seen before.
http://picklejar.keenspace.com/d/20020511.html - wasn't online because of equipment failure
http://picklejar.keenspace.com/d/20020514.html - same reason
http://picklejar.keenspace.com/d/20020702.html - long story. basically i lost it.
http://picklejar.keenspace.com/d/20020608.html - actually the end of doll & doll. hmm. i'm gonna be honest, this one wasn't up because i was lazy and never finished it

that's it. have fun [/url]

SuperJoe · Post by **SuperJoe** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 2:00 pm

Oh, Joe... you ass.

And now it seems I actually have to DRAW the villian I was thinking of.
Well I could do it today, but wouldn't you rather I do it at... THE SAN DIEGO COMIC CONVENTION!?!?

...which I'm going to and you are not.

...just asking?

...okay, I'll do it today.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Wed Jul 31, 2002 6:51 pm

fine, don't draw it. see if i care.

and yes, i'm not going to the comic con. so? you wanna make something of it?

Aeire · Post by **Aeire** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:08 pm

You're a bum other Joe! A bum!

...bum.

And this isn't SuperJoe at all. I'm a compleatly different person. Some kind of... Air-EE.

...not Joe.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 6:36 am

having fun at the con, are we joe?

SuperJoe · Post by **SuperJoe** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:25 pm

Oh... yes, it was fun.
About that villian, I lost the character sketch and forgot it.

Oh well. I can always draw something else later.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 10:11 pm

no it's okay, there is no villain-off anyway.

SuperJoe · Post by **SuperJoe** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 2:16 pm

Good. I'll just forget this ever happened then.

Glad to see my favourite character finaly in the strip, too.

The Joester · Post by **The Joester** » Tue Aug 20, 2002 8:23 am

i thought you'd like that