alas, poor forum. i knew ye well

[The Joester]

come on, people! this forum is dead! let's get some posting going on here!

[SuperJoe]

I guess nobody loves you anymore, Joe.
Due to your random updating.

[The Joester]

i know!

it's awful. as soon as school starts again and i have more time to draw i'll be able to get back on track

[ZOMBIE USER 8601]

Yeah, you should post comics a little more frequently... it would keep ppl interested and what not... there is potential, just follow up on it.. But i'll still post

[The Joester]

i will, i will

i just fell out of it over the summer. as soon as school starts (fucking tomorrow, i might add) up i'll get back on track, promise

[El Cid]

Funny how that works out huh? School, which lasts a good 6 hours as well as the homework connected to it, gives you more time to do comics.

Nutty, ain't it?

I'm exactly the way you are Joe, my updates start again next Tuesday.

[unrelated]And check out my new, keen web page design! [/unrelated]

[The Joester]

well you have to understand, the only time i ever draw is durring class. at school i have nothing better to do than draw all the time so that's what i do. at home i can barely stand to pick up a pencil. that's just how i work.

[SuperJoe]

I'm very much the same way. But that convention thing really got me drawing again...
It seems people actually READ my comic. I don't want to disapoint them!
Unlike a certain person I know, who's name is Joe, but who I won't name. Oh wait..

[Crazykiltman]

yeah, and what's with this whole drawing good thing?

[El Cid]

I believe the correct phrase would be "drawing well."

..........

Just thought I'd add.

[Crazykiltman]

indeed it is.

i just didn't (forgot to, was distracted and was lazy) add the next couple words that would make the sentence grammatically correct.

[The Joester]

c'mon, i updated! they're coming a lot more frequently now, i promise. i'm just having trouble with the fight scene.

and joe, i didn't go to the con. and people don't read my comic! last month i had 6687 page views. and that was almost double the month before it, because of my presentation in the cartoonist's choice awards. there's really no one to dissapoint besides you.

so what were the next couple of words?

[Crazykiltman]

"good for a blind, crippled, one-limbed, syphilis-infested monkey with gout and ghonnorea things thing"

[Crazykiltman]

speaking of horribly maimed and impaired simians, it sure would make me feel better if it took you forever to draw ...stuff.

how long does it usually take you to draw something like <a href="http://picklejar.keenspace.com/d/20020709.html">this</a> or <a href="http://picklejar.keenspace.com/art/goboom1.jpg">this</a>?

[The Joester]

oh, i dunno. a couple of hours maybe. i get that question a lot and i still have yet to time myself. i know i drew the Things That Go Boom teaser in chemistry class last year...so that probably took something under an hour and a half. and i don't remember how long it took me to draw the Heroes For Sale page...but i think i started drawing at midnight and had it uploaded before i went to bed. it's not that high of quality so it couldn't have taken that long.

[Crazykiltman]

okay! that makes me feel kinda better.

most of the comics i draw are done in under twenty minutes.

i'd like to think that given an hour or two i could approach the damned niftiness that you have presented so often.

[The Joester]

hah, yeah i never spent more than a half an hour on a strip back when i did Situation: Nowhere.

[Crazykiltman]

welp, so much for not feeling artistically retarded.

[ZOMBIE USER 8601]

excellent build of character... Digo and Grin are great characters for you just thinking them up and not planning anything..

[The Joester]

thanks!
have you ever noticed that in hero teams there's always one quiet guy who kicks all the ass, and then there's the lesser sidekick-type guy that makes all the witty remarks? i just wondered; what if there was a team where they were both the witty one. plus ass-kicking, of course