Fruit Incest

If anyone’s wondering how this little fishie is still alive, by which I mean no one’s wondering that, keep in mind that Paintshop Week is mostly non-canon. Some of you may remember that Sherman’s already showed up before, unfortunately he doesn’t like being called Shelly, at least not most of the time.

Drawing this also made me realize how difficult it is to show a scene underwater. There’s hardly any background you can do without color or making things too distracting and time consuming. It sure makes me appreciate the animators of Spongebob a little more.

One of the problems with me making B comics is that I usually only have one panel or so to change, and it would be a serious waste of time, effort, and cheap office supplies to do them all from scratch, but I can’t just erase the last panel, nor can I waste a new piece of paper for just one panel to copypasta. This means I have to pull out the pantieshop powers, which aren’t bad themselves, except it’s pretty noticeable, and try as I might, I just can’t replicate that pencil feel. Comics would be best if I do them entirely digitally or entirely by hand, not mixed up. Still, enjoy the shopping goodness. Don’t blow all your money on the food court though. That’s just irresponsible and silly.

You know, I didn’t notice until drawing these last two comics together that my character designs tend to look alike. Oh who am I kidding, I’ve always known that. There’s only so many hairstyles you can draw and faces don’t leave much for differentiation when they’re nothing but ovals. Speaking of returning things, I was very sad when I realized I missed a perfect chance to draw the old fashioned dark OJ lines, and as you may or may not remember, I have a thing for fun little background effects. I’d like to add them but I’ve already got the OCD counter itching to go up, so now I can’t do anything about it. Uguu.

OCD count: 16

Also, I don’t need to introduce the luvly bubbly Jim Reaper again, but I will cause he’s awesome and gets another cameo. Isn’t that just cooking mama?

I apologize for the blank backgrounds again, but I was a bit excited to draw this comic. I mentioned my comics list a couple of times, and it started off with eight or so comics. For some reason I keep putting them off and end up doing more recent comic ideas, so it’s a good feeling when I finally get to cross one off. Now if only I could feel the same about my horrible skills at drawing large monstrous things. I’m still EPicked out from the giant robot for crying out loud!

My only hope is that this doesn’t become one of the reocurring gags I’m best known for. Luckily I wasn’t trapped under any life threatening doors, I was just keeping this one in reserve for the next time I had a busy day, and I think leaving home at five in the morning and coming back with twenty minutes left to midnight counts as a busy day. Don’t worry, you’ll have your Cheetastic comics again soon, a break wont kill you. Well, unless you’re that one guy in the hospital who needs to see a brand new comic every five minutes or he’ll die. Here’s hoping he wasn’t relying on my hitherto perfect schedule. Wow, I can’t believe I used “hitherto” in a sentence. I really do need some sleep. Night y’all!