Finished the book… finally! All old strips are colored, the cover’s done, and I couldn’t be happier.
“Pandas Love Trampolines” clocks in at 102 pages and includes every funny strip from the last three years up to and including today’s! It will be available for the first time at NYCC this October!
So back to two comics a week starting next week. Thanks for sticking with the strip while I was working on getting the book together!
1. The sideways universe is a legitimate parallel universe created by Jughead going off. As each castaway is “awakened” in the sideways universe, they become who they had been before, just in a new context where they can reconnect and live together with the one they loved, happily ever after.
2. Smoke Locke was going to escape the island by moving his consciousness into sideways Locke. While operating, Jack is awakened, realizes what is happening, and must kill the Locke he is operating on. (Thanks, Lauren!)
3. HURLEY: You made a great Number 2.
BEN: Thanks, you were a great Number 1.
HURLEY: I mean, up until you killed me and took over the island.
BEN: Yeah….
4. Lapidus, in his walkie-talkie tossing mania, takes off before Sawyer and crew get to the plane. The plane soars into the air… and the backup bomb Widmore put in it goes off. Hurley later changes the rules and Sawyer and everyone else is able to leave the island another way.
5. In the sideways universe, Jack’s son ends up being the Man in Black. Jack can’t kill him. Ben does.
I will be at the Windup Comic Fest this Saturday, from 2 to 7 in Baltimore! Come on by!
io9.com has a great/silly article up on the “8 Most F-ed Up Episodes of The Maxx,” the amazingly fantastic MTV cartoon (based on the equally amazingly fantastic comic book) from the 90s.
Great, because, man, did I love The Maxx. Hunted down every issue. Hunted down the impossible to find McFarlane Toys figure. Good times…
Silly, because there were only 13 episodes. Why not just do a “Ranking All The Maxx Episodes in Order of Awesomeness” list and include the other five?
My interview with Kurt from Two Guys talking Webcomics is now online. You can watch the whole thing here. They’ve got a ton of interviews from C2E2, so definitely check them out!