I Hope This Didn't Spoil Your Enjoyment of the Story...

Christmas Countdown: 10 (I've been forgetting it every now and then.)

Whoa. This is one of the only daily strips with color in it. I did the stick's color in Photoshop, so this is (so far) the only non-black color that is perfect solid. All those Nermia scenes were just done with bluescreen. Moe's original pose in panel 1 was a different one, which was one that made me think he was just acting. Also, what Thidwick does in panel 2 wasn't originally in my sketch. Here are everybody's jobs on the set:

• Nerm: filmer
  
• the pig: cue card boy
  
• the dog: holds the frames in place (only for scenes at home) so the stick can stand on it
  
• the stick: "microphone holder"
  

So, now you know what I meant when I said "this is the second-to-last strip of the actual story, but fourth-to-last strip of the entire story." On December 17, I'm gonna get back to my normal strips without 4-month stories. This is the first and last time I let myself have the story go on for longer than 1 month. Incidentally, that same day is the day the cast starts getting ready for Christmas. Whoa! This is the longest post on the blog! The second-longest is Introducing Brennan.