Just Kidding

The note on the calendar on the 23rd is "IWMA's 1st B-DAY!!!" Speaking of that, I'm going to have changes in lots of spots in the blog...

But THAT'S What the Wig Looks Like!

Wow. Sorry I took so long to post today's strip.

Since today's the last day of May, Merlin is trying to change the IWMA calendar to June. June's character is Bob. Here's a list of all the characters and their months. But...there's 11 characters and 12 months? See what we're doing on December:

January=Moe
February=Julia
March=Mom
April=Dad
May=Thidwick
June=Bob
August=Bed Monster
September=Jocken Fred
October=Merlin
November=Brennan
December=All

But What Does the Wig Look Like?

Well, I'm on vacation now. But (hooray) the hotel I'm staying at has Internet connection, so I drafted these on May 28th at about 6:40 PM Mountain Time. So, iWantMoeAttentionCo's name combines three things: 1. the name of the blog, 2. lowercase I's at the front of a word (iPod, iMovie, iDVD), and 3. "co" at the end of a store (ShopKo, CostCo, WinCo).

Will They EVER Choose One?

See, Mama works there! Who do you think is checking out our blog? Thidwick?

And, Besides, You're Not a Girl, Moe.

Wow. It's almost IWMA's (I Want Moe Attention) 1st birthday! I'm going to have some major updates for it!

The original joke had panels 2 and 3 combined. Mom said, "Mmm...no. You'd have to be a girl to have this one." Moe had the same pose as he did in panel 2, yet he was still holding the wig and was thinking "Bizarre."

iWantMoeAttentionCo

I bet you didn't know we have a store now! Can you believe that Elisha's mother and Mama work there? Somebody is looking at a "Where Am I?" screen. Here's one:

See, we've got two other of these and a computer for you to browse our blog. We reload it just after I update it. In fact, I do it on that computer! No, I really don't. But I do work there.

Nothing Exists

Here's another example of inanimate objects coming to life. For some reason (and I don't know this reason), I almost always draw inanimate objects coming to life in the last panel. Do you think the characters ever know they're coming alive? There was only one time we know they knew, this one. Good grief! It's 2:00 AM! So, all the strips starting with this one is a dream.

By the way, the strips ending with long-lost labels are now only going until July. This is a change of plans from the first link. Also, you won't understand the strip unless you saw the P.D.o.G.U. version of Mom & Dad's vacation.

Wow! If we saw all of his body, then an atom would look smaller than...well, an atom!

That is HUGE!!!! He must be a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion light years across! This was actually the day I started my new paper. Very eagle-eyed people will notice that the background in the strip is slightly lighter than it was yesterday. And, as I quote from this post:

"To me, the universe is a big, huge, black ball that nobody can get out of. Nobody knows what lies beyond it."

Well, now Moe does!

Or so it seems.

You'll figure out what I mean tomorrow.

Many Items

I usually draw my strips 7 days early. But, due to the items inside Moe's stomach, I needed lots of extra time, so I started this strip 13 days early. I finished it the day I would've drawn it. Did you know that the middle panel (and the middle panel alone) contains three of my five running gags? Yup: Inanimate objects coming to life, Star Wars (there's a Star Wars book hidden), and destroyed computers. See if you can figure out the other two! (Here's a hint: the title of yesterday's post has one of them.) It also has many inside jokes. The time shown on the clock is one of the times I was working on this strip. One of the computers (the non-destroyed one) has the blog...with this post on it. Mom is lying in front of a bound of Copy & Print paper, which was the paper I was using when I finished this strip. (Now I use Multi-Purpose paper.)

This Boy (and His Clothes) are 100% Rubber

The original strip didn't have the extra joke, and in panel 2, we could see Moe's feet. Moe just said, "Look at me! I'm so fat, I can't see my feet!"

How Does he Breathe and Talk in Outer Space? And How Doesn't Julia Get Pulled to Earth?

Man, Moe is pretty big!

"Automatic Strip Flashback"

PANEL 1: (dialogue same) Moe was smiling and looking away from the Earth. He was almost the same size as Earth. We couldn't see Moe's feet.
PANEL 2: Moe's head was smaller, and so was his body. North and South America looked like a big backwards F. We could only see Moe's head.
PANEL 3: The Earth seemed to be about as big as half a room, and Julia's hands were misplaced. Her eyes were open and looking at the Earth. We could see Moe's tongue, instead of a transition from floor to tongue, and there weren't any arrows on the "wall".

I like these posts with pretend "programs," such as "About the Panels", or (my personal favorite) "Automatic Stick Translation".

He's Getting Fat!

Moe is From Hungary! Sooo Hungry!

How does he stay skinny for a single panel if he just ate the refrigerator? Why do you think his clothes aren't ripping? So, this strip is a continued story from what would have been the end of yesterday's. What do you think it feels like to Moe to have all that plastic and metal and ceramic and paper in his stomach? And the glass must be sharp. So, how come it doesn't poke his throat? The first time I drew this strip for the blog, there wasn't any refrigerator sticking out of the back of Moe's head. His skin must be...ahem...100% rubber. Whoops...I misspelled "refrigerator!"

????

The dialogue was exactly the same in the original strip, except for the ... in Moe's line. The views were totally different, as you can see:

PANEL 1: We couldn't see Julia.
PANEL 2: We saw Julia as if she was talking to the bottom right corner of the border.
PANEL 3: We saw Moe as if he was looking at the top left corner.

Will You Quit It?!?!

This wasn't the original strip. Panel #4 wasn't in there. Here's the original dialogue:

PANEL 1: Same, except Mom was wearing a dress and was sitting down.
PANEL 2: We couldn't see their feet. MOM: Julia, Moe just told me what you did to him. JULIA (thinking): Uh-oh...
PANEL 3: JULIA: You see, I just always wanted to do that.

Who's the Real Liar?

The headline is a repeated title of "Who's the Real Robber?", one of my first posts.

Crack!

He is catching on. The original, Moe hit it, he froze, the ice cream cracked, and Julia said, "It's not real. It's cold plastic." Why would she be saving a bunch of plastic ice cream in the freezer?

I Want Moe Attention + Partial Distortion of Grape Udders = Mom & Dad's Vacation

So, this is where Mom & Dad are on vacation at. Need more information on the subjects mentioned here? Well, feast your eyes on...

the monkey
the new avatar
the Silly Putty Close-Up Thursdays
The Trees
The Remember Machine
The official Partial Distortion of Grape Udders website blog

Or, check out the P.D.o.G.U. version of this post.

Bang Bang Hit, Bang Bang Slam 2

So, here's another example of a repeated title on a post. Other ones with 2s include "Goood Grief" and "Goood Grief 2."

Bang Bang Hit, Bang Bang Slam

Quickest Post On The Blog

For anybody who is interested, soon I'm going to post where Mom & Dad are on vacation at.

Dairy, Anyone?

It certainly does never fail...for some reason, whenever I draw a Sunday strip, my Precise V5 Rolling Ball pen stops working momentarily.

It Looks Close in Panel 4

The black in panel 3 was done in Photoshop. The original:

PANEL 1: Moe was looking through the telescope and smiling. MOE: What does the moon feel like? I'll check.
PANEL 2: Same as panel 3 in this strip, but the arm and hand were curved, and we could see his thumb sticking out.
PANEL 3: MOE: It feels like nothing.

Elisha's Back!!

Remember Elisha? This strip kinda has an extra joke, doesn't it?

But It Worked?

This strip is kind of strange, isn't it? This isn't what the original strip was, actually. That's why the index title "long-lost" does not lead to this post! The original strip went something like this:

PANEL 1: (Julia is out of panel. We can only see the tree.) JULIA: Bye, Moe! I'm leaving forever! / MOE: !
PANEL 2: (We can see Moe and Julia, but no tree. Julia is looking at Moe and smiling. Moe is out of the tree.) MOE: How will I survive without you?!
PANEL 3: (Close-up on Julia.) JULIA: I only said that so he'd come down!

Boioioioing!!!!

I needed to blue-line the entire panel for this strip except for Moe, Julia's pupils and arms, the dialogue, and the motion lines.

Views from Themselves

Why do you think Julia asked if it was some kind of surprise?

Psshhhh! The Double-Post!

I am sorry for the lack of post...yesterday and today. Oh well...here we go:

So, I don't really think Julia looks like Julia in panel 3.

Oh, and here's yesterday's strip:

First Bathroom I've Drawn

I'm posting early, because I'm going camping tonight.

Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp...gulp...what did I just swallow?!?!

This strip has become one of my favorites. The original had only two panels:

PANEL 1: The cup is on Julia's head, covering her eyes. She says, "Maybe my name fell in here. Or in the milk inside the cup."
PANEL 2: Moe: "I already drank the milk in the cup." Julia: "YOU DRANK MY NAME?!!"

On my calendar for strips to draw, this one's description was, "The 'YOU DRANK MY NAME?' strip."

Splurt

So, fellow new Blogger users, how does my new drag-and-drop elements look? By the way, check out my profile. I updated that a little, too.

Something was wrong with my pen that day, so I drew the last panel of this strip with my substitute pen. (Can you believe I've still got that thing?!)

She Looks Weird in Panel 3!

Guess what? Later today (maybe around 2:00, Mountain Time) my blog is going to look a little different. If you are a member of the new version of Blogger, you will understand...I am going to switch to the drag-and-drop template!