Stinky

I say the first line a lot. Then I started thinking, what if that was covering up a less nice statement? And this strip just sort of happened.

Faplump

I'm going to need to update the labels! I need to put some older ones in some newer labels and justify "Silliness!"

SCHOOL IS STARTING SOON!

TITM

My original caption was "Julia in the morning." But then I thought of the comic strip Zits, how it also shows Jeremy (the teenager in the comic strip) having a hard time getting out of bed sometimes. So it made sense to stop focusing on one teen and extend the caption to refer to most (if not all) teens.

He Got His Merds Wixed!

My brother often says "Pacific" when he means "specific." So my brain, being half cartoon, started thinking about the possibilities of "what if he also says 'specific' when he means 'Pacific?'" And it wasn't hard to go from that one thought to this strip.

Shush!?

This idea came from me coming up with definitions for the !, ?, and ... you often see in talk/thought bubbles. I think I had 5 definitions for the !

Did That Come From Moe's Mouth?

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I Am Your Father.

For those of you who noticed the relative position of the lightsaber to...er...Darth Vortex's head in the last panel; no, the lightsaber is NOT slicing through Charlie's head.

That's Disgusting!!

I have absolutely NO IDEA how I came up with this strip. I colored their shirts differently so you'd know that it's the left twin's arm, not the right one's, coming out of the left twin's mouth.

Suspense

I actually sketched this strip out twice. The last one didn't include the last three panels. I put them back in to add more suspense. I keep forgetting that Squeaky doesn't think like Bob and Merlin do. Because I started writing "Hmm, a brick wall" in the first panel. In fact, you can kind of see the white-out if you click on the strip.

Squeaky is a Secret Friend, but I had him interact with Merlin in this strip. Why? "Secret friend" doesn't mean "Only one person knows I exist." In my strip, it means "I am known to the outside world, but only one person is a friend with me, and no one knows the last fact but me and the one person I just mentioned."

You know, I don't think that came out right.

Now Lily Can Do It!

While I was creating this story, I realized that Peter Pan's legs could be in any position, since Peter wasn't standing on anything. I applied this with Charlie's legs in this story, as well as with the merpeople and merfish. Look closely; their lower bodies also are not standing on anything, and so can be in any position.

I don't think I drew Charlie's legs right in the first panel.

Not Thinking; Knowing

The only change I did in this strip was done while I was still sketching it out. In the original, Charlie didn't acknowledge what Moe said in the first panel. But then I thought that he needed to, so I made him say something that indicates he's agreeing with Moe without really knowing what he's agreeing to.

Charlie Is Insane.

Gary Larson once said that, to him, the original sketch of a comic looked more successful than the final. That's how I feel about this strip. The only change I made from the sketch to the strip was I changed which hand was pointing to Moe in the first panel. In the original, the feather was in his right hand, and his left hand was pointing. I changed it so that the feather would always be in his left hand.

HE STOLE IT!

The main change I did in this strip was to change Charlie's pose in the second panel.

Yeah, He HAS Been Watching Disney.

I did this mainly to reference another Disney film. I didn't want the whole story (yes, yesterday's and today's strips are part of a story) to be one huge reference to Peter Pan. I had to throw in a reference to another Disney film at some point.

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He's Been Watching Disney Again!

Charlie is reading the book BIRDS.

I've actually had the idea for this strip for a while, but I delayed it a few months so it wouldn't be too close to the original Charlie and Disney strip.

Did I Scare You?

I was going to have Brennan do the "boo" one more time, but that would have been too many panels.

How Do You Fix One Of Those?

Dooooooooooom!

Merlin and the Grim Reaper costume is a reference to this strip.

Me Neither

The title of Julia's book is BOOK.

Ah, Sibling Rivalry

Jim Davis (Garfield) once said that when a reader laughs at a strip, it's not because it's funny, but because it's true. I think this is one of those strips.

Um, Ouch?

Again, Is That An Insult?

The title is a repeated title of ...Is That An Insult?

SHE'S A GIANT!!

...Is That An Insult?

So, apparently, the phrase "snake tulip" is any or all of the following:

An insult
Something with a strong meaning
A Cartoon World swear

I wonder what it means?

The phrase came from an independent film my brother once made. In it, his shirt was stolen by a monkey. The monkey made him apologize for A) stealing the monkey's bananas and B) calling the monkey a snake tulip (which we never actually saw him do). Apparently, that was something insulting, so I applied it here.

Their Clothes are Completely Red.