In real life, I wasn’t there when they tore it down. Sometimes I wish I had been, because if there was ever a place which was home to me it was that dank, old cinder-block farmhouse. It was to there my parents took me home from the hospital. It was there I got my first puppy for my birthday (I thought he was a rat at first) and it was there I would later bury him. It was there I followed my grandfather to work as he milked the cows and rode the tractor with him. It was there I went through 80 years worth of photo albums with my mom and grandmother. It was there that Travis (the real Chuck) and I slayed many a monster in the halls of Castlevania and sewers of New York City and waged some of the most vicious playroom battles between the Autobots and Decepticons. It was there I drew quite a few comics that would eventually evolve into this series. The house may only exist in my heart and mind now, but I still dream about it quite often. And in my dreams, it’s as if it’s still out there somewhere to be found, since I never saw it torn down with my own eyes. Kinda like the mysterious island. See how I kinda tied that together thematically? (Even if only in the commentary).
This is the 148th page of “the Radicals”. Seems an odd number for a “milestone’ as I hinted at last week, so what’s the big deal? Well, it’s the end of our sixth issue. This is the farthest I’ve ever gotten into a published work without wadding it up , throwing it away, and starting over. I feel like this has probably been my best written, drawn, and colored issue so far. Thanks and credit go out to Wade for this too, but I can definitely see that I’ve improved a lot since I started doing this as a webcomic five years ago and especially since my first published comics over 10 years ago.
Previous issues had ended on pretty serious notes, so I’m glad I got to end this one with a funnier scene. There’s a a bit of a dual tribute on this page: Jayce’s shirt is a tribute to the Lego Classic Space theme, as well as Commander Schwartz of Space: the Comic (which, in turn, is a tribute to said theme.)
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