titled "danger, will robinson! danger!", this was done in early march 2008. the idea came from the vacation to ocean city, maryland in 2007. my girlfriend at the time had commented about a few back hairs i had coming in and i replied that it was how i sensed danger - it was my "spidey sense". so, i thought i'd run with it.
i like this one for a few reasons. one of which is the shoulder hair the male character has. it looks like he's wearing parts of a rug.
on a note about the SP series as a whole, this is where it takes almost a year off. brian azzarello, a very talented graphic novel author and friend of mine, was nice enough to take a look at my work up till now. brian's main criticism was that the characters and topics covered were all over the place. he made a good point - that most people like revisiting characters they identify with, and without those characters, that connection with the audience is lost. he liked the bar idea, however, and thought i should develop something with regular characters using that bar theme. and so, my mind switched gears and i started developing my next comic strip "the dregs". after talking with brian, i was ready to abandon the SP for the dregs (the above advice coming from someone i highly revere), and i almost did (the first dregs episode was done in august 2008, while the next SP episode was done in late january 2009). thankfully, the SP survived. i know my brother and father were happy it did.
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