Wednesday, November 4, 2009

the science project #4

some of you may be wondering why i'm not talking about The Dregs yet, and that's a good question. i wanted to show you how all of this developed in the time line that it occurred in for me. so, i'll get to The Dregs. but not yet.

Aug. 2007: this was a very interesting episode. after realizing that i needed to expand the comic strip's focus, one of topics i felt i was missing out on was political humor. for some reason, however, i thought of the ape from the novel "ishmael" by daniel quinn, which i had to read before starting my freshman year at elon college. in the novel, ishmael and his pupil discuss many philosophical topics, so i thought "who better than to ironically discuss political topics, than a gorilla?" i don't think i ever gave the gorilla a name, but i always thought of him as ishmael.

that being said, this was done soon after our former president g. w. bush III publicly backed the creationist theory in the news. unfortunately being of greater intelligence than a former world leader, i found this to be pretty disappointing to hear. what i also found was that g-dubyah, to me, looked like a monkey. at that moment, all the pieces for a good political comic seemed to be in order. i was wrong. or at least i told it wrong.

in this episode, the gorilla sees the newspaper headline on the bottom of his cage and asks the smaller ape in the cage next to him what he thought of the president's disbelief in their common ancestry. the gorilla continues the discussion, only to get poop thrown at him by his neighbor. when he looks his assailant, the small ape looks like gwb3.

i don't dislike this episode as much as i wonder what i was doing and where i thought this was going to lead. oh well. things get weirder than this.

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