the dregs #13

this one was done on 1/31/09. i may have mentioned this before, but one of the things i love about my dad is that he loves trying to help me with ideas for my comics and this is a perfect example. i think he gave me the idea over x-mas vacation to do something about the economy, but i didn't think it was going to work as a dregs idea. but it was a good idea and through a bit of tinkering with the punchline, i think it came out beautifully.

the dregs #12

this one was done at the end of january 2009. the joke was an idea of mine, so i'll take the blame if no one gets it. i do really like the way this looks, though. at this point, i really felt confident with my layouts and characters. there was only one thing missing, and that was a third character to help break things up a bit. i thought "frank" might do it, this being his 2nd appearance, but that would soon change.

the dregs #6

this one was drawn in december 2008. at this point, it is my best drawn episode. the angle is new, the line work looks much better, and "sal's" head looks less forehead-ish and his jaw is more pronounced. the character named "frank" is only used in one other episode. he was replaced by the future character named "onions", who was a character i had wanted to use for quite some time. i don't know why i liked that name so much, but i did. it seems fitting that a guy named "onions" is a regular at bar like this one, doesn't it?

the joke, itself, was something one of my co-workers had said about how he smelled and i couldn't stop laughing. i had to use it.