Slopes and Sam

30-04-05 by Sam

My enthusiasm for procrastination is apparently infectious.  Or perhaps James is.  The only thing I'm really certain of is that somebody has caught something from someone.  I'll leave the rest to your imagination - it's the end result that's important anyway.  In this instance, I garnered a nasty rash, and an apparent collaborator.

Before we go any further, I think it's about time some of you pointed out the similarities between Slopes and Sam, and the illustrious Penny Arcade.  Go on.  I haven't got time to fuck around.

Well, you got me.  That's right, I've been using Penny Arcade strips to model my own work.  Why?  Because I can't draw for shit.  Note, for instance, Slopes' complete lack of ears in this strip.  I could get in there, fiddle it, fix it up, but I think I'll leave it like this just to teach you all a lesson.

I'm literally teaching myself to do this stuff as I go along.  Like U2 when they started.  Hopefully I won't ever find myself where they finished up.  I'd rather listen to a nuclear technician actually explain how to dismantle an atomic fucking bomb than listen to their take on the whole concept.

Where as I?  Right, ripping off PA.  In my own defense, every last reverse engineered pixel on the strip is mine.  Except the delicious countenance of Che Guevara, which I pulled off the net somewhere.  If that's not public domain, then today's comic is even funnier than it should be.  Fuck.

-Sam