Archive for 13. Guitar Hero
Like Whiskey, I’ve found myself listening to conversations like the band is having, and I tend to run out of patience with them too.
When I was much, much younger, I got to see Van Halen in concert. This was back when Sammy Hagar was the singer and Michael Anthony was the bass player. When they let him have a chance to perform a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Bwarm Bwarm Baderrr” is a sound effect stolen directly from the Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. It’s how an extremely drunk Ford Prefect describes his favorite Disaster Area song to his old friend Hotblack[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
All I know is when I started this storyline, I wanted to have Shellshock with an orange mohawk. Now they’ve got the band, they’ve got the look, all that remains is for them to play some music. One more week[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I went for a kind of blue-collar punk look for Shellshock here (and yes, I know his face is worn – I work several weeks ahead in the strip so I’d already shot a bunch of strips and didn’t want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Drummers really do, like, sweat a lot. I’ve seen more topless drummers (especially drummers who SHOULDN’T go topless) than those who perform fully-clothed.
The Scarlet Swordsmistress finally lets her hair down. The outfit she’s wearing has been seen before in this strip, all the way back in the very beginning. It was worn by Simone DiSoto when she interviewed Samuel S. Silverstein.
This whole band thing is like a snowball rolling down a hill toward a village; you can just sense sooner or later it’s going to explode.