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Thursday, February 15, 2007

Some time ago I talked about what would happen if the whole community was watching Maxi's basketball game when the girl who was being mean cut Maxi's lip open. I talked about how we would surround her and we'd crush her fear. We'd overwhelm her with our love and then she would see why what she did was wrong. She's shouldn't have hurt Maxi.

I talked about how one of the mothers who were watching broke down because she realised that she was that girl. I can't just leave it there. Folks. It feels like I am that woman. I need her closure.

I've just had all these ideas and questions coming into my head from I don't know where from. What happened to her next? Is she alright?

I think that the whole point of the whole community is that everyone is alright in the end. That's the catch.

She is not part of the community.

What happens to you when something that intense happens to you and you don't get the follow up? I don't know. It's a place that I'm going to explore.

This weekend I'm going to start a comic about her. I'm going to dive right into her mind. Right into the mind of someone who will never know us, but has been touched by our proxy.

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User comments

Maxi

shark, i think you're on to something. this truly harrowing event that occurred but a week ago has become a part of my history.

i look forward to your comic. and finding out what "harrowing" means.

Posted by 'xine on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 10:14 PM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

Thank you for the vote of confidence, Maxi!

I will try make it as good as I can using the perspectives given to me by the fact that I am a shark.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 10:43 PM

Arbot

maybe she is part of a different community

Posted by Arbot on Friday, February 16, 2007 at 1:07 AM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

I don't know, man. She's pretty old.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Friday, February 16, 2007 at 9:15 AM

Arbot

so are you

Posted by Arbot on Friday, February 16, 2007 at 9:34 AM

Arbot

haha
thats supposed to be arguementative
not derogatory

Posted by Arbot on Friday, February 16, 2007 at 9:36 AM

Friday, February 16, 2007

I've been working all day on this comic. I didn't really get it right in the end, but it's workable. I made the kid's head too big and you can't see where his hand is going because it disappears into the seatbelt.

It's a start though. Also, it's setting up this whole massive story I've got going in my head. It's going to be awesome.

niel

also, i think the seatbelt should come from the other side. I like it a lot though. You are very talented.

Posted by niel on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 10:52 AM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

No, I don't think it's that type of car.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 11:19 AM

niel

oh, i see, its one of those cars...its very well drawn then...

Posted by niel on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 6:18 PM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

In the third panel I drew a set of beads hanging off the mirror. noticed afterwards that they looked like I had just drawn the nose really badly and it was extending out of the mirror. I thought, "Uh-Oh" and quickly cut and paste other blocks on top of it to hide it's ugly illusions.

You can still see the beads hanging from the top.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Saturday, February 17, 2007 at 9:36 PM

Maxi

do you think she'll ever be part of a community? or is she too smelly?

Posted by 'xine on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 8:40 PM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

I imagine that the natural result of smelly people always trying to join normal people's communities and not being allowed to is that they would form their own communities. They'd probably also be real dicks about it. They'd probably all pretend that they didn't smell and then they would all pick on the one guy who they said did really smell. That's what happens when you get fat. I assume it's the same for when you smell.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 9:41 PM

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Hey, guys. I just finished the second part of the comic story. I'm going to do another one tomorrow.

Moe was here last night. It kinda felt like it didn't even happen. He comes every Friday. I think the trick is that I tip him really well. He says that the amount that I tip him is actually just crazy and weird. When he says that I just look at him and smile and say, "Well, it keeps you coming back. Doesn't it?"

That always shuts him up, because it's true and he can't argue that.

Last night he asked me if I had anyone over and I pretended that Monopoly was inside. I thought he would get jealous.

"Oh, okay. I didn't really mean... I was being polite. It doesn't really affect me." He said.

I looked at where he would be through the door and grinned. I told him that we were playing TV games.

"Look, I'm not really even friends with him. He just comes round every now and again and we hang out for a few days." He explained.

He's inside right now. Do you want to speak to him?

"Look, I've got deliveries to do." He said and then he left.

As he started walking away I quickly scanned my room and fixed my stare where Monopoly would have been sitting if he was here.

"He doesn't care, Shark." The landlord said calmly. "Drop it."

I looked at him, annoyed.

"Monopoly! You ate all the sweets!" I shouted so that Moe could hear. I pretended to laugh. "You're so silly all the time!"

The landlord was looking me in the eyes while I said it. I didn't look away from his and I waited for him to laugh.

"Shark, it's okay." The landlord said softly. "Let's eat some pizza and you can show me your TV games when we're done."

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User comments

Arbot

aren't you too old for games?

Posted by Arbot on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 3:01 AM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

It wasn't a game. I just thought it would be nice if he thought that his cousin was right there. Family dig that sort of stuff.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 12:24 PM

Maxi

wahh!! poor moe :/ he needs a hug

Posted by 'xine on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 8:42 PM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

Not from her!

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 9:37 PM

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Hey, guys. Man, I've just been thinking all this stuff about these comics. I've just got all these ideas just fighting it out in my head and I'm trying to get them lined up, but it's hard because sometimes your thoughts aren't like that. Sometimes they're wild and you can't fight them. Sometimes you see that people are kinda like that in the end and that we shouldn't always trust them.

On Friday night me and the landlord just chilled out and ate pizza. After I told David's girlfriend that David told me that he was going to dump her David was playing a lot of TV games here. he managed to get another controller from a friend or something.

On Saturday I tried to teach the landlord to play TV games but he wasn't very good. There's this one move where you just keep pressing punch and the other guy can't fight back because it's such a good move, but he couldn't get past the fact that I had beaten him and he refused to play anymore. I only wanted to show him how to do the special move but he's weird like that.

I tried later to get him to play again but he said, "No, every time I try play this game with you you beat me in a matter of seconds. It's not any fun for me this way."

I don't think this is fair because it was only like two times or so that I did the move. The other times I was just playing normally. He wouldn't play after that so I just showed him how I played the rest of the game. I told him that it's like a story so it's as good as watching TV. He fell asleep half-way through. I woke him up when I got to a boss.

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User comments

Niel

I love watching people play t.v games. So her husband went to the moon? are they american?

Posted by niel on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 12:00 AM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

They are definitely American. I haven't been more sure of something in a while.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 9:46 AM

Arbot

I want to know why his brain got twisted in space

Posted by Arbot on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 2:23 AM

The Ancient Shark Of Despair

I kind of thought that bit was self-explanatory. So, yeah, it's got to do with like extremes and stuff. Someone who has been tortured in a room for a year in Rome is going to be pretty messed up when he comes out, but he could probably still get a job and have a family after that. But going to the moon? That's pretty extreme. Every time you talked to someone normal you would just freak out at how compared to the distances you had traveled, the distance you were standing away form that person was so tiny it felt like you were touching.

Posted by The Ancient Shark Of Despair on Monday, February 19, 2007 at 9:53 AM