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*Blows the dust off.* Alright, welcome to the Mighty Blog of Ultimate Letdown. This is the portion of our show where I use my incredible arts in creative writing to razzle-dazzle you: our somewhat dim reader (which is why my last post was… back on Valentine’s Day.) For those of you who continue to faithfully scroll down from the comic in the vain hopes that I will have posted something fun and informative about whatever is going on in my life are in for a real treat today. I am going to share with you a totally awesome piece of art that a friend of my family gifted to us on Easter. It is a fantastic manga-style rendering of my three kiddos.
by Allie Campbell
This is hand-drawn (many of the comics were drawn digitally.) Looking over her line art and compositional abilities you can pretty easily see why I’ve pressured the girl to draw comics for me (so I can lead the lazy life of the full-time comic writer. :D) However, she continues to reject me at every turn. Maybe we can at least convince her to contribute some guest art now and again?
Most of the folks reading this comic probably already know that Jerry is based on a real person. Well, a little while ago… he got a hold of some Ghost peppers. It held the Guinness record as the hottest pepper in the world until late last year when the naga viper took its place. Still, this is a pepper which is 401.5 times hotter than tobasco sauce. There is a scale for these things (hotness that is – I’m around a 6 trillion) called the Scoville scale which rates the Ghost pepper at just over 1,000,000. For comparison purposes: a jalepeno is a maximum 8,000 and a bell pepper rates a 0. Yeah, sumbitches be hot.
So naturally Zavier decided to eat one.
Gotta give it up for my dawg Zavier though, looking around the YouTube-verse, most of the other videos where guys scarf these things involve coughing, OMG-ing!, and acting like pansies. And my man Zavier… gets the hiccups. This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if the real Jerry might just be more absurd than the one in this comic.
Natural selection at work
My mighty masculinity compels me to try to out-do him, strangling that naggy voice in the back of my head which compels me not to do things which endanger my well-being for no good reason.
I should take some time to wish a very happy birthday to Zavier Crunch, from whom Jerry is derived. Zavier is joining me at that rickety old age of 26.
Damn dude. We are old.
Making the comic has been awesome so far and we’ve been getting positive feedback, which is always awesome. The art has improved so much since the days of my which comic (which has been removed from the Internet and burned at the stake for hideousness.) I’ve been working on it and I feel fairly happy with where we are at this point.
My big goal right now is to put together enough comics to be able to compile a book. Something about the idea of holding a book of my comics in my hands is outstandingly awesome. Plus: it would make figuring out Christmas presents for everyone super-easy. I’m enjoying the comic and look forward to being able to turn out more than twice a week – but that’s still a ways in the future. Right now, I’m taking 5 classes, which is pretty time-consuming. I’m also about the worst time-manager in the history of history.
Anyways, you keep reading ‘em and I’ll keep drawing ‘em.
Welcome to the new comic! This steaming pile of awesomeness tells the magical tale of one bold man and his giant traveling Doomsday device. Think of it as a modern James and the Giant Peach. Only the Peach is metal and covered with lasers, the earth worm is a 28 year old intern, and the young James is actually a maniacal villain bent on world domination. The Doomsday device is called the Doom Ball: an 80-ton metal sphere armed with enough lasers, missiles, and henchmen to give Lex Luthor wet dreams.
Ultimate Letdown will update on Tuesdays and Saturdays – faithfully. This project is intended as a means for me to entertain and be involved with my brother and some of my close friends that I don’t get to see anymore. (Jerry being loosely based on one of them – an awesome dude of the same name.)
I hope that you guys enjoy reading these as much as I’m enjoying making them. They’re from some broad ideas that have been kicking around in my head for a long time. I love Jerry, I love the way he thinks, and I love his methods of problem solving. I’ll wrap up now, but the gist of it is this: enjoy the strip. It’s awesome and it’s free. Can’t beat that.