Sunday School
This strip has a guest artist as well, Brendan Ternus, who I go to school with currently. As you might be able to tell, however, Cole did the art for the comic you see before you. So what happened?
Basically Brendan and I brainstormed ideas for a while and came up with one we liked. Then we outlined it and Brendan drew it. We were both feeling pretty good, and then we showed it to Cole, who almost immediately thought of a better way to structure the comic. The problem here was that 1. Brendan had already spent several hours drawing the comic with my constant support and encouragement and 2. Brendan had gone to bed because he needed to wake up early.
After agonizing for a while about what to do, Cole and I decided to run Cole’s later version, which is more of a sketch than a complete comic. It’s completely unfair to Brendan, and we felt pretty horrible about it (still do), but it seemed like, if we have a joke, we ought to run the best version of the joke that we can.
So I think we did. Brendan definitely helped write it, and his initial version of the comic is here. Maybe his is funnier! I don’t know anymore. It’s 6 in the morning and I haven’t gone to sleep. I hope Brendan is still our friend, although I would understand if he decided his time would be better spent with people who did what they said they were going to do.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:48 am
The sketch does a better job with the joke, I think.
May 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
the fact that this is a ’sketch’ and it’s about a bajillion times better than mine…
May 8th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I actually really liked the other one, but I found cole’s version, quite obviously, keeps more inline with the previous tone of the comics.
May 8th, 2009 at 11:20 am
consider posting more comics in this form. i think it’s just as clear if not more clear with less noise and complication in each cell. plus i like black and white better anyway.
but i’m also colorblind.
May 8th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I like things simple. As Davinci said: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!”
May 9th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Neither is scripturally accurate.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Very true, Mr. A, but sometimes facts must be fudged if you want to have an excuse to draw a whale eating a small schoolchild.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Ahahaha, love!
May 11th, 2009 at 1:57 am
The sketch not only has better comedic timing, it is also better drawn than the comic.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I liked them both - each one was an appropriate reflection of its version of the joke. But I like Cole better than Brandon,…
May 12th, 2009 at 10:45 am
oops… Brendan. See, I don’t even know him! (But I do feel bad for him!)