Nowhere Band News

So, if nothing else, I feel like the suggested soundtrack of this one indicates that I’ve finally just settled on a hard-R rating for what’s basically a pretty innocent comic. I mean, for a rock comic, Nowhere’s pretty debauchery-free, but I’m so used to writing characters who share my penchant for swearing up a motherfucking storm that it just oozes out and suddenly hey, there, there’s something about fucking wonderchickens in the title box.  Which is fine… I think it’s just funny that the word “fuck” just inevtably rises to the top of any project.

Anyway, the comic itself.  On the writing side, this is yet another one where I subject Mimi to something I had to put up with when I was a musical freelancer.  This time, though, I’m giving her the gift of a much cooler reaction to the situation than I had (I basically did what Josh suggests, which, yeah, is really lame, and it’s probably no coincidence that I never wound up writing for Pitchfork).  And while I really like the fact that the Pitchfork dude hits on her in the final email, that was totally unplanned- my original script just had her getting the slot, and at the very last minute as I was mocking up the email, I thought it’d be funnier if he was so taken that he started  putting on the barely-detectable moves.

Visually:  I inked this one differently from previous Nowheres; I usually use a Pentel brush pen, but this time tried a couple of crowquill pens.  I’m curious as to whether anyone even thinks it looks different (and if it does, if the difference is good or bad).  I’m still trying to decide.