Okay, I want to point out that this strip came out well over a year before the first Lord of the Rings movie! This parody was based on the book! That’s something that I’ve been proud of with Zortic is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Classic Zortic
Here’s a little attempt at social commentary. I touched on that a bit more than I expected with this strip, but I found you can’t really do much writing without doing some.
Here’s another stand alone gag. The dullness of slower than light speed travel was going to be a running gag, but focusing on boringness seemed pretty boring, so I’m glad that didn’t last long.
I had originally tried to sell Zortic as a traditional newspaper strip filled with daily gags. I quickly found that it worked better as more of an adventure strip. This is an example of one of those daily gag strips,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Finding dramatic lift offs has been a continuing challenge for this strip. Fortunately, since this was the first one nothing had been done before, so it was relatively easy.
This was another additional scene that was added during the revamp. A little trivia, when I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch Star Trek, so I actually grew up with Lost in Space. Since then I’ve made up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…