This was actually a bonus strip that I snuck into the the normal storyline. There was a strong belief that Andy Weir’s April Fools day guest strip from 2001 was real cannon. People really thought Splink was a cyclops (which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was always impressed with the Brady Bunches ability to base an entire episode on Cindy having the sniffles. And still learning a lesson!
Thus ends the first Melonpool/Zortic crossover. Hopefully there will be another one (hint; there will be).
I have to admit, I did have the Blazing Saddles song in my head during most of this finale. On another hand, I had completely forgotten the foreshadowing in Steve’s strip.
Like I said, it was supposed to be even more Generations oriented, but having the fans turn on each other gives the ending a great epic climax.
It could be interpreted that Mayberry was telling Zortic that he was his father.
The Empire Strikes Back twist was Steve’s idea. Interesting fact, his idea was used because he beat me on a Star Trek trivia quiz (okay, not really).
Yeah, I’m really not sure what I was thinking when I came up with all of these crowd scenes for the finale.
The difference in the proportions of Steve and my art styles made it kind of tricky to judge the relative size of everyone, and I think it’s kind of fun to see how Steve and I handled id.
I always kind of wondered if Steve was really talking about Zortic and Mayberry here, or he and I.
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