supercerealoso: 100 Comic Strips!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 31 2014
Wow, Power of Power has finally reached 100 comic strips! Itâs been kinda hard, but weâre finally there! :D
Now, I know what youâre thinking... many of them are not even funny! Some of them are just apologies for not even making a comic! Itâs youâre, not your! But Iâm still really proud of this. Power of Power has been active for almost 2 years now, something I canât say of any other of my personal projects and it doesnât even feel like itâs been so long, but when I think about it, things have changed so much since Power of Power started... I was still on school, had a different job, I had more hair on my head, blah, blah... 100 weeks itâs a really long time.
The thing is that I want to thank whoever is still following this webcomic and try to convince you to stay. I still have things to figure out and things to improve, but I feel I have actually learned some stuff about this crazy business; Also, I have achieved the goal of making some people smile or even laugh at my comics, some guys even translated some comics and theyâre somewhere rolling on the Internet, which is kinda awesome.
Finally, Iâve spent some time trying to figure out which of my comics are the best ones in an attempt to get better, so I looked at some data... views, how well they were received on different websites, comments, shares on social networks, friendsâ opinions (theyâre really tired of me at this point), etc. Well, whatever, letâs celebrate listing the best comics of Power of Power with a commentary on them, enjoy. :D
I used to rest in the grass and watch at the sky a lot... It was a nice thing to do when you and some friends had just been punched in the face by a wild test and just wanted to do nothing... Sometimes the peacefulness of the moment would be interrupted by the most random thoughts like a friend who said he didnât wanted to look at the sky anymore, he was afraid he would fall (thatâs a really weird vertigo, dude) or that time a friend asked himself why sometimes you can see the Moon during daytime and then with al conviction he said âI think there are two moonsâ (we still make fun of him). I guess thatâs something that inspired this comic.
#11 Green Arrow Is Jealous of Batman
This one was one of my first comics to ever gain some attention. It started with my friend Palafunk, he said I had to make a comic with Green Arrow stuck in traffic and seeing a green arrow in the traffic lights or something like that. Iâm not the biggest Green Arrow fan, I always thought of him as an unnecessary second Batman, so I felt it would be funny to add some background about him being jealous of Batman (who rocks a lot and has a way better theme and costume and all that). Curious thing is that I have done many Batman comics but they never really succeeded. Now, for Green Arrow fans, I know Green Arrow is also rich so he would have access to better transportation, but come on guys, itâs a joke, I gave you the Arrow Car, what else do you want?
#10 And That Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother
Sorry to break your hearts, but I havenât actually watched all of How I Met Your Mother and I donât get most of the references to it, dishonor. But, guess what, many of my friends have watched it from the beginning and wonât stop quoting it so one day one of them, yugimotta, told me I should totally do a reference to the show and combine it with the Sleeping Beauty, and It would be legen... wait for it... dary. Iâll have to say that the only thing I contributed to this comic was the drawings and the word âpubâ, which kinda ruined it, I should have used âtavernâ...
Yet another âborrowed ideaâ, this oneâs from Sweet Reichel (Sometimes we work on a comic together). Sheâs a med student and this dialogue did actually happen when another med friend was asking the questions, when she told me the story I found it so funny that I asked her if I could do a comic about it and she agreed. I think some people took this comic the wrong way... Iâm not saying that not doing these things makes you boring, I actually feel judged when Iâm being asked these things in hospitals, and whatâs funnier than bad medical practice?
I did this comic for Halloween 2013, I remember the 52 Joker had just became a viral thing, cosplay, comics, memes everywhere... and it was obviously going to be a Halloween costume, so I wanted to do something with it. I wanted to include Freddy Krueger too because he fucking scared the crap out of me when I was 12 or something... I was also paying a student loan, so I just thought it would be funny to say: gore is not even scary anymore... You know whatâs scary? adult responsibilities *scary gesture*
This is me and yugimotta letting out our frustration about jobs for IT guys specifically, but I think thereâs something about it that itâs true for all graduates so I guess thatâs why it was way more popular than I expected. I know itâs kinda sad, but letâs laugh at our misery and despair :,D
I was actually left home alone when I did this comic, dontâ worry, there was food so I didnât starve to death and I didnât really have to go out much to survive. I also had a lot of time alone to think and I just came up with this funny thought of me being such a helpless mess that Iâll be condemned without help from my parents, any relationship to reality is purely coincidental...
Well, see comic #6 for more information, joking. But, yeah, pretty much the same. One time I was making some quesadillas and realized that tortillas smelled funny, some of them had green dots, so I did the obvious thing to do... searched for âis mold edible â on Google, sometimes it is, apparently (I didnât eat mold, but interesting).
Well, comedic exaggeration always makes the trick, of course yugimotta had to do with this. We all have an older family member who wants us to teach him about technology, or maybe some clients in case of us IT guys (the printer printing green thing actually happened). It is so hard to teach this kinds of things because we use such a different language and give so many things for granted now, like: âany keyâ doesnât include the power button, you silly. Remember to be patient :)
Who doesnât like pokĂ©mon? Nobody, thatâs who. I know the real idea behind the ânot enough badges to train meâ itâs more of a âyou donât have enough experience for this difficult caseâ but it sounds like the pokĂ©mon is actually checking if you have the right licence (at least according yugimotta and me). If I had to guess, Iâll say this comic was popular not only because of pokĂ©mon but also of the great amount of silliness.
This is a running gag between me and friends (OK... only yugimotta and superdaniel100), every time we see a new non-marvel movie we say âoh, now Nick Fury is coming out from nowhere to tell DiCaprio about the Avengers Initiativeâ, We even wanted to make a series just about it (who knows, it could happen). But Frozen was perfect for it since Elsa actually has superpowers, everyone loved it, and Disney bought Marvel and did a really cool Avengers movie, so... It was natural to think of it. Also, Samuel L. Jackson is a bad motherfucker.
I was thinking about what to do for that weekâs comic while walking on a store, looking for video games and movies and stuff, I thought, I have to add some sex to Power of Power some way, but I didnât wanted it to be some plain sex joke, that sucksâŠand suddenly, I saw a Norton Antivirus box and thought, who buys that damn bloatware?! I mean if it was a condom It would not just not protect you, it would CAUSE STDs! Right? There you go... This comic was popular practically everywhere I submitted it, so it won itâs place as the best comic from Power of Power until now!
And now, stuff that might fool Google into doing my marketing job for me.
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