@$$hole #24: The Prisoner (Part 2)

I want to make two apologies for this comic: 

First, I’m sorry that the website was down for the better part of Friday.  This was outside of my or my admin’s control, as Dreamhost occasionally shuts itself down for periods of time without warning or explanation.  It sucks, but they host our webspace – so we have to deal. 

The second apology is for the poorly rendered text in this strip.  I was trying something new, and for some reason could not get the text to smooth out.  I will try to make sure this doesn’t happen again in the future.

The Prisoner parady continues, as Trevor – thinking that he’s dreaming, attempts to fornicate with the Laura-like #69.  However, she appears to only be there to collect him and bring him to the mysterious #2.  If you’ve ever watched The Prisoner TV series, then you’ll know that every episode features a new #2 and #6 is always trying to escape from the island – while #2 is always trying to break #6 into giving away his secrets. 

Patrick McGoohan has been quoted as saying that the reason he chose the title character to be #6 is because 6 is the only number that (when flipped upside down) can become another number.  #69 is a reference to that, and also a fun little play on adolecent-minded male fantasies. 

In any case, I have another strip ready to go for next week, and then I’m going to try to stick for a format size.  Attending Wizard World Chicago made me realize that if I planned out my comics better, it will be easier to get them into more media (ie: print).  Right now, I only limited myself for a surface area – but when printed, some of the trips would require the book to be turned in another direction in order to fit on the page.  Perhaps @$$hole just won’t be printed, but I think I’d like to see it collected in a book some day. 

I’m still trying to recover and play catch up from WWC, since I have so many people to get in touch with and thank – and so many new titles to check out and talk about.  I also have some feedback coming in from some outside sources who’ve been doing this a lot longer than me, so it’ll be great to get some feedback from some independent people who won’t be scared to give me some good honest advice about how to improve my art and storytelling.

Anyway, enjoy the latest @$$hole, and be sure to stop back again next week for more!  As for me, I have to go buy a scanner online and hope that it shows up before I run out of comics in my queue….

T