Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Pet no more...

strip #147 MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO




EPILOGUE TO THIS STRIP: And Minos, unable to look at his beloved monkey Bongo anymore, well... never looked at him again, and neither will you!

GROUND BREAKING NEWS: Franky got fired this morning, his car burned down, and his home egged at least twice that I know of! His Minos-arc will never see the day, the bravehost fine is his problem, and whoever was offended by his one-time writing stunt can email us. We will gladly provide Franky's contact infos so you can harass him at will. Farewell you Fascist dimwit!

PAM PAM PAM PAM!!!! ANNOUNCEMENT:
WE'RE BACK! It's not that we wanted to leave, but making the comic became such a pain in the rear! Literally, read on for the juicy details.

After populating our comics with butt-jokes, it was only appropriate to get a butt problem of our own. Our inker suffered an unfortunate injury to his beloved Gluteus Maximus (aka REAR) and was confined to bed for months without the capacity to sit, stand, comic make. It sounds incredible, like the fake news we sometimes come up with, but this time joke's on us :( It truly happened, and one day it will be in our biography.

He tried inking in bed of course (for he is not a lazy-ass whatsoever) but he kept dropping the pen in his eye (he was holding the tablet upside down) and the people at the ER confiscated his pen after a few visits. What is a pen deprived inker to do? I bet you don't have an answer either...

"Couldn't someone else do it?" I just heard someone in the internet audience shout. NO. At Dumb Bum we believe in teamwork, and we now question your selfish values, you question-shouter. When one Dumb-Bumy can't contribute, we all stop contributing, just lay low and eat chips (the flavor is not important, we don't all like the same one). Can you imagine how terrible the "incapacitated" member would feel if the rest of us rubbed our progress in his face? He feels bad already, there is no need to show him how physically capable we are... That's our motto: "Rest when you can!"

RE-PAM PAM PAM!!! RE-ANNOUNCEMENT: We put up a new incentive. It looks old. It is. It was our planned Christmas Incentive, but we only finalized it now! Honest. Don't question us. Come on you skeptics, who could possibly come up with a Christmas Themed Incentive in April? Where could one find the inspiration with all those Easter Bunnies doing their chocolate business around? So let the voting maniac in you show how much you LOVE Minos and VOTE!


Friday, April 1, 2011

Minos is back! Reborn also! ...but as what?!

strip #147 MINOS THE NEO-NAZI




FINALLY, Minos' adventure continues!!! With this strip we learn something new about him, and frankly unexpected. Bolanus didn't take it well, but who knows he might warm up to the idea, once he learns how much there is to gain!

Today's strip was ALL Franky's idea! And he has many more up the same alley. In fact he has an entire 12 strip Arc planned, drawn, written, colored, ready to go! Minos will update EVERY DAY IN APRIL, that's what Franky told us. We said: "WOW Franky, let's not overdo it, our fans can't handle that much of this... Twice a week will do just fine!"

But who is Franky? Well, some of you might have noticed that Minos did not update as scheduled. The Dumb Bum people couldn't put it together, all our ideas were lame! That's when we ran into Franky with our shopping cart. He took the minor accident so well, a friendship was bound to blossom! (the 8 days we spent with him in the hospital, feeding him jello made us friends for life!) We were impressed with his qualities, so we decided to make him Creative Manager of Dumb Bum and NEW WRITER for Minos the Minotaur! Sure, his ideas did not fit our cartoony style, so we had to switch to an abstract, "propaganda-flyer" type and also, sure, his ideas are edgy and poop-deprived, but he has material while we don't... Hurray for Franky!

Franky is into many unusual stuff, and he'll teach us all about it through Minos in the following weeks. So look forward to strips #153, #157 and #161 titled: "Pop-Corn licking madness", "Return to a feudal system" and "Minos: body part collector". I can't wait! Can you???

Next strip of this fabulous arc will be on Monday (or as we'll be calling it Monochrome-Monday) and you can be sure to see a more Shocked Bolanus, an eradicated bunny, as Minos re-experiences his birth in reverse! All in one appropriate color: ORANGE!