Serious Business (school newspaper comic)

[Valiere]

I'm making a comic strip for the University of Texas Austin (where I'm transferring) newspaper, which they'll hopefully pick up after a death threat or two. The strip is basically a parody of the university itself and the fanatical devotion of a lot of its alumni and fans. As such, I'll have to explain a couple jokes, such as the fact that maroon is the color of one of UT's biggest football rivals.

It starts out a little slow because it's a serial comic and I have to follow a storyline while still making jokes, but bear with me!

[supasora]

I like the magical shading.

[Archem]

Thumbs up.

[fruckert]

Yes.

[A Forgotten Legend]

Haha.  I see a twilight reference.  I think.

EDIT:  My only complaint is whether she has glasses or not.  In some frames its looks like she does, in others she does not.

[Archem]

Given the over-saturation of tweeny vampire media in today's popular culture, there's really no guarantee.

[Valiere]

Yeah, it's a Twilight reference. The heroine is essentially what I perceive to be a dreamy "Twilight" girl.

Anyway, new comics! I think I see a plot developing!



















Oh, and another thing to clear up for the uninitiated: the University of Texas' mascot is the longhorn, hence my made-up secret society "The Order of the Long Horn."

[fruckert]

The only thing I'm thinking right now, due to my rampant OCD, is that her foil must be fucked up if it were to bend like that prone.

Yeah, I was in a fencing club.
It's fun.

[Valiere]

I was in a fencing class too. Yeah, it probably doesn't make any sense, but I bet you'd get in huge trouble if you tried bending it like that!

[SaiKar]

Are these comics a thinly veiled reference to your own meandering experience and oddball friends?

Becca is the best character by the way.

[Valiere]

No. I actually made a concerted effort not to add any self- and friend-inserts, like I did in my other school newspaper comic. It's better this way, because if a character's supposed to be your friend, it keeps you from abusing and derailing their personality to hell.

[Grandy]

Good they are indeed.

[Uberpwn_w00t]

I like em. Good work.

[Darkfox]

This makes me chuckle. Becca is hilarious: "But she's just too powerful!"

[Valiere]

Update! I've drawn lots.

Explanations for the uninitiated:

The guys with the huge chins are supposed to be from UT's rival school, Texas A&M (Their students are nicknamed "Aggies"). To make that more obvious, they're all drawn like one of A&M's mascots,"Ol' Sarge."

Bevo the Longhorn is UT's mascot.

An anti-UT Aggie slogan is "Saw 'em off," usually accompanied with an image of the UT logo with its horns...sawed off.

Burnt orange is UT's official color, hence "I bleed burnt orange."