Theo continues in the grand webcomic tradition at iffyatbest.com.

Dear Blogger,

You are a royal pain in my ninja ass. I’m breaking up with you.

Love,

Me

La Casa Comics will be migrating soon to its own domain and its own hosting. The lacasacomics.com url will continue (always) to work, so if you’re making links, or mad pimping our comic to your friends, that’s the info to spread.

It’s Friday, and it’s Saint Patrick’s day! How cool is that!? I’m even wearing green. I can’t remember the last time that happened on this day. I always forget. Raise those guinness glasses high, folks, and if you see a snake, hit it with your sheleiligh … sheleiliegh … shehlielegh … fuck. Poke it with a stick.

The Artist here,

As I have mentioned before, there are many people who are stars in the world of webcomics. Jeph Jacques and Jeffrey Rowland are two of them. Jeph because he writes characters so accurate you can’t help but want to kill them and Jeffrey because … well, because he’s a god. He has two comics, Wigu and Overcompensating. Last year, out of the blue, he did a crossover. This wouldn’t have been anything extraordinary except that Overcompensating is a diary style comic so he himself is the main character. In the crossover he is asked to kill one of his main characters by another character. The three characters depicted here are Sheriff Pony, Topato (the yellow dude) and Princess Dongle. All of them are from Wigu.

Jeph extended a challenge and though I have neither the time, energy, nor will to execute it to the letter, this is a temporary reprieve from the mundanity of gamer comics. So, while killing two birds with one stone, I did this drawing pretty quickly so it doesn’t have all the nuances (read: shading) that I orginally intended, but the point is made pretty clearly. The pony is playing the guitar and the poisonous potato and the princes are dancing to the tune while wearing sunglasses. That’s a description of what I drew for all you people who can’t see … y’know, art.

Ahniwa introduced me to Questionable Content and I have gotten hooked. I got Ahniwa hooked on Overcompensating and now he is an incurable intarwub junkie. Looking for the colors for this drawing was an opportunity to go through the Wigu archives again. If you get a chance, you should read through them. The stories are very well told. I wish I had that kind of ability. I found Wigu by accident way back in the day when I came across Rowland’s old comic, When I Grow Up. I loved that strip so when Wigu started I was set to enjoy it. And enjoy it I did. Overcompensating is the kind of comic I feel all artists aspire to draw. Witty, sarcastic, ironic and it has been the impetus for new words. Go forth and enjoy this new found trove of Intarwub lovin’. That’s Webcestuous!

–The Artist Formally Known as Theo

Concerning yesterday’s sketch, Theo says he doesn’t know where the inspiration came from. If I got to choose Theo’s inspiration for the sketch, I would pick the demented video known as Billy’s Balloon and this drawing by Steve Adams. Of course, the Alice in Wonderland influence is also noticeable.

Concerning today’s comic, there is a pirate joke. The funny thing is, people who haven’t heard this joke before, when first asked it, often answer “long johns”. I did, and two other people I know have. In a way, long johns aren’t really socks, but it’s such a cooler answer than “arrrrrgyle”.

I’ve mentioned before that a lot of my script ideas come from odd conversations that I have with my friends. I’d like to take this moment to give credit to Amy Best. I’ve seen documented evidence of Amy playing checkers with pirates, and I’m now under a strict training regimen so that when we meet on the field of checkers battle, I will emerge victorious.

Unfortunately, Amy, having seen Monday’s strip, has vetoed the use of monkeys, ninjas, and any and all crossbreeds of the two, and has thus thrown a wrench in my plans. I’ve started training ninja-caterpillars. Soon, they’ll be fuzzy, cute machines of absolute destruction. If they’re lucky, one day perhaps they’ll metamorphose into butterflies of doom. That would be exciting.

Your days are numbered, Miss Amy.

The Artist here,

There is a myth going around that I am, in fact, a walrus. I want to put that to rest right here and now. I am not, nor have I ever been, a walrus. Some strange breed of mutant from planet XQ11YP yes, but not a walrus. Yuck.

This was an interesting drawing to do. Dunno where the inspiration came from but I felt that it thoroughly describes, in picture form, how I feel today. I’ve been feeling a bit detached, a bit on edge, a bit stared at by a dog with sunglasses. It’s one of THOSE days.

I checked on news from Webcomicdom today and there was nothing substantial. I left it alone.

Tomorrow’s comic will rock your sawks off. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday!

–The Artist Formally Known as Theo