Remnants of the American Nomad

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

There's a short story in the back of Omnibus part 2 that I only just got around to reading because my attention span is shot.
It's told in first person from the perspective of Sabrina, some time before she moves to Babylon. In short, she's traveling with her dad through Arizona when their car breaks down and they're attacked by a pack of coyotes after anything they might have that's useful, such as water, food, money, tools, etc.

In other words...
It's a setting I haven't tried before and it makes my brain go BRRRR
Time to put it in the story list.

Also, it could easily still appear in comic form as a flashback. Rick could just as easily recycle the plot if he was looking for a quick script. I'd kinda like to see it.

[Amazee Dayzee]

I think I read it some place on the site but I can't remember where now but it was really interesting. I could see a pack of coyotes like that being almost like Native Americans that have their own customs and stay isolated.

Not sure where you would have the setting, but if you do write something make sure the main male character ends up falling in the mud at least once.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

They were, they even had their own pattern on their arrows. Rick mixed native american customs with feral behaviors pretty well.

[Amazee Dayzee]

As I said before, if you do decide to write a story, I would look forward to it as I did kind of grow to like Native Americans after watching Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron a few years ago. Not sure if coyotes would use horses but one scene I remember is this one for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmIp63uYRro

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

That was fun. I imagine wild horses in the HP universe would behave like that when they tried to tame them.

[Amazee Dayzee]

So if you can't have one of the coyote Native Americans in the story that you possibly are gonna write take a header into a mud puddle, have a horse douse them with blue paint. Not sure why they were painting the horses stomaches in the movie to begin with but I want to see a scene like that if you do put something together.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

He was trying to paint around his eye. Like a less painful version of a brand.

[Morlit]

I think I read it some place on the site but I can't remember where now but it was really interesting.

Its from "An Infinitesimally Brief History Of The World". That Housepets novel Rick seemingly never finished but posted a few chapters of back in 2011 or something.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

I believe the omnibus said he finished it but it was boring and inconsistent so he scrapped it and posted 4 chapters that he deemed fit for consumption. Then, he rewrote one and included it in the omnibus as purchase bait.

[Morlit]

I believe the omnibus said he finished it but it was boring and inconsistent so he scrapped it and posted 4 chapters that he deemed fit for consumption. Then, he rewrote one and included it in the omnibus as purchase bait.

Is "all the kings men" also in the omnibus? since that story to got purged from the site. Though i can see why since its canon status was questionable.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

"All the King's Men" is in the first part of the Omnibus, and the second year of the original release of the books. It has additional new illustrations in the Omnibus that weren't in the original release.

[Morlit]

So better question might be what isn't in the omnibus xd. The catnip page, The catdog drawing or even the Handdrawn prototype strips?

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

There are many things in the Omnibus. Not only are the prototype strips there, but also the PROTOTYPE prototype strips, in which Bino was meant to be the protagonist, LONG before the final version we know now.
The catnip page is, indeed, in there; in fact, I remember it from before it was pulled from the site.
There's no catdog picture aside from the one Peanut draws early in the strip, but there IS a doodle of Grape and Peanut making smoochies together. There's also Grape in a police vest, Tarot with a yellow collar, a full-color pinup of Satau's mate who never appeared in the comic, and many more fun things.

[Morlit]

There's no catdog picture aside from the one Peanut draws early in the strip

Yea i meant this thing.

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Also by by "Grape in a police vest", don't you mean Max? Or is it a different picture? (This one was also on his old tumblr)

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[Morlit]

Would be interesting to see those Bino strips. Only seen one in very poor quality from his old Deviant art.

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[GingaDensetsuAleu]

Oh, it is Max, my apologies. My thumb was covering his ear and it's not colored, so it looked like Grape.
He has a slightly higher resolution of THAT Meet Bino strip, and 2 others of similar quality. I also like how he reused the bucket seat joke at one point in Housepets. Same character, even. He doesn't include most of the day skip strips, as they're usually just doodles he threw together just to get SOMETHING up.

[Amazee Dayzee]

So I take it the "Meet Bino" strips that he had created first much earlier than the comics was just a rough draft when Bino was gonna be the main character? Bino eating the "O" in his name and saying that it looked just like a donut is something I think PEANUT would do so I take it Bino had his personality or a totally different one from what he has altogether.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

The strips are VERY rough, but he said it was kind of meant to be similar to garfield.

[Amazee Dayzee]

So Bino had Garfield's personality then I take it instead of the one he has now or Peanut's? I can see that and it is kind of funny now how he has a character based on Garfield and his trait of loving food in the comic with Tiger. I don't think Garfield was ever that psychotic though but even the name of his owner is a play on the name of Garfield's. (Jerry Arbelt is a play on Jon Arbuckle).

On a somewhat related note, growing up I thought his name was "Jon R. Buckle" and I remember asking what the "R" stood for. LOL

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

It's literally a grand total of 12 frames, not really enough to establish a personality. From the look of it, Rick was in high school when he made it.

[Amazee Dayzee]

That was in 1997 and depending on what month I was either not in school yet or in Kindergarten. This just makes me realize how OLD Rick actually is honestly even though I know he can't be much older than me (I'm 32.)

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

It's hard to say how old Rick actually is because googling him comes up with someone else and he doesn't really say much as to his actual age.

[Morlit]

Bino is actually even older than that. This was part of a large collage from his deviantart that i saved and which is now gone from there (i think).

https://www.deviantart.com/rickgriffin/ ... t-38570443

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1995? Bino was a dog that I created when I was very young that I based on the golden-age Garfield strip collection that I had. Here he is in a 'video game setting'; again, I liked to think up the dumbest things off the top of my head.

1997: I'm funnier than Jim Davis! Woo

[Amazee Dayzee]

Its kind of freaky to realize that Bino might be a year YOUNGER than I am if he was first created in 1993. If he IS older than that then it will totally blow my mind.

[Morlit]

I find it even more funny that this "In the new age" thing he is currently doing predates Housepets by a few years.

In fact if i recall correctly. Housepets was originally just supposed to be practise for him in making comics. And its popularity grew way beyond what he expected.

[Amazee Dayzee]

Well I for one am glad that it did take off like it did and get popular because it is something that has never been done before. I might be bias because it is the only work of his that I read but I don't think anything else he does will surpass it ever.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

I dunno he ended book 2 of A&H club with the 2 year old baby roo shouting that F word he learned into a vehicle containing his mother so that was funny

[Amazee Dayzee]

I look up little kids dropping F-Bombs on YouTube when I have some free time from everything and do it as a guilty pleasure. It starts to lose its luster after a while so even if I saw it in A&H Club I probably wouldn't find it funny anymore.

Yes I know watching kids swear their heads off on YouTube is not the sanest thing to do but I'm not sane.

[GingaDensetsuAleu]

It wasn't so much THAT he screamed it so much that the other person in the car had just said nothing interesting happened while mama was on her date, combined with their expressions.

[NHWestoN]

I look up little kids dropping F-Bombs on YouTube when I have some free time from everything and do it as a guilty pleasure. It starts to lose its luster after a while so even if I saw it in A&H Club I probably wouldn't find it funny anymore.

Yes I know watching kids swear their heads off on YouTube is not the sanest thing to do but I'm not sane.

Yeah, hear enough of that in real life ...

[Amazee Dayzee]

Well I am not around little kids anymore and whenever I see my cousin's children they seem to be well-behaved at least to the point of not dropping any F-Bombs or S-Bombs. One of them did once but that was because her mother didn't think she was listening and was getting annoyed at the traffic she was dealing with on her way to work that day. LOL