The Talented Mister Halifax, part one

Although you can't see it properly, Holly is wearing a shirt with the text 'Bunnies look good in eyeliner,' a slogan my girlfriend Mary came up with during some vegetarian festival in Washington that was annoying the hell out of her. And it's a fair statement: for all these PETA pricks who try to rescue animals from being experimented upon, they never stop and think that maybe rabbits like wearing makeup, because it makes them look damn good. Maybe monkeys like the idea of being test subjects for vaccines -- perhaps these noble apes understand that they're saving so many lives, and they want to help their more-evolved cousins. It has been proven that 92% of lab rats enjoy being used to determine various psychological conditions.

The bunny on the shirt is, in fact, THE Bunny from the rather fun Bunny webcomic, which I dig for its often obscure references and gently surreal humour. It is also to be applauded for being seven-days-a-week daily (as opposed to five-days-a-week daily,) a feat few webcomics manage to pull off without a dip in quality. (Randy of Something Positive manages a similar schedule, usually without much note being taken, until he misses a day - almost exclusively due to illness - when he starts getting angry e-mails from a handful of readers demanding another strip. I'm not sure what it is about Randy that gets him a minority of strangely rabid readers that seem to loathe his comic and yet keep reading it every day, possibly only for the joy of putting him down whenever he makes a perceived slip.)

The backgrounds in this one are exclusively CGI'd. It's something I said I'd work on, and I am -- a couple of repeats even within this strip, but when they're of the same room from the same viewpoint it seems dumb to bother redrawing things again. The main problem with drawing backgrounds like this is the amount of time it takes -- the way I'm doing it right now, it's a lengthy process simply due to repetition of the same set of actions that I could do much faster if PotatoShop 7.0 had a keyboard shortcut for it.

Best bits: Halifax's gleeful stupidity while he pounds the frying pan with a spatula; CGI backgrounds not too shabby for early attempts.
Worst bits: Screwed up anatomy in the last panel; the red lines around Vince's eyes.