Life Happens

Another script brought to you by yours truly, with some editorial assistance from David. :)

I'll spare those of you who are on the raincannon LJ update list the details, but suffice to say, at last count, it looks like the "Delete" votes are going to win to take us out of WikiPedia. You see, the nice little SS guards at WikiPedia have decided that Shit Happens isn't popular enough to have our entry up any more--eight months after I posted it the first time. Their arguments are that we have voting buttons, a low Alexa ranking (though we're 10th on Google for "Shit Happens"), and that I wrote the WikiPedia entry myself, thus making it a "vanity page". Considering I wrote it with no opinion or bias in the writing, I consider that specific person to be an ignorant cow.

Fear not, for we shall be stocking "I liked it better when Jeph Jacques was dead" anti-WikiPedia shirts in the SH store soon.

(This would be a jibe at their report a while back that Jeph Jacques had died, which was actually a hoax they were suckered into. We do not wish any harm on Jeph Jacques, whose comic Questionable Content is a lovely little comic that dares to ask the question, what would happen if Archie, Betty, and Veronica met GIR from Invader Zim? The answer seems to be, like a car without wheels or a dead Jeph Jacques joke, it would go nowhere.)

Of course, the most ironic thing is that our readership has been steadily increasing since we were brought up for deletion, mostly from links from the deletion page. We've even got a few return visits from people who followed the WikiPedia deletion links in.

So thank you, WikiPedia. Thank you for increasing our hits by deleting us. I wish you could delete us more often.

In fact, if our readers are kind and write a new entry everytime the old one is deleted, they can perpetually delete us and we will rule the world.

Oh, and the little Hitlers who are deleting us will rue the day. Don't forget, David also writes the retardedly-popular Fred Basset Upfucked. He has minions, an army even. Fear them!

I'm not too bothered by the Wikipedia deletion, to be honest -- the person who proposed us for deletion gave decent enough reasons for it, if a little specious when compared with some of the completely random information on there.
I'm slightly disturbed by the person who said it should be deleted as 'vanity', given that if you look at their contributions, they're incredibly proud of, um, well, a rather lengthy entry on 'Spoo', a fictional foodstuff in 'Babylon 5'. Quite why Spoo is deserving of its own voluminous entry complete with a vast list of all the episodes it is mentioned in, I don't know. I guess if you're incapable of actually creating anything meaningful or artistic then you have to take your pleasures in writing about things no-one cares about. I think maybe that person is upset because they were hoping for a comic called 'Spoo Happens', or perhaps because somebody pointed out that they are a lower form of life than all of the people who wrote guides to the DaVinci Code, like some kind of literary suckerfish.

Anyway. The unusual layout on this strip is a by-product of the awkward amount of dialogue I had to cram in. This strip is one of the few times that I've done the panel layout, the text placement and the word balloons before I did any of the art itself. The restrctive format I'd plumped for meant that it would be foolish to draw all of the panels, colour and shade everything, only then to have to crop out huge amounts of them due to panel borders and speech balloons.

And in case you're wondering, yes, he took his own glasses off and wiped the blood off his mouth. You have to look nice for Death, after all. If Neil Gaiman's right about it, you want to make a good first impression or you might never get a second date with her.