TF Flashback: 1125 Revisited
Seven or so years ago John, Moe and I created a website called TeamFremont.com. Some of you who read Robot Panic may have been around during that time, but chances are even better you have no idea what I’m talking about. TeamFremont had a number of different things that were regular features for awhile. None of them lasted very long but what managed to get put out had its moments.
In our last episode of After Hours, some stories about our year together at 1125 Fremont St. were told and somewhere in there we referenced a webcomic we used to have up on the site called 1125 Fremont. Its purpose was to share some of the stories of our college days in a funny and exaggerated way. Thanks to Brian Pederson, John started browsing through some of those old comics the other day and called me up with the idea that it might be fun to post them here.
So, once a week, I’ll post up a comic from the 1125 Fremont series. It runs about 49 comics in all and as a fun end to the run, I’ll create and post the Issue 50 that I had always planned but never put out. In addition, I’ll give you some thoughts on the comics now as well as what I was thinking then. Could be fun. At the very least it’ll be fun for us and isn’t that why we do this thing anyway?
1125 Fremont #1-Deep Thoughts
This comic was supposed to set up the fact that I was a much more innocent and low-key person before I started the year at 1125 Fremont. I thought that a series chronicling my gradual change from the “quiet kid” to the loud an obnoxious guy you all know from Drunken Gamers Radio would be fun and a decent way to structure things. It also set the potty humor style that would continue through the series and become the Drunken Gamer standard. Joe needing help finding his pants really wasn’t that far off from reality. It really was a bit of a shock for a guy like me. But the shock didn’t last too long and I managed to fit in after awhile.
The only thing I can remember in making this is trying to figure out how it would look. I remember hitting on the whole grey background thing and thinking it was an interesting visual touch. Mostly, it was rather quick and easy to do. I used to do another comic over at GamingWorldX.com that had full-on painted backgrounds and I always hated the time it took to do those. I never liked how it looked either so this ended up working. Over the years, I ended up using some shading and different shares of grey to give the background more depth and interest. For what it’s worth.
Oh, and that tiger robe was 100% real. Joe actually did wear one all the damn time.
Anyway, it’s a pretty typical beginning to a webcomic series and they get a little more interesting from here. I think.
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February 1st, 2010 at 10:11 am
This is a great idea guys, I look forward to the rest of the series. I remember going through them all at some point; adding the commentary is going the extra mile that makes this site great.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 pm
My wife loves the idea that Hilden was once an aspiring evangelical.