TF Flashback: 1125 Fremont #9
Welcome to another edition of TF Flashback, where we revisit some old content from our early years on the web. In this series, we’re reposting issues of an old webcomic we used to do that “chronicled” John, Moe and Hilden’s year of living together in college.
1125 Fremont #9-Turtle Shell Disdain
If you caught our live show a few weeks ago and managed to stick it out through the After Hours episode we did, you heard us talk about this story. There was a moment where Moe was up in John’s room playing video games a ton. I remember walking up there to watch him play Mario Kart and as I did so, I could feel the hooks starting to grab me again. At this point in my college years, I had left videogames behind me to concentrate on music and my future career. This was the start of that slide back into playing them.
The actual events happened much faster. I think it was just a few days from watching Moe play to me going out and buying a PlayStation. In the comic, however, this would be the start of an arc that would last for many, many episodes.
What I remember about this comic from a creative standpoint is that #9 represents when I started to get serious about doing these. I was a really inconsistent comic creator and I wanted to get better but knew I had to buckle down. So I committed to doing a comic a week starting with #9 and I lasted almost a full year before I finally wound it down. Starting with this comic, the style of the characters really start to develop and the look of the comic begins to form.
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