Comics

I could have ended “The Power of Love” in the last strip, but I needed to establish the time and Lynda’s whereabouts for the next strip.

So, I heard Dan Harmon criticize this trope in comedies he called “The Monopoly Guy” where a caricature is introduced and mocked for being a caricature. For instance, he calls it that because in Ace Ventura the protagonist sees an old guy at a party with a monocle, big white mustache, and a top hat

I’m far too proud of “Johnnie-I-Can-Still-Walker.” “Can’t-Walker” would have achieved the same punchline, referencing being “fall down drunk”, but “Can’t Walker” could possibly apply to other ailments, so I opted for the former. And just like that I’ve ruined a perfectly good joke.

If there was significance to the “97” in Ex-Wife’s username I do not recall it.

I remember feeling especially cramped with this one, and had to make a number of compromises in the dialogue between Partner and Ex-Wife to conform to the lack of space. If Action Hat returns it will be in full pages.

Something I did to expedite these comics was to make a simple silhouette of goods on shelves for the background. I then changed the colors of that silhouette and the color of the background gradient for each strip. It’s a little lazy, but speed is something you need to consider when making comics in this

Ex-Wife was mentioned by name a lot in the original comics, but she never actually made an appearance. I did design her for a little Action Hat RPG Maker game I was playing around with, so I based a good deal of her design on that version, but changed her primary pallet to blues and

This strip doesn’t feature a background, and while that’s noticeable, I don’t think the inclusion of one would have been a good idea. There is so little real-estate that all the characters needed to be crammed together, so it was already busy enough. I tell ya, when I went back to full page canvas it

The Guns-And-Bourbon store, and the fact that Partner exclusively does all of his shopping there, is a gag that has been used before in little gift comics, but never in an actual Action Hat comic before this point.