The front has blue LED stripes and buttons, there’s a blue LED fan in the front interior, the side fan has red, green, and blue lights, and the power supply has a blue light inside.
Noisiest night-light I ever had.
But more importantly, I want to restart CAR for at least the summer. My request is, help me with ideas plz. I can’t think of anything beyond becoming self-referential to the umpteenth degree.
New characters.
Like, aliens or something. You could go driving on the moon! And spend a whole strip on explaining why this doesn’t kill you.
A whole strip?! Whoa!
And yeah, totally there’d be new characters. Like Saku. Cuz she said she wants lesbians in the comic. And other people too. But really, Car shouldn’t be character-based.
lesbians
MORE SAKU!!!
Sure, sure yeah okay. But really, I’m looking for IDEAS, not characters. They’re two very, very different things.
Nazi’s plz
seconded
mmmm
Nazi lesbians.
CAR could get an upgrade. Why not a new car? Something fancy and sporty – like a BMW. Or maybe you could do something like CSI.
CAR – Public Transit.
then he can show us his amazing nazi-reactive powers.
fanime? (glomp? funny costumes? geeks thinking they’re cool? Carlen’s fan club?)
beach bonfire? (small?)
oh. well, i’m fresh out of those. it’s not as if you’ve been driving a whole lot, being at school and all. =\
lesbians
whoa nice.
I say add Paolo, Sean, UCSC people, cowbell, more music discussion (with the addition of the iPod and whatnot), more musings, more risks and/or making fun of people (now that we’re out of high school). Just base it off of stuff we talk about on a good day.
And I’d like a new shirt or two. 😛
Re: whoa nice.
definitly needs more cowbell
Re: whoa nice.
MORE COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: whoa nice.
viva la cowbell
What’s Car?
http://www.jeffreyatw.com/archive.shtml – start from the beginning!
I want to seee boobies!
nice computer ps what does atw stand for
maybe someday he’ll totally forget to not answer!
In a world…where the law exists no more…and chaos and crime rule all…. “Heh, look at it…. It’s beautiful. I own this town.” You have to fight to survive…but one man…. “*gasp!* Look, it’s him!” …is taking a stand…. “Hey.” …for justice.
*EXPLOSION!!* “He’s supposed to be DEAD!! What’s he doing here?!” The Santa Cruz Mafia tried to kill him before…but that only made him madder. “He’s…a monster! I’ve never seen anything like this before!” Part man…. *sound effect!* Part car…. *car sound effect!* He’s taking back the streets…and taking no prisoners.
This summer…. “W-who are you?!” Jeffrey Faden…is…. “I’m CAR.”
CAR
sup stealing pablo francisco material
…who’s Pablo Francisco? o_o;
You could devote a few strips to just having you in the car talking to whoever (or maybe even yourself) about how you wanna restart ‘Car’… some of these ideas sounds doable for a strip… even the self referential thing can pan out to a punchline.
But maybe that’s just stating the obvious.
is that icon by amano
Yeah, it’s Vampire Hunter D, yo
High five! More entertainment via Jeffrey this summer!
CAR goes traveling around the world? (Racist jokes about different nationalities and how they treat cars / foreighners / Americans) follow. Or road trip in America.
CAR in your dreams. As in weird shit happens (aliens as mentioned above or whatnot) and then you wake up at the wheel. (Optional: as you’re driving off a cliff.)
CAR hits fictional / movie characters. Or such ones hitchhike. Hilarity ensues.
CAR starts talking to Jeffrey trying to take over his mind and then THE WORLD.
Someone steals the CAR.
CAR gets pulled over by cops.
GTA. [The video game.]
Mice take over. [Spin off Hitchhicker’s Guide.]
Jeffrey converts CAR into his home away from home. Computer/TV/Coffee machine installation follows. That’s not very funny, is it?
Yes.
Holy shit actual good ideas?
Gratuitous time travel!
Since the strip is about CAR….maybe you should have some comics where the only dialogue is FROM car ABOUT the passengers?
God, no new characters. I barely even recognize half the ones you already DO have.
As for ideas, go the classic route–satire, non sequitors, etc. If you’re ready to move into the Webcomics Big Leagues, why not try actual storylines? While it doesn’t go along with your whole “non-continuity” gig (and I personally dislike storylines myself), they do open a wide variety of possible jokes. You can still make them silly and non-sensical; a character can die in one storyline and magically reappear in the next.
Personally if you made your comic somewhat like Dinosaur Comics (take a random concept with a little thought and just run with it), I think you’d make a good CAR comic without relying on inside jokes or Colin Mochrie.
CAR did some really short storylines once or twice, basically ‘cuz I was out of ideas. I’m not ruling them out, most definitely, so if I can think of some good ones, I’ll use them during a dry spell.
Do you have something against Colin Mochrie???
I think he need more juvenile random vulgarities.
Penis.
I think Asya’s suggestions are all realllly awesome, but I think one very dynamic change must be made to get most of them to work: new camera angles. If you want to run any kind of plot, you’re gonna need to have interiors, landscapes, etc. Then again, you could just stick to the old format, but mayhaps it’d get a li’l boring?
Nah. I’ve also been told that I should probably redraw everyone, just to keep everything fresh – that’s not really the point of CAR. It’s supposed to be artistically simple. It doesn’t really need a graphic overhaul. In fact, I’m rolling back the stuff I did when I restarted CAR the first time – like new shading and more detail and such.
CAR gets boring if the dialogue gets boring, and it’s not the kind of comic to back up lame things with better visuals – unless that’s the point of the gag, like slapstick or something.
CAR’s got a lot of self-imposed limitations. One of which is the whole “driver’s seat” metaphor, where I’m the main character, the main voice, and I don’t really ever leave the car. The simple camera angle is another one – the car being more than just a car, and more of a stage, almost like a puppet theater. The trick is to have as much as possible happening within that space, and the camera angle is part of the trick.
Of course, I’ve broken a lot of these rules once or twice before, but it wouldn’t be CAR if I made it a habit.
Car MDM collaboration…
I APPROVE. DO IT.
I don’t have a lot of ideas, though. Maybe you should go to the drive-through and then make fun of it? That seems like the sort of thing that you might do. *shrug* That’s just off the top of my head…
-S