Sorry about the wait everybody-- we're going to start putting up our commentary soon. It's a bit of a lot though so I'm just gonna publish the comic for now.
musija's commentary:
well, I had the original idea for this comic of course. I think I came up with it in like 1880 or something like that, I don't remember the exact year. I remember I was practicing Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards when I
suddenly got the idea for the joke here. The
other authors seemed to think it was pretty funny when I finally got around to telling them
it.
Obviously La Croix is eating a pomegranate in the last panel. I know I usually complain about drawing LC because they're difficult to draw but the Animesque artstyle I used specifically for Judith was way trickier to do, definitely way out of my comfort zone. I am proud of how that turned out, though-- it actually looks kinda good for once? Almost professional quality? I know usually I'm just self-deprecating my art but fr I feel like this was pretty good, and I didn't even take that long to
draw it.
andrew's commentary:
I rather vividly know that I created the joke in 2005, as part of a standup set. Now I don't remember if I used it then - if I did you can write to us - but the punchline about the pomegranate was cool.
Judith was drawn with the anime art style, which was on purpose to reinforce that she was a special character. There was also her thematically named brother Judas, whose lisp caused him quite a few problems - especially in the scene with the sentient apple uprising.
About apples, this comic was rather fruit-centered, so we got to string together a lot of fruit jokes, like when MBS says "So... he's gone Bananas?", which I'm especially proud of. I sure hope all that hurried joke writing and sight gag drawing won't be lost to time, or anything like that.
Ian's commentary:
i vaguely remember thinking of the joke some time around 2:27:52 PM EDT on march 28, 2013. the pomegranate part i remember thinking was the most clever rule2 on earth, especially the incorporation of the trope Taken for Granite.
funny how many velvet underground references i managed to squeeze in here. just absolutely loaded with them. the metal machine music one will probably elicit a lot of groans, especially the part where judith peraino gets drawn as an anime character, but it's a hill i'm willing to die on. conversely, the lumberjacks joke i thought was stupid, but i reluctantly decided to leave it in due to how popular it was with test audiences. at least we already had two of the three characters needed to make it work.
oh and the lisp thing. i have to admit i didn't know much about lisp at the time, and i still don't, but i hear a lot of jokes about parentheses. this was around the time i first discovered xkcd.
