NEW STRIP :: WHAT WOULD DHARBIN DO? Teenage Heartbreak, Page 5/5
November 2nd, 2009 — 06:46 pm
Guys, I’m sorry this turned out so sad. I was a little surprised myself, I wasn’t sure how I was going to end it until yesterday morning. I’ll try to make the next Dharbin story more upbeat. Maybe, we’ll have to see, don’t hold your breath.
Category: ART, ART :: Strips 6 comments »
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Oh so misled!
Great story and even better story telling with the panel selection. The second-to-last panel is great–the somewhat stunned look with the left hand’s fingers resting against the window glass is magic.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 pm
That was so sad and lovely. If I had been your dad, I would have offered to buy McDonald’s for the “fam” as a consolation; but that would have been the wrong thing to do all the way around.
That is a tremendous comic Dustin– perhaps your best. It worked especially well as a serial. I remember the contests of my youth. The TV reminded you of it–LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!!– every damn fifteen minutes. After a while, it seemed as though time just stood still.
The wait for each page gave the childhood reminiscence an extra heft.
BRAVO!!!!
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
I agree with D. Blake, that the second-to-last panel is pretty great. Well done, Dusty.
Oh, and by the way, the title of this post says, “Page 4/5.”
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:22 am
Whoa Lordie, thanks guys!
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 am
Fade out into melancholy with the stream of clouds in the last panel…
Those moments of surging against the walls of parental decisions sure leave their tracks.
AWESOME! …say it again: A-W-E-S-O-M-E!
November 9th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
My family didn’t have a lot of money either so McDonald’s was a really big deal when we got to have it. I still remember the time I found a ten dollar bill outside our local McD’s as a child and insisting it was fate telling us to spend it at McDonald’s (we did)! I even spent the first money I made working as a kid (five dollars) on a McRib.
Anyway I remember that song too and me and my best friend took the time to learn the whole thing as well! In our local paper I remember there was even a special insert that had a flexidisc recording to play on a record player (along with McDonald’s coupons) and if you got the one that had the whole song on it you won a prize!