For The Reels

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Have you ever been in a situation when you’re on the toilet, trying to think of a way to pass the time as you wait to squeeze out a deuce?  At that moment, did you wish you had a computer where you can check out the hilarity of the latest For The Reels movie spoofs?  Guess what?  Now you can view our comics anywhere, anytime!

That’s right!  Thanks to Onezumi and Harknell from the webcomic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos, we have a downloadable iPhone app!  So if you have the hardware, head over to the iTunes store and download For The Reels Central, where you can stay up to date with FTR whether you’re on the run or just have the runs.

Sorry about this, folks, usually we update at noon, Pacific time.  However, since I didn’t get the strip (a spoof on The Empire Strikes Back) to JN until midnight last night, the comic probably won’t be posted until later this evening when he gets the time to assign it a y2cl number.  If you want to check out the strip earlier, head over to our Facebook page.  While you’re there, become a fan!

Edit: the strip’s up now!  Check it out!

As of late I’ve gotten some flak for my artistic skill.  Of which I have none.

Jon does, but his style is more realistic.  When I asked him to draw the strip I asked him to go against his methods and adopt a very simplistic, cartoonish style to make things easier.  And that’s the style we’ve decided to stick with, especially since I’ve taken over the drawing duties.

I’ve made no claims of being an artist.  I just like to make jokes and share them with you.  Two of my most favorite webcomics are Cyanide and Happiness and VGCats.  I didn’t want to go as simplistic as Cyanide and I couldn’t draw like Ramsoomair if my life depended on it (plus, look at how often he updates).  I figured a happy medium would suffice.

Sometimes I’m pleased with the visual result (Toy Story, Kill Bill), sometimes I’m not as much (Blazing Saddles, The Incredible Hulk).  But I believe each strip looks well enough to get the point across.  That’s about as much as I can offer.

But I’d like to say I can do more.  I’d like to try to.  As far as the parodies go, I’ll be trying my hardest to make sure the visual style of the comic continues evolving as it has from the very beginning.  Who knows, maybe one day I’ll be able to claim I am an artist.

Just wanted to update the blog pretty quickly to say hello to all of you visiting our little home on the web. We are now into our new comics and will be doing our best to bring you the greatest movie parodies we can come up with. I say we because soon you will start to see some For The Reels comics that I had a hand in creating.

Hopefully they will be up to par.

Got any suggestions for movies you would like to see parodied? Tell us in our forums or leave a comment.

For those of you awesome individuals who decided to stop by every once in a while and check in on the status of For The Reels’ hiatus, you’re in luck.  Finally.  FTR is coming back and better than ever.  No, not as flash cartoons as originally promised (more on that later), but as the weekly webwebcomic many of you had come to enjoy before this past 7-month break.  Jon and I would like to thank those of you who were so supportive during that time, mostly for not wanting to maim us for taking so damn long.  What happened really was that we couldn’t devote all the time and effort to recreating our comics into flash cartoons.  We lost our jobs.  I moved.  Twice.  I got engaged.  Jon was presented with an opportunity in South Korea and is getting ready to move there for a year…

That all said, taking time off from the strip was making me feel crazy and guilty.  So I went to the hardest working guy in webcomics I know: J N Horsley of y2cl.net fame.  I asked him if he’d like to join me and Jon in bringing back For The Reels and he thankfully jumped on board to help us out ’cause he’s an awesome dude.  So prepare for at least 1.5 times the funny as team J, J & J unite to bring you more hilarious movie parodies every week.

We’re gonna start by reposting all the old strips once a day every day until they run out and we’ll pick up where we left off with strip #57.  So come by and visit each afternoon and be ready for some new crazy shit come end of November!

Keep it Reel!

Joe

On September 14th, 2009 Joe Garcia of the web-comic For The Reels, which had been on hiatus since February 2009, and I came to an arrangement where For The Reels would make it’s triumphant return with a fully re-designed website and I would replace his brother Jon Garcia who died in a fiery car crash after relapsing on hookers and coke. He will be missed, but we must move on quickly. He would have wanted it that way. For clarification by ‘fiery car car crash after relapsing on hookers and coke’ I mean moving to Korea. And by ‘replace’ I mean Jon won’t be working on the site anymore, but will still be contributing ideas, writing and being all Jon-like. So really all that’s happening is I’m getting my grubby mitts in the mix.

In this new partnership y2cl.net is welcoming it’s Ninth comic to the y2cl-verse! For The Reels will be set into the universe as a Movie Parodying TV Show that the guys watch when they are not fighting zombies. You might even see some little cross overs. For the record, For The Reels will stay a movie parodying comic and it will stay funny. I promises to not ruin it with my craptasticness.

The first thing that will happen is all the old FTR Comics will post here on the new site. Once they all have ran then new ones will start.

Love,
The guys at y2cl.net