For today’s behind the scenes, I present you with the one and only flash cartoon I managed to get done during our hiatus.  Between Jon and I losing our jobs, me moving twice, Jon moving to Korea for a year, etc.; there wasn’t enough time or manpower to turn out that kind of content regularly.  Creating a comic only takes a couple days at most.

Converting all these comics into cartoons is something I still think would be cool, but right now it can’t be done.  It’s just me and JN working on the site right now, we would need like a whole team to take on a project of that magnitude.  And people who are better voice actors than me, ’cause I suck.  You should have heard me attempt to recite V’s alliterative monologue.  You’d have died laughing.

Enjoy “The Wholly Departed” cartoon!

P.S. – For some reason the toon doesn’t have side margins, so some of the work spills over.  I have no idea why, which goes to show you how much I really know about flash.

Here we are, back at where it all began.  This was first published in December of 2007, when For The Reels was first conceived.  My twin brother Jon and I were always interested in comic books and movies and decided to combine the two in a weekly strip we’d put online.  We developed a handful of ideas that day, but this “Departed” one came first solely because it was resting on our apartment’s coffee table and I saw it first.  I thought this joke effectively demonstrated the type of crazy-ass humor we were shooting for, and the movie was amazing.  As far as the art goes… it gets better, trust me!