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Shira-chanThe Ketchup Conundrum

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Based off a true story.

Dear lord I truly enjoy tormenting myself, don't I? This here is an experimental "comic" I made about Justin threatening to squirt me with ketchup. After that, I started thinking about what would happen if I didn't answer the way I did, and then that sort of evolved into this mess.

In case you're interested, there are 73 tiny little panels on here. As you can see, most of them are unique panels, though a few were copied and pasted.

I think my brain went a little insane working on this.

Took about three or four days of working on-and-off to finish this.

Edit: Wow! Okay, so! A lot of people have mentioned that this comic looks like something Scott McCloud would be all about, and I absolutely freely admit that he was a huge inspiration in creating this comic. So much so that, on a whim, I sent him an email a few days ago with a link to the picture on it. I hardly even expected him to look at it, let alone post it in his blog the very next day! And then the day after that, it gets a Daily Deviation! Wow! Just goes to show, don't be afraid to show your artwork to the one who inspired you! You never know what'll come of it!
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Comments: 159

DarkGypsyGoddess [2016-12-07 18:16:58 +0000 UTC]

i love it. it challenges my ability to hold multiple threads of thought at the same time! thank you.

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8Darkness-Seeker8 [2014-06-30 07:07:07 +0000 UTC]

some of these took a dark turn...

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Ryaxx1 [2013-09-23 17:30:13 +0000 UTC]

I like you, you're nuts

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Shira-chan In reply to Ryaxx1 [2013-09-24 14:50:59 +0000 UTC]

Hah, well thank you! Nuts is the best way to be!

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Kitt22 [2012-10-06 13:49:57 +0000 UTC]

Haha, this is amazing! You had me laughing at every turn I especially felt like the few copy-pasta elements were well chosen, and very deserving of a repeat. I also felt like you did a really great job of using spatial organization to tell part of the story as well; the most telling such moment is where you, and Justin, are both sheathing your swords. The side-by-side layout of those two panels was just brilliant.

I am curious though (and I feel a bit bad for my ignorance): What is the "eye, spork, cute-furry-critty" self contained double loop about?

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LatinVimes [2012-04-23 00:36:36 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely inspired!

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madam-marla [2011-10-14 17:28:09 +0000 UTC]

brilliant and so entertaining

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AnyLuck [2011-09-19 15:59:32 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely, epically awesome!

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Moonbei [2011-05-07 18:52:58 +0000 UTC]

Lol! I love ketchup, so it was very amusing to read this. XD Also, your notes about it concerning Scott McCloud and the DD gives me inspiration. Thus, I have to say thank you for making this and inspiring me to keep on drawing.

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niaskywalk [2011-04-21 16:13:36 +0000 UTC]

Hourglass pupil eye, Squirrel Thing, Spork... I almost get it but I can't quite grasp it. Please explain?

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SneeMonster [2011-04-16 20:27:14 +0000 UTC]

Ahahaha, greatttt! I love how the sword fight/suicide/zombiething can technically happen again, and again... and again... and again...

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SomeCallMeWeird [2011-04-16 17:04:28 +0000 UTC]

But... how do the sqirrel-thing, spork, eye fit in?

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vouloir [2011-04-16 14:00:20 +0000 UTC]

haha, epic.

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AnakMoon [2011-04-16 08:17:57 +0000 UTC]

You have inspired me, i want to try one of my own now!

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Orangeyyy [2011-04-16 08:02:32 +0000 UTC]

haha i love the zombie hug one it made me lol

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fallenangel889 [2011-04-16 06:43:51 +0000 UTC]

That must have took alot of planning and organizing amazing work!

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paramak [2011-04-16 06:41:12 +0000 UTC]


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Soulflare3 [2011-04-16 05:33:55 +0000 UTC]

That was really cool

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juno42 [2011-04-16 05:32:31 +0000 UTC]

This? Is epic.

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BluDrgn426 [2011-04-16 04:23:54 +0000 UTC]

omg, yessss!

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VampirateFrogHat [2011-04-16 04:21:46 +0000 UTC]

This...is...AWESOME.

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HeavensChaos [2011-04-16 03:44:52 +0000 UTC]

oh my god this is hilarious!

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HayleyKat [2011-04-16 03:43:01 +0000 UTC]

I love you and your wacky-ness.

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NandoLuc [2011-04-16 03:12:03 +0000 UTC]

Damn, this is insane... I liked it.

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lahxpia [2011-04-16 03:03:03 +0000 UTC]

REALLY EPIC WIN, I LOST THE GAME A LOT OF TIMES!!

BUT NOW I WIN YAAAY

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sasunaru-pokemon [2011-04-16 02:27:59 +0000 UTC]

I absoluetly love this. Starts off with ketchup and (can) ends with zombie hud/fight. Lol

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FullMetalMono [2011-04-16 02:15:54 +0000 UTC]

CONUNDRUM INDEED.

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moonstonezeffiro [2011-04-16 00:36:14 +0000 UTC]

THEY PROBED ME! lolololol~

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shadowysilence [2011-04-16 00:28:46 +0000 UTC]

I love this, good job!

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wolvensong [2011-04-15 23:45:56 +0000 UTC]

this is awesome XD. Congratulations on the DD!

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iLeeh95 [2011-04-15 23:33:53 +0000 UTC]

awesomeeee
so funny!

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HonnuArt [2011-04-15 23:17:23 +0000 UTC]

Wooah.

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rioIu [2011-04-15 22:55:13 +0000 UTC]

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Satanoy [2011-04-15 22:32:20 +0000 UTC]

great one...

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CodyRiolu [2011-04-15 21:47:49 +0000 UTC]

So many funny things can happen when ketchup is put into a comic.... XD
The bottom three panels are awesome

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MovieMowDown [2011-04-15 21:47:34 +0000 UTC]

The world is 10000000000000000000000000trillion in probabilitys

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MissTangent [2011-04-15 21:42:12 +0000 UTC]

You are a genius! I'm also laughing my ass off now! XD

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Vixthefox [2011-04-15 21:34:22 +0000 UTC]

the best. xD

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AngelJasiel [2011-04-15 21:30:08 +0000 UTC]

ketchup is a very dangerous thing

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Gakari93 [2011-04-15 21:27:27 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I'll be eating ketchup for a while .A. i don't want to turn my friend into a zombie! D:

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murilokleine [2011-04-15 21:15:10 +0000 UTC]

dude, more 6 or 7 panels and my brain would colapse! lol


BTW, this is so awesome, I'm going to try to do something like this someday.

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Shira-chan In reply to murilokleine [2011-04-16 00:58:55 +0000 UTC]

I highly recommend it! It was super tricky laying it all out, but it was lots of fun!

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Koolstr [2011-04-15 20:56:42 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome! I love something that examines all the possible outcomes this well. And it was funny to boot! Nice job!

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BonesBleachedBare [2011-04-15 19:48:29 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome.

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Vuxtac [2011-04-15 19:41:39 +0000 UTC]

Best 10 minutes I ever spent going through all of them. That was fun.

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MulticomplexReaction [2011-04-15 19:37:00 +0000 UTC]

Holy mother. You're good. Was it hard putting them in order?
To me it seems like that, but it might be different once you are doing it.

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Shira-chan In reply to MulticomplexReaction [2011-04-15 19:40:16 +0000 UTC]

Hah, it was really hard putting them in order! I kept having to go back and erase things and move things around. It was tricky! Thank goodness for Photoshop, though It was much less painful being able to resize and cut and paste my sketches while I was laying it out than I'm sure it would have been trying to do it on paper!

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MulticomplexReaction In reply to Shira-chan [2011-04-15 19:49:03 +0000 UTC]

Haha.
So would I assume right if I said that most of the time
taken up was putting them in order to make sense?
I've been starting a storyline and I feel like its like this.

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Shira-chan In reply to MulticomplexReaction [2011-04-15 20:06:11 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely! Once I got everything in place, actually drawing it was a piece of cake! But laying everything out like that? Yeesh. There's a reason I haven't done more of these

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MulticomplexReaction In reply to Shira-chan [2011-04-15 20:26:49 +0000 UTC]

Well, thank you for the insight Shira-chan. Now Im more terrified to follow through.

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