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2011-02-16: Earnestness (thesis year)
Grumpy rabid
On we go!
This comic is in the following storylines:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved. - The Earnestness Pill
Dr Quickly tests out a new drug on an entire class of students at an arts college.
This comic includes the contribution:
- Keith suggested: Dr. Quickly invents an earnestness pill
Text transcript
[[ Three years later... ]] Noel: Maybe this wasn't a mistake? Some of these thesis project proposals are AMAZING... Rabid: Everyone keeps telling me it's a "dying field"... Rabid: I seriously thought this was an opportunity to enrich peoples' lives -- illustrations CLARIFY and ILLUMINATE! Rabid: But I'm BURNED OUT and FED UP! Rabot: Sheesh! Rabot: You sound like me in first year! "Who ever goes to a SCULPTURE GALLERY? What have I got myself into?" Rabot: But really? It just means I have to work THAT MUCH HARDER to create GREAT WORK!