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A Wave Cometh

August 25th, 2005

About This Comic:

The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents: A new school year is upon us and therefore a crushing wave of college aged debauchery comes with it.

Comic Musings:

I did this comic really wanting to push myself. I was just starting to dabble with using grayscale in the comics I did for the Star this year. In the past I was making printouts on legal size paper which were scanned by the editor and placed on the page. I later moved over to burning the comics on a CD (and hoping they didn't get messed up in the disc to computer transit). I spent a crazy amount of time on this comic, really hoping to kick the door in for my first set of comics for the Weekender.

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weekender, the northern star, NIU, The Spaghetti Dinner Bear Presents, wave, college kids, booze, butterfly, surprised, mohawk

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