THE VERY FIRST NSITMC STRIP
January 5, 2001
This was the very first NSITMC strip. I had just returned to school, and wasn't really working anywhere so I could focus on my studies. My friend Tony (who trolled my boards at one time under the name Gehenna) first turned me on to the concept of webcomics. I'd wanted to do a webcomic since I was a little kid, so this seemed like a good idea. BOY WAS I FUCKING WRONG!! :) I originally was going to call the comic RUDE BASTARDS, but I wanted an anime style theme, and I dunno, "RUDE BASTARDS" just seems like a title for some angsty 20-something, Gen X comic with apathetic characters. I wanted something that was just flat out batshit crazy. Originally, I was going to make the strip a RED MEAT ripoff, you know, by just using clip art in lieu of actually drawing. Then I picked up a copy of Antarctic Press's How To Draw Manga #1. I actually understood some of the tutorials in it and decided to try my hand. When I drew this strip, I thought it looked good.
HAHAHAHA! BOY WAS I FUCKING WRONG!
Anyway, this strip is important, because it introduced two characters, Intro Model and Hitler Fop Wanker. I called my friend Stacy a "Hitler Fop Wanker" in a blurting out of an insult, and the name just stuck in my head. He never made another appearance past the first two strips, and was just used as reference from there on in. I mean, seriously, who the fuck wants a Ziggy rip off in their comic?
Intro Model was supposed to be a write-off as well, since her original job was to introduce the comic. She wound up being a supporting character, and the target of much abuse later. The trolls at Exploitation Now's boards decided to make fun of the hands when I previewed the comic. That's why I put the hand comment in.
"We Don't Need No Stinking Viagra" was a cool motto, I thought. I might use it again.