In 2002 I was wrapping up an ill-advised four year run through high school and I was looking to see what I could accomplish next. Having no artistic skill whatsoever and a contrarian world view it quickly became clear to do the up and coming (yet already fading into irrelevancy) thing. I published a webcomic with my friend to keep track of our own very unfunny inside jokes.
Meanwhile, exactly 20 years later…
Rather than having already deleted every copy out of existence like I should have, the entire final version of that site sits in a folder on my iCloud drive, effectively reproducing itself every time I log in to a new device. With that easily breakable curse following me around, I’m doing the second most obvious thing to address it, and that is to just give up and share it with everyone.
Flatliner was the title of this atrocity. Harvest, my co-creator and I, settled on this name having originally thought we’d create a comic for our school newspaper- The Heart Beat. About two to three letters into the first word of the first strip, you’ll understand why that never materialized.
The art style is all Harvest- he could draw and do visually creative things, something that I’ve never been able to do even slightly to this day. Eventually I’d find a way to manipulate his style so I could create a strip from start to finish, but his work in the realm of MS Paint was unparalleled at the time.
Presented in this post are the first three strips. I’ll put up a few every week or so with a little context. Oh, and if you don’t find them funny? It’s a 2002 web comic. It was NEVER going to be funny.
