Welcome to Bob and George. If you're reading this, it probably means you've decided to read the entire comic archive, starting with the first comic. Whether this is your first time or your twentieth time, I hope you enjoy your stay.
This little box down here is where you can read my commentary for many of the comics, including general thoughts and interesting side notes about the comic and the sprites I used in the comic.
For example, in this first comic, we have Mega Man introducing himself (which is a terrible way to start a sprite comic) and mentioning that the comic isn't ready. You see, Bob and George was originally supposed to be a hand-drawn comic about the college adventures of two brothers named, aptly, Bob and George. I had set April 1st as a self-imposed deadline, and as it approached I didn't have access to a scanner to digitize any of my drawings, so I made due with filler I threw together with some downloaded Megaman sprites.
Now, what you see up there isn't the original version of this particular comic (or strip, as I used to call them). When I first started, the only graphics programs I had access to were Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Photo Editor, neither of which are particularly good at creating GIFs, the image format of choice for the internet at the time. This left me with the choice of publishing the comics in either Jpeg or PNG format. Unfortunately while PNG preserved the crispness of the images, it was relatively new and the vast majority of the readers' browsers couldn't read it yet, leaving readers with some pretty crappy Jpeg images.
I've since gone back and remade the first batch of comics to look nicer and better fit with the graphical style I would develop later, but if you're interested in seeing what this first comic originally looked like, click here at your own risk.
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