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 fairly comprehensive commentary for each and every comic, from my thoughts on a particular comic to possibly interesting side notes about the sprites I used when I made it.
In this first comic, we have Mega Man introducing himself (a bad way to start a sprite comic) and mentioning that the comic isn't ready. For those of you who don't know, Bob and George was originally supposed to be a hand-drawn comic about the college adventures of two brothers named 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 scan in any of my drawings, so I was forced to make due with filler. As it happens, I had recently visited some Megaman fan sites and had downloaded some of the sprite sheets I had found there. On a whim, I copied and pasted some sprites into a four-panel structure and threw it up. Who would've thought it would come so far?
When the comic first started, the only programs I had to create the comics were Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Photo Editor, neither of which are any good at converting images to GIF, so I was stuck with two file formats, Jpeg and PNG. Unfortunately while PNG preserved the crispness of the images, PNG at the time was a relatively unused file format, so the vast majority of the early readers were forced to endure the horribly Jpeg compression. I've since gone back and redone the original comics to look nicer and better fit with later comics, but if you're interested in seeing what the first comic originally looked like, click here at your own risk.
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