Ray’s High School Comic
In high school, I probably should have been paying attention in Japanese class, but instead I was being paid in homework by a couple friends to create this comic for them. Looking at it now, I was a bit surprised at how violent some moments are… was I a troubled kid or something? Regardless, who would have known I would grow up to find more interest in drawing Jigglypuff and Stafy dancing together…
Part of the joy of the comic was introducing each of the main characters in the bank robbery – which were the small group of us that sat in the back – while picking on the annoying characters in the class. Looking back at the way we treat the first one, it was a pretty stupid thing to draw…
But I know we never had any intention of recreating these scenes in real-life, so it was all just fun and games to us. If a teacher saw this though, I probably would have gotten in really big trouble…
Anyways, hope you enjoy! Oh, and sorry for not having any words in the text balloons. I suppose Tim wasn’t around to write the scripts back then.
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Wow, that is rather violent… I liked the cool rushy backgrounds during the intros, though. That was a nice touch.
And I see you still had knubby elbows back then. And that’s one crazy truck you have!
I will have to say this… you get caught drawing that now a-days in school… You would be suspended so fast… Any ways… That is pretty cool… I felt like i was looking at a story board for a cool action-pack gansta movie like Oceans 14 or something.
You had Japanese class? All we have is French, Italian, and Spanish… But I can totally imagine you getting paid for comics in homework. I’d pay for one of your comics in homework or other forms of currency. In fact… Why don’t you create a custom comic every so often for a nominal fee? I’m sure that plenty of other readers would be willing to pay also.
Epically awesome. There should be a movie made of this… or at least an animated short. =)
wow, that was violent, remind me never to get on your bad side..
Heh, nice comic Ray! Better than anything I could do.
And I agree, it is quite violent. It’s also a little hard to follow at points (due to the lack of dialouge). Also, the intros for the characters were really awesome. If I ever make a movie, I might use something similar to that.
That is slightly disturbing, yet more awesome. You should actually have a contest to see who writes in the best script.
And Japanese during school is pretty sweet. I wish I could take Japanese.
I LOVE the idea that you can fold an origami bomb!
You have to redo this in full colour 
I liked the lack of Dialog, all you have to do is have the people talk like the Sims and there you go! I
likedloved it. Its almost like the storyboards to some crazy Japanimation or something, I can really see this as an animation. I think we need to re-do this with more recognizable faces like Me, Tim, Your girlfriend, Tim’s wife, etc. But at the moments this is just the beginning of a cool spin-off spy movie or something.Japanese!? Lucky. We get a whopping Spanish and French. Whoppee!
But anyway, in response to the comics. 0_o Perhaps it was just me, but all it seemed to be was violence and explosions…dunno perhaps that’s the point…to be quite honest, this scares me…not in the I’m going to have nightmares kinda sense, but in the…”This is weird verging on creepy” sense. XD
That’s actually a good idea. Maybe not a full-fledged contest, but it’d be cool if a bunch of people did it Mad Libs style to see who could be best at being the most funny and most serious and stuff.
And I agree with others, it’s a little on the violent side, but the art and everything are cool.
You know, I have to say that this is a great idea! I’d do it with or without a prize! I actually thought up a few while I was reading it.
I Know Japanese!kinda sorta not really…(I do have a traveler’s guide to the language telling you simple things like “where’s the toilet” etc.)
I would bite for a contest too!
Cool. What’s with that symbol that keeps cropping up on your shirt and at the bottom of the pages and such?
I just have one small problem. Is there any way you could organize the pages together? Like, have a link from 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and so on? It’s a little annoying to have to open a new window for each page.
I just changed the number in the URL to the next comic number.
I think everyone who draws stuff in middle/high school draws really violent stuff. I don’t think it’s that we’re desensitized, it’s just at that age you think you’re immortal and so death and violence seem cool, because the realities of mortality haven’t sunk in.
Out of curiosity, what year did you graduate HS? I see The Matrix and Pokemon references in there, so I guess it couldn’t have been that long ago.
I recently went through my old drawings of stick-man wars and scanned a lot of them and put them on my blog. I wrote a series of five posts. There is probably way more there than you want to read, unless you are just really bored. But you might wanna just click on the links to the images.
Part 1 is here: http://www.vacant-nebula.com/blog/2007/8/27/violent-art-part-one-introduction/
Or if you just want one example of what I’m talking about: http://www.vacant-nebula.com/img.php?img=files/for_blog/20070830_kip-vs-keith_f.jpg
In that one, I drew my stick men killing my friend Keith’s clothes-wearing stick men.
Man, I wish I had had a japanese class. All I could take was Spanish; not even German or something cool, but Spanish. I envy you. Speaking of which, you still know any Japanese?
His logo…odd. How long have you had that logo anyway?
Dude! Wicked Comic!
Violence? Nah, that’s called cartoon violence! That stuff is everywhere, all over anime and other cartoon shows. No, this stuff isn’t violent because it’s all explosions and stuff – there’s no blood and no mangled neck stumps, etc. Just plain of explosions, which are awesome.
You wanna hear a pity tale about “violence”? In my animation class (with a witch-with-a-b teacher), we had to draw a flip book for class with two nouns (person, thing) interacting. I drew a guy and a bomb, which lit itself and blew up. I didn’t even have a real explosion, just a few frames with a spiky word bubble and the word “BOOM!!”. The ****ing teacher gave me an F for it, because there was violence (when there was nothing against “violence” in the instructions).
I gotta see if I still have that Flash source file somewhere…
Very cool.
It always amazes me in films how often people seem to have unlimited resources to buy cool gear to carry out their heist and subsequent getaway. If you have that much money why do you need to rob a bank?
I remember seeing a film where the gang were burning through diamond drill bits (not diamond tipped – actually made of diamonds) to get into a really secure vault. I just had to wonder if selling the diamonds might not have been a better money-spinner.
It’s my symbol.
Since 1997.
I don’t know, I heard how violent everyone commented on and to me it seemed tame compared to my high school doodlings. Then again, I was reading Trencher and Lobo at the time. In fact I drew a comic that got me in HUGE trouble where I was pining over a girl. And so I killed her boyfriend, hollowed out his body and wore it while working his head through the nerves in his spine like a ventriliquist dummy.
Which sounds funny and disturbing in a cartoon style but one of the first books I started drawing from was Grey’s Anatomy so I was quite accurate with the gore.
Wow. Thank you for sharing Sheppy. XD
In contrast, I drew a comic about my cats being anthropomorphic secret agents that were digitized and resolved to help out video game protagonists in need. This was in 5th grade or so (and it shows). I bit of more than I can chew when I decided to make a series of comics based on Sonic; but not just Sonic as a whole — an entire plot around each Zone in Sonic. That’s pretty much where I left it and mostly stopped drawing for fun since (sadly).
Nah, you should have seen the comic My friends and I (mostly I) made, It was a parody of Dragonball Z but was written like a Family Guy episode, with lots of random pop culture references at random times.
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Found it finally. If there is anyone reading this thread still, this is the flipbook animation I was talking about earlier. I got an F on this because of the “violence”.
Link to deviantArt
I’m not looking for pity, just for proving my point that cartoon violence is not real violence.
Something I didn’t notice until the end of the last page, but I see the Raybob logo there. How long have you had that again?