I never thought I’d have to do a comic again for this site, and I CERTAINLY didn’t think it would be a 15 panel comic (seriously, has RAY even done a 15-panel comic?). But it was a lot of fun once I figured out how to make a comic that wouldn’t require any actual drawing on my part, just some smooth Photoshop skills, recycled artwork, and a Tim’s Take intro (you all got Punk’d, didn’t you?). Anyway, if you haven’t seen the Project Needlemouse video yet, it is a little different than portrayed above. I was just reading between the lines a bit.
I LOVE IT!
It was better than my use of recycled artwork I’ll post in a bit, but I gotta go to bed, Since waiting until 3:00 Am isn’t what I normally do on a regular basis.
Cheers on a successful comic!
Here is the “backup” in case this one failed to deliver 😉
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/the_great_gonzales/Quickcomicbackup.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/the_great_gonzales/timland.png
I love that picture! Can we get just Tim without the box art at a higher resolution?
Hah, that’s a pretty awesome picture 😛
Yeah Tim, You want the logo with it? Or just the artwork?
just the artwork please.
Here is the Higher resulution artwork with transparent background:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/the_great_gonzales/TimLandArtB.png
And if you want a FREE background:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/the_great_gonzales/TimLandArtA.png
Don’t say I never disappoint, because that would be a disappointing lie.
😉
Awesome! Wow, I thought it would be a lot worse.
Sorry about the double post, but haven’t you seen the new picture of Needlemouse? It actually reveals a lot about the game.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2457/3909695187_fd02d4753e.jpg
Pretty good for a Tim’s Take.
Love the “If 2P START! Were Daily” reference at the end.
What kind of trailor was that…
I hated the punchline a lot until I realized that I’ve heard that before… I feel like I’ve been double-punk’d. Congratulations. You’ve definitely held your own without Ray and actually made me laugh more than usual. Maybe instead of 2p Start! dying, you could just use recycled artwork every week? There’s plenty of it and nobody’ll notice…
Alright Tim, you surprised me. When I saw the reused artwork from the original Tim’s Take, I wasn’t expecting much. However, the joke was actually pretty clever, and the artwork looked clean, even if it was recycled. Nice Comic Tim! 🙂
Great Comic Tim! You don’t even need Ray anymore.
Now about those new t-shirts…
In all honesty, the Project Needlemouse trailer has no effect on me at all. I mean, we’ve all been round the Sonic Cycle so many times that it’s practically a state of mind now, and the trailer gives nothing to go on but the same promises that have been made of new Sonic games since forever ago. On top of that, they recycle the speed line that is the calling card of people who completely missed the point of the games that Needlemouse is trying to evoke. It talks so much, and yet it tells us absolutely nothing. Be suspicious.
It’s funny because it’s true. Ray says “oh, brother” again. HAHA Love it.
Nicely done Tim. And with Ray gone, you can have the money pool all to yourself…Or you can make him your butler in place of the artist.
I think I’m the only one who is actually getting hyped for the Sonic game. Maybe because the fact that its in 2D makes me hopeful that it will be on level with Sonic Rush, which is a very solid game. But thats just me
Also, when I first read it, I thought you guys were actually gonna announce new t-shirts. Way to get me dissapointed
Count me in. Although cautiously optimistic, I’m definitely more hyped than disappointed that SEGA’s giving it another shot.
Zing!
Wow, who would have thought the 2nd Tim’s Take would be successfull? Pretty darn awesome comic guys (PDACG? Nah.)
You’re lucky that I had my monitor in landscape mode today… if it were in the more usual portrait orientation the (first) joke would have been spoiled by all those lovely extra vertical pixels 😉
Maybe you should get Ray to draw you some reusable generic panels so you can take the workload off his shoulders from time to time!
Nice re-use of some “the winning formula” artwork.
Seriously, nice comic Tim. Maybe you should do. Comics more often.
This is the kind of awesome that deserves to be hanging on my fridge.
When I saw the Tim’s Take art, my first immediate thought was, “This comic USED to be good” 🙂 Tying that in with the obligatory Sonic joke and the new catch phrase makes this a Good Comic. Good work guys.
*snicker* recycled art…
BAH. This comic use- wait… it’s good!? :O
…
This comic USED to be bad…. 😛
I love it! Nice job guys.
So true… but here’s to hoping.
All new… GIMMICK, happens too much sadly… unless… have they recycled their ideas already? that could be a new gimmick
comic get’s the job done, not a future classic in my book, but still good
“Why do I ever ask you anything?”
That…was…GREAT! This, in my honest opinion, is the best comic in weeks! Nice work Tim. Great joke!
My favorite part was how it was broken up into two comics…meaning that the Tim’s Take part was an intro to the comic, but actually had no connection to the overall joke. You guys should do that more often.
~ Obilink
What?!? Recycled artwork for a Tim’s Take?!? Oh wait, never mind.
I never knew Tim could use Illustrator! He emulated Ray’s artwork perfec-
Recycled artwork yet again. Meh, whatever. Still a funny comic. NCG!
Haha, love this comic! It’s just sad that it’s true though. I am just waiting for SEGA to announce the gimmick sooner or later…
BTW, I’m kinda a long time fan, and just now rising from my grave… *cue victory song* XP
Awesome job, Tim. Definitely on par with the normal comics, and I didn’t even notice the recycled artwork till people pointed it out.
-quelches urge to scream WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS-
BUILT. FROM THE GROUND. UP. http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Cz-backlash/bleh/msjhf.jpg IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE
Brilliant. 🙂
Now I can’t look at that shadow logo they show in the trailer without seeing what you made here… 😛
Pikachu! In a sombrero!
I… I… It’s a new meme.
No humans? Does that mean no Robotnik/Eggman? I guess that’s the new gimmick right there: an all-new villain with all-new minions, perhaps to even rival Black Doom himself :O
Anyway, nice job with the comic Tim; I was expecting the entire comic to be another… “graphically challenged” one, so the transition to Ray’s style later on was a pleasant surprise, like a punchline in itself for the first four panels. So, including the Sonic topic that follows it, this week’s comic was sort of like getting two in one! (Perhaps to make up for the absence of Podcast this week?)
It didn’t say no Rouge! 😀
Quick! Tim! While there’s still time!
Ah, but if there’s no humans, that means no president, and no president pretty much means no Rouge. Besides, Blaze is better than Rouge anyway. 😛
Sonic Battle didn’t have the President and Rouge was a main character!
Neither did Sonic Heroes. If they get rid of the president, they’ll just have to play off of her “Treasure Hunting” side.
Besides,
Wave has both Blaze and Rouge beat by my standards 😉
This comic used to be new…
Just like “New” Super Mario Bros. (Wii) is exactly new? That has a lot of recycled material and it did good…
“New 2P START! WII!”
The best part though is I’d play that.
You play as Tim and Ray, and Miley and Lace are unlockable.
EPIC DISCUSSION GO GO GO
I was being sarcastic.
I really doubt a game based on this comic would do well. There is little to no plot or development, Games that parody other games don’t really exist on a level that it would be marketable. Besides, Tim already got his own game, and look at how it turned out…
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/the_great_gonzales/timland.png
(I wonder if anyone will find out that this post was just a plug for my stuff?)
Freaking. Awesome. 😀
Just like everyone else, I thought this would be a rehashing of a Tim’s Take (“Tim’s Take Take 2”?) and was surprised when the graphics switched! For a moment, I thought Ray had come back in time to save the comic, and then I realized afterwards that the art had been recycled! Brilliant, Tim! The double joke thing is really a winning formula! 😀
My thoughts exactly
I gotta admit, unlike most people here, my first impression was that this looks cobbled together. But when I looked back on the first Tim’s Take, I realized what a drastic improvement this one is. So nice work, Tim! Reusing artwork was a great idea, considering the circumstances. [I know, not the most lavish of compliments, but we can’t inflate your ego too much. 😉 ]
Holy Macaroni! I just stumbled across something the likes of which I have never seen (ans may never see at all if SEGA slaps them around)! What am I talking about? Well it appears that one of Sonic’s fans has decided to make a movie.
An animated movie.
A feature length, production house quality, animated movie, starring the fastest thing on two feet! Don’t believe me? See for yourselves: Sonic Fan Movie
But what ever you do, no one tell Ray. Otherwise he’ll just drop everything and camp out in front of his computer, wearing his sonic hat, for the next year and half.
Ah, crap.
I guess the Tim’s take things was kinda funny. BTW, Worst trailer ever, even by teaser standards. It just wasn’t funny to me. I don’t see why everyone is like “This was awesome!!!” let me in on the joke, cause I sincerely wanna know if I’m just not getting it.
I think maybe the Tim’s take 2 would’ve been better without the Project Needlemouse part. I think the latter ruined the former.
The joke IS how that rrailor sucks.
Well, if they really release a trailor like that.
Definitely a BDA.
Nice comic guys.
This is lacking its new comic shine, but a great comic none the less.
I just randomly noticed this, but I like how the wire coming out of the back of Ray’s Mac goes from going down in panel 5 to up in panel 6. But I guess that happens when you take panels from both “The winning formula” and “Evolving Zombies” and put them in the same comic.
How exactly does the power chord even go up like that? Is the plug on the ceiling?
It’s off-screen so we don’t see it, but Tim probably just duct taped the cord to the handle of a vacuum cleaner 😛 Maybe the power cord doubles as an antenna, which gives the computer better wireless reception when propped up so that the Sonic trailer could stream better.
HEY!! DON’T YOU DARE SHATTER MY HOPE UNTIL SEGA DOES!!!!!!!!!!!
My hope has been shattered before Sega Made ‘Unleashed’, He’s dead. Let’s move on to the next best thing…
Tim Land anyone?
😉
All jokes aside, I have low expectations for this game. Let’s hope it works…
Hey Tim and Ray. This is my first time posting. I’ve been a reader and podcast listener, ever since Owen Good started linking comics on Kotaku. (Which is about 4 weeks?) I really enjoy 2p Start because it’s clean jokes, and it doesn’t rely on cheap laughs to get by. Anyways, I wanted to say that this comic (#136) suffers from pacing issues. The first 3 panels disjointed look had me confused. Then when I reached the end, the joke flew by me, because I was still stumbling around wondering where my footing was.
Do you, Tim, allow Ray absolute creative freedom when he draws the comic? I hope Tim makes more comics in the future and gains some more knowledge on the art side of comic creation.
Heh, nice comic! Let’s just hope it’s not accurate.
The first revelation! http://tiny.cc/nm
And now we know that Project Needlemouse is Sonic 4, and you’ve already done a comic on that. YAY!