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Bi-Weekly Sermon

June 30, 2004

This past school year has been the epitome of boredom itself, and I have learned over time that it is a thing that can swiftly and easily take its toll on the human mind.. especially in the remedial English class I signed up for to dodge (pun indented) work. But I have also found a way around being slowly destroyed by its effects.

One day I was bored, and I don't just mean not having anything worthwhile to do, I'm talking the seriously mind-numbing, please-just-shoot-me-in-the-face kind of bored. So I started thinking about CS, because that's what I do most of the time anyway. And then I started to draw what I was thinking. Naturally, over the past several years I've managed to loose all sense of artistic talent, so I decided to draw the little people dudes as stick figures. This came out better than I had originally thought it would, so I kept at it. A bunch of stick figures running around with assorted pistols & assault rifles, doing some seriously weird stuff.

Sounds a bit dull and overused just as it is, but really the best part of all this was that I was drawing actual experiences I've had in the game and was putting them together in a funny way. It was obviously CS, too, because of the specific locations and techniques I detailed in the frames, as well as the sound effects, radio messages, godly admin messages, and terms like l337, which no sane person outside of CS should actually understand.

Their popularity rose pretty quickly, due to the multitude of players I knew (one 56ker was actually offended by the prototype lag one I did, that was kinda funny). They each had a theme that players would be able to connect with. Lag, nade spamming, afk's, more lag, more afk's, hackers, wc3 mod, noobs, and of course pwnage in each of the above. After a while I also gave the comic a name. Counter-Stick would have been the obvious choice, but that one's taken, so I stuck with Sticky Situations, which fits in a couple ways and it works pretty well.

So yea, this page here is going to be the new home of SS, so check back once in a while to see if I've actually posted something. Now, when I say post something, this involves rummaging thru my old english notebook to find these things, scanning the worn, yellow legal pad sheets into the computer, and photoshopping them to look purdy like that frame I did up there, so believe me when I say that I'm probably going to just take my sweet time on this.