Everyone has a role to play in the Battle Prep Montage. Some roles are more rewarding than others.

Matt has to organize evacuations, get blue prints, devise blind plans, tear up some roads (after implementing all kinds of committees to maintain the roads in their section of Hero City). Kickman just has to pleasure the missus as best he can.

I struggled like heck drawing those stupid barbell plates. If I was patient I would have carefully drawn the whole thing in rectangles in perspective first before making them into disks. That’s like comic perspective drawing 101. It still doesn’t look quite right, but I’ve got deadlines dang it!

Also, the Kickman action figure has returned. Anyone remember when that first appeared in the comic? It was quite a while ago. 3 Kick Points to the first person to remind everyone else. Plus a bonus 2 Kick Points if you can say without scrolling back through all the old strips (you are on the honor system there).

Also, check out the video clip at the end of the time lapse. It’s like the video AI said, “Dude! You did NOT go hard enough on this page! Watch this! THIS is how you comic!”