SLS_Teeny

 

Keep your cell camera recording while the cops beat you senseless, it's Sick Little Suicide #21, "Teeny," in which I dig through the art archives for content and post it when it's semi-relevant again.

It's like how a broken watch is right at least twice a day.

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Fun_Medication

Aight, here's the dill: the inevitable has happened.
Gotta drop to two comics a week while I handle some other business. I hope I can show the stuff to you some day.

So once a week, I'll post some sketches and stuff, just like the good old days.

Please hold your tears. I know it's devastating. You'll survive.

This is what they make you take the medication for.

Reuxben

ZLM_Hamtaro

It's your classic "Conan to Jimmy."
Zero Like Me [Alive] #132:
Hamtaro Manifesto - The Ballad of Alan Everett
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ZLM_BlastingOff

Dairy will do that to ya, but it's so worth it, always.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #131:
Blasting Off
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YDN_zlm.Itchy

It's shameless the way we flirt.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #130:
Itchy And Scratchy
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Fun_SmokersFall

Just got a hot tip on a dope deal down at the docks by the dairy, y'dig? Dang, serious ice at stake; steady hands and nerves needed, natch (didn't hear it from me, man). And I gotta get it gonzo.

Gonna have to get a grain check on that corker of a comic today. But check this cheese instead, from back in the day, like black in the bay, featuring a fall fest finished freshly on Friday.

Ah--dangit, it's the fuzz. Found here fast. Listen, keep your nose clean, kid, I'll hang here, hold 'em, and heave 'em. See you back at base. And don't ditch the dice this time. Gonna blast those bones for bills, boy, believe it.

Now beat it, them bobbies gettin' bubbly.

Reuxben

ZLM_TheOnlyFriend

Shut up and miss me, you fool.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #129:
The Only Friend For Me Is You
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Easter Eggs: "Yale" in panel 1. Hikaru's (from Hikaru No Go) first costume in chapter 1, since Z and N's hair designs were heavily inspired by Obata's art.

Fun Facts: On October 14, 2008, the Yale Daily News printed the very first issue of Zero Like Me. Nyao's exact age is unknown, but she's adopted October 13th as her mirthday, which is like a birthday but not; she's been stranded on planet Earth for 2 years now. It doesn't seem to bum her out.

Since first starting at the YDN, I've been through three YDN eBoards (four if you count the present post-graduation one) and way too many editors, I've seen the frigid YDN-Herald rivalry shatter like the Berlin Wall; I've seen color arrive at YDN comics, I saw comicsers (briefly) treated like actual staffers; I've seen YDN comics go from being the laughing stock of the Ivy League to being the pinnacle. I've gotten chewed out by athletes and their cronies plus agents of Beauty and Justice, nearly got suspended from the YDN, survived bouts with censorship, got cited in the Herald, the YDN, and the Rumpus, won some money in a comics competition, published a comics compilation. I've switched to digital inking and coloring/toning. I had many breakdowns and resurgences. I had hits and misses. I may well have wasted my Yale career on this stuff. But so it goes, Dr. Jones.

Baa: Zero Like Me has enabled me to meet and interact with all kinds of amazing people, people I really don't even have any good excuse to be interacting with--even just plain people period. Off the top of my head, I've met millionaires and people with even less money than me, members from the three major societies and beyond, singers, rappers, rockers, sci-fi fans, Magic-playing footballers, cancer-fighting doctors, semi-condescending scientists, hipsters, cigar aficionados, photographers, dining hall workers, bloggers, former US presidential candidates, successful YCC presidential candidates; improv artists, street artists, fine artists, comics artists, an elementary school class of kids making their first comics. And many other random, wonderful strangers.

Thank you to anyone who has bothered to read any comic of mine. I wish I could tell you more, but I can't. I have to pretend like I'm not overly sentimental because we're in public. But I will say you make it worth it. I want so badly to entertain, help, and comfort people with my art. And that's what your visits mean to me, so thank you. Who knows what will happen in a year, let alone two more, but I hope to do as much as I can for you.

I still don't get why people liked the comic in the first place. And I guess I never will. And I dunno, but it seemed like girls are more into the comic than guys, at least when I was an undergrad...mysteries never to be solved.

Well, sincere thanks for visiting, you deserve a gold star.

Best hopes and wishes,

Reuxben

ZLM_HanaOnna

Why do they call her the "Flower Lady" when she's neither?

Zero Like Me [Alive] #128:
Hana Onna
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ZLM_ZacEfron

Men weep, women swoon. But mainly they just mace.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #127:
Zac Efron
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ZLM_ThatsWhat

Watch your mouth, kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #126:
That's What I Chose: Yale
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Fulltext and special features are Additionals.

YDN_zlm.Anybody

 

Zapp Brannigan, reporting.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #125:
Anybody
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The Additionals.

ZLM_IGraduatedBut

 

Out with a wimp.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #124:
I Graduated, But...
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The Additionals.

ZLM_Wardell

 

When all your parents ever do is argue about money problems, this is freaking hilarious.
Zero Like Me [Alive] #123:
The Spoogleberg Chronicles Pt.1 - Wardell
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Fun_YaleTheBrawler

Introducing...
YALE: The BRAWLER: TURBO: PLUS+: INFINITE BREAKER
PREPARE FOR BATTLE!

Battle Theme: GO!
Home Stage: 2Room

 

Battle Theme: GO!
Home Stage: 2Room - Darkworld

 

Battle Theme: GO!
Home Stage: The Outskirts - scene Mode

And what's a fighter without unlockables?

Battle Theme: GO!

Home Stage: The Outskirts - Opinion Mode
How to Unlock: Win a match at 10hp

 

Battle Theme: GO!
Home Stage: Final Destination Desk
How to Unlock: Beat the game on hard mode

"We'll sleep when we're dead" (TM)

Reuxben

ZLM_Scathe

 

Swing for two?

Zero Like Me [Alive] #122:
Scathe
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ZLM_TheHereAway

Speech bubbles is hecka underrated, yo.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #121:
The Here Away
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ZLM_Chaser

Don't do school, stay in drugs.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #120: Buiikikaesu Pt.9: Chaser
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Easter Eggs: "Yale" in panel 1. Are we breaking the fourth wall in panel 1? Tough to say...

Fun Facts: Today's setting is JE.

Baa: Had some technical difficulties earlier, so scanning inks and all that had to be delayed... How unprofessional. It breaks my heart, actually.

Ok, and with that, the introductory Buiikikaesu arc is over. And now we can all move on and rock on but you keep on singing that same song; let bygones be bygones, and you can go on and get the [hey] on. You and yo mama.

Reuxben

ZLM_TheCatReturns

With every breath....

Zero Like Me [Alive] #119:
Buiikikaesu Pt.8: The Cat Returns
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Easter Eggs: "Yale" in panel 1. Callback to this comic...

Fun Facts: Today's setting is JE. And it's probably worth repeating that today's guest star, Alexis Blight, is not based on a real person per se; her name comes from one of the rockin'est professors at Yale plus one of my old classmates, both being incredibly neat people of course, it just so happens they have cool, villainous-sounding names that I like. Coincidentally, it turns out this exact combination of names happens to be shared with a real person, apparently a college athlete, so...yeah. Sorry if you googled the real Alexis Blight and got stranded here.

Baa: I had to take a ballroom dance unit as a part of my high school's janky PE program (the highlight being bowling as the last unit of the year for students with A's) and I remember I had to waltz with a really, really stinky girl. And on top of that, she insisted on singing along to whatever annoying song was blasting in the gym. Why can't we be just like movies? Sigh...anything for an A in highschool, rite?

Zero romance, indeed.

Reuxben

ZLM_HelgaGPataki

Beware the law firm of Bwoing, Whap, and Klonk, trust me.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #118:
Buiikikaesu Pt.7: Helga G. Pataki
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Easter Eggs: "Yale" in panel 1. Hey, Arnold! and Plain White T's refs.

Fun Facts: AH! While drawing this, I played THIS on loop! YEAH!! What eerily perfect timing!

Baa: Hugs really throw me off. I dunno. The great Miron once wrote a song that perfectly captured how I feel about hugs, but alas, it's no longer up anymore--basically, hugs have sadly become severely underrated as a social interaction.

Don't just spring it on a body unless he's ready, is what I'm saying. Someone was kind enough to warn me before hugging me, which at least gave me a split second to think, Ok, how do I politely get out of this situa--*hugged*--ok, I guess we're hugging, then.

But I generally don't hug back because I'm still busy mentally bracing myself for the hug, even while it's occurring, which I'm sure freaks out the hugger, when the hug-ee is just standing there motionless, looking uncomfortable, nervous, and perhaps even constipated.

Hugs must not be such big deals. -- Miron
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na,

Reuxben

ZLM_Kokuhaku

Somebody failed sensitivity training.

Zero Like Me [Alive] #117:
Buiikikaesu Pt.6: Kokuhaku
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Easter Eggs: "Yale" in panel 1. Linkin Park logo in panel 2 bushes.

Fun Facts: Today's setting is in JE. Today's guest star is Alexis Blight. If I could make a kokuhaku myself, I think I kinda like coloring...

Baa: A music review today. I listened to Linkin Park's new album A Thousand Suns on loop while working on this, and you know what? I really like it. It's radically different from any of their prior albums, especially their first two (defining) albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora, but it actually still does feel Linkin Parky, believe it or not. Despite their efforts, there are actually still some rather strong traces of their old selves in this latest album, particularly from their previous album. "Faint," "Forgotten," "The Little Things Give You Away," (and especially) "What I've Done,"and more all feel subliminally echoed in Suns underneath their yet incredibly new sound.

Their last album, Minutes to Midnight was also a huge stylistic change-up, but I really didn't take to the album (and it blew my mind when I heard it was on various best-of lists). I've only listened to Minutes a few times and then only out of guilt for letting a long-playing gift gather dust. This latest change-up redefines Linkin Park in a refreshing and reinvigorating way. It makes all their old stuff sound a touch odd and even more dated than had been apparent after I revisited their first two albums after a long break from the band.

Listening to the new album and then listening to their first two is like returning to see your grandparents as an adult only to realize that the quaint, folksy mannerisms you remember of them from childhood visits were in fact actually racist diatribes. Ok, not really, but you get the idea. The old stuff is whack. A Thousand Suns has permanently changed my perspective on Linkin Park as well as its old, once-endearing work.

My Chemical Romance, my favorite band (ok, maybe a hair behind Motion City Soundtrack?), has been explicitly making the very band-redefining promises that Linkin Park did about Minutes and most notably Suns, but I couldn't fathom what that promise meant. Now I have seen radical change twice-over via Linkin Park (their latest twist being for the better), so now I can grasp MCR's promise to make their old, classic material feel obsolete. If they can similarly innovate, I cannot wait to hear their fourth album. My only trepidation lies in losing my present love for Three Cheers and Bullets.

Through Linkin Park, I've seen that positive redefinition can be done by a band I enjoy and am already quite familiar with, so now all eyes (well...mine) are on MCR to see what they do and how they do.

Fingers crossed for a little more A Thousand Suns, a little less Minutes to Midnight -styled innovation,

Reuxben