After a little over a year of playing with StripCreator, it occured to me that I've never posted a single comic in the RMDC forums. Aside from a few competition comics, I don't post them. So, this is why I say it's an "introduction", because I have never really exposed my comics to others, they've just sort of been there with people reading them as they come across them and occasionally saying nice things about them, for which I am thankful.

When I started using Stripcreator I, like many others, had the bright idea that I wanted to do a continuous series with the same characters and setting, but I quickly abandoned it. I like my early comics, but for some reason I just couldn't keep doing it, so I guess I have a respect for any comic author (whether on this amateur level or on a professional level) who manages to keep writing a routine comic, doing it well, and not going insane. I have an unusual sense of humor in that sometimes I like conventional comics and other times I like to make crude "anti-humor" style comics that are just random, silly, and intentionally stupid. I've also toyed with some series which are pretty much ongoing things, although a few I haven't touched in awhile.
Enough of my jibber-jabber...here's a few of my recent ones I enjoyed making.

When Goths Date (1) by pslock 3-10-05

Oh...the dark of my soul is truly darker today than it was yesterday. My love for you is as tainted as an unpreserved cheese. My blood flows verily onto the ground from where you dark soul doth wound me, and your lips....wait a sec... What?? Did you just say your love was "as tainted as an unpreserved cheese?" Yes...verily so.. Yeah, enough with the verily. Umm..where did you come up with that line?

When Goths Date (2) by pslock 3-10-05

I thought it worked for the moment. I mean, not everything out of my mouth is fuckin' ANDREW ELDRITCH, OK? But "unpreserved cheese?" I mean...you're not even trying. It's as if you don't really have a brooding, intense, dark lust for me. I do have all of that stuff! It's just hard to constantly make it sound like it's a horrible, nasty, pus-filled thing. Look, my love for you is perfectly dark and morbid and inspired by the souls of the recently departed and their rotting flesh. Your love sounds like it was inspired by....LUNCH or something! Fucking hell, do I HAVE to open a friggin' VEIN here?? I'll bleed onto this cold, hard, empty ground if it will bring thee verily back into my arms... ENOUGH WITH THE VERILY, MR. PETER MURPHY.

When Goths Date (3) by pslock 3-10-05

Look, how much clearer can I be? My love for you is like a dark vaccuum of a thousands screams echoing from the inside of a tomb! If only I could believe that... My love cannot be given so easily, for it is infested with maggots and pines for the black storms to come, whilst.. Alright, wait, wait... Can't we just drop this? Do we really have to keep talking like this? Look, I like you a lot, so let's go watch "Touched By An Angel" together and have some popcorn... Oh my god! Do mean that one episode with the adopted child? It was SOOO sad! But then it got happy at the end! Yeah, let's go now! It comes on in, like, 15 minutes! Ok...lemme stop home real quick to get that new Lindsay Lohan CD...you'll love it!! It totally rocks!

Suspicious Realty Inc. Ltd. by pslock 3-17-05

...and over here you can put your entertainment center, and your catbox, and.. Uh, sir?? We're....underwater. Oh, no, no!! It's just incredibly humid in this area of town today...this house has a bit of a moisture problem, we've acknowledged that... No, dude...we're under WATER. I mean, look, there's a shark right over there! We've got exterminators for that. ....

Defining Moments by pslock 3-19-05

Ok...can't screw this up. C'mon..get it right....oh god, here he comes...OK. Relax...just compose myself... Can I help you sir? Yes, uhh....I'd like a condoms of box...I mean...SHIT! SHIT!! I...I mean.. Gimmie a sec.. HEY AL!! DO WE HAVE THE CONDOM SHIPMENT YET??? No, no!! Shh..! I mean, I wanted a box of...uh..nipples..NEEDLES! I mean needles!! And some fondling..FLOWERS!

Sandwiches by pslock 3-02-05

This is a really awesome sandwich! Care for a bit of garnish? Say... ...a bit of mustard? Or perhaps, freshly crushed pepper? Some dressing perhaps? Are you always carrying that stuff around with you? Why do you think I bought this ugly coat? Sex appeal?

All of my "Working Retail" comics are, like so many comics around here, just me letting off some steam in regards to my job as customer service-y type person in a retail store. Every single comic I make in this series is based on or inspired by a 100% true experience I've had (or keep having) while at work.
I think there's a place for the retail environment in the world, but I really hate the vapid, mindless consumerism that has been so thoroughly bred into so many Americans. It really does make people stupid. Seriously.

Working Retail by pslock 2-05-05

8:59 AM SATURDAY Guess I better open the store.... 9:00 AM SATURDAY OMG MISTER HAS YUGIOH STARTED YET? IM HERE FOR YUGIOH SAY DO YOU GUYS HAVE THE NEW BLACK THUMBS RED EAR LOBES THOMPSONS GAZELLE CARDS? LIKE OMG THOSE ARE THE COOLEST AND YOU CAN WIN GAMES AND...AND.. 9:30 AM SATURDAY Must...resist...urge...to...kill. Suppress...hate. Become.... super...villian. LIKE WOW ITS MY FRIEND TIM AND HES GOT DESTINY BOARD RAREZ DO YOU GUYS SELL THOSE RAREZ, HUH? CUZ WHEN I WAS AT WAL-MART I SAW THIS RARE CARD...AND..AND..

Working Retail by pslock 1-26-05

OMFG!!! WHERE THE FUCK IS ALIEN VERSUS THE PREDATORS?? LIKE IT'S NOT HERE ANYWHERE!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!! Actually, it's right there in the 'A's. WHAT??? Oh. I was looking in the 'R's. Thanks. .... First Daughter also came out today.

Working Retail by pslock 3-16-05

Umm..I need to return this cd player... What's wrong with it? Well, the volume goes up too loud. Uhhh.....so, why not just NOT turn the volume all the way up? That's why there's a VOLUME CONTROL. Wait...what?? You're not breeding, are you?

Working Retail by pslock 2-15-05

Witness the tremendous willpower and control over himself that the average consumer has! Oh MY GOD!! I AM SO UTTERY OFFENDED BY THIS STORE!! YOU PEOPLE ARE TERRIBLE!! I AM NOT COMING BACK HERE EVER AGAIN!! I WILL VOTE WITH MY DOLLAR!!!! Ok. The next day. *whistling* A few days later. Umm...where's your books on insects. Pussy.

These are really good.

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Cherie M. Scott

I enjoyed reading these comics.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I like them too. Good job. And welcome to RMDC.

Little tip: put spaces after (before, in the middle of, wherever) your ellipses to avoid widening the panel like in the first retail comic you posted.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

Funny like burlap! :D

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I dumb :D

It's about time you posted your comics here. Good stuff, as usual.

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Think classy, you'll be classy.

Thanks for the kind words, all. And the tips.

And the nips.