The Stinky Inkpen Goes to Jail

The Man with the Inky Octopus (Randall) succeeded in framing our hero, Stinky. Stinky, as a result of an outraged jury, was sent to jail and assigned a seat in the electric chair. Randall, under the guise of catching the elusive villain, Stinky, has taken his own seat as the right-hand-man of Mayor Graphite. As Stinky's execution draws closer, Randall's plot begins to unfold. Mayor Graphite's health slowly deteriorates as Randall carefully and slowly poisons him with the ink of his octopus. Even though Stinky catches wind of this plot, his fallen reputation with the town prevents him from doing a thing to stop the evil cackle in Randall's underwater laboratory.

The day of Inky's execution finally arrives, and Randal awaits with a devilish grin on his face. His last meal finished, Stinky steps nobly up to the electric chair and sits, eyes closed. Three. Two. One. Flip. ZZZZIIINNNN! The chair doesn't harm Stinky. Rather, Stinky seems to be absorbing power from the electricity! Stinky stands up and rips off the shackles. He shoots lightning from his fingers and kills the prison guard to escape. [Personally, I think that was murder, but who am I to judge.] He flies faster and farther than he ever has before, straight to Mayor Graphite's seaside manor! He bursts through the wall of the mayor's bedroom. [Overkill, Stinky, overkill.] Randall and Stinky stare into each others eyes. "You're dead, Randall," Stinky says ferociously over the din of the still collapsing wall. FIGHT! Booom! Bam! Zing! ELECTRICITY SOUND! Thwap! Splat! Splat! Splat! Hee-Haw! Bang! Kaapow!!!

Randall is dead. Stinky rushes to the bed of the Mayor, who is trembling in fear at Stinky's ("the evil villain") invasion. Stinky with his new-found powers, bends over the Mayor's would-be death bed and plants a single healing kiss on his forehead. What ensued next was a really awkward minute or two. But as Mayor Graphite's health slowly returned, awkwardness subsided. Stinky explained to Mayor Graphite the circumstances of his deteriorating health. Stinky reclaimed his name and his position within the community. Until the world needs him next, Stinky waits, ready.

I feel like this is a bad (AWESOME!) Ernest movie. Seriously. (That was me giving credit, by the way.)

The comics are finished. And so are the finals and the semester, for that matter. It's been a busy week of correcting and giving grades. I will be leaving the school tomorrow for Chiang Mai, where I hope to obtain my India visa (going March 17 through April 12, by the way) before I travel to Bangkok to meet my father. The comics are not quite what I expected from the rough drafts and hero ideas I received at the beginning of this project, but they are definitely fun pieces of work. My last love being sent from Phayao:

There are many more where this came from.

Goodbye, Phayao!

I will miss the friendships and the place.

Just not so much the school, its policies, and its more permanent employees!