Darling Snarl

Hot Tip — Eternal Beach City

Added 2025-09-23 00:41:26 +0000 UTC

I gotta say, for the first panel, the siren song that is drawing a Tex Avery-style wolf reaction face called to me like hype-fueled market manipulation calls to a crypto bro. That is to say, it felt virtually irresistible but I knew it would hurt things in the long run.

I’m going to be getting a little into the dry business of comedy craft. So, forgive me in advance for lecture time. But, the problem with doing an all-out reaction face like that in the first panel is that it doesn’t leave much room for escalation. Basically, where do you go from there? A Tex Avery cartoon can get away with doing this in the midpoint of a short because the laws of physics are going to be continually subverted in increasingly unexpected ways. Physics in the world of Eternal Beach City are certainly more on the cartoony side than Neil deGrasse Buzzkill would let slide, but I like to keep some rules in place. Otherwise, it kinda fucks with how well you can keep any character development from feeling at all significant or relevant.

I could go on (believe me, I really could) but I should wrap this up so I can post the comic. If you wanna hear more, why don’t you have me on your podcast? I don’t ever care what it’s about. I’ll be anyone’s guest. Hell, I’ll be on your crypto podcast if ya really want. Who knows, maybe it is the future. But you’ll probably hear “yeaaah, I dunno, man” a lot outta me during the episode.