Evil Jim: Week Sixty-Three
05-31-04 through 06-04-04

EJ183

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EJ184

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EJ185

Artist's Commentary:

183

The music selection is my personal favorite song from .hack//SIGN. There's this one haunting rendition of it on the third soundtrack for that series that works perfectly here. The lyrics are great, aren't they? It's sorta Evil Penguin taunting Jim via the song.

Yes, the countdown clock is the same font used on 24.

This would have been the Friday cliffhanger from the week before, but as I mentioned in the last page, I wasn't able to do three complete strips that week.

I really regret shrinking Jen and Jim Classic in the third and fourth panels. It's my own fault for making a ten-panel strip in the first place. I even went into the detail of Jen's facial expression, but you can barely make it out.

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And now I pull a West Wing! Yes, we're going back in time to retell the part of the story you haven't seen yet. Juli had something to say about this: "You not only killed me, you killed me out of continuity order!"

The joke here is, that despite the training of the Student Council, Evil Jim's minions are winning because they're so untrained and chaotic, the Student Council isn't used to fighitng such opponents. Therefore, they're winning thanks to their incompetence. The codenames in this strip: Art's is from a character in Utena, EP's is, appropriately, Tuxedo, and 666 is, even more appropriately, Diablo, after the first-person shooter of the same name.

Screens on either side of EP's monitoring wall: The Hello Kitty website, and the Evil Penguin main page.

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For you non-gamers: "Friendly fire" is a mode in which your own teammates will be vulnerable to your attacks if that mode is switched on. If it's off, you can shoot them all you like, but nobody on your side can be injured.

I figured, if anybody had a WMD on this campus, it would be Alex's crazy housemates Tom and Rob.

See the tie-in to EJ181? The "SHOOM!" is in the same font and everything. This shows that Jim's friends DID help Jim by knocking the door open to the control room. But, sadly, Jim still was too late to do anything to stop it.