A couple of months into the initial run of Poonheads, I had just moved into my own apartment (and by 'my own', I mean 'with roomates') and things were just kicking into full gear. Maybe a week after that, we took a trip to A-kon in Dallas. I had pretty much gone every year since I was a sophomore in highschool, but this would be the first one the poonheads rocked together. So, when I got back, I drew this up based on our adventure. Ah, what it was to be young and naive!
References this comic: (http://www.poonheads.com/comics/?id=akon)
DO IT!
Boy... let me tell you... A-kon was a blast and this strip here pretty much sums it up fairly well. An alternate title would have been "Poonheads do Dallas" but it's too late now, to change it... Oh well.
A lot of things happened on our trip to Dallas, but when the strip began reached 12 panels, I thought I might have over done it. So I added a 13th panel just for kicks. Some things that I didn't mention in the strip are as follows:
We basically had two rooms: One room was chick type people and the other for non chick type people. In the end, we all ended up staying in the chick room cuz hey... who wants to stay in a room with all guys? That'd be gay... Pillboy crashed under the table in a giant Pillboy burrito. Also it was Seth, who you people don't know, that created our now infamous slogan of "DO IT" in the notorious Brooklyn accent. Whilest giving credit where credit is due... lets not forget to credit Aly for the Whale spooge incident.
At one point in time, I got pissed off because I had to climb 12 flights of stairs only to be greated with a "We don't like you" when I got to my friend's door... so I hung out in the stair well for a while where I met some dude from Antarctic Press.
What else? What else? Sterling cosplayed as Faust from Guilty Gear and did a damn good job of it! Hell yeah! Couldn't see for shit, but he rocked hardcore!
Also, on the way back, one of the cars suffered a blowout and did crazy things on the highway. I wasnt' there because I was in a different car. Pillboy tells me that because the spare tire was flat, they had to go to 6 different gas stations to find a working air pump before they could fix it. Crazy!
Now on to a play by play of the comic:
This would be the first comic that I've drawn in quite some time, so that art, as a whole isn't quite up to par, but there are some panels that I'm actually very happy with.
The first panel is just kind of a set up for the chaos to come.
Second Panel: On thursday, while I waited for everyone else to arrive, I rode the escalators up and down over and over, and eventually got KICKED OFF THE ESCALTORS.... After that... we repeatedly got scolded by A-kon security to "not clump in front of the escalators". So we would yell at everyone who was standing around: "NO CLUMPING". We can be such asses...
Third panel: This totally happened, and we are so hardcore.
Fourth panel: Yeah... We met Fred Gallagher who said we could use our flyer. It shows Danzig beating up Piro from Megatokyo. First of all. I LIKE Megatokyo... so quit bitching. It was a joke... Even FRED got that... but all you damned whinny MT people are all like, "This is a flyer of my favorite webcomic character getting his ass kicked... it's so not cool... I think I'm gonna go cry..." IT'S A FUCKING JOKE! COME ON PEOPLE! Christ! Fred was okay with it! You fuckers should be okay with it, too! We tried to hand out the flyers in the Megatokyo line and all the MT fans are WAY too touchy... Anyways. When we met up with Fred, we were in costume, so it's a bit not real... but you know.. that's pretty much how it happened...
Fifth Panel: We had a LONG conversation about whale spooge in a hotel room one evening. So the ocean is salty. Because of whale spooge. And if you drink it, you get whale dick, which causes your dick to swell up to the size of a VW beatle. Also, you ejaculate enough semen to fill a swimming pool. And when I let loose my Whale mating call, Pillboy thought he heard a whale cream its panties... So if ever you see me out in a boat... I'm probably trying to score with a whale...
Sixth Panel: Pillboy Cosplayed as Pyramid head and rocked hardcore. He kept talking about doing the thing that is described in the comic here... And then we met the leaf chick... The leaf chick is a chick that was wearing leafs... that's it. She was hot. Unfortunately, she was probably under age. But since we didnt' score with her, there's no problems there, right? Anyways, we gave here and here friend, the towel chick, a poonheads flyer. Pyramid Head never actually went bananas... but it's a funny story for a comic strip. And Leaf chick... if you're reading this, and you happen to be over 18... Drop me a line ;D
Seventh Panel: Using Seth's brilliant slogan... Pillboy, Joey and my brother, set out with our flyers and harassed everyone in sight. In a false New Yorkian accent, these three brave men met new people and annoyed them to death, driving my web hits up at least 3 fold. Anyone who actually came to this site because of this campaign must be crazy, and I would like to talk to them in person. Anyways... Along with the help of all the chicks in our party, they soon gave out all of our original 500 flyers, so we were forced to make an additional 160 flyers in the business center of the hotel. The chick there was really nice and helpful and not a bad looker, either. She, also, should feel free to drop me a line if she reads this ;D
Eighth Panel: We have furries... and we have people with signs... I hate them both... Then we have me with this pomade crap in my hair... so then chicks attack my hair and say I should fro it up... which I do. Then they say that it looks like I just got laid... The security gaurds already think my Poon (which is only tang and water) is alcoholic... Man... the implications of this strip are just... there are so many, and all of them would be accurate.
Nineth Panel:Someone had this brilliant idea to play Twister in the middle of the hallway... so after we got booted from the lobby, we went and played in the hallway in front of the room... Well, after a while, someone filed a complaint, and Mr. Security gaurd came up to see what was the matter. Everyone ran into the room and left Tatum to fend for herself. Of course dipshit (Joey) was still yelling "DO IT" at the security gaurd who was fairly cool about the whole thing who just told us to quite down instead of kicking us out and "STOP CLUMPING" like the kon staff would have.
Tenth Panel: Fairly self explainatory... except that the ONE piece of hentai that Sterling actually bought didn't actually contain any actual naughty pictures once he got into the shrink wrap... Irony? I think so. I just thought it made for a funny panel. We were all talking about what we would do when we finally found the Hentai booth, whilest we were on our "quest for porn".
Eleventh Panel: At one point in time, we thought about staging a publicity stunt near the Rocky Horror line in which Pillboy's pants would get stolen and flyers would fly out... but then we though he might get kicked out... So instead we went back up to the room and something similar to this happened.
Twelveth Panel: One guy doubted my ability to deliver explosions... HA!
Thirteenth Panel: Zabak... Well... he's Zabak... Zabak was all over the place. He tried to sell us, he passed out flyers, he danced, he even got strangled by that chick from Kill Bill... I have a feeling you'll be seeing more of Zabak in the future...
Now... Other stuff:
A couple of people wanted me to post links to their sites... Now if these guys don't link back to me, I'm gonna be severely pissed...
mtekbeta.com
www.starcrossd.net
There... you can't say I'm a bad guy... for a minute there I was seriously thinking about just saying Fuck it and forgetting about them... But that would be be something only a complete ass monger would do.
And in other news... I'm tired and 2 out of 3 Poonheads agree that card games suck donkey dicks*.
* The third Poonhead was not polled on this topic.
~Ben
BTW: This year will probably be the first time we don't go to a-kon. I guess a little part of me is disappointed, but it hasn't been quite as fun the past couple of years as the Poonheads have grown, matured, and acquired diversified tastes. We've just got better things to do, I supposed.