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The fourth installment of my new un-Henson-sanctioned Muppet strip.

This time around, it helps your understanding of the gag if you know a little about the late comedian John Belushi. He HATED the Muppets (which was a conflict for me, because I respected them and him alike). When he died of a drug overdose in 1982, journalist Bob Woodward (the guy who along with journalist Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story in the 70's) wrote a scathing biography about Belushi that focused on his drug use.

The book I drew for the fourth panel of this strip is a very close approximation to what the cover of Belushi's bio looked like, all the way down to the fonts and colors. The swatch of pink behind Ploobis I actually pilfered from the actual Belushi bio cover.

While Belushi's book was titled "Wired," it seemed only appropriate that a self destructive Muppet's bio would be similarly titled "Arm Wired." Though I admit to that title being somewhat inappropriate, given that Ploobis didn't require arm wires due to his being a "live hand" puppet. Yes, I realize how big a nerd I am. I don't need you to point it out.

Oh, and major Muppet nerd points to anyone who gets the gag about the author of Ploobis' bio and the book he'd previously written.

I'm fast finding out that unlike in the old SNL sketches, Scred is proving himself the smarter of the two. That's a good dynamic, I think. Though I won't hesitate to have Scred involved in his own mishaps at some point in the strip.

I'm enjoying drawing these characters, but man, are they complicated, design-wise. Perhaps I should have chosen some simpler Muppets to create a strip around. Like this white wire-faced guys against the black backdrop who used to be shown on Sesame Street way back in the day. Of course, then my black marker budget would go through the roof....

Description
The fourth installment of my new un-Henson-sanctioned Muppet strip.

This time around, it helps your understanding of the gag if you know a little about the late comedian John Belushi. He HATED the Muppets (which was a conflict for me, because I respected them and him alike). When he died of a drug overdose in 1982, journalist Bob Woodward (the guy who along with journalist Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate story in the 70's) wrote a scathing biography about Belushi that focused on his drug use.

The book I drew for the fourth panel of this strip is a very close approximation to what the cover of Belushi's bio looked like, all the way down to the fonts and colors. The swatch of pink behind Ploobis I actually pilfered from the actual Belushi bio cover.

While Belushi's book was titled "Wired," it seemed only appropriate that a self destructive Muppet's bio would be similarly titled "Arm Wired." Though I admit to that title being somewhat inappropriate, given that Ploobis didn't require arm wires due to his being a "live hand" puppet. Yes, I realize how big a nerd I am. I don't need you to point it out.

Oh, and major Muppet nerd points to anyone who gets the gag about the author of Ploobis' bio and the book he'd previously written.

I'm fast finding out that unlike in the old SNL sketches, Scred is proving himself the smarter of the two. That's a good dynamic, I think. Though I won't hesitate to have Scred involved in his own mishaps at some point in the strip.

I'm enjoying drawing these characters, but man, are they complicated, design-wise. Perhaps I should have chosen some simpler Muppets to create a strip around. Like this white wire-faced guys against the black backdrop who used to be shown on Sesame Street way back in the day. Of course, then my black marker budget would go through the roof....