Jimmy’s “Mugging Monday”

Whew! I finally got this thing done! This took me.. waaaay longer than it should have. Like.. three days or something. I was struggling on what style to go with. There was experimentation everywhere. In fact, I’m probably going to come back to this just to slap a background to the panels without any just so it’s not that jarring going from my faux artsy first two panels. Also, I just realized I forgot to put an item on the cafe special thing. Will have to figure that out later.. Also, screw hands.

Context: Uh.. So this is my Massacre Monday comic! On the second day, we wound up releasing every Pokemon except for one Tympole, and I think one Purrloin that’s in the PC. I was pretty bummed out by it, and was kind of at a loss as to how I’d even be able to do anything regarding the trainer, but.. I figured something out. And it’s all thanks to the super unpolished comic I put up a while ago.

I know lots of people prefer that he slaughtered them or something, but in my head canon, our trainer’s a little bit more than just a big nerd. He used to be a hikkomori (before going on this adventure) (whoops, I forgot to draw some bags under his eyes..). So this meek dude didn’t exactly strike me as the type to just slaughter his Pokemon.

Also, I kept envisioning a very young David Cross to be playing Jimmy, here.

The color of our trainer’s cap is based off /u/Everyle’s comic done a while ago.