Hey, every locker I've ever had has made a "Ka-chunk" noise whenever I opened it. So, really, it seems the appropriate sound effect. Also, Steve's hair is actually good in the last panel! Huzzah!

Steve's method was not one that involves any funky chemicals or violence. Or at least, I don't think it did. What did that panel say, anyway?

I was considering having the end-of-arc filler be an explanation of the Wah-fez guy, but I think I'll do something else and just get it done with now. Kudos to those who can figure out his name, though. It would be in the filler, but, hey, no filler means no name for you.

This guy was first concieved one lonely September morning as I was sitting drawing concept art for Whiplash. I was quietly sketching in my green spiral labeled "The Right-Side Up Notebook" (yes, I do have an "Upside-Down Notebook." It's for plot details). In stride these two guys I know, and they try to make me be social by asking me what I'm doing. I say I'm sketching for a future webcomic idea, and am pretty quickly bombarded with cameo requests and character ideas. Not much came of it, but there was this one interesting idea for a guy "in a hairnet." From there, the dialog of the two guys goes something generally like this:

"He should have a mohawk and a hairnet!"
"Yeah! And a fez!"
"You totally need a guy with a mohawk, fez, and hairnet!"

I seem to recal actually declining the idea at start, then sketched him while going to school the next morning anyway. I showed him to them, and they liked it. Someone else suggested that he be very buff, and after a couple more times in the sketchbook, I liked him. And proceeded to write him into the script.

Sadly enough, I came to the conclusion that I didn't like the idea of a hairnet after a couple sketches. I thought it actually interfered with the other stuff on his head, and it would either be the hairnet or the mohawk and Wah fez as the focus of his cranium. So, I said, "T-H-E-M. Them. Get the picture?" and the hairnet got the axe.

Now, on to the word "Wah," which gets its own paragraph because it's so freaking important. To me, that is.

Anyhow, the word "Wah" on the fez came from one of those traffic barrels this guy I was carpooling with saw as we were going somewhere. He saw it, pointed it out, and everyone actually noticed it. We were all puzzled by what it meant, so we tried researching possible meanings. What we turned up? Not much, and certainly not much to hint on the actual meaning of the "WAH" painted on the traffic barrel. So, it became a joke of sorts between us, funny just because we had no clue what it meant. I used "Wah" a lot, such as in a project that was a visual representation of myself. I had it on the project in three places, one of which was in Gnommish. Long story short, I don't know what it means, but I laugh at it anyway.

...I'm probably going to get an e-mail one of these days with a very long explanation of what "Wah" means. That'll really spoil it.

Thanks all of you guys for that, because I think the final product looks pretty darn awesome.

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