Vito Delsante

Art by Tom Williams.

Here’s that other moment that I mentioned last week; Eric sees a girl that catches his eye and the first thing he thinks is, “I should totally talk to her.”  When I was single, that was totally me.  I wanted to just say hello, to maybe catch a spark and then both run off, skip work and get a slice of cheesecake or something.  Never happened.  Actually, it almost happened twice.  Once, I got the nerve to ask a girl if she was an actor; she just carried herself in a way that seemed like someone who studied for the stage.  She said no, but she was intrigued by the notion that someone would pick that vocation for her.  So, we began to talk.  I don’t remember much of it now, but I do remember thinking, “She looks like Wonder Woman,” meaning she looked like Lynda Carter…or Lynda Carter’s daughter.  Anyway, she got off a few stops later, and I kicked myself for not following.  I’ll get into the why nots and another story on Thursday.

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Copyright © 2011, Vito Delsante & Tom Williams

Art by Tom Williams.

No behind the scenes note for this page, but I’m sure we can all relate to that feeling of waking up at exactly the wrong time to get to work or an interview or some other important meet up.

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See you Thursday for Page 6.

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Art by Tom Williams.  How ’bout that last panel, huh?

There’s no real “behind the scenes” commentary to make for this page (unless Tom has something to say).  We never really said what happened to Eric and Gretchen.  Not explicitly, anyway.  I always assumed she died in a plane crash that Eric survived (at least, that’s what I think happened), but reading this, you might think that Gretchen moved away and Eric is afraid to fly.

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Copyright © 2011, Vito Delsante & Tom Williams

Art by Tom Williams

It’s been almost five years since this page saw it’s debut at the Chemistry Set. I miss that site and those creators something awful, but I’ll keep that to another post.

Why post these now? Well, maybe we’ll get more eyes on the strip. Maybe we can convince Tom to do more (the 36 pages/three chapters you’ll see are NOT the end of the story). Or maybe, I just wanted to have content on this site that wasn’t just me talking. Between this, the 100 Characters Challenge and the forthcoming Aquarian 7 strip, I (should) have enough to keep you all entertained for the entire year.

I hope.

So, let’s try something different here. I’ll give some behind the scenes writer’s commentary for each page…at least what I can remember.

• I “met” Tom via LiveJournal via the Batgirl meme of 2006. Originally, I was going to ask Dean Trippe (whom I also met via the same meme) to do this with me, but a few months earlier, he was tapped by Dean Haspiel to do a strip for the second wave of Act-I-Vate. Trippe and I ended up doing some Butterfly stories, so I still got to work with him.
• Eric Pitzer is the name of the bartender we focused on in the first chapter. He was, unwittingly, named after AdHouse Books publisher, Chris Pitzer. Kind of resembles him, too.
• This scene takes place in Brooklyn, probably the Carroll Gardens area, due to the fact that at the time, I was always hanging out in Dean Haspiel’s neighborhood.
• Bunta and Cross, from the law firm, were two classmates of mine in high school.
• Original Date of Publication: August 7, 2006 (or, 8/7/6).

Page Two will be up on Thursday. Hope to see you then.

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