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The one that started it all. Except for Swamp Opossum, an even
EARLIER comic which was done only in pencil. (There's a pencil
run of FSR too. Trust me, it looks even crappier than this.)
I love these characters, and they WILL return someday.
Issue 1: Mylar Attacks!-
January 2000 - First Reiko comic in ink! Back then, I was
doing it with old fashioned pens you actually dip in inkwells.
Those are supposed to be really good if you get skilled with
them, which I did not do.
Issue 2: Reiko In Lust-
February 2000 - Mentos is introduced. Mentos started off as
a parody of Mendou from Urusei Yatsura, while ALSO being a
parody of "Lendo" from Ninja High School, and NHS's
penchant for ripping off Takahashi characters in general.
Issue 3: Potchari Sweat-
March 2000 - Yay, Potchari! I didn't really know how to draw
hot plump girls back then, so she actually looks pretty skinny
except for her stomach. I really like this one because I got
to do my big "fuck you" to the diet companies.
Issue 4: When Millionaires
Attack- April 2000 - This was the first inked FSR that
wasn't just a redraw of something I did in 1998-1999.
Issue 5: Demon-Streaked Dress-
May 2000 - Yui gets her chance to shine (pronounced "shee-nay").
Fun fact: Like a lot of FSR characters, Yui started off as
a spoof of some character or other. In this case it was "Molly"
(or whatever her real name is) from Sailor Moon.
Issue 6: There's Something
About Mariko- June 2000 - The beginning of the M/M relationship.
I do think they're cute together.
Issue 7: Triumph of the Wool-
July 2000 - After doing a couple stories with the Mylarians,
I wanted to actually show Planet Mylar.
Issue 8: A New Student Comes
to Musashi High- July 2000 - Bob Floy gets introduced.
Fun fact 2: Originally, he was a joke on stereotypes of Americans,
huge and hyper-patriotic and completely clueless about the
rest of the world. But I realized it wouldn't make any sense
for him to speak Japanese, so he became a fanboy instead.
Issue 9: Futurmama- August
2000 - Another Sailor Moon thing. Remember this was from 2000,
when anime in the US was DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokemon.
Issue 10: Jigoku Sensei
Michael Jackson- October 2000 - I mispelled it "Micheal
Jackson" when I first put this page up, and I got so
many hits from people mistyping his name into Google. And
I guess now I will again.
Issue 11: Valley of the
Idols- November 2000 - Big space war issue!
Issue 12: The Death and
Return and Death and Return of Shige- December 2000 -
More with Shige and Potchari. They're hard to write for because
they don't really have a lot of conflict or problems. They're
just this really loving couple, which is boring.
Issue 13: Chocolate Bundam-February
2001 - A Valentine's Day story. Like all lonely people, I
hate Valentine's Day, so there's a lot of carnage, buildings
blowing up, glass being eaten, etc. I rarely try to coordinate
stories with specific dates, because I'm never sure when I'll
have them done.
Issue 14: Yuugi Nights-April
2001 - Another one of those stories that's a straight-up spoof
of one particular thing. I don't do these so much anymore.
Issue 15: Gold Miners of
Aught One- May 2001 - Partly based on a fairy tale and
partly on a bizarre manga called "Otenki no Oneesan",
which features a character very much like this issue's Psyko.
Issue 16: Nihao My Ballkicker-
June 2001 - I had to get around to Ranma 1/2 sooner or later.
I used to be a big fan of Takahashi, but it's dropped of recently
as I've become aware of more series.
Issue 17: The Sandwich
Horror- August 2001 - These next two issues are the closest
I've ever done to doing a two-parter. They're connected, but
not really related at all.
Issue 18: Project A-hab-
September 2001 - Part two of the big "Summer Job"
thing. This one's interesting because it contains a reference
to my favorite manga, One Piece, done at a time when I had
no idea what it was except that it was about pirates. I wouldn't
actually read the series until months later.
Issue 19: They Might Be
A Giant- November 2001 - John Rocker is crushed to death.
Whee!
Issue 20: The Silence of
the Penguins- December 2001 - Introduction of Kenichi's
father, and a little insight into why he's so messed up.
Issue 21: Calista Flockhart
Should Eat More Fatty Foods- February 2002 - The final
regular volume of FSR, in which we meet the Earthketeers!
Looking back at this, it comes off as really nasty and right-wing
towards environmentalists. You'd never guess that I'm a radical
socialist myself. On the plus side, the FA message comes through
pretty well.
FSR Return Special: A
New Hope- May 2004 - The new hope was that SLG would publish
this.... Oh well, it was nice to draw them again! That's all
for the series until someday....
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