Group Anthrax

When a wave of blue light traversed the globe, the first thought of many was that it was an attack of some sort. But when the results were stranger than any attack, individuals would need to band together as they themselves, and the world, changed.

So this was the first comic with an actual storyline I tried to produce. I posted it from November 2005 to May 2009. One time, someone told me that people called our high school friend group "Group Anthrax" because "The entire school could get anthrax, and we would keep laughing and joking." I loved that idea, and stole the name for this comic...which was meant to be about a group of friends banding together in the face of worldwide transformations. Eh, we almost sorta got there.

Chapter 1, Page 13

January 25, 2018 - 9:10 PM

Oof! Taste the crowd scene! Taste it!

Wow. That is a lot of white teenagers. Then again, with the high school I went to...still. Yeesh.

January 25, 2018 - 9:10 PM

Everyone is SHOCKINGLY CAVALIER ABOUT THIS. Which is actually the point.

Okay, let's talk about the name of the comic! My group of friends in high school was the large group of people that didn't fit in anywhere else. We were the anime nerds, the geeks, the people who made videos. You were an outsider? Great! We hang out in the mornings by the gym! You can't miss us, we're the giant pile of people on the floor! Hope to see you there! We got to be such a big, vaguely adjacent group that I affectionately dubbed it "The Amoeba," heh, which did catch on for just a bit!

Regardless of what I called us, though, one of my friends overheard a way, way better name. Apparently, according to this person, the entire school could get anthrax, and our group would just keep laughing and joking and whatever like a pile of jackasses. Apparently, we were known in the school as Group Anthrax. And I loved that name. So when I was writing a story about a worldwide transformation affecting not every individual, but a very significant percentage of people focusing on a group of friends pulling together and leaning on each other for strength and joy, and the entire cast was meant to be based on my friends (names, likenesses, their answers to what they would be if they were transformed into what they really were inside)...Well, talk about a shoe-in of a name!