Group Anthrax

Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 1:25 AM

Okay, let's try this again! I just finished putting up my old comic Group Anthrax. Ooof, this was rough to re-visit. Tsuki's Shorts was fun to look back at, but Group Anthrax was, despite being less old, a rough ride.

Anyway, 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!

Okay, what do we need to add next? OH. Oh no...oh no... - Sonic