TITLE icon-based
CREDITS caffeinated by techies on the go
PANEL 1 (BAPPER stands up in the background while MTN. DEWD is sitting at his Macintosh computer.) CAPTION: Yet another coding session... BAPPER: Ahh.. Time for some Dew... MTN. DEWD: Grab one for me while you're up, will ya? BAPPER: Why, certainly...
PANEL 2 (BAPPER opens the fridge and pulls out a can labeled "DEW".) BAPPER: Say... what's this? Looks like this is the LAST ONE... MTN. DEWD: Oh, you wouldn't... BAPPER: Oh, yeah..?
PANEL 3.1 (Close up of BAPPER's finger opening the tab of the can.) SFX: HISSS--
PANEL 3.2 (Close up of MTN. DEWD's grimacing face.) MTN. DEWD: grrr...
PANEL 3.3 (Close up of BAPPER as he drinks the Dew.) BAPPER: glub glub glub
PANEL 4 (MTN. DEWD suddenly leaps into the air and punches BAPPER in the face.) MTN. DEWD: かい！
PANEL 5.1 (Close up of MTN. DEWD's sneaker kicking BAPPER in the chest.) BAPPER: OOF!
PANEL 5.2 (Close up of MTN. DEWD blocking a chair leg with his forearm.) MTN. DEWD: HA-!
PANEL 5.3 (Close up of a bench breaking over MTN. DEWD's head.) SFX: KRASH!
PANEL 5.4 (Close up of a chair breaking over BAPPER's head.) SFX: THUD-!
PANEL 6 (Later, BAPPER and MTN. DEWD relax on the floor, surrounded by broken furniture.) CAPTION: Later... BAPPER: Well, I'd better go get another case of Dew. MTN. DEWD: Okay. I'll order some more break-away furniture...
Commentary
This was the last icon-based strip of the original run. The steam was definitely running out as I wrapped up my college years and entered the workforce at the dawn of the dot-com gold rush. However, I had a ton of time doing this riff on melodramatic manga action sequences.
NOTE: Mtn. Dewd is yelling Japanese hiragana that would be pronounced as "Kai," which I intended as a nonsense battle cry.