Link to remastered complete version:
https://mega.nz/#!j6gQSSaZ!j6ts0lRtlAu_iCiGO74x4FdUwejCNw2SgsKRG4J-PBs
If you get a pop up asking for the key, it's j6ts0lRtlAu_iCiGO74x4FdUwejCNw2SgsKRG4J-PBs
Now the background (lots of powerleveling below, sorry...)
Years ago I was bored at work and decided to do Issue 11 myself, since Chris was more interested in his new-found celebrity (this is when he had the mailbag and was interacting more with people) and had no apparent intention of continuing the comics. I was more involved in trolling then via the PVCC forums. I also regularly posted questions and interacted with Chris via different online personas. I really didn't have a lot of work to keep my busy....
I thought it would be a matter of just going to the Walgreens down the street from my office and buying some Crayola markers and then scribbling whatever bullshit came to mind.
It was a bit more involved than that. As I started thinking of the story and how it should go, I decided to start with a very CWCian comic full of his tropes - long-ass walls of text to describe battles that would otherwise take more effort to draw, all of his favorite perversions, little callbacks to some of his comics like the honeymoon comic where he actually traced his duck, etc. I tried to incorporate as many CWC-isms as possible, down to the spelling and continuity errors.
And as the comic progressed, the last few pages are quite different. Not just in tone, but i cleaned up the spelling errors and changed the writing to be a little bit more mature. As if Chris had learned from his mistakes and was growing up. At that point, Bob had taken sick and I thought that the last page should be a farewell to Bob in which Chris had grown up, even reflected by the fact that he would draw himself without the bullshit heterochromia. Now it feels a more than a bit cruel, but I'm leaving it here for completion purposes.
The creation process took a few days. I first did very rough layouts and typed the text in Comic Sans in a Powerpoint document, then drew around the printed text. To draw like Chris does, I held the pen like he does. Still I had to refer to his comics a bunch of times to get some of the details "right". Looking at it today, I would say I got to about 80% of his style. There are definitely a lot of things that don't feel like he did them. Like, as hard as I tried, I drew things more proportional or the lines were more smooth than he would have drawn them in. And coloring with the Crayola markers was a pain.
So that was the process. I don't remember where I uploaded it first, and now it seems that the few places that still host it are missing pages or are not in the right order.
In the years since, I stopped following CWC and forgot about this comic. I found the originals when I was cleaning out my office a few weeks ago. I visited the CWC forum to catch up with his latest antics, and found a few people were still taking about it.
Anyway, here's the remastered version in high res PDF glory. All the pages are there including the cover I was too lazy to color.
https://mega.nz/#!j6gQSSaZ!j6ts0lRtlAu_iCiGO74x4FdUwejCNw2SgsKRG4J-PB
Now the really heavy powerleveling....sorry.
In the years since, I grew up a bit, and became step dad to a kid with autism. Kind of high functioning but still, clearly his brain functions very differently. He's doing semi-OK with therapy and a lot of love and attention, but it's clear that he's going to have issues all of his life. His mom and I try to teach him and support him as well as we can, and he's going to be in therapy for a long, long time, and is going to have to rely a lot on us and the love and support of his sister and family. I can only hope that he grows up to be a happy person and has the best life he possibly can.
And because of this, I stopped following Chris as closely. That, and that it just stopped being fun. Chris stopped being fun and the trolls got a lot more obsessive (remember the guy that sifted through the rubble and garbage to see what he could find?).
From my new perspective, I can empathize with Chris a lot more than I did when I was younger. I no longer blame Chris for not learning from his mistakes or falling for the same obvious tricks over and over - I see how my stepson struggles because his brain is just not wired to make sense of things like normal people do, how he has trouble understanding social cues, interacting with people, how he tends to repeat the same mistakes over and over, how he needs a lot of consistency and structure to make sense of things.
I greatly blame Bob and Barb. It was not the 40's, it was the 80's-90's and they had access to therapists and a lot of resources that they clearly did not want to take advantage of. Whether because they were really old or lazy, doesn't matter. They handicapped Chris from the beginning and didn't really give a shit about helping him.
And because of how I feel about Chris and my situation with my stepson. I don't want to keep this comic at home anymore, and having him or his mom come across it and have to go into details about why I created this or I kept it. I think us followers of Chris-Chan were and are always a bit weird and it's difficult to explain our obsession with an autistic guy who was obsessed with Pokemon and Sonic.
So instead of throwing it away, I thought, since I have had so much fun here reading about stupid people, why not give back to the community? I'm thinking about doing a raffle or something and sending the original to the winner. So post your favorite classic Sonichu or CWC moments below, I'll enter the post numbers into a list and choose one at random via an online random number generator.
