ITTAT Archive Volume 1

This update has the first three comics from our year long foray into the world of web-comics.  I am hoping to be able to find all 19 of the original comics.  I have added commentary in italics at the bottom of each comic, making this some kind of director's cut of ITTAT.  Because the fans demanded it.  (Yes by fans I mean voices in my head)

Chronicle 1: Chuck and Jeff in Egypt for some reason.

Author: King Hawk :: Posted: Sunday Dec 4, 2005 9:49 pm

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This was the first comic ever made, and the only one that I have made. It details the time when everyone had in their profile a counter that showed how well Chuck and Jeff's trip to Japan was going.

I thought I would make a linkable comic showing more (less) accurately how their trip was going. Notice the comical misspelling of the word desert. Ha-ha.

This was something I made in a random fit of creativity that ended up starting the site. The description is fairly boring and to the point. After finding the comic on Justin's facebook, I am impressed with the shading on Chuck. What a masterpiece!  I should work on making a flamethrower app/add on for the Ipod.  I think it would sell well.

Chronicle 2: The Donut Wars
Author: vandal :: Posted: Monday Dec 5, 2005 6:19 pm

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Edit: Up top it says Author: Vandal just because he's the one who posted it to the forum. Don't let him fool you and take credit for it. This is mine!

~Feenix

This was the first one Justin made. Hey, that's me! Fantastic, let's continue. I liked the Egypt one so much that I figured we should make some more based on whatever the hell type of events we can think of.

Among the most amusing things we did in college were donut wars. My roommate Adam worked at Resnet and the girls from the Whole Donut appreciated what he did for our school's internet, so they brought him leftover donuts at night. Whatever we couldn't finish we hucked at each other, up and down Carroll Hall's wing side. One got particularly violent. I nearly lost an eye, and Joe, the unfortunate bastard, got a big ol' welt from that powdered donut. I drew Matt and Joe with help from Adam, who provided me with photos from the event. It's very true to life, except you usually can't see stink lines. Yeah, that's there because that's what happens when you die. That's it. There's no bigger joke about someone pooping himself. Twice. Nope.

It was very Civil War-like, so I decided it all happened outside. And those are suspenders around Joe's butt, not coral snakes.

On an interesting side note, I took a kruller (those long donut-type sticks) from the donut box one of those nights and put it in a hole in the parking garage wall. I just went back there two days ago and it's still there. The damn thing's been there for near 2 1/2 years. I might just have to chronicle the beast it's become... or the loosely assembled pile of mold dust it's become.

I think about that cruller whenever I park in a garage.  A very interesting science experiment for sure. Anyways, this is the first post by Justin, and it sets a standard for verbose, entertaining(hopefully) descriptions to go along with the comics.  Then again from this point forward the comics are usually based off of a real event instead of just random neuron firing in my brain.

Chronicle 3: Walker Systems Ranger
Author: jrfeenix :: Posted: Monday Dec 5, 2005 7:33 pm

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Matt works at an IT place called Walker Systems. Guess where that joke went. Oh, you've already seen the picture? Stop guessing, you're wasting all our times.

Anyway, Justin (me again) made this one, too. The sticky swamps and the IT beast are both from the radio commercial, and the Chinese guy is an actual story. Apparently one of Matt's coworkers got paid a week's salary for 6 hours worth of off-hour support trying to get this guy online in his hotel room. It happened two nights in a row, same guy, same thing. So that's what that is.

Matt often wears blouses, which is why he doesn't have a collar. Seriously. I purposely left off the collar because Matt dresses like women. I'm also not shifting my eyes from side to side while I type this.

Jeff told me he's working on a chronicle of our eventful trip to Toronto during the SARS scare, or the even scarier era that was Avril Lavigne's popularity spike. It should be great if he ever gets around to it.

Walker systems definitely had some more incidents that would have made great comics.  From the laptop boat driver to some interesting vocabulary choices, it was an interesting place, as you can see from its depiction here...  The "office" is very new wave, it is a loud fuchsia carpet outside.  If rain threatens to destroy the electronics, Chuck Norris threatens it back.  (I apologize for the Chuck Norris "joke"  I have to work with the material I'm given.

This comic starts the running joke that Matt dresses like a girl.  It apparently started as an interesting drawing choice by Justin, but was then turned into a campaign to get Matt to draw something, anything for the site.  It failed time and again.  So the joke continued, perhaps out of spite.  Continually failing to generate comics at a breakneck speed of one a week was the death rips for ITTAT in hindsight.


Ironically, Matt actually did start his own comic, after ITTAT closed its doors, perhaps just to spite us.  In any case, you can check it out here.