Treating this like a fresh start, and rightfully so, I haven’t done a comic in quite some time. Figure I’d stay away from color for a while I hammer out this style. Enjoy this for now, I’ll have another one soon.

You HAVEN’T heard the news about the leaked iPhone? Consider this post officially informative!

Fun fact: In between these two comics, I attempted to make an ongoing series of quickly made news related comics. I was using Flash to get clean lines and to easily duplicate frames (using Mall Monkeys as the example. P.S., I miss Mall Monkeys) and even finished a rough draft. As you can obviously tell, it never got off the ground, but the idea was always floating around.

And now you know.

Side note: Mark helped me with this one to figure out the best news story to go with. I had a total of three and settled on this one as per his suggestion.

Apple is having a press event this Wednesday which will more than likely (finally) unveil it’s new tablet device. Despite having no idea what the actual product does, people are are willing to fork down big money towards it. I barely do that with games, let alone devices that might range up to $1000. Yikes.

Fun fact: Got the rough idea for this one shortly before Mark moved out, but ended up filing it under rejected when I couldn’t make it work. Good thing I still have the ideas saved (or is it?).

Exposition: This is the very first comic I actually wrote in that comic ideas file, way back when (the day after that comic, actually). I always intended on doing this comic, but I figure I’d save it for a rainy day. Well, unfortunately, the iPhone 3Gs now does video, and it sort of killed the comic, but I kept it locked away, since the original 3G model doesn’t do video at all.

Since I couldn’t come up with anything else this week, and I don’t want to go a week without a comic (so far so good!), I whipped this up in a short two hours for your pleasure. Would have been an hour and a half had I decided to stick with a retro black and white (you can check it here to see what the comic may have looked like back in 2008!) but I figure I’d keep the color ball rolling.

Hopefully I’ll have a new comic Monday … If I can think of anything.

P.S.: Real conversation. Whimper and all.

New iPhone comes out this week. I don’t think I need to say anything more than what I’ve said in the comic. You can check out the iPhone comic I made last year too, and wow, have things gotten better for the look of the comic. Yeesh.

iPhone 3G is coming to Canada on July 11th, Ben will be out west. Oh, the hilarity.