"Fungus" - 10/24/2004

I'm not exactly sure what inspired me on this one, other than my constant use of the word "fungus" at the time. In terms of the comic itself, I think it's actually one of the best, though not my personal favorite. Also, if you look closely at Waka's eye in the second to last panel, you can see that his eye is a square and not a circle. Apparently your eyes become square in the Y&W universe when you're being possessed. Don't know what the logic on that one was...if there even was any logic...

"Election 2004" - 10/17/2004

As one could most likely guess from the title, this comic was inspired by the presidential election of 2004. I wanted to create a fake presidential candidate that felt at home inside the Y&W universe, so I went with General Buttox McCheeks - aka Waka's butt. I don't know about you people, but I'd vote for him!

Abraham Lincoln: A Short Biography by Timmy Thompson

Back around the end of September, one of the webcomics I frequent called "Amazing Super Powers" was holding a contest for their 2nd birthday. The basic idea was to pick your favorite comic of theirs and recreate it through any medium you wanted. Anyway, I picked a comic called "Lincoln."

For this particular comic, instead of "recreating" it, I decided to explore "backstory" by physically writing the boy in the comic's report about Abraham Lincoln. Filled with intentional spelling errors and loads of false information, the report I wrote ends with the events in the comic--bringing it all full circle. Needless to say, I didn't win the contest or any of the runner-up prizes, but I thought I'd share the biography with everyone anyway. Enjoy!

Abraham Lincoln: A Short Biography

by Timmy Thompson

Abraham Lincoln was born a one room log cabin on February 12^th, 1809. Though he was given no middle name at birth, he would later tell people his middle name was “The Bonecrusher.” In 1816, Lincoln’s family lost all of their money and land to a traveling circus. In order to support his family, Lincoln joined a semi-pro wrestling circuit. It was during his time wrestling that he took on the stage name “Honest Abe.” Wearing nothing but a top hat and overalls, Lincoln held this position for five years. However, tragedy struck when an accident in the ring caused his top hat to be permanently fused with his head. It was then that Lincoln drew inspiration from his idle, Jesse Ventura, and decided to go into politics.

In 1834, Lincoln won an election to the Illinois state legislature. He was given a Whig, but knowing he could never remove his top hat, ran a bisexual campaign instead. Lincoln was also a self taught lawyer, and was opened a bar in 1837. It was at this bar that he met his wife, Bloody Mary. The two got hitched and had some children, but a few of them died of typhoid fever when they forded the Mississippi River on a family trip to Oregon. Though he did a few things here and there, his big break wasn’t until the 1860 presidential election.

On November 6^th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16^th President of America. Unfortunately, his year long celebration party was interrupted when a war broke out in 1861. This was the Civil War, which was a result of multiple states succeeding from the Union and becoming their own country. On November 19^th, 1863 he gave the Gettysburg Address. In this speech, Lincoln declared that all those who died in the battle would be resurrected by witchcraft to fight against the Confederacy, an act that he claimed would “ensure a government would not allow its people to perish.”

Eventually, the war was won, and Lincoln undertook the job of personally reconstructing the South. He patented a new form of super-wood called “Lincoln Logs,” and the South was rebuilt by his own hands within a few weeks. However, Lincoln would unfortunately never see the creation of his theme park, “Lincolnopolis.”

On one fateful night, Lincoln and his wife Mary got into their newly purchased Ford and headed off to the theatre to see ZZ Top in concert. During the fourth song in their set, a thunderous roaring was heard by everyone as John Wilkes Booth (a supporter of the South) rode in on a giant T-Rex. With a broad sword in hand, Booth shouted “Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus!” Upon this verbal command, the well trained T-Rex grabbed Lincoln with its piercing jaws and began to devour him. Knowing his end was well at hand, Lincoln made a dying wish to free the slaves. This dying wish was immediately granted by Congress.

Today, we see Lincoln’s face on certain kinds of money, though in most cases his picture has been Photoshopped to remove the top hat (as money is too small to fit the hat in). Overall, Lincoln was a really swell guy, and without him history would surely be much different than my report.

"Fear the Dump" - 10/10/2004

...and so began the gradual decline in thought that I placed into the creation of Y&W comics. If anything, this comic somehow reminded me of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (primarily the episode involving the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past). There's definitely no connection between this comic and that episode, but I always think of that episode whenever I read this comic. Of course, if you've never seen Aqua Teen Hunger Force, let alone that episode, this whole detailed rant is probably lost on you.

"Cheap Thrills" - 10/03/2004

This comic is somewhat important to the series, as it was the first one to demonstrate just how much my own laziness would affect certain comics in the series. However, despite being influenced by laziness, the comic still manages to fit well into the style of humor seen in the Y&W comics, which is mostly due to the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever. As odd as this comic may seem, it's not the only one in the series that features an overgrown Waka, although he looks quite a bit different the next time we see him this big...

"The Zone" - 09/26/2004

I think it would be safe to say that this comic was the one to help usher in the stupid humor aspect of the series. My main inspiration for this comic came from the addiction I had to watching "The Twilight Zone" at the time. So, after watching a bunch of episodes, I asked myself, "How can I blend the philosophical introductions to the show with the humor seen within my comic." The final result of that thought process was "The Zone."

Hey, nobody said I was Socrates.

"The Greatest Invention" - 09/19/2004

With the second comic in the series, the comic slowly began to gain more ground in terms of the humor aspect. Along with that, "The Greatest Invention" is also one of the only comics in the series that mentions events from the previous one. At this point, as I stated before, the humor definitely started to show. However, as many would come to find out as the series continued, random/idiotic humor would eventually reign supreme over simple jokes.

"Him" - 09/12/2004

Though originally created many years earlier, The Yakas & The Wakas made their first online debut on September 12th, 2004 as a partner site of Yoshi Stadium. At this point in time, my basic job was to introduce the characters. I started off the first comic with the appearance of the villain Slobber, hence the title "Him." Along with that, the artwork was still somewhat crude, as I hadn't begun to devote a lot of my time to making the comics look better. Though definitely not the best comic of the series, it was a good starting point.

No School Like The Old School

Since the original "Yakas & Wakas" website no longer exists (Geocities shut down! :<), I've decided to have a Y&W Retrospective on this site! This serves two purposes:

1. To re-post all of the old Y&W comics so that they once again have a home on the Internet.

2. To have a steady stream of comics available for viewing, since I've been very lax on making new ones.

Anyway, the old comics will be re-posted on a regular basis (until they've run out) in the order they first appeared and will include a short paragraph about the creation of that particular comic (excerpted from the Y&W Collection book). So stay tuned, there's a lot of old school Yakas & Wakas headed your way!

8-Bit Journey

8-BIT JOURNEY

This is a link to my second project for my Flash Animation course. I basically super-imposed my head on top of Mega Man's body and animated him to make his way through various old NES games. Be warned that, if you choose to watch a specific game again from the credits screen, you'll have to watch everything after it as well. For some reason, when you replay specific games, the buttons stop working, but if you replay the entire movie again from the start they work fine. Never could figure out why. Other than that, enjoy!

Apocalypse 2D

APOCALYPSE 2D

Here it is! A link to Apocalypse 2D! The first of (hopefully) many more Y&W animations to follow! ENJOY!

Triforce Animation

TRIFORCE ANIMATION

This is a link to a short animation that I made for my Flash Animation course.

Zombie Survival: Your Best Defense is You

This is based on an idea that I had after seeing the IFRC's Influenza Pandemic video. It combines the original audio from that video (and some of my own audio) with images from the trailer for the book "The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks" by Max Brooks. The original videos that spawned this idea are linked below.

IRFC's Influenza Pandemic Video

"The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks" Trailer

Different Type of Flash

Judgment Merge

It's a Wish Your Heart Makes

8-Bit Humor

Part of a Balanced Outbreak

That One Time...

NO! IT'S!! NOT!!!