Yep, my mom has made my old room her storage closet. This happen to anybody else???
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UPDATE (03/20/2012 10:18pm): The strip’s now in COLOR! (B&W version here.)
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No, there’s nothing wrong with your monitor: I didn’t have time to do the coloring on today’s strip yet, so decided to put it up in black and white so it wouldn’t be delayed any further. I figured many of you might like to see how the strip’s created, and it still works without color, so if this passes muster with you guys – let me know if you like/dislike – maybe this will become something I’ll do when I’m running late on a strip. I’ll be doing the colorizing tonight, so come back later if you’d like to see this one in its finished form!
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Also: I thought my mom/Mombot’s appearance (and her subsequent ribbing) was appropriate as her birthday arrived earlier this month! (Happy Birthday, mom!!!)
LOL, looks like my mom’s closet.
Actually, every closet in the house is like that. So is that dratted garage that I’ve been cleaning…
glad you could relate, Insectoid! you should print out this strip and leave it for your mom to find. 😉
and check you out: you’ve just achieved the Shades of Firsting yet again! wear them well/enjoy them now – they’ll probably just end up in a box in your closet, someday:
😎
Second! WOOOOOO it’s been forever since that happened.
Yes I have to agree, I get my minor hoarding from Mommy.
yep, apparently hoarding can be passed down, from parent to child, Pixie. i can vouch. heheh.
and congrats on getting that second comment! you get the Inviso-Shades of Seconding!:
Interesting new style (sort of). Also amusing…pack-rat-ness runs in the ‘bot family!
well, the comic has shifted back to color, GG! but glad you found the B&W “interesting.” heheh.
and, WOO for pack-rats! 😀
Oh yay, color! I’m not sure why, but I really missed the color of Jefbot’s shirt. Dunno why XD The coloring is great as always! Especially the use of focus in the third panel!
I’ll be willing to wait a little longer for the colored strips, but it totally makes sense to post a B&W if you’re running late (or to be stylistic…that would look so trippy XD) I just love how everything about this comic brings a smile to my face, so I can’t imagine stopping myself from reading it.
Oh no! I have no idea how I responded to the wrong message! My computer acts weird, so it must have jumped before I clicked with me noticing!
I’m so sorry Jefbot, and Geekgirl! I have no idea how to delete my message ><;
heheh. don’t worry about it, JoLee – i’m sure GG doesn’t mind us tagging along on her comment. 🙂
i’m happy you like the color, JoLee! although it would make my job much easier to do the strip in b&W, i think the color does add a lot to the strip. (plus, being on the internet, the color doesn’t cost me anything other than time.)
and i’m even more happy my strip brings a smile to your face! awesome.
Hmmm… I think I like it – you didn’t show my whole collection. 🙂
it was impossible to fit your whole collection within three panels, Mombot!
i kid, i kid!!! 😉
MOMbot is my HERO!
mine too, Pixie! 😀
Happy Anniversary of your 21st Birthday MomBot. You must have been a child bride! Yer only like what? 29?
happily, in the world of JEFbot, *all* the characters appear younger than they really are! and, yes: Mombot’s 29. 😉
Um, I’m not thrilled by it. The color in your comic really works, it just makes it pop! I think the characters are to animated and have great personalities, that it just kind of contrasts with no color.
That’s just my opinion, I still love the comic! But I think I’ll come back later to read this strip again once it’s colored to get the full effect.
no worries, JoLee – i think the color adds a lot to the strip, too, so would only use B&W to get the strip out there if i’m running behind (or if i’m doing some stylistic thing.) glad you still love the comic, though! and let me know what you think when you see the color version. 🙂
Maybe it’s because it’s the work-in-progress version, but Mombot looks proud of her little Momcave in panel 3. Also, please tell me “gift cards” is a made-up box your mom doesn’t really have (though I’d be more than willing to take them off her hands, though. Y’know, for the greater good).
at the very least she finds it humorous that bot has discovered her MomHorde, Joe! and sadly, i can’t say she doesn’t have a box full of “gift cards” and still be truthful. and more sadly: i’m accumulating my own file of such cards. O_o
I find this particularly hilarious. My hoarding/sleep-in/procrastinate habits are all completely devoid in my dad, an American, but abundantly seen in my mom, a Filipina. Every time we visit the Philippines and I see my relatives exhibiting the same things that are considered so counter-productive here in the states, I laugh and find myself thankful that half of me comes from a culture that actually likes to enjoy life. (^_^)
And on the “work-in-progress” gambit, I’d personally love to see a simple step-by-step of how you create the comic. I loved how you make sure the background’s pre-shaded before colorization to make sure the important items stand out. If there’s one graphics detail that renders 99% of great comics online unreadable, it’s a failure to grasp the importance of contrast. You sir, are among the 1%.
And before I go–happy birthday Mombot!
glad you (and your culture) could relate, UMG! while my mom definitely has the higher tendency to horde, my dad isn’t entirely devoid of such traits, as he has his own (albeit smaller) stash of junk.
and i’ve been meaning to put together a “step-by-step” of my process for doing the comic. hopefully, i can scrape together enough time to put something up (either a video or blog post) within the next month or so. thanks for commenting on the background/contrast! i’m always happy when people notice little details like that.
woo! happy bday to Mombot! 😀
Hmm, interesting, it appears that after playing some old gamboy games for several hours nonstop that everything I’m seeing is in grayscale.
Seriously though, while I’d rather wait to see the finished product I agree with the person above me. A step by step would be kinda cool to read. It could help us to get a better understanding of just how much work you put into these comics.
ha! that’s how i felt after playing Limbo for the 360, GB!
and i’m glad to see another vote for a step-by-step – i’ll try and get something out soon, thanks!
XD Sorta happened to me too, except my dad classed up the place and made it his personal storage/workspace.
heh. my dad kinda claimed my sister’s room, JeweledRose (which still doesn’t have much stuff in it) and my mom claimed mine (which does.)
I think my mom would do the same thing…if I could afford to move out. GAH! Being poor SUCKS!
i think it’s smart not rushing to move out, KB, especially in this economy. i sometimes think about how much $$$ i’d save moving back in with my parents!
nah, i use my room about once or twice every couple months. she keeps it the way i left it for when i come home. my sister’s, however, was converted to a sewing studio practically before the car engine cooled off after dropping her off at college lol.
ha! i think my mom kind of took over my room gradually, acolyte. and now that she’s taken over, there’s no way i could find room to sleep in there!
Ur not alone bot i got traits from my mom as well shes has great organizational skills and i can def. organize well its almost a bit of ocd ><
that’s cool that you inherited some organizational skillz from your mom, MrSnow. i’ve had to become more organized now that i’m doing comic conventions – it’s just crazy the amount of stuff i’ve had to accumulate (and pack away in my apartment during the off-season) to do those things!
WAH?! That’s like MY old room! Except it contains EVERYONE’S stuff. EXCEPT my family’s. Strange, isn’t it?
contains everyone’s stuff except for your family’s, ShadowShuffler? so does that mean it just contains your stuff? very strange indeed. and i dig your gravatar. 🙂
I include myself in the family!!! It’s my cousins’ (plural) stuff!
Thank you, I made it myself on an animation software. It’s a medieval T-Rex.
ah! mystery solved! i guess that’s one reason to be thankful i didn’t have any cousins living in L.A. when i was growing up, ShadowShuffler. 🙂
Damn it, I missed the black and white version, any chcance you will post it somewhere?
And sorry to burst your bubble, but nothing about *your* room has changed. It is just housing the next projects now that project offspring moved out of your mombots hair.
sure, it’s right here, Maryz: b/w version.
and, yes: it’s true. calling the room “my” room is a bit ridiculous now. i’m sure Mombot feels the same. 🙂
My dad moved his office to my old room. His old office is now a storage facility of sorts. So, yes, by room has become a storage closet by proxy.
heheh. well if it’s a storage closet – even by proxy – then you can store your stuff there, right, Chibby? 😉
You think its bad to have your old room turned into a storage area, my dad after I left for the military turned my old room into a BATHROOM. Where my bed used to be is now the toilet. Gives a whole new meaning to “you can’t go home again.”
a bathroom, DaHoboJoenMe!? that’s crazy. hopefully, he doesn’t make you sleep in that room when you visit. 🙂
No I live nearby so we don’t have to camp out in the bathtub, but where some people’s parents are sentimental, mine are “oh, remodel project!”.
My old bedroom is Dad’s office, but that’s what it was before I took it over when I was sixteen. So really, it’s only fair and I wasn’t that attached.
But I still live in fear that he’ll rent a U-haul one day and make good on his threat to deliver everything I left behind in that house, down to the last middle school paper and carnival stuffed animal . . . If they ever decide to move, I’m toast.
well, at least you weren’t that attached. i bet your dad was glad to get his office back, Sarah W. 🙂
and your last paragraph just sent a chill up my spine.
Hoarders,,,webcomic edition….lol….ima packrat 2 mombot
ha! i wonder if the producers would be open to that, jf#300? i’d probably be down for it, but not so sure about Mombot. 🙂
Damn the treasures that are hidden there….
so true, Jiro Maeda. i wonder what treasures Mombot’s hiding?
Well at least your room became storage when you left. Mine became storage while I was there. XD
oh, man. that’s rough, Andrei Esca.
Yeah, my mom turned my room into a pantry when I moved, my brother’s room into a sewing room when he left, and then when my other brother left my parents remodeled the entire basement into a master suite. They’re not really getting any sympathy from me at this point … I still have three sisters at home, so who knows what will happen if they ever move out!!
wow, that must be some pantry, Anemone! sounds like your parents were just waiting for you and your brother to move out so they could continue their remodeling plans! your sisters should stay for as long as possible. 🙂
This might happen once I actually have my own place after college. And after my brother moves out of it.
best to prepare for it now, Destructur25. 🙂
Ok ok ok ok ok…I’M BAAAAACK!!
Ugh…after being over worked (the life of a product consultant for a cosmetics store is sooo rough) and after having a little medical scare (which turned out to be a quick (and painful) fix, but scared the poo out of me) and having, you know, life jump out and say “GOT YA!!” a few times…things have finally settled down and I’m back…In case you don’t know who I am, I am ESQ, JefBot Harem member, and all around fun gal. 😉 Hi y’all!
Anywho…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMBOT!!
*hugs to you all*
Bout time Woman! Missed you!!!! *hugs and cookies of DOOM!*
Oooooh hugs AND cookies of doom! SA-WEEET!
WOO!
HEY! WELCOME BACK, ESQ!!! like Pixie here, i missed ya! so glad to have you back – sounds like you’ve been through a lot since the last time you commented. glad to hear you’re okay now, even if things got scary. hope everything is smooth sailing now!!! (and hoping to see more of you here.) 😀
*big hugs of luck back atcha!*
Jeez, if this even approximates reality, your mom is ORGANIZED! My parents moved from my childhood home, so I don’t really have a room any more. “My” room at their house is the guest room, and it only has a few prized nicknacks in it from my past. Otherwise, it is not at all recognizable as mine. 🙁
my mom and dad still have the same house that i grew up in, Shanna, which is nice. i know they moved around a lot when my eldest sister Linda/Xinda was a kid, though, so she probably doesn’t have the same attachment to it as i do. (she’s about 12 years older than i am.) well, at least your parents saved a “few prized nicknacks” of yours. hopefully, you’re saving a ton of stuff from your own broodlings’ early years! 🙂
This reminds me of my Dad… except in his case, none of his stash was in boxes…. or any other container 😉
heheh. my mom’s kind of a container aficionado, Soul Man; she has a ton of plastic containers of all shapes and sizes. i think she even has containers for the containers!
Now THAT’S dedication!
when my sister moved out it got turned into an office. When I move out I’m sure it will be turned into an exercise room…
well, even though an exercise room is useful, maybe you can persuade them to make it into a home theater/gaming room, steve!
So funny! It was passed down from generation to generation! I LOVE the last panel! Your moms smile is adorable, and your reaction is priceless! The detail is amazing.
thanks, FunnyShaffer! yep, the trait was indeed passed down to me – and both my sisters, actually. though Linda/Xinda is probably the least pack-rat-y of all of us.
Oh!! You captured kitchen tiles perfectly, even the strange golden yellow white…..
thanks, Xin! i try to be as accurate as possible. 😉
My parents turned my room into a office. I think it was to make sure I would never come back. 😛
i’m starting to think that’s exactly the reason my mom moved so much of her stuff into my room, too, Aaron!
I still fight the hoarding virus my mother infected me with. I mean you never know when your going to need the control panel from a norditrak!
i feel the same way about my Commodore 64 and Mac SE computers, stuart! if my laptop were to fail, i have those as backups!
Wow, so I’m not the only geek to still have a Comodore 64 (with game carts) tucked away in the closet? The games are why I kept it. I found a way to cheat the Gorf game and play it indefinitly.
I no longer have an old room either. *sigh*
awww. *sigh*
Yes, this does happen to me. Whilst I am still living in said room. There are boxes of mum stuff under my bed and my room leads off to a cupboard under the eaves where there are all her craft projects, my sister’s old doll houses, hand me down clothes… my room feels like a thoroughfare sometimes! (She does try to be considerate and get her stuff when I’m not in the room, though.)
that’s hilarious, Maia! Mombot never did that to me, although i did have a bunch of stuff left over from when my sister Linda lived in the room. lots of old boardgames, clothes and stuff.
Wow! I haven’t been here in a while, and Bot is moving and EVERYTHING! Glad I could get caught up. 🙂
yep, times they are a-changin’ Alana. i’m happy you decided to come back and check in! 🙂
I haven’t completely moved out of my parent’s house yet, but I have a feeling that something similar will happen when I leave.
no doubt it will, dj! best to prepare for it now. 🙁
…Good thing I plan on staying at my parents place throughout school, otherwise my mom would easily change my room into one of her “Relaxing Rooms” or her new “Home Office”
my door could only open halfway when i visited after only a year away and i had a master room with walk in closet
Yeah my mom is using my old room for storage and the dog now sleeps on my old bed. I knew when they got the dog, she would be replacement Sarah.
Hey, it’s good to know that Jefbot’s not the only one w/a packrat mom! …and thanks for all the birthday greetings! 🙂
I saw this after you had already updated it to the color version, glanced through the description as per normal and had an emotional crisis for a moment when I read ‘Now in Color!’. For a split second, I thought that all the previous strips had been black and white and I’d just imagined the colors. Wouldn’t be the first time…
I wish I could award you an internet for that comment, but I don’t have the authority, I’m just the lapdog…
Gotta say, I love the “Seven & the Ragged Tiger” symbol on the box! Outstanding job as always!
And I’m playing catchup, since preparing for a play doesn’t leave me a lot of time to check my webcomics list….so I’m late to the comment party, but I had to laugh at this. My room became my nephew’s room after I moved out, though Mom let me put a couple boxes in the closet for storage, and I often tease him. “You’re in my room, Peter.” “Nu-UH!” “Yu-HUH!”
When I moved out of my parent’s house, my mother turned my old room into her sewing/quilting room. Mom even had the bed moved out of that room into my sister’s room to have more space!
I have the same collection.