3x22: Through the Looking Glass

28. Screenshot Comic #1

A few years ago on IMDb's Lost board there was a little fad for a while where someone would make a comic strip template out of Lost screenshots and a bunch of people would take it and insert their hilarious captions. The dialogue for this first one jumped out at me pretty much as soon as I saw it, except for the third panel, which took a while to figure out, but I'm pretty happy with how it ended up. I'm glad I thought of something that actually uses Ben's pose, instead of just ignoring it and telling the story through dialogue.
 Also, the M&M's are peanut.

Make It Up as We Go Along

25. IMDb's Lost Board

Back when Lost was still going on, I used to spend a huge amount of time on IMDb browsing the show's message board. As is the case with most forums, it didn't take long for an extremely tight-knit clique to form, and with it came a veritable laundry list of in-jokes and memes. One day I went to the (dead as it'll ever be) Via Domus board on GameFAQs and started posting a bunch of those memes in a thread. As of today, the thread is 338 posts long and locked because I ended up forgetting to bump it often enough.
 Why this ever became a Masterpiece, I don't know. It certainly doesn't meet my current quality standards, but I'm not about to go and change the numbers on all the ones after it, so here it is. In an attempt to compensate, I'm including the next Masterpiece in this same post.

26. LOST is Lost

These two Masterpieces kind of go hand in hand, anyway; this one is also inspired by the Lost board on IMDb. I suspect that the particular thread I ripped this dialogue from might have just been someone trolling, but people say similarly stupid things pretty much constantly on this here innernet of ours, and it still captured everything I was looking for. It even had that horribly tortured pun I've come to loathe so much.

For Nunu

People often post about their pets on the internet. None was greater than Nunu.

Destiny is a Fickle Bitch

6. Smokey the Turtle

Just a stupid doodle. You see, there's a turtle, and he's smoking a cigarette. Underwater. Hilarious. It's possible SpongeBob already did it. Also Futurama. Also, he looks kind of like Kif Kroker.

7. Lost Season 5

"Have you ever stopped to think that these delusions that you're special aren't real? That maybe there's nothing important about you at all? Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an Island. That's it. Goodbye, John."

My prediction of how this scene was going to play out. Can't really say it was all that accurate. The sky, for example, was sadly not purple, and I don't think Locke had I knife (at least not anywhere visible).
 This Masterpiece marks the first appearance of the basic character design that I've used in pretty much every strip since. As a result, it's very rough. A lot of things are crooked and uneven, lines don't always meet up neatly, and their hands are very angular. They also have feet, which were soon deemed unnecessary.
 One last point of criticism: that "OK" is meant to come after Jack's dialogue. That might be a little unclear since I don't think I placed it low enough.