Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to the blog!
A new character showed up in the Bandit Baby strip. His name is Finegan and he’s a goat. Wilson explains that his name fit an unmentioned gag that I’m choosing not to explain. Clever readers will have figured it out. Less clever readers can hope that the clever readers will spoil the joke in the comments.
Anyway! Finegan was originally just going to be a one-strip character. As I was digging for ideas to continue the storyline, I decided I would keep him around at least for a bit. I played around with some different ideas such as making him somewhat of a lady’s goat. I already have Oonch for gags including a fur getting rejected by the ladies so I decided against and instead decided that Finegan would be married.
Last week I was writing some material for the story and I came up with a new idea for Finegan. I don’t want to spoil it as I’m pretty tickled by it. I just hope I can do the idea justice when I draw it this week. Originally, it was just going to be a one-shot idea, but as I was biking to work this morning, I thought about it some more and decided it might be fun to make it his thing. Finegan may end up being the star of the strip if I can keep the idea rolling.
That tease being given, that’s all for the blog this week. Keep reading Bandit Baby to see how Finegan turns out. In the meantime, have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.
