There are many great reasons for becoming vegetarian or vegan, I was even semiveg for quite a few years. Virgil's reasons are somewhat...... unique.
Virgil has been published by Funtime Comics and the gig guide the package from time to time.
This is the very first Virgil comic created at the turn of century 2000!
The stories while simple were a lot of fun with a bunch of easter eggs in each comic.
Here's Virgil the Ferocious Vegetarian number 1
Was first published in the Package in 2000. A few Easter eggs were:
Panel 1: My band at the time (Maestro Cooltones and the Phantasmacies) Logo on the calendar
Panel 3: Portrait of Micheal from the comic Valin I was drawing at the time.
VFV 2 further expanded on the Virgil's quest to save the world:
The Boss in this comic was fun to draw, his head is never actually attached to his neck and kind of floats there. If you read the blah blahs there's a subliminal message in there.
VFV 3
I thought I had lost this comic forever having lost the original was happy to see it published in Funtime Comics years later since I forgot I even submitted it. Like finding money in your couch! Looking back I probably would have spent more time on the background in the last panel.
Clockwork Orange Logo for the Title Panel.
Pak n' Cheap is a play on New Zealand's Cheapest Supermarket Pak n' Save
Floaty head bosses are back!
That Pesky Cooltones logo is back on the coffee mug.
Virgil 4 2004
Page 1
Page 2
VFV 3
I thought I had lost this comic forever having lost the original was happy to see it published in Funtime Comics years later since I forgot I even submitted it. Like finding money in your couch! Looking back I probably would have spent more time on the background in the last panel.
Clockwork Orange Logo for the Title Panel.
Pak n' Cheap is a play on New Zealand's Cheapest Supermarket Pak n' Save
Floaty head bosses are back!
That Pesky Cooltones logo is back on the coffee mug.
Virgil 4 2004
Page 1
4 years later I finally draw another VFV. My girlfriend's (now Wife) favourite character of mine at the time and wanted to see another Virgil.
The Virgil I'm most proud of. I really wanted to step up the detail. The sign slogans were fun to come up with. My favourite is the cow saying "MEAT MAKES US MOOOODY!"
Tons of Street Fighter and Jojo's characters with cameos in the crowd shots. Even my friend Mike D makes an appearance in the black baseball cap.
The stoner in the last panel was cool to draw. "The truth is out of it"
Virgil is a fun character to draw and I still have a backlog of ideas. Maybe I'll revisit this character sometime and see what he's been up to.
The Virgil I'm most proud of. I really wanted to step up the detail. The sign slogans were fun to come up with. My favourite is the cow saying "MEAT MAKES US MOOOODY!"
Tons of Street Fighter and Jojo's characters with cameos in the crowd shots. Even my friend Mike D makes an appearance in the black baseball cap.
The stoner in the last panel was cool to draw. "The truth is out of it"
Virgil is a fun character to draw and I still have a backlog of ideas. Maybe I'll revisit this character sometime and see what he's been up to.
Don't let this stay panel fool you. Chances are we'll see Virgil's return one day. Who else is going to save us when Veges rise up to take over the world?
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