I’ve gone years without a sled, though I’ve done my fair share of high-speed sliding over snowy terrain despite that fact. We’ve tried a lot of different things to maximize our potential for fun, and it would seem that, if you’re going to be super, super poor, the most effective sled-alternative is dressing yourself in a trash bag and sliding head first on your back down a hill. I think if rollercoasters have taught us anything it’s that danger = fun, so it doesn’t get more fun than that.
I’ve been itching to do snow comics since November, but there hasn’t been any snow and it just didn’t seem appropriate. It did, in fact, snow the other day, which is why the past two comics have both been in that setting. Artistically I wanted to do something akin to Bill Waterson’s style, which I pulled off pretty successfully. I had a great time with it and I’m looking forward to more experiments along these lines.
