Brrrr! It’s cold! I hope you’re keeping yourself wrapped up warm! “Training Chu” 「トレーニング中」means “Training in progress” in Japanese!
With that in mind, don’t try anything stupid like Shelbie here, she’ll do anything if she thinks it’ll make her stronger.
Hey look, it’s the 12th of the 12th, 2012! How about that. Only two weeks until Christmas!
But alas! Since Crazy Sunshine falls on the 26th this year, next week‘s strip (19th December) will be a festive battlefield!
Look forward to a big Christmas present on the 26th, too! Happiness all around!
I love the cold! That’s some scary shit getting your tongue frozen yo something though. I’ve done that with a popsicle once
I can’t say I have done it. Maybe I need more focus.
Wait, really? A popsicle?
Yep. Never A) Lick a Popsicle when you’re very dehydrated or B) when your tongue is dry. Luckily Popsicles melt, street lights do not (well, not normally anyway).
Yeah, my tongue felt like it was stuck with superglue. I had to wait for the popsicle to melt for at least 5 minutes before I could free my tongue without ripping the skin off :/
Welp, I wish we had decent winter where I am from, but it’s unfortunately too warm.
Never wish for that. We get over half a meter of snow almost every night for 6 months in Aomori and it is a living hell. D:
6 months? People around here (south Ontario, Canada) complain about 4 months of snow, I can’t even imagine 6…
Yea, I’m from Calgary (also Canada) and we sometimes have +5 during the winter (next day -30) and it happened lots of times – snow during summer.
Weather here just CAN’T BLOODY DECIDE.
I know what the surprise would be: Another of Peppermint’s “drawings”.
I also found myself a gift possibly every guy, including Mochi, would bow to:
http://www.memecenter.com/fun/798995/fucking-chainsaw-katana-biatch
DEAR SANTA……..
I can see Mochi with a pistol aimed at your head telling you to buy it.
Hey, maybe I’ll send you a card for Christmas.
HOLY FUCK SWEET BABY JESUS, I WANT THAT GODDAMNIT FUCKING BAD ASS THING!!!! TIME TO GRAB MY LETTER WRITING QUILL AND THE BLOOD INK OF A GIANT FIRE BREATHING SNOW SNAKE GNOME BEAST DEMON, AND FINALLY WRITE MY CHRISTMAS LIST FOR MOTHERFUCKING CYBORG NINJA SAMURAI BERSERKER SANTA CLAUSE! Oh FUCK (I’m out of ink, son of a bitchfuck) Time for me to get more! *Serious Face*
Nice technique, if i do say so myself.
xD
It’s the first time in my life that someone’s stupidity makes me want to hug them
Reading this coming from Dr Robotnik made me chuckle more than it should have. A gravatar account with this image would be perfect for this comment: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/10/Eggman_pose_29.jpg/250px-Eggman_pose_29.jpg
DO IT, DR.
I know that image wasn’t for me, but… *yoink*
Nice A Christmas story reference. What next? Will shelbie be kicked down the slide by Santa Clause? Oh will she shoot her eye out with a bee bee gun?
Actually I’ve already drawn it up and it’s not very traditionally Christmas-themed at all. :I
I might pull 3 all nighters and remake it. *cry*
Wait.. It’s wednesday where you are?
I may need more FOCUS!!!
Yeah dude, 9am on Wednesday. I need to focus too or I’ll fall asleep at work. D;
Liar, it’s not 12/12/12. Not for 23 minutes D:< I was tempted to wait until it's 12 minutes away but I cba.
Reminds me of when the Smash Bros Brawl roster was being revealed and every day 4chan would make a JAPAN TIME thread at Midnight JST, hahaha.
So yeah. JAPAN TIME.
I’ve been loving Crazy Sunshine so far! One suggestion: Bring back the “Bullshit Detector” from way back when. It has TOO MUCH POTENTIAL!!!!!
Fun fact: http://www.crazysunshine.com/2012/05/masterpiece/
It’s slap bang in the middle of panel 4!
I never reused it because it isn’t part of the “actual” comics. Perhaps I can recycle the idea, but I would need to reintroduce it again for readers who only read this specific archive.
Thanks for reading and commenting!!
As much as I would love for that to happen, we really shouldn’t be describing past things about Peppermint. I bet she’s still has nightmares about what happened in her intro comic..
For some reason…. Samurai Shelbie sounds too cool!!! And so does Shogun Peppermint, Shinobi Lacie, Karate Candy and Commando Daifuku & Mochi
Commando Daifuku sounds like an amazing name for a Contra-style hentai game where getting shot rips off pieces of clothing.
Sorry, I just woke up and I haven’t had my morning tea yet.
Fund it!
I’ve never seen the snow…
You are lucky.
Gather your chi and concentrate it! LET THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH EXPLODE!!!!!!!1111oneoneone
I UNDERSTAND, GAI SENSEI!
*Sunset no Jutsu* ba dum tish
I feel that Daifuku looks better in her winter outfit than any other outfit.
Daifuku’s design was based off my girlfriend’s winter outfit. She wears a black fluffy scarf, mitten, and a long red trench coat-like top.
its official Shelbie is adorable no matter the situation. nice job. Daifuku is so cute in her winter wear.
Thanks! I am glad it’s a hit. I get really, really nervous when making clothing designs. I try to ask myself what would the character actually wear if they had the choice!
But they do have a choice. That new shopping mall opened a while back.
lol. Until Lacie blows it up, or does something that gets them banned.
There’s an “other way around?”
Always lick them during winter?
This is Shelbie remember, she gets words like NEVER and ALWAYS mixed up a lot.
NEVER put salt in your eyes.
Haha, kids in the hall reference.
-.-
^ Mochi’s reaction when Shelbie gives up being a samurai after 10 mins of “intense” training.
Haha, I thought Mochi was just trolling Shelbie with the “perfect time to begin your ancient samurai training”, but it turns out he’s dead serious! His expression in Panel 4 is especially nice – it evokes those moments where you have a strict, uncompromising teacher who is oblivious to his student’s idiocy.
If I may, I’d like to comment on some choices made in this week’s comic. I love Crazy Sunshine – it’s why I visit the site and tumboiler multiple times a week – so I want to give back, as a reader, by offering some constructive feedback.
The first thing that caught my eye was the snot Shelbie fired out of her nose. I don’t feel any of the motion or intensity of the sneeze, and it therefore looks awkward and out of place. This probably has to do with Shelbie’s pose and body language as well.
I also noticed how Daifuku’s head is set on her body. I don’t know about the other readers, but it looks like it’s slightly too far to the left. Jkun connects necks to heads by setting the neck back from the point of the chin, and the neck itself rarely goes straight down. Granted, it worked for the first panel (Daifuku could be shying away from the sneeze), but it looked off for the rest of the comic.
Lastly, the appearance of the zipper on Shelbie makes Shelbie’s body look 2D. It was fine in panel one – her breasts press into the zipper as expected. But for the rest of the comic, the zipper looked tacked on, or Shelbie’s chest looked flat. Showing this “depth” of Shelbie’s body wasn’t necessary before because the zipper was attached near the middle of her breasts, and appeared to be dangling. Now it’s a lot higher on her chest, and since Shelbie isn’t exactly “small”, having it dangle off just doesn’t make sense.
Despite this, I want to emphasize my appreciation for all the effort you put into making CS for us. I don’t want my nitpicking to be perceived as anything other than a desire for an even better Crazy Sunshine.
Constructive feedback, not seen this in ages!
I’m gonna number these by paragraphs starting on number 3;
1) I am terrible at drawing “action”. Hence why CS is more of a static slice of life series. In this panel, however, I was having a hard time fitting everything in. The text takes up half the panel, leaving me with half a panel for 3 characters to be expressing themselves;
- If Shelbie had her arms raised, the snot ‘s trajectory would probably clash with her arm placement and not read as well as having it fly out against the background. Unless I changed it colour to something a bit more gross, like green, which then clashes with the entire colour scheme of the strip. I tried to make it look like she was talking normally with her hands behind her back, then raised her shoulders as she shivers and sneezes. But in hindsight, not seeing her standing normally beforehand (as this is the first panel), means the reader can’t tell the difference, and ultimately can’t understand.
2) Daifuku’s head is slightly cocked back for a reason, but first, it isn’t “pushed” back any more than Shelbie’s is. Her outfit just has really big shoulderpads. Check the Gallery for confirmation.
- Personally, I kept it this way in panels 3 and 4 for two reasons: With her head in that position, it allows Mochi to take centre stage, as he is the one doing most of the talking, and is further “forward” than her central torso line. I also allowed some space to include her hand in a “thoughtful” pose in panel 3 without overlapping too much of Shelbie’s hair.
4) Yeah I’m not worried about this if you are only giving feedback for a “better” Crazy Sunshine. This is a problem I wish to rectify during the character redesigns next year. Shelbie shouldn’t have a zipper and giant boobs. It sucks to draw every time, and it is incredibly impractical if I am to make CS more action based. Same goes for Lacie, Peppermint and Candy’s disgusting belt.
- Hundreds of people have told me “why doesn’t it fall off?” Well one day it might just do that. I am either going to get rid of one or the other, or even both eventually. As for this specific strip, chalk it up to laziness. I’ll admit it.
Thanks!
is it just me, or did you make Shelbie’s chest a little more… manageable, there?
Winter wear. Much like how people thought Lacie got a boob-upgrade in her swimwear. Boobs are malleable like that.
Malleboob.
Malleabooble.
Goddamnit! What the hell is composed that samurai training? It seems more like a training to po- Erm… well. That reminds how much I want the Winter back here…
po…op?
No! Post seals!
Actually, would his Daemon tongue even have any problem?
Daemon? He’s not one of those! Plus, Mochi wasn’t always stuck into a piece of clothing! He used to be a real person. Who trained very hard, apparently.
What would you describe Mochi as? a ghost? Seeing as how he was Human, but now inhabits/possesses clothing and its wearer, I can only figure he’s a ghost or a daemon.
Cast Page says Mochi’s an “Ancient Demon”. HAH!
They aren’t the same thing. Demons are evil spirits or beings that can posses and allure the weak willed, whereas Daemon, according to Wiki;
“Daemons are good or benevolent nature spirits, beings of the same nature as both mortals and gods, similar to ghosts, chthonic heroes, spirit guides, forces of nature or the gods themselves.”
So there’s that. But personally I have only heard the word daemon when it comes to computing terminology (disk and execution monitor).
The Gold Compass and related works (ba dum tish)
I believe those benevolent spirits are “Daimons”, pronounced “day”, while daemon is pronounced just like demon. I believe “daemon” is neutral.
How, exactly, is this training?!
Maybe one day you’ll get interrogated by Ninjas that will freeze your tongue and expect you to talk!
Actually, considering Mochi’s main “limb” movement is through his tongue, he really could be serious. He can’t really affect anything physically without using his mouth.
Plus Mochi’s long tongue is very beneficial for Daifuku Ninjutsu. For example Imagine if you will Daifuku sneaking around some really tall Japanese Castle Spider-man Style. By using Mochi Sticky Stretchy Long Tongue to Sling or sometimes occasionally Swing Daifuku to building to Building like Spidey but, with the grace of a female ninja. Plus if Mochi only “well trained” Limb that’s technically his is that amazing as you say it is then sneaking around a factory type of area in the dead of winter should be a Breeze.
… but how is this training for SHELBIE.
Improving Shelbie other senses by getting rid of one of them, by Freezing her tastebuds improve her sense of smell, but the Ancient Samurai Training wasn’t that simple Shelbie must face the the Harsh Coldness of Winter and the Grossness of her Stuffy Nose during this Training to get stronger. Also Training her Memory to remember thar Always & Never are 2 separate things that are polar opposites.
Pop quiz! Should you find your tongue stuck to metal, have a friend get some hot water. If none is close, in an emergency , WHAT SHOULD YOUR FRIEND DO?
Piss, spit or melted snow all do the trick. (known from childhood experience…shiver)
If it’s cold enough, spit and melted snow will just freeze.
What I don’t understand is why you don’t just cup your hands around your mouth/tongue and pant ’till it warms up.
I live in utah. Never gets that cold here =3
Melt some Snow by warming it up then pour it on their tongue, or slowly and as painless as possible remove their tongue from the pole.
Alternatively just Spartan kick the side of their head strong enough to forcibly remove their tongue of the pole, or Chop it off with your trusty pocketknife.:D
Ahh Waaggo Haa Naa.
If you say it aloud, sounds like that lyric from The Sickness by Disturbed. xD
Oh wait. That’s pretty funny! xD
Is Mochi going to make Shelbie do pushups with only her tongue?
On the other hand, this is great practice if Lacie ever gets drunk enough (though I imagine Lacie would be passed out or dead by that point).
helk ee in uck oo a uss, ang i ont oh err ighs oing, elk eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
I think I can top that; I had my ENTIRE hand stuck inside the walk-in freezer at work. It’s frickin -15 degrees Fahrenheit in there!!
It makes me wonder if when Shelbie sneezed the snot went into Mochi’s mouth.
It is all ways good to have hot water on hand or hot liquid. The worse case of someone getting stuck to a metal pole outside while it is cold i have seen is a guy getting both his tongue and nipples and third leg stuck to a pole all for a bet.
Why didn’t Daifuku stop Shelbie she should know how Shelbie acts?
Where are the others. Probably preforming some idiotic idea that will cause pain to Lacie?
There’s pain, but it’s not an idiotic idea.
It’s very well justified.
Using Lacie’s zipper to heat the house?
I was thinking along the lines of this crap:
Panel 1: Candy and Peppermint building a snowman.
Panel 2: Lacie comes in with shovel, laying waste to snowman.
Panel 3: Lacie openly revels in her deed, because she can.
Panel 4: Lacie screams inside her snowman prison.
I hate when people guess the next comic, because I am on a strict 1-2 week advanced buffer schedule.
I also hate when they are half right which makes it look like I copied their comment. :/
God damnit, too late to redraw it now.
Hey man, be cool, be cool. We are all friends here. Right? Right?
Also, what do you mean I’m half-right?
Wait until next week to find out.
Hey, is that Lacie’s zipper?
Is what?
So…Mochi can transform into other types of garments? Last time I checked, he wasn’t a winter coat. o.0
Yep, but only his eyes can. His mouth is hotwired into Daifuku’s belly. She even makes her own clothes so he can talk, what a lovely girl.
http://crazysunshineoverdrive.tumblr.com/image/31826909609
Yeah, it would be pretty awkward if she had to cut eye-holes. Also, it would be frikkin’ hilarious if she kept her clothes whole, so mochi’s shouting from underneath it and pushing against the shirt with his tongue trying to get some “air” read:room.
I can’t tell if Mochi is trolling Shelbie or if he’s actually serious
Just noticed the transparent sky. Nice touch.
12/12 times your Shelbie might get stuck to a lamppost at 12:00.
Jkun quick question about Japan, is it true that Coronal Sanders (Did I spell that right?) the KFC guy is treated like Jolly O’l Saint Nick Kris Kringle Cover in the Blood of his Enemies is why his Suit so Red & Fought a Ice Wyvern bare handed Santa Clause over in Japan?
I really don’t understand what you just said. Do you proofread your comments?
I’ve seen you use great English before but this is just weird as heck! Col. Sanders is just a mascot over here. It’s true Japan eats KFC traditionally on Christmas, that’s about it.
It’s like I’ve said before, How the F^CK does someone have both such great vocabulary and such atrocious grammar? I guess that’s the internet for ya, folks.
Roughly translated from “Rager”: “Is it true that in Japan, Colonel Sanders is treated like Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick, or Kris Kringle? That his suit is red because it’s covered in the blood of his enemies? That Japan’s Santa Claus fought a Wyvern bare-handed?”
Reminder use Rager to rewrite friends or my Shitty Grammar.
Jkun, Allow me to explain the backstory of this Comment. You see my Friend ask me the same question today (or yesterday if you will) so when I first lay eyes upon the shitastically wonderful grammar of the text, I took the liberty to flip a coin deciding proofread it or just retype text word for word on to here. (The outcome as you can see was the latter of the two.) I already told him that was “absolutely stupid Horseshit” but, he wanted to confirmed it with someone living in Japan. So he ask me to ask you (Since I told him about your webcomic, & that how you’re also english teacher living in Japan) if it was true in which it ain’t. In short Friend ask Stupid question→pass question on to you the awesome teacher→you the Teacher answer question→explain backstory of said question→?????→Profit→Make ?????Profit Meme Joke.
P.s. My Grammar maybe shit, but his is HORRIFYINGLY wrost degree of Shit. Sorry for long Comment.
Haha.
I think I had read more words in these comments than I have entire books in my whole life.
Wait, you’re an English teacher over there? It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t realize it, but at the same time, it seems so strange…
I teach English to Japanese students at the level of 5 year olds to native speakers. Doesn’t mean I actually enjoy reading
I find it quite boring!
Now I’m curious: British English, Canadian English, and/or U.S.A.dian English?
JKun WAS a Brit, I believe, so I would assume it’s British English. Or to the assumptuous, “The Queen’s English”.
Was? I still am British.
Scottish, infact. Which could count as a second language to most people. It even has it’s own Wikipedia; http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Also, yeah, you’re right. “Queen’s English” is purely verbal and simply an accent, nothing changes when you read or write it compared to “British English”.
However, this school’s curriculum strictly enforces that students learn American English, which means I usually make a lot of mistakes. (Colour / Color, for example).
I meant that’s where you used to live, 24/7. I don’t know why they want American English, though. My first reaction is WHICH American English. Also, I still use different spellings for some things. I do spell it “colour”.
Although dialects vary, spelling is fairly consistent across the U.S.A.dian language and there are dictionary-correct versions of every word so there is in fact a “correct” way to pronounce U.S. English.
MULTiPLE dictionary-correct versions of every word
Wait, Jkun’s British?! This makes this comic all the more special to me
DONT WORRY SHELBIE I WILL SAVE YOU!
*brings a camera*
The random comic link just goes to: http://www.crazysunshine.com/2012/07/csc-drops-of-blood/
That’s odd.
I just checked on both Chrome and Firefox and it went from training Chu > Shackles of Reputation > the Egg and U > Golden Showers, so might be a problem on your end? Try emptying your cache.
The update to WordPress 3.5 didn’t affect or even mess with Comicpress, so the Random feature shouldn’t be broken!
Now it’s stuck on Magic 101. I’m on Firefox. Prior to clearing my cache, after a few hours break, it got stuck on The Egg and I: Part 1.
What do you mean “stuck”? According to your comment you are getting lots of different comics with each press…unless you are getting very unlucky and it’s randomizing to only those comics.
What is your process?
Are you clicking the random button ON each of these random strips, or are you clicking it once, then refreshing (F5)?
Earlier I was at work. I am now on my home PC with Opera, FF Chrome and IE. No problems. Totally different PC, ISP and browsers.
I mentioned this before but decided it was probably just me and so never brought it up again.
In a nutshell, the randomizer button will select 1 comic at random and then always select that comic… until some time passes or some other factors I don’t know in which it will then pick a new comic and be stuck on that. I can tell you the random part is working because if I switch to a different browser, a different comic will randomly become “stuck” (I’ve used FireFox and IE to test).
The randomizer seems to work fine but then something happens and it gets stuck on a single comic. I imagine the problem is individual based as it only seems to affect certain people even using the same browser (if I recall correctly it sticks for me in FireFox and IE but works properly in Opera – the browser I use the least and have modified the least).
Probably something to do with your browser settings.
I’ve spent 3 days trying to fix this and about to give up. I can’t get it to “break” on any of my PCs or browsers, it works just fine.
I’ve made a bunch of forum topics regarding it on a few sites and even sent a DM to the author of Comicpress on Twitter, still no replies.
Nobody else seems to be having this problem apart from two people in these comments so it’s hard for me to justify prioritizing fixing it over doing other stuff, sorry.
Hey Jkun, I seem to have the same problem as Chameon and Blue_Elite – pressing the random button continuously shows one comic only.
I use a Mac and normally use Firefox. I tried the random button with Chrome and Opera, both worked successfully. This may very well be a Firefox problem, or have something to do with certain settings that are enabled and/or disabled on the browsers that work (I rarely use Chrome and Opera). Hope this helps when you find the time to fix it.
From what I can see it’s not a problem with the site.
The random feature is hard wired into Comicpress and can’t be edited so easily. I think Firefox is just caching way more than it is supposed to, and after deciding which comic to randomize to, it stops. That kind of sucks, but there’s nothing I can do to fix it right now. I have a comic and a bunch of other Christmas prep to do on top of a week of work so if people really want to use the feature, I suggest using another browser for the time being.
http://www.crazysunshine.com/about/ – For future reference, for all site problems, PLEASE E-Mail me them instead of cluttering up the comment section. I will be deleting comments if this continues!
Read this after posting my second comment. I’ll email you if any other site problems come up.
My cousin actually had this happend to him with an ice tray. Then I tried to help him and separated them by force, then he hit me, but that’s about it. xD
Also, love Moshi’s bossy attitude. lol
I like diafaku’s hair,she kinda looks good in any style with her hair color besides candy’s
I like Candy’s hair colour the best!
Moi aussi.
I think you are a decent-good artist with a giga-ton load of potential. However, you are pretty bad at writing. For a while I thought your style of comedy was intentionally leaving out the punch line and going for a purposefully flat joke.
Now, I’m neither a good artist or a good writer, so take my comment for what its worth. Which is nothing.
Hello!
Do you mean this strip, or in general? A lot of the ‘comedy’ comes from character interactions and development, in particular this strip focused on Shelbie being very naive and Mochi tricking her into believing something. I admit to a newcomer, it wouldn’t be considered a punchline. Some strips however, rely on a flat joke, or sometimes omit the joke entirely.
I am making this not only to get better at art, but to improve my writing too. Unfortunatly since you never gave any examples on how to improve or feedback I can use then I can’t fully appreciate your comment, but thanks for the artistic compliments!
My favorite gags are the ones where you make us think something big and unlikely is gonna happen… and it doesn’t. The most obvious example was the snow on the roof, but you managed to brick-joke that. Loved it. There was also the cave that said “No Entrance” or something when Lacie and Shelbie played ball. I’m guessing that’s not what you mean by a “flat joke”, though, huh JC? Maybe do a little linking. If it’s really that bad, I know Jkun’s willing to take constructive criticism.
I love diafuku/mochi, they are comic gold. Remind me alot of revya/gig from soul nomad.
Hey! She should have got stuck kissing the lamppost. “Training Chu” 「トレーニング・チュー」 = Training Kiss.
And mice should be worked in as well.
Haha, that’s brilliant!
I read the description. Does Crazy Sunshine update Tuesday or Wednesday?
The 19th is the 19th regardless of what day it is. Can you please use the chat box or E-Mail for questions like this? The comment sections are for comments regarding each individual comic.
CS always updates Wednesday 8am JAPAN STANDARD TIME. I am putting this in the About Section.
I forgot about standard time. I keep forgetting about that.
Poor Shelbie. Still stuck to that pole. The poor girl’s tongue is gonna fall off.
Oh, Mochi. XD