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Holy shit guys.

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back to the future au where everything is the same except marty is blue instead of red. send post

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thinking about post-trilogy Marty suddenly getting into history and doing research in his free time *just in case*, and maybe to find cool times to visit. He's actually getting great grades in his history classes and even corrects the outdated textbooks misinformation. Always double checking to make sure nothing seems off in history either, any possible tampering. He just. Does history now. But just brushes it off whenever anybody mentions it

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dude i dunno @bixshits ur post was really funny

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why’d i draw this

colors without the fire. also some close-ups bc the chromatic aberration isn’t really that visible from these dimensions and i think it looks cool:

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my friends need to stop being so funny.

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guys this movie’s looking a little different from what i remember

i yap about cat colors and stuff:

the mcflys are american shorthair cats, or at least marty and lorraine are, because it’s the most cat looking cat ever and it fit with marty’s nondescript looking ass. (yes i did very briefly consider the munchkin. however that choice seemed too low-hanging a joke fruit and the nondescript bit is funnier to me)

idk about george he could be something else. it’s a bit difficult to distinctly depict different breeds in this style so you could reasonably assign him something else? idk which one though. my only thought for his design was a wet looking silver tabby and that was that. i fear i didn’t make him look wet enough alas

as for the other two’s coat colors, lorraine is a tortoiseshell and marty is a calico! for pretty obvious reasons i wanted them to look similar, and a calico cat is kind of just a tortoiseshell with a lot more white on it. they’re also a mostly female color due to the coloration’s link to the x chromosome so. heh. the trans marty agenda continues…..

i did intentionally make marty’s coat pattern kind of atypical for a calico cat so you kind of wouldn’t notice it at first glance and also so that he still looks like he has freckles

also the brown region on marty and the marking on george’s forehead are in an M looking shape bc i thought it was funny

going back to the cat breed thing now that i think about it more: george should be an american shorthair too because it would be really funny if cat dave was inexplicably some completely different breed of cat bc he looks nothing like the typical crispin glover/michael j fox male mcfly cycle

biff and doc are both maine coons bc those things are giants. and in doc’s case (more in 1985 than here tbh) incredibly hairy. honestly i could’ve gotten away with making biff more orange? he has the vibe. but i guess he’s a more dilute shade to match his human hair color and i spent a bit finding that shade of brown so i dont want to change it

in general i could’ve made the colors brighter but i wanted to match the hair/eye colors they have as humans so its all very. brown. oh well

doc as a kitten/teenager was definitely very very ginger. at this point he’s lost pretty much most of it but at least he’s got a little bit of color left in him? in 1985 he’s got zero pigment left though.

jen is a norwegian forest cat bc they’re very very fluffy. not much else to it tbh

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Back to the Future Part III (1990)

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Back to the Future + time

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Michael J. Fox on Letterman (1985)

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central to the appeal of Marty McFly is that you could pick him up and put him right in your pocket

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who is marty mcfly? #2, pages 7-8

original pages + pages w/ no effects + a bunch of bonus stuff including yap session under the cut:

so i read this comic ahead of all the other ones bc i heard it was the best one, and as i was reading it i was like hm yknow this would be fun to redraw. like i'm not going to do it, obviously, because that would be a lot of work and i haven't even read all the other ones. but it would be fun! not going to do it though

so erm..... was that a lie or what. i'll be so fr what tipped me over the edge was the "little flaw" bit of dialogue bc i came up with the framing of him being really small in a panel and it was like shittt i'm cooking i gotta draw this. also the double meaning of "little flaw" (marty's existence in the timeline but also just marty himself) just kind of amused me haha

my process for this was to copy down the dialogue and then NOT LOOK AT THE PAGE ANYMORE. so aside from the dialogue and the general actions that the characters were doing, everything on the page was from my own ideas! if you compare the two i might've deviated slightly from the original. just a little. nothing too crazy of course of course. not like i changed like. everything

i am addicted to inserting more panels for every single expression. if you look at the sketch version of page two there was even going to be an extra panel at the end just for an additional expression and no dialogue but it made the page crowded as i was drawing it so i took it out RIP. in the end i drew 25 panels compared to the original's......... 11. oops

re: dialogue inflection i've noticed that comics tend to emphasize at least one phrase per speech bubble. if you read it with said emphasis usually it's alright but sometimes it flows kind of weird? ("wash your hands" is the biggest one here imo) which is why i changed the inflections i thought it flowed better. also i added a couple of minor things (most notably two waitaminutes i think gbgkbjgjk) to make it sound more natural but overall i stuck to what they were originally saying

ok so the "not look at the page anymore" part of the process is entirely false i did look at it again to shamelessly trace that car. so if you were wondering how i managed to draw such a nice car it's because i didn't LMAO. i think you can tell which cars were traced and which ones i actually naturally drew bc some (re: one that i just copy pasted bc i was lazy.) actually look car-proportioned and some (literally everything else sorry marty's truck) do not. also this is why in the 3rd yugo panel there is no lining in the back of the car. there was no back for me to trace and i was tired.

here's the color test (+ learning how to draw professor irving) i did! unfortunately did not have the oversight to color test the background colors too. i was in the art trenches with those. i hated drawing those backgrounds so much you can tell all of them are half-assed GBKGGJ

speaking of colors i think that the first one's colors are better but i was so done with the whole comic making process (aka. the backgrounds) by the second page that i 1. took like two months off of drawing it and 2. just threw shit at the digital page to get it over with LMAO. like sure ig we doin dark red now

also don't look at the backgrounds too hard. the garage/storage unit thing (changed from a truck trailer bc 1. not sure how you'd install a sink in there? the sink in the storage unit was already stretching it. how did you get plumbing in there man that thing's a rental. and 2. no way in hell i was drawing ANOTHER VEHICLE) is very spacially inconsistent and while this annoys me idrc i'm just here to draw characters in situations.

in the original he's wearing his puffy vest over a white shirt and another red shirt (so his normal outfit but To The Left) but i didn't want to draw that so i gave him a different fit. it's based on apparently this photo from the previous issue? i remember seeing it prior to drawing these but i could've sworn his inner shirt was yellow in the picture and also it looked different. guess it was white the entire time? or maybe i have the issue wrong and this is a completely different picture of marty wearing the red sweater + collared shirt combo. oh well

i keep reading "i know who you are" as "i know what you are" and it never fails to be funny to me. leave him alone dawg

tried to make irving a little more menacing in these considering he's a stranger that just happens to know about the time travel stuff and also who marty is and how to contact him? i actually don't really remember how he got this information but i'm sure it was sketchy as hell. also marty just kind of. agrees to go with him? with no further question. by himself. at night. luckily for him this was not irving's current intention but i've learned that marty is very easy to kidnap. he followed directions to the second location so easily. marty have you not heard about stranger danger?? stay safe out there. your list of traumas is already so long you don't need to encourage another one

my favorite bit of framing is the mirror shot. do you guys think the mirror shot is cool i think it's cool. irving my man back up let him wash his hands and contemplate his existence with his personal space intact thanks. my second favorite is irving throwing the napkin bc i think it's funny

last bonus before the conclusion of this post: a doodle i did as i was making these based on my impression of how the comic was going

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I like this actor, I should watch more of his movies *opens IMDB page* he should be in better movies

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Day 10 of McFly July -> one in a googolplex

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do you think doc would be the kind of person who would celebrate his dogs' birthdays? or at least like, their adoption's day? because i can honestly imagine him going to put a tiny birthday hat on them and sing them happy birthday... and trying to make those days special for them... perhaps making them a dog food cake or something like that...

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For the wip game: time?

I want you to know what happened when I did a control+f search for the word "time" in my Future Boy draft -- which is actually just entitled "Marty McFly trans"

Anyway. A quote from the as-of-yet unpublished penultimate seventh chapter of the fic:

After all, at this point he’d known her seven whole months longer than Marty McFly had spent in his own life. There was no reason to make her live in the shadow of a boy who, by the space-time continuum’s standards, had never even existed.