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These were all in one notebook kept in a green three-ring binder. The majority were written in study hall when I didn't have anything to study. All but the last couple of comics were written when I was in the 7th Grade.
If I wasn't drawing the comics, there was usually someone in study hall reading them. Some of the comics have awards on the top, which were drawn by my friends. My one friend, and the one who got me started drawing comics started the award thing as well. His is the "Krienke Award". Others include the "Broken Award", from another comic drawing friend, Z#21 Award, The Golden Spoon, the Blue Berry, and the one with the skull wearing a bandana.
The first few are really beat up. I tried to scan them the best I could.
01 - New Teacher
The last frame says "Mr Happy had a half a gopher-oh is nice!". Earlier, the teacher calls Murve "A Big Stupid Moron". This was the first comic where Murve declares his obsession with tomatoes, a running gag in later comics.
02 - Roller Coaster
My brother and I both loved Calvin and Hobbes, and would occasionally ride our red wagon down hills. Never anything as crazy as Calvin or Murve though.
03 - Murve Joins the Army
My most popular comic from 6th grade, I remade it again in 7th grade. The calendar on the second page is Charlie Brown and Snoopy. I made this comic into an animation using msPaint, but I backed it up onto a CD-ROM that got severely scratched. I still have the CD, so maybe if I find a disc doctor it'll see the light of day again. The animation had an additional scene, which I also drew in comic form...
There's some evidently very important Simpsons trivia scrolled on that comic too.
04 - Death Cereal Pt. 1
Not a lot of rewards on this one. The first to be continued.
05 - Field Trip
A bad ending. The scene of Murve jumping off the cliff at the end is from an earlier comic, which I re-did for Season 3.
06 - Murve Goes to the Fair
My most popular. I also made an animation for this one. Murve's Dad yelling became a running gag.
07 - Death Cereal Pt. 2
The first appearance of Murve's cousin. He's even dumber than Murve.
08 - Halloween Special II
The first Halloween special must have been in Season 2.
09 - Costume Party
Murve's painting from the fair is on his bedroom wall.
10 - Death Cereal Pt. 3
The saga has ended.
11 - Murve gets a Haircut
This was a redo of a Season 2 comic with a different punchline.
12 - Scavenger Hunt
This one was also a Season 2 redo. I don't know why, but I removed a scene where the worm's life flashes before its eyes.
13 - Super Murve
The painting from the fair and his frog Evrum are in his hair at the end. In the heading on page 2 Murve is charging into the Stu's from Stuville, a comic I drew in 6th grade starring stick people. From left to right you have Stu S., Stu Q., and the Stu that gets hurt all of the time. There was a lot of slapstick. In Season 3, Divad draws Stuville.
14 - A Murve Documentary
I'm not sure who all of Murve's enemies are. His friend Timmy was more of a regular in Season 2. He was the resident fat kid. He's mostly a background character in Season 3 because he was pretty one-dimensional to begin with, and my Mom didn't approve of me slinging around fat kid jokes in my comics.
15 - Paper Boy Murve
I didn't know Murve had a swirly shirt.
16 - Doug's Crappy Life
In retrospect, I wish I made more comics about Douglas. I guess dysfunctional mother-son relationships weren't as funny to me as a dumb kid jumping off a cliff.
17 - Robby's Book
Robby Jones, the resident pompous smart kid. He replaced Season 2's Ricky Johnson (like Dante Robinson, a Backyard Sports rip-off). Robby was slightly less one dimensional than Ricky, but only slightly.
17 - Sour Candy & 18 - Dancin' Douglas?
Two comics in one. I'm not sure if Divad's love of candy was based on my own or inherited from Dante Robinson.
19 - Dog Murve & 20 - Family Don't Matters
Divad's Dad's shirt is of a guy flipping burgers. It's based on a shirt my Dad used to wear put out by the band R.E.M.
21 - The Birds
This was the third time I wrote this comic (I did it both in Season 1 and 2) and it's definitely the poorest version. I did it a third time so the reader knows in future comics that Douglas has a history of giant birds spraying crap on him.
22- Happy Birthday, Murve!
This comic was an excuse for me to draw one of those facial expression charts.
23 - My Hair Grows
I'm not sure why Murve's hair caught fire in his sleep.
24 - Thanksgiving Special
I'm also not sure how the twins knew that Murve and Mauve were playing specifically with a turkey bone.
25 - Heart on a Stick
I remember I traced that heart out of a text book.
26 - Snow Day
I didn't watch any Davy & Goliath until much later in life, but Art Clokey's mayor and my mayor dress pretty similar. 
27 - The Revenge of Robby
Where'd he get all of those!?
28 - Murve Goes to the Grocery Store
Death Cereal's former Mikey got a new job!
29 - Not-So-Secret Santa
"Note: Murve did not die his hair exploded."
30 - Corporal Joe
A lot of my friends were into U.S. military stuff, so I brought back Corporal Joe for another comic. I never thought this one was that funny, but it got a lot of awards.
31 - Christmas Special
Murve's Dad has a manic side. Not sure why Mauve went British on us in the last panel.
32 - Murve Factory
Murve saying "Braids" always cracked me and my brother up.
33 - A Very Violent Comic
Note the "Suck Award". I was big into chess in 7th grade. I loved doing chess problems in my spare time out of a giant book by László Polgár that I bought for $5 at a Barnes & Noble.
34 - Murve visits a 4tune Teller
I love that Murve goes from age 55 to dead. When you're in 7th grade, 55 might as well be 95.
35 - The Robot
A proud recipient of the Golden Broken Award. I always liked this comic too. The robot speaking in text symbols was inspired by a Calvin & Hobbes comic.
I also made an introduction to this comic later...
36 - Autumnfield Park
It's apparently BAD NEWS when a park goes out of business.
37 - Another Murve Documentary
Documentaries were easy to poop out. It looks like I made Murve older than his classmates. He must have been held back in school.
38 - Free Meat (A Silent Movie)
A Silent Movie Comic
39 - Not-So-Intellectual Property
It's not fun being in 7th grade. A lot of adults still talk to you like your a little kid. The picture of Divad's weird head on the heading on the 2nd page always weirded my brother out. I'm not sure where Murve got his official Stu Q action figure in The Robot comic, since only Divad had been writing Stuville.
40 - Clean Hair Day
A simple gag. I like that Murve wears his stocking cap on top of his hair in the outdoor scenes.
41 - Interest Fair
This 6th grade remake. The Car Dealer Stuville episode was based on the first Stuville comic I wrote. That comic was more intelligible, but it appears here that the studio thought dumbing it down would give it better ratings.
The Mayor makes a return, and this comic was written in Winter, so it looks like I gave Robby a hat after drawing his hair. I'm surprised Murve didn't do his interest fair project on tomatoes.
42 - The 100th Page Extraordinaire
I lost the first two comics I wrote, but their memory is preserved on this page. The second comic happened when I drew out Dante and Murve, wrote out "Hey Murve...", and walked away from my desk. I was going to have him ask why his head was so messed up. When I came back, my friend Krienke had written "Death is Scary". I thought, "Well, okay, I guess this comic is done".
The character in pen is J.H., also drawn by Krienke. He was the first in school to draw comics, a massive series of one panels starring J.H., who was based on a kid who rode our bus who said dumb and outrageous things. In the original and 1st remake of The Birds, J.H. roars in on his monster truck and shoots all the birds.
I wrote that Dante in the nude comic in 6th grade at my house. I never brought it to school.
43 - Return of The Robot
"Robot zaped me."
44 - A Robby Comic & 45 - Ye Olde Comic
Ye Olde Comic was a remake of an early season 6 one panel. They had European accents in the original and called each other "Eediot". It was mildly funnier than the one seen here.
46 - Sick Day
Whenever I got to stay home from school I thought it would be fun, but then I'd remember we didn't have cable and the only thing on TV in the afternoon was soap operas and boring public access community announcements. My mom would get me VHS tapes from the library though. Luckily by 7th Grade I owned a Gameboy Advance.
47 - Death is Coming
Murve was so out of his element that Divad and Douglas were willing to live in a cardboard box with him and poop in the corner. The "Death is Coming, Magic 8 Ball Say So" line earned me another Golden Broken Award.
48 - "He's Happy"
A another redo. This was originally written via stream of consciousness. Some great Murve lines were made from stream of consciousness.
49 - Skwuibbles
I always loved the last panel where Murve's eyes are lines instead of circles.
50 - Juice
A simple gag.
51 - A Murve Song
Another stream of consciousness Murve dream. I think school was out for summer when I wrote this one. No more awards for me 😐
52 - A Big Nudey Comic
A bunch of one-panels sharing a theme that Sam the Eagle would not approve of.
53 - Summer Time
My brother still quotes Murve's massive frown with a percussive sound effect.
54 - Nature Walk
Before uploading these, I had honestly forgotten that I wrote any Murve comics in 8th grade. Judging by this comic, I might have been losing my touch.
55 - Halloween Special III
I got a How to Draw book at some point, and a while before this one I had drawn a more realistic portrait of Douglas. My brother thought it was kind of creepy, so I made that into a Halloween strip. I think this was the last comic starring either Murve, Divad, or Douglas that I drew.
56 - Quick Comics
These were written some time during the school year, probably at different times.
Back Cover of Notebook
All of the characters from Season 3.
Bonus Comic: Douglas Kills Bob Dylan
This was a collaboration between me and my friend who drew Broken DeMarce Comics. I always loved his art style. Douglas keeps screaming "Siasomi" for some reason. Some sort of crazed babbling. Captain Yucko appeared a few times in the Divad, Douglas, Murve comics, but I lost the one where he was the main antagonist. I do have a comic where he moons Douglas though. I wish the scan was better.
Bonus Drawing: Map of Peoplesville
A very detailed map of Peoplesville, the city where Murve, Divad, and Douglas live.
Bonus Drawing: Murve's House
A color picture of Murve's house. I've always thought of it as the true cover and back cover of Season 3.
That's it for Season 3. After that I stopped drawing comics regularly. I got into animating throughout 8th grade, and soon after that started programming video games as MansterSoft.
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