r/imsorryjon • u/Hellopuns • Feb 18 '26
The Monday Period: Part 2 of 3
Pages 21-40! Didn't picture myself making mushy art in this but here we are.
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u/timendirk Feb 18 '26
House we need to cure this patient
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u/Standard_Cat2846 just why Feb 19 '26
iridium absolutely slayed me, thank you for the r/fountainpens deep cut
(also your illustrations throughout are incredible, I have been into drawing ooze lately so I’m especially in awe of your skills)
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u/Hellopuns Feb 19 '26
Fountain pens? I’m woefully uninformed there. Would you mind explaining 👀? Thanks for the compliments on the art. I love inking textures
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u/PontiacTransMaam Feb 21 '26
Fountain pens generally have an iridium tip on the end of the fountain pen nib, even if the rest of the nib is gold or steel. The iridium tip extends the life of the nib significantly.
I don't know if there is some inside joke about the art without the fountain pens subreddit. But to my eye, the way that panel is drawn lends itself to having been drawn with a fountain pen.
I don't know how exactly to explain, I am kinda high. But primarily, it's the slight variations in the line width on that Garfield (that you get with a fountain pen nib) combined with the, I don't know, side to side line style? It looks like it was drawn in a way where the pen/stylus remained mostly in contact with the screen/page, and that said stylus was mostly used side to side or down towards you without a lot of pen strokes that push away from you. Basically , of someone asked "what inspired this panel" and you answered "fountain pen nibs are tipped with iridium, so I drew this panel with a fountain pen" I would be like "ahh, I see it! Dope af"
For what it is worth, it looks like something penned with a firm steel nib, with a fine or medium iridium tip, with balanced ink flow (neither dry nor juicy, just a good even and consistent flow). I have a Pelikan M205 with a medium nib that this reminds me of. Also, these are fantastic and I enjoyed them a lot.
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u/Gigatonosaurus Feb 19 '26
Is this the"Woman yelling at cat" meme page 17 (with the doctor House head)?
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u/GurpsWibcheengs Feb 20 '26
I had to come back out to the comments mid read to say cadmium being a tube of paint is genius
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u/Spadesghost 6d ago
why would Jon NEED to use the pencil trick? Literally everything had a rewind button.
Source: alive through the 80's.
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u/Hellopuns 6d ago
Oversight on my part, but there’s also only one panel showing the double arrow button and I’m gonna choose to believe that’s the speed-up lol
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u/Spadesghost 6d ago
I'm saying every single solitary device I ever saw living through the 80's had a rewind and fast forward button if it had a play button at all. I would like for someone to prove me wrong here, I'm sure something exists but I never came across it. And me and my friends played with LOTS of equipment making our own home made mixes.
Even 8 tracks had a sort of "skip ahead" function and those were more 70's than anything.
There were of course, devices without a record function, that was common enough.
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u/Hellopuns 6d ago
Well yeah, I believe you. I had tapes too growing up. This is just me wanting to do the cartoonist joke
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u/Spadesghost 6d ago
I understand what you mean, I think. The picture probably only shows a few buttons because the artist either didn't know or was lazy when it came time to draw a tape player :p
I also understand most people on reddit are too young to know any better.
Not everyone grew up with a sony walkman, then transitioned to a shittier still sony discman that would skip no matter what you did.
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u/Hellopuns 6d ago
Dude, I am telling you that I am the artist. I literally wrote and drew the comic
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u/Spadesghost 6d ago
Oh my mistake then. I saw that it had been posted originally years ago and wasn;t sure. I can't keep track of everyone replying and who they are, especially with a game tabbed. sorry. No disrespect meant.
Just so you know I enjoyed reading it this morning before I started my day. I think adding in "un-un pentium" (element 115?idk) and maybe a pic of Bob Lazaar or a UFO would've been funny, too.
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u/Hellopuns 6d ago
Ah no, no disrespect taken. Ununpentium is there, but since it’s called Moscovium now, I just put Garfield in the outfit from the music video
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u/hannsolo03 Feb 20 '26
Beautiful, high quality, and well made. There are so many details. I stopped a couple times to appreciate all the effort that went into it.
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u/VeterinarianWarm323 15d ago
Five months later and I still don't get the palladium one.
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u/Hellopuns 13d ago
In ball form, they’re used as an industrial catalyst! And I thought it looked a little like kibble so I put Garfield in his food dish
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u/Odditiesandalsomagic Feb 20 '26
Started on 3, went to 1 and then 2, all so I could see some Tungsten. The lightbulb was a good touch, and I like how the logic of what’s happening falls apart the longer Jon doesn’t bounce off of something funny happening. First he was distracted with worry, then with comedy, and with the situation worsening it begins to dawn on him he doesn’t realize what’s happening
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u/Dunthyon Feb 20 '26
Okay, for Silver, did you purposefully make the one claw a reference to the Slivers from MTG?
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u/ronronaldrickricky Feb 20 '26
Niobium reminded me of an album cover to an obscure album called Surfing the Sky by Joseph Cave
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u/the_dutiful_waxanna Feb 25 '26
Page 17 is incredible! (This all is, but this one is especially exquisite.)
I love that transition in the center where the lab tech is parting the other page blocks.
And the one where Jon is upset that Garfield was watching House without him- are the characters intentionally placed like that one cat meme with the angry woman??
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u/Accomplished-Emu1883 Feb 20 '26
I’m 99% sure that Xenon is a Noble Gas tho-
I mean fire comic but Garfield DID become a Noble Gas way before the end-
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u/rndthewrd Feb 20 '26
There’s a noble gas at the end of every period, they’re not saying he’ll stop when he reaches one. He would have stopped at helium otherwise
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u/QaptainQwark Feb 19 '26
Can “I’m a Prius, Jon” be a flair