Welcome to
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It all started when I ran the Denver Anime International
newsletter, DAI-gest....
By the second issue, I decided to come up with a comic
strip to do some commentary and provide a few laughs. My favorite
anime show at the time was Dirty Pair (still in my top 5), whose
main characters' real code name was the Lovely Angels. Splicing
these two names together created the name of the strip and a means
to identify the lead characters. After a while, the characters
grew beyond just an excuse to draw SD (Super-Deformed) Dirty Pair,
even after I added a Ranma-chan clone named Stevie. The girls
started popping up in filler art, extended comics, and even did
an 'info-comic'. I ran the strip until I stopped doing the newsletter
(read: burnout) over three years later. But the girls still lived
in my brain for quite a while, which is why I revived them for
'Otaku Rhapsody'.
These are the old strips that ran in DAI-gest from
the beginning onward. I have not touched the artwork, outside
of redoing the lettering as to try to make it more readable, so
trust me, I'm the one wincing the most. But I hope it is a memorable
trip for older DAI members or for new readers wanting to see the
evolution.
Oh... Stevie? I have no plans of bringing her back
as of yet... but stay 'tooned . ^_^