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I put a lot of extra effort into this comic, I think about 15 hours over the course of two evenings and an afternoon! Any feedback is greatly welcome. :) (Smile)

PS: Not that you probably need a reason to make this any more emotional. But I always found this Hans Zimmer track from COD fitting of Pinky's death and the emotions within. You can even hear the pounding of the crusher and zzz of the magnet as if slowed for dramatic effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5-Y2B7E-Y

So a lot of people have been waiting for this comic, waiting and dreading it. I hope that it doesn't disappoint, and I hope that the bitter-sweetness of how the story wraps up at least somewhat helps the story feel like it has a realistically happy ending given the circumstances. It's been a long road, and everything has to come to an end at some point. At least Pinky passed away knowing that she was loved, and that her little girl is grown and happy. I think any mother would be a piece knowing that.

Well the story is pretty self explainitory so I guess I'll go straight to the technicals. The year is 1987, the same year the movie BLT came out and in my mind the year the story too place, so welcome to the first comic that's really going on during the movie. Drawing Pinky with the actual main characters of the movie hopping on by to their next scene was probably one of the first images that came to my mind when thinking up this comic. It just seems really cool to me, seeing my original back story lead up to and mesh up into the plot of the movie it originally sprouted from. I know that the main characters aren't actually seen with Pinky in the movie, and this is placing them having hopped out of scene just prior to Pinky's appearance. The whole idea was based on a discussion of an idea I had with several fans. The idea that, what if Toaster and the gang were actually unintentionally the reason the worthless car's in the song were chosen for death that day. Think about it, almost every car in the song had Toaster and the gang near them when they were plucked up. Andy had them behind him, Dusty of course, Callie had them right in front of her, Lampy was at least near by to Callie, and Ol' Green had them literally sitting in his cab! Plus the magnet always seemed to have some sort of attraction to the main characters, pun intended. Just wondering if they unintentionally by running around down there drew the magnet's deathly glare to those particular cars.. .kind of an unsettling thought eh?

One of my goals for the second panel there was to re-draw that classic scene of Dusty being carried by the magnet. I've stated to several buddies of mine that I kinda hated the sloppy way he was drawn in those frames, he's so stretched and warped he barely looked like a car.. go back and check if you don't believe me. So I added my own hand into drawing it and tried to fix him up to look a bit better...

I also wanna thank my friend Eric for pushing me to work on the comic just a bit longer and add the pollution clouds into a few of the panels. They really DO complete the Ernie's atmosphere being there.. making the sky look all dank and foreboding.

Something else people might notice is that Pinky's eyes crack up after she's dropped on the conveyer belt. This is actually a little noticed detail, but her eyes literally are cracked in the movie at that point. I myself kinda like it, it's just another state of damage to draw Pinky in, I myself decided to add in the dented up bumper.. I really wanted her to look like physically she was pretty ready for death.. just totally beaten weathered and tired. Something I did change for the comic was to have her windshield smashed down which it wasn't in the movie. Logically if the magnet smashed down on top of her to pick her up, what's left of her windshield would be bent down from it.. just a small consistency error I changed. ^^

I know at least one of my friends will be happy to see Violet's photo play a part in this. ;) Yeah, I had that photo planned out for this purpose all the way back when I drew it into the Fairwell Pinky parts. It's nice to finally have this comic submitted and let you guys see what it ended up doing. The idea of the crusher pulling the picture towards it and then blowing it back came from me just thinking about it a little. You know, with that crusher going, that giant smashing block moving up and down, you'd imagine the kind of air displacement there'd be. Massive suction to fill in the crushing area as it lifts up, followed by a massive gust of air as the black slams down.. just consistently over and over. Man, it must have been friggin intense for Rob!

We also see a return of the old worker-man. It wasn't originally my idea, but my buddy Apprentice noted how funny it would be if his job was just to sit in the engine room all day and monitor everything, just sitting there listening to a walkman and reading magazines. That when Toaster jammed the gears at the end of the movie, he must have been like "woah what the heck?!" in a way he almost kinda acts as the grim reaper for Pinky.. getting the crusher going again after it stalls out. The only reason I added in that stalling out part is because Pinky and Dusty are the only two cars in the song that the crusher actually stops and waits till they're inside to crush down.. so I kinda worked in that maybe it was being finicky and having some trouble running at that time. Plus, it's just kinda nice seeing the magnet not getting it's way if just for a moment.. go out with some defiance Pinky!

Drew that 'death tunnel' myself from scratch, I'm actually really really proud how it came out. What follows are a random collection of memories, some you may recognize from other pictures some not. :) The one memory that spans a couple panels is one people aren't gonna be familiar with. Just something else to tie my story into the movie, one of the houses that was scan past at the end of the movie in that arial shot is Violet' grandparent's farm, her grandparents on her mother's side. Hopefully I can work this into another picture or something, but it was just a typical thing for Violet's family that they'd all drive up to Ms. Brook's grandparents place for a couple day visit at least twice a year. This is just a random memory from one of those visits where Violet runs out in the middle of a friggin thunderstorm just to give Pinky company out in the barn. That scene with her and Pinky in the barn was intended to last a little bit but it got cut for time. Apprentice and I RPed out a dialogue script for the sequence that I might upload later if people are interested. :)


Lastly we get the treat of seeing 1987 Violet, hanging out with some unknown friend, plus a little cameo of the Camaro who seems like he may be mellowing out a bit in these post-Pinky days.. wouldn't you agree? The fact that Violet just gets overcome randomly by just this really sad feeling comes from something I remember always thinking as a little kid watching BLT. I remember being a little kid feeling really bad for all the Worthless cars.. not understanding how their masters could be so cruel to send them to this fate when a lot of them dont even look badly damaged. I remember feeling like "well I hope when these cars die their owners feel it somehow!" >: /

So yeah, I'll shut up now. Hope you guys enjoy!