She will be missed.
And possibly forgotten by David.
Taeshi’s Commentary On This Page
So basically people were like
“MAKE A KIZUNA FAREWELL COMIC”
I freaken deliver
new incentive, chapter 55 coming Friday.
146 Reader Comments On This Page
Comment ID #4231
Comment ID #4232
Wait, why is Mike frozen?
Comment ID #4235
Totally forgot there was a time when The Simpsions were funny.
Comment ID #4236
and punch and kick and kick kick kick kick kick
the Mikie and Lucy shooooow~
Comment ID #4237
I….understand none of what are clearly quite a few references here.
Should I feel bad about that?
Comment ID #4238
Why shouldn’t he be frozen?
Comment ID #4240
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Poochie_Show
Scratchy is frozen in the scene where Poochie says goodbye, by the way. Itchy is in the middle of attacking him.
Comment ID #4241
…oh, Itchy and Scratchy….right… .
If you’ll excuse me, geek-honor demands seppuku.
Comment ID #4242
No!!!!! Easily forget-able dog girl don’t leave, your futile attempts to get noticed by David are one of the more hilarious portions of the comic, please come back!
Comment ID #4243
WELL THAT WAS THAT NOW HOW ABOUT MAKING MCCAIN A MAIN CHARACTER?? ITLL BOOST UR RATINS!!!
Comment ID #4244
…This made me burst out laughing for like a good minute or so.
Comment ID #4251
…….Heh? OO
Comment ID #4252
… Who was Kizuna again?
Comment ID #4255
I just read through this entire comic. I hope you’re happy as I have yet ANOTHER of these damn things to follow! >:O
Haha, but seriously, I’m loving the story so far. I’m a sucker for sappy teenage drama like this, and I’ve fallen in literary love with your characters. Can’t wait to see how it all plays out~
Comment ID #4257
maybe they will die on their own planet……… ….
Comment ID #4258
well, kizuna being an alien makes sense
Comment ID #4263
funny
Comment ID #4264
was kizuna a dog
Comment ID #4265
Poor Kizuna, at least I suppose it was a quick and painless death. And I don’t think she will be that missed, specially by David.
Simpsoms reference with included sunglasses is win.
Comment ID #4267
You better hope the makers of the Simpson’s don’t sue you for copyright.
Comment ID #4270
Oh taeshi, must you alienate her? XD
Comment ID #4271
the second panel is drawn in simpsons style right? or am i the only one who thought that
Comment ID #4273
Kizuna was a dog, and parody is protected both by the Australian Copyright Act 1986 (Cth) s 41A, and several American precedents uphold the same protection!
Comment ID #4276
fdf
Comment ID #4280
Whats those numbers and letters at square 4?
Comment ID #4284
Am i the only one who notices that make and lucy have the same expretion through the whole comic?
Comment ID #4285
@ Kou
Imma guess that’s the images cell data number thing.
I don’t know exactly how it works, but its like the image is drawn on a piece of plastic, which is then overlayed with other pieces so that they can be moved around at will. It’s definetlly an old method.
Maybe there’s a smart person around who knows what the hell i’m on about.
Comment ID #4287
It’s a Simpsons parody! Yaaaay!
Comment ID #4288
@BCBDisciple: It’s actually drawn on something called cel-paper or something along those lines.
Comment ID #4289
Lol. And they’re both like.
… O
Comment ID #4290
Cel-sheet, that’s what it was.
Comment ID #4293
Thanks for the explaining.
Comment ID #4294
LOL SIMPSONS PARODY, nice ;D itchy and scratchy aint nothing compared to lucy and mikie.
Comment ID #4295
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA The SIMPSON
Comment ID #4299
hehehe xD Simpsons
Comment ID #4300
hey bout the incentive, what was Mike looking for? o .o
Comment ID #4302
Noooooo!, now i’m sad, i knew she was leaving but i jsut didnt wana belive it
(PS: Got the refrence(’s) before reading comments
)
Comment ID #4303
I laughed so much… that was one of my favorite parts from the Simpsons XD
Comment ID #4314
You jacked that from Itchy and Scratchy I think..,
Comment ID #4325
Greatest ending ever
Comment ID #4327
Why is mike in an ice block? Or is that some sort of blue plastic/fiberglass/whatever material wall to protect most his body from Lucy?
Comment ID #4340
You actually redrew the picture 3 times *applause* soem would’ve copied-
Comment ID #4350
Lucy lacks the chainsaw.
Comment ID #4363
heh… hilarious. You gotta love the Simpsons joke(though you’ve got plenty of material to use, since The Simpsons has been going on for 20 years). Definitely put this in my favorites folder and read more often.
Comment ID #4373
FFF haha. I was reading this page this morning in class and my classmates LOL’d too.
Bye bye, Kizuna~ ;w;
Comment ID #4374
Spoof of The Simpsons Itchy,Scratchy and Poochie show episode.
Minus the chainsaw.
Comment ID #4381
Haven’t posted in a while thigh i mean to do so more often and I liaghed
my but off when i saw the Simpson refrence and lucy looks cool in all the panels.
XD
Comment ID #4384
wait….where is that turtle that tripped Paolo (or how ever you spell his name)
Comment ID #4393
Haha this is hilarious!
I love how Lucy looks in all of the panels - so cute :3
Comment ID #4405
Oh wait, I think I know why Mike’s in a block of ice. Cause of Lucy’s cold shoulder.
Gosh that was lame.
Comment ID #4410
look at my bolded text
Comment ID #4417
Third panel: *Insert canned laughter*
Sourth Panel: *”Live studio audience” cheers*
I do hope this is just another gag and not the actual final farewell to everyone’s favorite forgotten canine. :’(
Also, I never realized how much shorter Lucy is compared to the other characters…
Comment ID #4419
That’s right, kids, Kizuna’s DEAD!
*cheers*
Major props for this one. Oh, how I love crack and silliness.
Comment ID #4420
I like how the space occupied by the speech bubbles in the first panel suddenly collapses in #’s 3 & 4 so that Kizuna is only a few feet from Lucy & Mike instead of a couple yards like at first panel.
/snarky criticism
Seriously though, good on you for actually redrawing each panel rather than copy/pasting and shifting elements around.
Comment ID #4422
But I like Her! I must be the only one….
Comment ID #4424
but who is she? xD
Farewell, Kizuna…
Comment ID #4427
Gah dammit… She was one of my favorite characters!
This better be a gag comic, or YOU DON’T GET A COOKIE! (:![]()
Comment ID #4428
Nope, not a gag. =3
Comment ID #4429
Why is she leaving again?
Comment ID #4435
I KNEW IT!
Comment ID #4437
good riddance
she didnt add ANYTHING to the comic
Comment ID #4439
Just read the entire archive in one night, and I’m obviously completely hooked! <33
(Man, there’s probably loads of these comments but, yeah.;;![]()
Comment ID #4443
why kizuna left? well aleast she won,t be miss …. rigth?
Comment ID #4451
well, bye bye Kizuna. we shall remember you~
(maybe not xD)
Comment ID #4458
aww i liked having kizuna around…btw davids my actual name
Comment ID #4461
ang bagal naman ng access ng com. wag na matingnan ang mga chapter nito.
Comment ID #4464
I found your comic through an ad on “Housepets” and just finished reading through the archive, I am enthralled by the story and will definitely be coming back for future updates, keep up the great work.
Comment ID #4466
This is sad. I was sure that Kizuna just needed one more chance. She didn’t go really far while trying to catch David’s heart. She had plenty of potential to go overly dramatic while trying to get her relationship working. Now David will be forever stuck as comic relief.
Comment ID #4470
Well.
Yep.
Alrighty then, i guess it WAS the last we saw of her.
Comment ID #4474
Reminds me of a Family Guy episode were Peter said that the network was gonna cut their budget making poor animation! XD
Comment ID #4475
Love the Simpsons joke <3
I am loving your comic already…even though it isn’t simpsons .3.
Comment ID #4477
Man Mike is one cool guy. Also NOOOO Kizuna is gone! But the name does kind of coincide with her being not of this planet. And how did she die in space hit an asteroid run into tie-fighter?
Comment ID #4487
Random Simpson’s joke? Not a necessarily a bad thing.
Comment ID #4491
that was very strange… very very strange
Comment ID #4494
Goodbye fair Kizuna, we shal miss you
Comment ID #4586
i’m gonna mis how david always forgot her name
Comment ID #4589
i love this comic so much, i understand it better then my own life! wich i know is kinda sad, but if you take this comic, mash it together with twokinds, a skewed paradise, happy hour, concession, furthia high, 2g, parallel dementia, emergency exit, and beyond reality, you get an inkling of what my life is like. it’s actually even crayzier than that, but that’s the only way i can explain it. btw, these are all webcomics. and i agree with taco on this one
Comment ID #4591
I don’t know why I keep reading this comic O_O I like it a lot, but it started out quite fun and just kept getting more and more depressing, but i’m hooked! D:
Comment ID #4594
Did I forget to take my meds again?
Comment ID #4617
For those confused, it’s a reference a Simpsons episode involving Poochie, a temporary character on the cartoon-in-a-cartoon show of Itchy & Scratchy.
Comment ID #4619
OMG, I can´t stop laughing xD
That was so awesome, I love your drawings ;D
Comment ID #4657
lol when did you get an AD on bear nuts?
Comment ID #4658
… :[
Comment ID #4671
The Lucy,Mikeie and Kizuna Show?
Comment ID #4705
Needs Moar Lucy with Chainsaw
Comment ID #4713
Yo this coic is awesome
Comment ID #4720
*The Ninja silently opens a filing cabinet in the government archives. The pages don’t even rustle as he searches through the folder. He finally finds what he was searching for…*
@What is my name??: …There’s a coffee stain on the page, but it looks like your name is Justin…or is that an ‘o’…stupid government record-keeping…
*The Ninja sneaks out grumbling angrily about federal bureaucrats*
Comment ID #4724
awwww… kizuna is gone ?
too bad,the episode where she appears the first time is one of my favorites.
Comment ID #4726
i don’t get it???
why is he frozen???
strange????????????
is she trying to be dumb like david
Comment ID #4732
Kizuna was apparently a fan character, and then was being removed from the comic, so this intermission is just to remove her with some closure, rather then just having her disappear.
Comment ID #4743
Like many others, I found the comic through a link from Housepets. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying (And spent a few too many late nights reading through the archives!)!
Thanks a bunch, I can’t wait to see more!
Comment ID #4750
its friday 5:52pm what time dose the thinggo on
Comment ID #4752
When it’s ready!!!
Comment ID #4753
only 2:55 here, but still…
Comment ID #4758
…. Simpsons.
XD
Comment ID #4776
HEY. You and your awesome comic kept me up until 4 AM. THANKS FOR DEPRIVING ME OF SLEEP :
Comment ID #4889
R.I.P KIZUNA ![]()
Comment ID #4966
She’ll probably show up again ![]()
Oh, and I counted, and as with most good comic authors, I saw this trend >.>
Comics posted in 06 - 28
07 - 13
18 - 2… (but they were good)
09 - 8 >.<
10 - 2 so far, and already 4.5 months in… meep
Im all scarederated now! At this rate, if you finish in 2015, you will be posting 1 welldrawn comic per year >.<
meep.
Im probabbly just ovverreacting tho ![]()
Comment ID #5012
Rift, since the MWF update schedule, you can be sure you’ll get at least 156 pages a year. 108 pages before the end of the year.
Going by the last few comics, there’s about 16 pages to each, so you should expect 2010’s number to be about 9 proper chapters, with 6 more to come (not including the current “Back and Forth”.)
Part of the problem is that the newer pages with their tones and proper panels and inking just take a lot more time.
(108 pages.. 680 hours drawing time remaining for Vero this year. 3 hours a day every day! What a job.)
Comment ID #5154
I think I am acually going to miss her
Comment ID #5162
XD WOW
Comment ID #5198
Simpsons did it!
Comment ID #6145
She’s gone?…….THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ‘SHE’S FRICKEN GONE’?!
Comment ID #6281
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Comment ID #8059
Kizuna was pretty cool T .T
Comment ID #10940
What is Mike even doing
Comment ID #12573
*facepalm*
Comment ID #15421
I…don’t think I’m going to accept that she’s gone. Not until there’s some kind of in-cannon explanation. Something as basic as “she moved away” would suffice. Heck, I’d even take the “transferred to another school” hand-wave without (much) complaint.
Comment ID #15427
It’s funny just how many people do’t get the simpsons reerence, I guess not everyone has watched (literaly) every simpsons episode like me
Comment ID #16887
-pushes down Lucy and Mike billboards-
Comment ID #18395
I saw this episode a few days ago XD
Comment ID #18966
HOLY CRAP! SHES AN ALIEN!
Comment ID #19178
WHY THE HELL IS MIKE FROZEN!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously why is he frozen…
Comment ID #19991
That is a good question… Why is Mike frozen? Symbolism because he’s being so cold to Lucy? Or is it just one of those “why not,” moments?
Comment ID #20196
Simpsons Meg and Dante, watch it.
Comment ID #21106
so she will never be used again………kinda new to the comic, and have just reread the whole thing, i find it very sad to just take out a character. i liked her, she was a good comic relief (no pun intendid). at least it diddnt kill the story.
Comment ID #21518
I think I missed the part where Kizuna poofed o.o
Comment ID #22574
Where’s Lucy’s chainsaw?
Comment ID #24893
looks real… I liked Kizuna…
Comment ID #26009
that was the best Simpson’s episode ever…well actually no, it sucked, by today’s standards at least
back to what i wanted to say. i don’t feel anything for her. i didn’t really like her and she was basically two jokes that got reused over and over again so i think this needed to happen sooner or later before it got old
Comment ID #26668
I totally saw this coming. XD !! -ego- -ego- x3
Comment ID #26850
I love that episode! XD
Comment ID #32273
Whoa, Mike surely is cool!
Cool enough to freeze himself XD
Comment ID #37954
Wow, I just saw this Simpson’s episode the other day XD I couldn’t stop laughing when I thought of this, it actually makes sense now!!
Comment ID #44596
I love Kizuna why did she have to die =`(
Comment ID #49716
SO…MANY…QUESTIONS.
Comment ID #56060
Now all we need is for it to be revealed that “Maishul’s” imaginary sandy actually forgot about him years ago and he’s actually been receiving letters now from To Catch A Predator’s Chris Hansen. He’ll show up there and chris hansen will step in and say “Why don’t you sit do—wait what? You’re a kid? You’re actually a KID, this entire time? … Cut. Stop the cameras. I can’t fucking believe this shit.”
Comment ID #59907
SO AWESOME FOR DOING THAT <3
Comment ID #60262
So we just have a character die completely outside of the story? She´s even marked Deceased in the characters list. What?
Comment ID #61549
Goodbye Shadow ;w;
Comment ID #65832
“So, Kizuna was an alien?” “I guess so.”
Comment ID #65967
Wait… HUH!?!? I’m rather confused, sure I understand that the title says she is gone… (I know the reference you’re throwing at us too Lol.) though I’m just really confused as to what happened really… in the words of Mike… “I’M SO CONFLICTED!!!”… okay, done there, still just downright confused. XD
Comment ID #66486
aliens come back… but the one that came out of black mesa never die!
CURSE YOU HEAD CRAB!!!!!!
Comment ID #67569
mike frozen
Comment ID #67731
She…Died…WTF?
Comment ID #67822
haha Poochy from Simpsons!!!
Comment ID #67929
she died because mario encountered her in space
P.S.he had yoshi with him
Comment ID #68470
lol encountered with mario and he had yoshi
Comment ID #72758
lol just like simpsons itchy and scratchy and poochie
Comment ID #75252
I…..what?
Comment ID #77071
Wait…WHAT? O_o
Comment ID #80950
lol love that Simpsons episode…sad to see her go though
oh well.
Comment ID #81113
The name’s Kizuna D, and I rock the telly! I’m half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli!
…
No one is going to get that.
Comment ID #81969
did noone see that mike is in a block of ice?
Comment ID #83619
Awww, I liked Kizuna x_x At least you didn’t make it seventeen scoops of angsty, so I thank you for that!
Comment ID #4230
Ah I’m sure she’ll be revived as a Black lantern anyway, and terrorize the galaxy.
Though what really happened to this character? Just being brushed aside to be a C-Lister?
Bribri April 14, 2010, 1:17 AM EST.