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Chris Says:  When we ran this past our friend Trey, who is a doctor, he told us that Dr. Dirtbike had not scrubbed in before performing backflip surgery, thus violating basic medical procedure.

Pretty sure that’s why we got rejected by Zuda.

Chad Says:  I scrub in for everything.


Discussion (21) ¬

  1. guayec

    that IS awesome indeed. great comiconcept. just wish there was more of it more frequently. 😛

  2. Anthony

    Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper.

  3. Wolkin

    I WOULD LIKE TO BUY THIS PAGE. PLEASE LET ME DO THIS RIGHT NOW.

  4. Jay Potts

    Hey, I just checked my benefits package, and my HMO DOES cover “dirtbike surgery!”

  5. Mathew Digges

    I think this page is an example of why I wanted to work with Chris and Chad on this. I would never have tried to draw something like this working on my own. The fact that they thought I could pull this off based on what they had seen of my previous work was a tremendous leap of faith.

    Out of the original 8 pages, this is the one I kept putting aside and reworking. I think it was the last one I finished.

  6. Smitty

    If this is what was happening during my recent surgery, I would like to apologize for everything negative I ever said. WORTH IT.

  7. Shatner's Bassoon

    @guayec It’s a tuesday/thursday update schedule, that’s a perfectly frequent update of a free webcomic.

  8. guayec

    Yeah, Shatner’s Bassoon, but I think THIS particular kind of webcomic could use a different update schedule. I know we’ve only seen 3 pages, so I still can’t say if its going to be a single-strip-focused one (like, well, xkcd, LBFA, SMBC, cyanide&happiness…), relying on the set-up-punchline structure, or an arch-focused one, which needs a couple pages to get you (Freakangels, for example).
    The second kind of webcomic usually updates a new page everyday, so you dont lose interest or forget the story, even if it ends with a punchline (QC). Or, if it updates less regularly, it usually is a self-contained ministory that still gives you more than just a couple of panels, an also ends with a punchline (OotS).
    Of course, I’m saying all this based solely on THREE PAGES, so FUCK ME, but to me it seems a little slow paced.
    But well, I guess I can simply check Awesome Hospital only once a week and at least get two pages. And anyway, I’m gonna read this no matter the schedule. I was just trying to be helpful. I’m not hatin’ here! 😛

  9. Nimbus

    I kinda agree with guayec. I’d forgotten all about the previous panels so wouldn’t have known that “Dr. Dirtbike had not scrubbed in before performing backflip surgery” nor can I remember who Dr Dirtbike is performing the backflip surgery on, nor why.

    Then again, part of me thinks that I don’t need to know any more than “dirtbike backflip surgery”.

  10. Chad Bowers

    Thanks for the feedback, guayec and Nimbus.

    As you may have guessed from Simsy’s commentary, Awesome Hospital was originally a ZUDA pitch. As I’m sure everybody here knows, ZUDA takes submissions in eight page slices,so what you’ve seen so far are pitch pages, which we’re written more like a long form strip than a regularly updated webcomic.

    With that in mind, I still think what you get here works pretty well, but I can see how it might come off as a little “slow” for the web.

    But rest easy, you webcomic aficiondos — starting with page nine, you’ll see a bit of a shift in style.

    Thanks for reading.

  11. Josh Krach

    This is still my favorite page of anything I’ve read in months.

  12. dayuse

    My life is now complete. This page is the definition of…everything!

  13. swagger234

    LOVE. IT.

  14. Jago

    “I kinda agree with guayec. I’d forgotten all about the previous panels so wouldn’t have known that “Dr. Dirtbike had not scrubbed in before performing backflip surgery” nor can I remember who Dr Dirtbike is performing the backflip surgery on, nor why.”

    I’d like to point out that not an eighth of an inch under the comic, there is a convenient little button that says “Back.”

  15. Deamon Fire

    You need to make a poster out of this. I would buy that in a heartbeat.

  16. Chris A. Bolton

    This will be my first tattoo. On my FACE.

  17. Allen Holt

    This might be the best drawing of anything anywhere ever.

  18. Hilary

    Hey, he might’ve scrubbed in while driving the dirtbike. At high speed. On the ramp. Oooh, I’m imagining a decontamination rinse area that he just rides through and it disinfects both him and the bike. Therefore, all sterile. (I’m such a nerd.)

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