When Michael started building the raft I seriously hated the idea. I thought it was ridiculous for a number of reasons. Not only do we know that it won’t work, but Michael would be taking Walt away from the island–one of the most mysterious characters. And then there’s Jin and Sawyer. Sawyer! My favorite character leaving the island? Baloney!! Sure, let Michael go. He causes collateral damage wherever he goes!

Then what makes this a favorite moment? The music. Giacchino’s “Parting Words” composition is amazing. AY-MAY-ZING! It gives me goosebumps, my chest tightens, and I get all teary. What a sissy right? Whatever! I’ve seen Sawyer cry and he’s a tough guy cowboy! So thanks to Giacchino I love that stupid raft.

So many video games have a healing spring that this was kinda irresistible. I wanted to change up the setting a little, anyway, and I was psyched to draw Dogen & Lennon. Did you see John Hawkes in Eastbound & Down? He’s like a walking cartoon character already! I love him.

Thank you very much to my friends Ellison & Jason for the Japanese lessons! I’m sure I murdered the translation.

I hope everybody picked up their LOST Complete Collection DVD/BD sets this week. The epilogue and bonus features made me laugh, cry, and shout at my television all over again. I love it so hard!

Awwwww Vincent! Today, Profiles in History kicks off “LOST the Official Show Auction” in which all that remains of the LOST costumes and props will be sold to the highest bidder.

Part of me thinks all this stuff belongs on display at a museum or someplace classy like Disneyland. Then again I’m happy that they will go to die hard losties. Believe you me, if I lacked a wife with common sense there is not any length I would not go to in order to snatch up everything in the catalog. I would dig the biggest hole of debt imaginable! I would be poor, but I would have my LOST things and could die crazy happy.

Thank goodness for Gandhi who reminds us that happiness comes not from things but the pride we feel from the hard work that we do. And so I make comics. This makes me happy. Happier than having the Namaste photo or Sawyer’s letter on my wall. At least that’s what I’ll keep telling myself.

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I’m sure if Mikhail had gotten more screen time we would have found that good ol’ Giacchino-fueled-tuggin’-at-the-heart-strings empathy LOST is so good at even for him. What he did to Charlie is dastardly, but I still love him.

I realize I’m playing around with the timeline a little, but it’s silly, and technically possible (see s3e23 “Through the Looking Glass Part 2″).

The last 3 panels were originally intended as a bonus follow-up strip for later, but I liked the way it played right after the first part, so I put it all together! Yay!

Oh bless the TV dude who invented shark week. The Dharma sharks are no exception! They deserve their own cartoon series, don’t you think?

It’s okay, this one bums me out a little, too. But it still makes me laugh. A scaredy cat shark with poor vision who is the consequence of mad Dharma experiments? I can’t wait to see what kind of hijinks these guys get into.

I get lots of emails about how I do art, so I made a time lapse video from my coloring process on last week’s comic. This isn’t a tutorial, but it shows how I build up the color through layers. I do all of the drawing and coloring end-to-end in photoshop with my own custom brushes.

“The Constant” is without a doubt one of the greatest things to ever grace the TV screen. It is my personal favorite LOST episode and this is my favorite moment.

In honor of this very special episode it’s time for a Twitter contest! If you would like to be entered in a drawing to win a pretty art print of this comic follow me on Twitter (@hellobampop) and retweet this tweet.

Deadline for the contest is next week when the next comic comes out. Winner will be announced here and on Twitter!

Oh Walt, here you go freaking out adults again. This comic is inspired by an old Dennis the Menace daily by Hank Ketcham from 09/10/1953. I’m a big fan of the old Ketcham Dennis the Menace strips. Thank goodness for Fantagraphics and their wonderful Dennis the Menace reprint collections!

After re-watching the LOST “Room 23″ mobisode I thought it would be funny to turn Walt into a little Dennis terrorizing the Others. I’m certain Walt raised a ruckus over in Dharmaville  and on Hydra Island. The Others seemed pretty eager to get rid of him. Poor kid. He gets kicked out everywhere he goes!