This is the first page (minus dialogue) of a comic I'm working on. Again... my scanner sucks... All the colors are MUCH richer on the original page. For instance, the black used in the drawings is as black as the panel borders (done with MS Paint).
The art is weird, I know. I don't want to do a full color comic, but I don't want to do black and white, so I'm compromising: I use black for backgrounds and minor characters (e.g. classmates, store clerks) and just mimic tones by using the pen to do dots and lines. For the main caracters, each gets their own color that is used to represent what tones normally would. It makes them stand out.
The girl is named Amphetamine (she goes by Amie for the whole comic... for obvious reasons. At the time I named her, I didn' know it was basically the same thing as meth). She's overly cheery, good natured, and a bit dim-witted. One day she sees this guy, Morphine (named as such because he's always either emotionless or just kind of "down"), and decided he's depressed and that she needs to make him happy... so she starts following him around trying to get him to have fun and he hates her but grows a bit attached to her. (I guess you could parallel them to Zim and Gir.) I'm hoping to draw out at least the first half of the first volume and write out the plot and submit it to Slave Labor this summer.