Comments on: Metapost: Multi-item comments of the week!

By: tymime

tymime — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:34:51 +0000

Well, after e-mailing this to you twice, and receiving no response of any kind after several weeks, I’m going to see if posting this here will get any attention. Because I really do believe you’ll enjoy this:
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/missing_strips.html
In 1964, Mad magazine apparently asked several comic strip artists to draw what sort of strip they’d really like to do. With the exception of Charles Schulz, all of them are pretty jokey.
But I think the real highlight here is the freakish midget Mary Worth punching a bespectacled Charlie Brown clone in the nose.

By: Poteet

Poteet — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:12:31 +0000

# 80 Niall — Holy moly. I deeply bow. You are even farther up in the chocolate stratosphere than I had realized. I hope you do find someone local and worthy of sharing the really really good stuff.

By: Katya

Katya — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:09:01 +0000

Josh,

Why, why did you start all this stuff yesterday?

I wanna get back to the comics (read: the important things)! :)

Katya

By: Katya

Katya — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:59:07 +0000

#26 — buckyswife:

Ooh, toss that intimidating word “academic” out there (italicized, no less), and expect me to whimper helplessly, roll over and play dead. Ain’t gonna happen (a bit of literary license there — see, I can get out from under the “rules” when it’s appropriate).

I’d love it if you’d explain to poor, uneducated me exactly what a “real, academic writer” might be. Really.

I’m not trying to start a fight here, and I would like to see this whole stupid thing end, too. (Remember, also, that we’re both from Northern California, right? That’s gotta count for something!)

Also, I did say it yesterday, but I think on a different thread, so I’ll say it again (hey, it can’t be said too often):

Sincere congratulations on your Comment of the Week!

I really hope we’re still on good terms on your end; we are on mine. :)

By: seismic-2

seismic-2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:28:11 +0000

In the Blackhat other-world Crankverse, Crank is slumped in the wheelchair that has held his comatose body ever since the tragic batting-practice accident of thirty years ago . In this version of events, Crank was a minor-league coach on the verge of being called up to a job in the majors when an aspiring rookie beaned him with a fungo that rendered him a vegetable from then on out. With Crank now on his deathbed, the psychic energy that has been bottled up in his comatose shell for the past thirty years is starting to vent itself in Carrie-like revenge on the hotshot would-be rookie who bopped Crank with the ball to the noggin. Young fellow named “Gil” something or other.

Athough seemingly brain-dead, the psychically charged Crank still dreams of his days playing ball, and in the final one, he steps into the batter’s box, and the catcher removes his mask. There is another mask underneath it. Crank and the catcher begin to tango.