Well, here’s part three in the quasi-crossover I’m having with Brian Carroll and his strip, Instant Classic. Brian wrapped up his arc yesterday placing his version of Tom at the transformative genesis of one of his lead characters in her past. Pretty cool. Kind of hard to live up to. Sincere thanks to Brian for including me.
I like the version of Brian that I’ve created for my story arc, but I have a nagging feeling like I could have pushed it further or been a little more incendiary. It’s hard for me, though, because it goes against my nature to be outwardly mean when it comes to my contemporaries – even if they invite the onslaught as Brian has. Brian has been a great sport and has actively encouraged me to go for the jugular. I’m just saying it’s difficult to slip into that headspace. It’s actually one of the reasons I don’t draw more guest strips. I have a pathological fear of misrepresenting what someone else has invested their lives into creating.
I know that I have no problem being mean about certain actors, directors or movie franchises featuring 30 foot tall transforming robots. So there is a little bit of hypocrisy at work here. But it’s a lot easier to make fun of something you don’t respect as opposed to something you do.
At this point in the storyline, I kind of feel like I would be telling the same joke over and over again by demonstrating the ways in which TH-Brian is annoying to Tom. I would kind of like to see their confrontation spill over into violence for the catharsis alone. But right now, things are pretty one-sided. If I decide these two should come to blows, the focus shouldn’t exclusively be about how Tom finds him irritating. That’s assault. But if there has always been something about Tom that TH-Brian has hated as well… then we might have something.
Sorry. I feel like I’m working this out in front of you guys and not leaving very much mystery to the proceedings. I guess I don’t know what else to write about. Things might pick up a little next week, though. I have a joke for From Paris With Love that I’ve been dying to use for two weeks.
Not much more for me to talk about. I hope you guys have enjoyed the comics this week – and the peek inside my head, apparently. See you here on Monday!
I'll join you!
Did you know it was Orson Welles that introduced coconut oil as a cooking agent for popcorn after a trip to Bora Bora in 1938?
Y'see? Right there. This is why I've always hated you.
It's bad enough you're loyal to Orson Welles like a mentally handicapped golden retriever.
But you make it WORSE by telling outrageous lies to make the man sound more important than he actually was!
Welles was also the first to suggest a discount for a large soda and popcorn combo.
YOU ARE SO ANNOYING!
That popcorn and soda discount is only ever like 50 cents. So maybe it was 50cent (the rapper) who suggested it. Or maybe he makes royalties every time you upgrade to the combo discount. Think about that.
Every time you upgrade to a large popcorn and soda combo deal you give rapper 50cent money.
Did you know it was Orson Wells who suggested to Bob Dylan that he play electric guitar.
I hear that Orson Wells showed Chuck Norris the roundhouse Kick….
I like where this is going.
Keep ’em coming!
Did you know Orson Wells created the first webcomic (“Rosebud”) twenty years before the worldwide web was invented? That’s why nobody knew what ‘Rosebud’ meant….
Did you know that Orson Wells was the first bullfighter?
Its true! He started the sport one day when he came across a pair of poor, injured orphans being stalked by a vicious bull. It stood twice the height of a man, and onlookers swore it could breathe fire. Wells knew that the nearby peasants were lost in terror, and if he didn’t do something swiftly the poor children would be trampled by the vicious beast.
Grabbing a large red cloth from a nearby table, Wells ran to the bull and began waving it and yelling at the bull. The violent motion of the cloth and the stinging jabs of Wells’s wit enraged the bull, who turned and charged the valiant hero. Using the cloth as a decoy, Wells adroitly dodged the mighty bull’s vicious attack and continued to taunt the beast.
Time after time the bull dove at Wells, but the monster was no match for his skill. The peasants gathered and stood in awe, watching the incredible event unfolding before them. Eventually, as Wells’s endurance began to wear the creature down, the peasants found their courage and assaulted the great bull in mass. They slew the mighty beast, and then rose up in celebration for the hero who had saved those poor orphans and their very way of life.
The next year, upon the anniversary of Wells’s triumph over the monster, the people held a celebration where bulls were brought in to reenact his heroism the year before. And so, the sport of bullfighting was founded. A tribute by a grateful people to their hero, Orson Wells.
Did you know that Orson Welles invented the iPad and Steve Jobs beat him up in a back alley for it.
Haha the last 2 panels are so true to life sometimes
Did you know that Orson Welles offered the Muppets their first big movie contract?
TH Brian Carroll might be pretty cool as an occasional recurring character.
Did you know that Orson Welles’ radio telecast of War of the Worlds was in fact used to deter a secret invasion by the Mole People? He used the telecast to make the mole people think that the world was already being taken over, so that hte mole people would stay underground.