I waste no time establishing that Charlotte and Michael live across the hall from each other. It’s a sitcom cliché, of course it is, but clichés become clichés for a reason. It is super convenient for characters to live near[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
And this was the last time that anyone took a straightforward surface reading of just one comic and used it to form an un-nuanced view of the work as a whole.
You could read this is as being about a clever cartoonist who writes comics that his lazy audience is too stupid to get, but I think of it more as being about a foolish cartoonist trying to shoe-horn political messaging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Trenchant analysis” is one of my favourite phrases for mouthfeel alone. This strip is based on a real conversation I had with a family-member about my new webcomic. And they say I can’t internalise criticism. Oh, internalise it. I push[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel vindicated by the amount of traffic I get to this comic from people asking Google if “regenium” is a real word or a real chemical element. You have every right to be sceptical, people. It’s neither of those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I know what you’re thinking. “One perfect man? God already made one perfect man and his name is Nicolas Cage.” But don’t worry. ‘Perfect man’ here just means ‘perfect for Amy’, which Jack is to the same extent that he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The irony is I didn’t have the idea for this comic. The idea and practically the whole script was donated by my more intelligent brother Matthew.
