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  1. Anonymous

    Of course, the sleezer gave them expired food XD

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    Chuck acknowledged that the bucket “survival food” was old, with the potential of being bad, but admitting it still had the potential for being good! 🤣
    Con in Pasadena? I had to check, Cali, not TX, tho they have smaller shows at the college, I figured not likely, as Pasadena/Deer Park is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons (again), after an SUV crashed into a LNG pipeline, turning it into a blowtorch.

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534 – Compliments To The Cook
Posted on September 18, 2024 by Clint

[Dawn update: still nursing her wrist, appointment with her doctor this week (Oct. 9) to figure out how serious things are and hopefully some form of treatment treatment. We'll keep y'all informed as we know more.]

Hearkening back to the events of page 269!

Meanwhile, this weekend we're bringing Zombie Ranch to the wide-open spaces. Comparatively. The trade volumes will be among our offerings at the annual Pasadena ARTWalk at Booth #32 in the shady lanes of Green Street.

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On Gallantry and Goofustry.

Posted on September 7, 2016 by Clint
Have you ever heard of the old series of comic strips known as Goofus and Gallant? If not, you may have at least run across any number of homages and parodies based on it, such as the Dimwit and Duke cartoons in Bioshock Infinite. The basic structure was simply that the boy named Goofus, positioned on the left, would always be doing things the wrong way, while the boy Gallant, appropriately positioned to the right, would approach the same situation with the proper actions and/or attitude. Goofus grabs, Gallant asks. Goofus mocks, Gallant empathizes. Goofus rebels, Gallant obeys. So on and so forth. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Maybe even too simple? Aren’t there, after all, situations where a bit of rebellion might be the correct choice? I think Martin Luther King, Jr., among others, could make a case for that. When Dawn read the script page for last week’s comic, she laughed at the last panel and said, “Lacey has a point.” “I like to have Lacey score a point every so often,” I responded. “Keeps things interesting.” Having a Goofus and Gallant dichotomy where one character is always good and right and one character is always wrong and bad? I mean, hey, I liked He-Man as much as the next kid when I was a tyke, but my tastes are a bit more sophisticated these days in terms of both receiving entertainment and creating it. I like that occasional indulgence in the trope of “Jerkass Has a Point“. It keeps both the characters and the audience engaged, evaluating what they’re experiencing. Perhaps even more importantly, it keeps you as a creator doing the same, preventing the far more unfortunate occurrence of “Strawman Has a Point” where whatever you were trying to say on a more thematic level goes horribly awry. Now of course, the rightness or wrongness of my characters at any given moment does not mean you have to like them any more (or less). Lacey does seem on the whole to be more Goofus than Gallant, doesn’t she? Yet I’ve heard people express that they find that endearing, feeling like those flaws make her more relatable. Those same flaws have led others to really, really not like her. But if she was made up of nothing but flaw, that would be as boring after awhile as it would be if Suzie were a shining paragon who never stumbled. Good drama lies somewhere in the middle, I reckon.