Danny’s pretty damn blasé about Joe’s abduction abduction story. I want to think he’s not falling for it and being incredibly sarcastic and patronizing here. At the time, mentioning the Anti-Christ was a big deal to me. I was afraid […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish my Aliens called humans “Earth scum” more. It lent a certain flavor. At this point in 1997, Friends was beginning its fourth season. In case you want to feel old.
The Christmas before I went to college, my little sister got The Sound of Music on VHS. (Ask your parents.) She played that mofo 24 hours a day for maybe five zillion weeks. I may have nursed a grudge.
The Alien on the hoverpod seems to be the only one who doesn’t get a name in this sequence. Also, it took me a while to understand the George Clooney joke because I’d temporarily forgotten that he used to star […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sure hope these guys aren’t important later on.
Of course Alex is hacking into the government’s databases. He has to fill out his “Computer Nerd Cliches” bingo card.
I think this is one of my earliest genuinely-successful jokes.
Alex is based on one of my pre-college Internet friends whose name was also Alex. The nickname “Dark Power 451” was a wholly new creation, however. It was a combination of “Dark Power,” which sounds like the sort of ridiculous […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first appearance of Alex, aka “Dark Power 451.” He’s one of the few characters who’ve never gotten last names, and so I’ve opted to tag him as his online nickname. Danny really needs to be punched in the face.
I really don’t blame Joe. The background of this one puzzles me a little. The three windows behind Danny and Joe in the first panel are clearly the windows that lead into Landes dining hall, but I’ve drawn trees in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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