January 4th, 2010
Wrong Pen
Hey-o! Internet’s back, so here’s a brand new strip just for you! I’ll be travelling (and dogsitting!) this week, but with some luck there will be a comic strip on Friday as well.
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Hey-o! Internet’s back, so here’s a brand new strip just for you! I’ll be travelling (and dogsitting!) this week, but with some luck there will be a comic strip on Friday as well.
January 4th, 2010 at 01:01
i used to have those pens in my youth. not the infra defusors, the stripper ones. would be cool the other way round.
January 4th, 2010 at 17:30
I want to see an animated gif version of this comic.
January 5th, 2010 at 02:51
I love his face in the final panel.
January 5th, 2010 at 06:09
@bachterman: I don’t think I’ve ever had a “Tip ‘n Strip” pen, but I think the excellent Extras episode (the one with Robert DeNiro) featuring a pen like this might have been an inspiration for this comic.
@Nathan: Haha, true – that could’ve been cool (but probably X-rated)! I’ve actually pondered about adding animation to a lot of the recent strips, but rarely felt it would end up contributing anything. This strip, on the other hand…
@SilverDSlite: Hah, yeah! Amusingly, that final panel was the first thing I came up with for this comic since I felt that the image of a bewildered spy with a bomb about to go off behind him was somewhat funny by itself. The pen thing came later as I had to cram in something for the preceding panels.
January 5th, 2010 at 21:22
My grandfather had one of those pens. It was one of the highlights of each visit. That and the huge corned beef sandwiches, Pepsi and Knight Rider. Wow, those were good times.
January 5th, 2010 at 22:04
Try to read this comic from the last panel to the first. It works pretty well, IMO!
January 6th, 2010 at 14:26
@kris: here’s a sample: http://retronom.hu/node/10561
it’s not animated, but the dames are there.