You have to admit, having Skull-faced Slick answer the door when you’re just a girl scout trying to sell your cookies might be a little awkward. Plus he’s got lawyers on the brain after last week.
Archive for December, 2007
I love the way the lawyer, already an unshaven shifty-eyed scumbag, looks over his shoulder to see if anyone’s listening in.
There’s a lot going on in this strip, believe it or not. Herkimer Herkimer III was a corrupt politician in the Lensmen series by E. E. “Doc” Smith. This is apparently his ancestor. The “lifting weights at home” is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I could have made another cheap joke about saving money on car insurance here, but instead I decided to make Slick’s life miserable for a few days. Note the shifty-eyed, unshaven look that is characteristic of the ambulance-chasing attorney.
And so we come to the end of the Mars Remission Contest Entry storyline, not with a roar, but with a fizzle and cough. The appletini reference Stretch makes is a tip of the hat to Scrubs, one of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Slick seems to have found himself in a rather enviable position for most fellas. One can only hope he’s not going to step on his own tongue too much. When I first decided to enter the Pimp My MX-11 contest,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Once again, I’ve got a minifigure making reference to the fact that he’s a minifigure in this strip. I really wanted to try to capture the Travolta look from Saturday Night Fever but they just don’t bend the right way!
If you’ve been reading since the early days of the strip, you’ll recall that Smokescreen (and Stonewall) got pulled over when they were listening to pot-smokin’ reggae too loud. Only some quick thinking and use of Smokescreen’s powers let them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…