Wait, so 3 years apart, they did almost the exact same genie comic? Except it’s Heathcliff holding it instead of a mouse?
Edit: I just noticed the trash ones, and that there are actually two different milk ones. I almost didn’t see that those two were different at all. These comics make me legitimately angry.
Hmm, y’know I sometimes complain about Gallagher recycling absurdist gags, but this is one of the better ones IMO. Compare it to the bubblegum weirdly containing super-helium, the trash ape running through the streets, the helmets and items being labelled with a generic word, and this one gives me just enough variation to be amusing, as well as having a sort of unexpected, old Persian connection.
A small example of how cultural cross-fertilisation can make for some novel art & little breakthroughs. That’s just me, of course, but still in this post-Far Side age in which surreal comics & sideways-humor is common, the strip manages to stay quite unique IME.
@[email protected], thanks for splurging on all the examples. That was really cool. I only wish this was a Euro comic so I could do a little gallery and writeup over at EuroGraphicNovels+.
Wait, so 3 years apart, they did almost the exact same genie comic? Except it’s Heathcliff holding it instead of a mouse?
Edit: I just noticed the trash ones, and that there are actually two different milk ones. I almost didn’t see that those two were different at all. These comics make me legitimately angry.
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I don’t know if that article was serious or meta but it was a great read! TFS
Hmm, y’know I sometimes complain about Gallagher recycling absurdist gags, but this is one of the better ones IMO. Compare it to the bubblegum weirdly containing super-helium, the trash ape running through the streets, the helmets and items being labelled with a generic word, and this one gives me just enough variation to be amusing, as well as having a sort of unexpected, old Persian connection.
A small example of how cultural cross-fertilisation can make for some novel art & little breakthroughs. That’s just me, of course, but still in this post-Far Side age in which surreal comics & sideways-humor is common, the strip manages to stay quite unique IME.
@[email protected], thanks for splurging on all the examples. That was really cool. I only wish this was a Euro comic so I could do a little gallery and writeup over at EuroGraphicNovels+.