Comic Transcripts

[[The characters from the previous two comics have returned.]]
Tophat: So YOUR suggestion is to picture my unfinished to-do items NOT as ICEBERGS following my ship-of-self around, but instead as COAL CARS that I’m towing.
Tophat: Here’s my problem with the metaphor. Wouldn’t the coal cars sink to the ocean floor?

[[Tophat’s eyes bulge open in excitement.]]
Dilettante: Well, you don’t have to be a boat…
Tophat: What if I’m towing GARBAGE BARGES full of MAGNESIUM FLARES!

[[Tophat cackles madly, his eyebrows furrowed in anger.]]
Tophat: So then if an iceberg hits them, everything goes up like the Fourth of July!
Tophat: Take THAT, icebergs! SUICIDE SWITCH!
Tophat: Try to defeat ME, eh? Well, YOU’RE going WITH me! KABOOM!!

Dilettante: I mean, you can make the metaphor anything you-
Tophat: I swear to god if ‘Clean out the garage’ comes ONE STEP CLOSER they’re going to find pieces of us BOTH on the MOON

{{header: run from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The garage does NOT want to mess with this flare boat.}}

#1083; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 3 (of 3) transcribed by in

[[The characters from the previous two comics have returned.]]
Tophat: So YOUR suggestion is to picture my unfinished to-do items NOT as ICEBERGS following my ship-of-self around, but instead as COAL CARS that I’m towing.
Tophat: Here’s my problem with the metaphor. Wouldn’t the coal cars sink to the ocean floor?

[[Tophat’s eyes bulge open in excitement.]]
Dilettante: Well, you don’t have to be a boat…
Tophat: What if I’m towing GARBAGE BARGES full of MAGNESIUM FLARES!

[[Tophat cackles madly, his eyebrows furrowed in anger.]]
Tophat: So then if an iceberg hits them, everything goes up like the Fourth of July!
Tophat: Take THAT, icebergs! SUICIDE SWITCH!
Tophat: Try to defeat ME, eh? Well, YOU’RE going WITH me! KABOOM!!

Dilettante: I mean, you can make the metaphor anything you-
Tophat: I swear to god if ‘Clean out the garage’ comes ONE STEP CLOSER they’re going to find pieces of us BOTH on the MOON

{{header: run from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The garage does NOT want to mess with this flare boat.}}

#1083; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 3 (of 3) transcribed by in

[[The characters from the previous two comics have returned.]]
Tophat: So YOUR suggestion is to picture my unfinished to-do items NOT as ICEBERGS following my ship-of-self around, but instead as COAL CARS that I'm towing.
Tophat: Here's my problem with the metaphor. Wouldn't the coal cars sink to the ocean floor?

[[Tophat's eyes bulge open in excitement.]]
Dilettante: Well, you don't have to be a boat...
Tophat: What if I'm towing GARBAGE BARGES full of MAGNESIUM FLARES!

[[Tophat cackles madly, his eyebrows furrowed in anger.]]
Tophat: So then if an iceberg hits them, everything goes up like the Fourth of July!
Tophat: Take THAT, icebergs! SUICIDE SWITCH!
Tophat: Try to defeat ME, eh? Well, YOU'RE going WITH me! KABOOM!!

Dilettante: I mean, you can make the metaphor anything you-
Tophat: I swear to god if 'Clean out the garage' comes ONE STEP CLOSER they're going to find pieces of us BOTH on the MOON

{{header: run from WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: The garage does NOT want to mess with this flare boat.}}

The garage does NOT want to mess with this flare boat.

#1083; The Lingering Icebergs, Part 3 (of 3)

  — December 9th, 2014

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20 years ago (in photocomic form)

June 9, 2026 by David Malki !
A young David Malki !, Steve Carey, and Ryan North, June 2006.

The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.

It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.

I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!

Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]


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