Borgus, still wearing his charred hat, is now on a street corner, holding a series of crudely hand-lettered signs. He has one sign in each hand, he wears a sandwich board, and another sign is propped up next to him. On the signs, he has drawn his impression of the lightning duds. The signs are also full of slogans such as "BE AWARE!" and "AFRAID OF LIGHTNING?" and "THERE ARE CREATURES IN YOUR HOUSE!!"
AEMICE: ...Are you sure THIS is how you want to spend all your time?
BORGUS: It's SHAMEFUL the information that's being HIDDEN from people! Normal people, DECENT people, going through life IGNORANT of the TRUTH!
AEMICE (looking around): Shouldn't we be working on finding a place to LIVE?
BORGUS: And where do the GOBLINS live, HUH? Where do THEY go during the day? WHAT EVEN ARE THEY? Animals? DEMONS?
Aemice, sensibly, consults her phone.
AEMICE: Wikipedia says they're "a subspecies of aardvark."
BORGUS: And what's the connection with them and LIGHTNING?
AEMICE: Wikipedia says "If Zeus doesn't get to watch them cavort around in people's underwear, it makes him furious."
BORGUS (spittle flying, furious): GREAT! Like my SIGNS aren't full enough ALREADY!!
It was on Wikipedia the whole time, dude. You could have looked.
This storyline began with Part 1.
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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