[[RALPH is piloting his spiffy steam-powered car.]]
RALPH: Gaahh! I hate parking!
SIGN: NO PARKING
Residential permit excepted
Commercial permit excepted
Diplomatic permit excepted
Disabled placard excepted
Vigilante hero placard excepted
SIGN: NO PARKING
During street cleaning
Monday 5AM-11PM
Tuesday 5AM-11PM
Wednesday 5AM-11PM
Thursday 5AM-11PM
Friday 5AM-11PM
Saturday 5AM-11PM
Sunday 5AM-11PM
The street is really dirty okay
SIGN: NO PARKING
Everyone except guys with moustaches excepted
(RALPH has a moustache)
RALPH: GAAHHH!!
How would they even KNOW?
[[A large touring car is parked so that it takes up two spaces at the curb.]]
[[RALPH is irritated to see this.]]
[[Fortunately, he has a nice bakelite cell phone in his steam-powered car.]]
RALPH: Hey, Mike? Remember the time I saved you from that snakebite?
...I need a favor.
[[RALPH glares at the parked car.]]
[[A shadow falls over him. He looks up.]]
[[A truly spectacular steam helicopter has descended. MIKE is the pilot.]]
[[MIKE lowers a claw from the helicopter as he hovers above the parked car.]]
[[The claw grabs the car and lifts it...]]
[[And sets it down so it's touching the car behind it, leaving a space large enough for another car in front of it.]]
[[His job done, MIKE flies off into the sunset.]]
[[RALPH watches him fly off and a single tear trickles down his cheek.]]
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{{Alt-text: This is sufficient to qualify for the Vigilante Hero placard.}}
This is sufficient to qualify for the Vigilante Hero placard.
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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