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LUCIUS: Look alive out there! I want everyone giving one hundred and ten percent!
PERRY: Frankly, managing to give a HUNDRED percent would be miraculous, as I always reserve a handful of percents for basic personal use.

LUCIUS: It’s a figure of speech. This job requires going ABOVE AND BEYOND.
PERRY: I can’t go BEYOND if the job IS to go beyond. I can’t go beyond BEYOND. At BEST I could go RIGHT UP TO.

LUCIUS: Next wisecrack about my hyperbole gets your teeth kicked in.
PERRY: You’ll chastise me awkwardly in the hallway.

{{Alt-text: More likely, you’ll glare coldly for a second, then huff, say ‘ANYWAY,’ and continue with your diatribe. I mean, let’s be clear about the stakes here.}}
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#623; We’ve Had this Conversation a Million Times transcribed by in

LUCIUS: Look alive out there! I want everyone giving one hundred and ten percent!
PERRY: Frankly, managing to give a HUNDRED percent would be miraculous, as I always reserve a handful of percents for basic personal use.

LUCIUS: It’s a figure of speech. This job requires going ABOVE AND BEYOND.
PERRY: I can’t go BEYOND if the job IS to go beyond. I can’t go beyond BEYOND. At BEST I could go RIGHT UP TO.

LUCIUS: Next wisecrack about my hyperbole gets your teeth kicked in.
PERRY: You’ll chastise me awkwardly in the hallway.

{{Alt-text: More likely, you’ll glare coldly for a second, then huff, say ‘ANYWAY,’ and continue with your diatribe. I mean, let’s be clear about the stakes here.}}
{{Header: do your best at WONDERMARK.COM}}

#623; We’ve Had this Conversation a Million Times transcribed by in

LUCIUS: Look alive out there! I want everyone giving one hundred and ten percent!
PERRY: Frankly, managing to give a HUNDRED percent would be miraculous, as I always reserve a handful of percents for basic personal use.

LUCIUS: It's a figure of speech. This job requires going ABOVE AND BEYOND.
PERRY: I can't go BEYOND if the job IS to go beyond. I can't go beyond BEYOND. At BEST I could go RIGHT UP TO.

LUCIUS: Next wisecrack about my hyperbole gets your teeth kicked in.
PERRY: You'll chastise me awkwardly in the hallway.

{{Alt-text: More likely, you'll glare coldly for a second, then huff, say 'ANYWAY,' and continue with your diatribe. I mean, let's be clear about the stakes here.}}
{{Header: do your best at WONDERMARK.COM}}

More likely, you'll glare coldly for a second, then huff, say 'ANYWAY,' and continue with your diatribe. I mean, let's be clear about the stakes here.

#623; We’ve Had this Conversation a Million Times

  — May 18th, 2010

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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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