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[[Indoors, woman talking to bird]]

Woman: The mortgage market was heavily regulated but the regulations weren’t *enforced*. Result: *Massive Banking Failure*.

Woman: *Offshore Drilling* is highly regulated, but the regulations weren’t enforced. Result: Massive oil spill catastrophe.

Woman: Everyone’s talking about how these things should have been *predicted*, should have been *stopped*. Seems so obvious in hindsight. So what regulations are going unenforced *right this second*? What abuses are people *noticing* but not mentioning? What crises yet to come are still *preventable*?

Bird: Well, *you’re* on unemployment while still taking work under the table. *That* can’t be great for the state budget.
Woman: I mean preventable in *principle*.

{{header: solutions at WONDERMARK.COM)}}
{{alt-text: We need an elite squad of meta-enforcers to enforce enforcement. They will be dressed all in leather and answer only to their own enforcers.}}

#631; There must be Something we can do transcribed by in

[[Indoors, woman talking to bird]]

Woman: The mortgage market was heavily regulated but the regulations weren’t *enforced*. Result: *Massive Banking Failure*.

Woman: *Offshore Drilling* is highly regulated, but the regulations weren’t enforced. Result: Massive oil spill catastrophe.

Woman: Everyone’s talking about how these things should have been *predicted*, should have been *stopped*. Seems so obvious in hindsight. So what regulations are going unenforced *right this second*? What abuses are people *noticing* but not mentioning? What crises yet to come are still *preventable*?

Bird: Well, *you’re* on unemployment while still taking work under the table. *That* can’t be great for the state budget.
Woman: I mean preventable in *principle*.

{{header: solutions at WONDERMARK.COM)}}
{{alt-text: We need an elite squad of meta-enforcers to enforce enforcement. They will be dressed all in leather and answer only to their own enforcers.}}

#631; There must be Something we can do transcribed by in

[[Indoors, woman talking to bird]]

Woman: The mortgage market was heavily regulated but the regulations weren't *enforced*. Result: *Massive Banking Failure*.

Woman: *Offshore Drilling* is highly regulated, but the regulations weren't enforced. Result: Massive oil spill catastrophe.

Woman: Everyone's talking about how these things should have been *predicted*, should have been *stopped*. Seems so obvious in hindsight. So what regulations are going unenforced *right this second*? What abuses are people *noticing* but not mentioning? What crises yet to come are still *preventable*?

Bird: Well, *you're* on unemployment while still taking work under the table. *That* can't be great for the state budget.
Woman: I mean preventable in *principle*.

{{header: solutions at WONDERMARK.COM)}}
{{alt-text: We need an elite squad of meta-enforcers to enforce enforcement. They will be dressed all in leather and answer only to their own enforcers.}}

We need an elite squad of meta-enforcers to enforce enforcement. They will be dressed all in leather and answer only to their own enforcers

#631; There must be Something we can do

  — June 11th, 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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