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TERRY: Check out my awesome new marionette! Completely lifelike. Fully articulated. Accurate joint physics.

TERRY: Faithfully-recreated goals. Realistic dreams. Comes with a full set of aspirations, that, as the puppeteer, you can fulfill or crush at your discretion. “I wanted to be an ice-cream flavor tester!” “Not even a superstar! Just a solid 9-to-5 at Dreyer’s that pays the bills.”

TERRY: “I even got so far as taking the test. But it turns out I don’t have any taste buds.” “I am made of injection-molded plastic slapped with acrylic paint and cheap decals to appear alive.”

[[Animated: TERRY’s puppet attacks ZEKE’s leg in frustration.]]

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#648; What the Puppet Wanted transcribed by in

TERRY: Check out my awesome new marionette! Completely lifelike. Fully articulated. Accurate joint physics.

TERRY: Faithfully-recreated goals. Realistic dreams. Comes with a full set of aspirations, that, as the puppeteer, you can fulfill or crush at your discretion. “I wanted to be an ice-cream flavor tester!” “Not even a superstar! Just a solid 9-to-5 at Dreyer’s that pays the bills.”

TERRY: “I even got so far as taking the test. But it turns out I don’t have any taste buds.” “I am made of injection-molded plastic slapped with acrylic paint and cheap decals to appear alive.”

[[Animated: TERRY’s puppet attacks ZEKE’s leg in frustration.]]

{{header: play around with WONDERMARK.COM}}

{{alt-text: The puppet is trying his best.}}

#648; What the Puppet Wanted transcribed by in

TERRY: Check out my awesome new marionette! Completely lifelike. Fully articulated. Accurate joint physics.

TERRY: Faithfully-recreated goals. Realistic dreams. Comes with a full set of aspirations, that, as the puppeteer, you can fulfill or crush at your discretion. "I wanted to be an ice-cream flavor tester!" "Not even a superstar! Just a solid 9-to-5 at Dreyer's that pays the bills."

TERRY: "I even got so far as taking the test. But it turns out I don't have any taste buds." "I am made of injection-molded plastic slapped with acrylic paint and cheap decals to appear alive."

[[Animated: TERRY's puppet attacks ZEKE's leg in frustration.]]

{{header: play around with WONDERMARK.COM}}

{{alt-text: The puppet is trying his best.}}

The puppet is trying his best

#648; What the Puppet Wanted

  — August 13th, 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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