Comic Transcripts

RUDY: LISTEN! I got a bone to pick with you and your Haircut Value Index!
KEN: Yes, well, clearly something has gone shockingly awry

RUDY: Your math is all backwards! I went and got me a hundred-dollar haircut that looked great for twelve hours! H.V.I. of 200! NOW look at me!

KEN [narrating the math again]: Uh, well, you see, H.V.I. is merely a comparison metric to help you see how haircuts of different prices match up! It, uh, can’t help you find the very best value haircut in the world or anything like that! That’d be a free haircut that looks good forever. That limit goes to infinity. Zombies take over the planet and your corpse still looks great, that sort of thing. Forget it. It’s unachievable!

ARVID: THE TRACTOR OIL TURNED SENTIENT AND MY HAIR IS LOOKING MORE AMAZING BY THE MINUTE
RUDY: BOY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE JUST WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING TODAY

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RUDY: LISTEN! I got a bone to pick with you and your Haircut Value Index!
KEN: Yes, well, clearly something has gone shockingly awry

RUDY: Your math is all backwards! I went and got me a hundred-dollar haircut that looked great for twelve hours! H.V.I. of 200! NOW look at me!

KEN [narrating the math again]: Uh, well, you see, H.V.I. is merely a comparison metric to help you see how haircuts of different prices match up! It, uh, can't help you find the very best value haircut in the world or anything like that! That'd be a free haircut that looks good forever. That limit goes to infinity. Zombies take over the planet and your corpse still looks great, that sort of thing. Forget it. It's unachievable!

ARVID: THE TRACTOR OIL TURNED SENTIENT AND MY HAIR IS LOOKING MORE AMAZING BY THE MINUTE
RUDY: BOY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE JUST WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING TODAY

{{header: hold on, WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: YOU CAN'T JUST REDEFINE MATH TO SUPPORT YOUR ARGUMENT}}

YOU CAN'T JUST REDEFINE MATH TO SUPPORT YOUR ARGUMENT

(Continued from Part 1)

20 years ago (in photocomic form)

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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