[[The entire panel is taken up with a cropped screenshot of a web forum: 'MyTacs: Share your TicTac?? Moments'. Various forum posters are discussing their love of Tic Tacs.]]
kittymom: I love tic tacs I give them to my boyfriend before he kisses me ;)
usaflag5: Was there ever a purpel Tic Tac? I remember from 10-12 yrs ago and maybe it was grape/???
email me if there is still grape popouri75@mapnet.pc
debbieNV: Can Orange Tick Tacks dissolve in water? Someone told me they made orange soda by dissolving Orange T...
[[Gerald is evidently a member of this forum, and his voluminous post does not quite fit in the panel frame. He's made 6428 other posts.]]
gerardman: Have any of you other 'Taccers man...
beyond the hidden message in the t...
and on the billboards? I thought it u...
cipher and after a little futzing around...
decoded to a message that rang wh...
think is a fax machine, but all the fa...
got no reply. Nobody answers the ph...
so I'm not sure if I should wait for a...
back or what? I made sure my Calle...
wasn't blocked and even downloade...
utility so the fax machine spoofed a ...
number but so far bupkis. Mainly I'm...
to get worried that the cipher is dep...
moon phases and we're already wel...
waxing gibbous. If you want to PM r...
promise I won't cheat ;) I'll even sh...
of the license plates I decoded. The ...
that deliver the Tic Tacs to the store...
my area all have 'Apportioned' plate...
all but four of them feature vowels...
can't be a coincidence! :P ..So I've...
an Excel... 20543 characters more
sgallo1995: woah
TicAttack: gerardman, you have had your last warning. You are hereby banned from the forum. Do not post here any longer. Your IP has been logged and added to our site-wide blacklist.
Your trespassing at the homes of our corporate officers has been extensively documented. We have had no choice but to fax your picture to every Tic Tac?? retailer in the country. They will no longer sell you Tic Tacs??.
If we ever hear of you illegally obtaining Tic Tacs??, interacting with our brand in any way, or even using the words "Tic Tacs??" in any form, we will levy criminal charges.
You are done with Tic Tacs??.
sgallo1995: burnnnn
[[Gerald sits alone in the dark, in front of a laptop showing the MyTacs forum.]]
Gerald: So. I must be getting close.
{{header: that's it. WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Gerard needs this.}}
Gerard needs this.
Aaaand we’re going to leave it there. (This story began here.)
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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