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[[Bruno looks up from his paper, holding his reading glasses in one hand, and addresses Wendy, who is sitting near him.]]
Bruno: So, I invented a faucet that MIXES hot and cold water to enable it to deliver WARM or COOL water if desired. Rather than strictly TEA or ICE.
Wendy: Sounds pretty daring.

Bruno: I went to file a patent, and guess what I found!
Wendy: I daren’t guess, I DAREN’T!
Bruno: Scaldfreeze Faucet Corporation OWNS the patent! They’ve invented a usable faucet, but DELIBERATELY REFUSE to manufacture it!

Wendy: You’re saying there’s a CORPORATE CONSPIRACY to QUASH any attempt to make ANY faucet that doesn’t toggle exclusively between ANTARCTIC and THE SUN.
Bruno: That’ exactly what I’m saying.

Next time, on MYSTERIES SOLVED:
[[Wendy is either absent or out of frame.]]
Bruno: You can’t use CELL PHONES on AIRPLANES because they would let you PRANK-CALL the PILOT!

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{{alt-text: I don’t even know whose side I’m on anymore}}

#903; The Faucet, Reinvented transcribed by in

[[Bruno looks up from his paper, holding his reading glasses in one hand, and addresses Wendy, who is sitting near him.]]
Bruno: So, I invented a faucet that MIXES hot and cold water to enable it to deliver WARM or COOL water if desired. Rather than strictly TEA or ICE.
Wendy: Sounds pretty daring.

Bruno: I went to file a patent, and guess what I found!
Wendy: I daren’t guess, I DAREN’T!
Bruno: Scaldfreeze Faucet Corporation OWNS the patent! They’ve invented a usable faucet, but DELIBERATELY REFUSE to manufacture it!

Wendy: You’re saying there’s a CORPORATE CONSPIRACY to QUASH any attempt to make ANY faucet that doesn’t toggle exclusively between ANTARCTIC and THE SUN.
Bruno: That’ exactly what I’m saying.

Next time, on MYSTERIES SOLVED:
[[Wendy is either absent or out of frame.]]
Bruno: You can’t use CELL PHONES on AIRPLANES because they would let you PRANK-CALL the PILOT!

{{header: snap up that WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I don’t even know whose side I’m on anymore}}

#903; The Faucet, Reinvented transcribed by in

[[Bruno looks up from his paper, holding his reading glasses in one hand, and addresses Wendy, who is sitting near him.]]
Bruno: So, I invented a faucet that MIXES hot and cold water to enable it to deliver WARM or COOL water if desired. Rather than strictly TEA or ICE.
Wendy: Sounds pretty daring.

Bruno: I went to file a patent, and guess what I found!
Wendy: I daren't guess, I DAREN'T!
Bruno: Scaldfreeze Faucet Corporation OWNS the patent! They've invented a usable faucet, but DELIBERATELY REFUSE to manufacture it!

Wendy: You're saying there's a CORPORATE CONSPIRACY to QUASH any attempt to make ANY faucet that doesn't toggle exclusively between ANTARCTIC and THE SUN.
Bruno: That' exactly what I'm saying.

Next time, on MYSTERIES SOLVED:
[[Wendy is either absent or out of frame.]]
Bruno: You can't use CELL PHONES on AIRPLANES because they would let you PRANK-CALL the PILOT!

{{header: snap up that WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: I don't even know whose side I'm on anymore}}

I don't even know whose side I'm on anymore

#903; The Faucet, Reinvented

  — January 11th, 2013

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Continued from #902; The Invention of the Faucet

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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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