Meet Midge
Mystery girl is solved.
And as a little piece of trivia. When I was a teen person living in Fallbrook, CA… I would go to Backstreet Records… it’s where you got yer tunes. The cool cartoon fella worked there… short crew cut, black trench coat loaded with buttons… and he wore tap shoes. It was he that turned me onto the Jack Hamm series of How to draw cartoons books.
Which “X-Men” comic? There are at least 5 X-Men related comics being produced by Marvel.
Girl mystery may only be beginning…Mouse + Midge connections?
Give Midge purple hair and a giant pony-tail and she’s a near clone of Leela from Futurama.
Wow, Ex-Men comics. (laughs…a lot)
Are those about transgenders, transsexuals, transvestites, or some other transes?
Joe, Joe, joe… Not X-Men comics…Ex-Men comics! (laughing)
I know, but Brig adds letters to brand names to keep from getting sued or something.
MAD Magazine has done a parody called: Ecch-Men.
I’m thinking about what sort of super, comic book hero, powers, Ex-Men might have.
…must stop, getting scared.
Okay, I’ll change the subject. How about a sing-a-long?
Row, row, row your squid…
I so wish I could ask customers to wear deodorant, or a shirt,
I also have two of Jack Hamm’s books, which I bought after graduating from South Dakota State University. His cartoons have appeared in The Lutheran Digest.
Are you hand-lettering your comics now, Brig?
I’ve got to agree with stick-figurer, there’s still a ways to go before “Mystery girl is solved.”
*heh* “Melvin” brings back memories of when my wife and I owned Left-Half Comics in Phoenix, back in the mid-80s. We had a couple of regular customers who were just a tad obsessed. Creepy, but good customers.
Ah, Fans…Fanatics…Fanaticisms.
And, shirts and deodorant, especially good things for certain body types on hot, stuffy days.
“Ex-Men”…did they all get sex changes and become women? Get it, “Ex-Men”?
Aw, screw it.
Hawk: You should post a sign that suggests that if you don’t wear shoes, shirts or deodorant, you’ll get no service… where do you work?
EX-men…. they are now corporate CEO’s… consumed by greed… they’ve lost their feelings for their fellow human beings… now they use their super powers for evil… (it’s not really funny… sorry. It’s what came to mind… I like the Transgendered ideas better).
I like to lampoon, ya’ll. I don’t like to give shout outs to products. Sometimes the jokey-ness requires I call it by name… but for the most part, it’s just fun to call something by a similar name. Also, there’s that whole suing thing.
James… I love Jack Hamm! I cut my cartooning teeth in high school with Jack! And the font was purchased from Blambot. My hand is not skilled enough to do my own font… One day, I will make my own font like Dilbert did…. but I like this new one fer now… does ya like it?
I love sing-alongs… “Let’s go out to the snack bar… let’s go out to the snack bar… “
You needn’t worry TOO much about law suits, Brig, since you’re doing parody. There was a one-shot parody X-men comic that came out in 1986 called XMEN (Pronounced Zhmen; notice the lack of a hyphen.) A fairly funny comic and we sold more than a few of them. Here’s the info on the book: http://www.comics.org/issue/560178/
I do enjoy the way you handle it, though, coming up with clever and CLOSE variations of the real thing. Always good for an added bonus chuckle to the day’s comic.
I am glad you like the funning, Pete… It makes it more fun for me, the writer. The parody thing is useful especially for an upcoming comic series that is about to break here… I think you’ll enjoy it.
The Zhmen comic looks funny! I love the names of the characters… and how they threw in Dr. McCoy and The Skipper! Ha… looks like fun! Smiles!
Fallbrook is a great place to be *from*. 🙂
Is it from whence you came? Were you there in the mid to late 80’s? Ever go to Backstreet Records? Do you like avocados?
@brig I work at a large drug store chain. placing such a sign is against store policy. the suits at corporate don’t have to see/smell said people so they don’t care.
It’s so true. *sniff* *sniff*, uh-oh!