See, this is why topical humour is sometimes no good, because even though I wrote this comic I have no context for it whatsoever anymore. So the impact is gone. And I really can’t be bothered to hit up Google News and try to find out what happened in the first place. Generally you’ll notice these sorts of topical things don’t come up on the site very often. This isn’t a conscious choice on my part; it’s just that I’m not very tuned in to current events. [November 4, 2011]
what’s funny about this comic — not like, Ha Ha funny, just Odd funny — is that after all the references I made to the Wii I never actually wrote a comic about the time I finally got one. I wrote one for getting a big old Xbox, but one of my single most anticipated purchases went totally unmentioned. I can’t account for that, really. It’s just one of the many examples of the way in which I am kind of terrible at keeping an honest journal, ironic given that this is supposed to be a Journal Comic. [May 22, 2011]
First of all yes, the date on this comic is wrong-o and it’s definitely not the only time I slip up on that.
For some reason I can actually remember that the movie I nearly bought was “The Sting”, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. I had never seen it but heard good things, and this was some Amazing Ultimate Anniversary thing (as they all seem to be). And it was cheap and I had it in my hands but then I saw it was full-frame, and I thought “WHY WOULD YOU EVEN PUBLISH THE AMAZING ULTIMATE ANNIVERSARY THING IN FULL FRAME.” Who clamored for that, is what I’m wondering. [May 21, 2011]
