Super Double Comixplosion!

ONE: Interesting Times Friday Mailbag: “HI, BILLY MAYS HERE TO HAUNT YOUR DREAMS”

TWO: I hope at least one person agrees with me, because if not I’ll just come off as super insecure

As a rule I don’t write out lengthy news posts like other comics, but I just wanted to make a feeble excuse for missing Friday’s update and remind y’all that you can send questions to journalcomic at gmail dot com. I’m getting a little more spam these days, which in my convoluted reasoning means that even the spambots are reading this page now and therefore readership in general is up. Thanks all!

p.s.: I didn’t write out the feeble excuse because it is seriously pretty sad. Hardly worth mentioning, really. Let’s all just move on?

Eternal Clock-Radio Silencing Fist of the North Star!!

Okay so what’s happening in the last panel is a reference to the show “Fist of the North Star”, a cartoon about a denim-wearing superhero wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland and using his incredible martial arts to solve problems. Every so often he uses a Special Move and the action freezes while the name of that move is displayed on the screen. Also a narrator shouts the name. So, yeah. That’s what I was trying to do. I just copied the Japanese characters straight from the show, which my household was very into at the time. [June 12, 2012]