Here I was thinking Roadkill had abandoned his revenge-holiday, via a violent traffic-accident-causing-U-turn in that stolen limo, and he was racing home to check on Beepo.
Um… not quite. Moreover, he’s not answering his calls from the Broom Closet, warning of escalating danger – no doubt! And his spammer-revenge plans proceed apace! And he’s not 100% certain he’s got the right guy…
Oh, Roadkill! You psychotic little kitty! Now the Broom Closet is probably going to have to liquidate Beepo and Roadkill both, and maybe Squints too, before this is all over with.
Also, is that a commercial airliner falling out of the sky in the last panel? It must be those darned Arabs with box cutters. Again!
JY: Aargh! I may have to rewrite some of that limo sequence for the print edition. I had MEANT to imply that Roadkill was going to skip a side mission and cut right to the chase of killing the spammer. I THOUGHT I could trust you to understand that.
Oh, yeah, Roadkill is in for one HELL of a rude awakening when he finally answers his messages/the Broom Closet, possibly even before that if they actually cut him off like they arguably should at this point. Heck, how does he even know he came to the right place to find the spammer at all? he could be in utterly the wrong city for all he knows!
Dang! I’m sorry about that. If somebody is slacking off around here, it is probably me.
Looking back at pages 4 and 5 of “Kiss & Makeup” I see there are several clues I should have picked up on. The most important of which, is that Sheboygan is a city in Wisconsin, and that Bratwurst Days thing is a real event. (I actually looked that up today. Previously I had not heard of Sheboygan, or this festival.)
I mean, you’re giving us some clues as to the scale and scope of Roadkill’s road trip. He’s driving (probably west) on I-94, towards Wisconsin, in a limousine he stole from a Saudi ambassador. Possibly that theft ocured at the UN, in New York City. Also supposing Roadkill’s home, where the trip started, is some town in New York state, which is a guess, since that is where the author who writes him lives. I.e. it is a trip by car, actually several, stolen cars, and spans a few states of the Former United States, as far as one can get with several days of traveling by car.
Another good clue, is that it is raining in Roadkill’s and Beepo’s home town, but the sky is clear, wherever it is Roadkill is camped out, on that billboard, suggesting these places are far enough apart to have different weather.
Regarding sidequests: it is clear there are some, maybe several sidequests, involved in Roadkill’s journey. In fact, Roadkill uses the actual words “one little sidequest,” as differentiated from the “main event.” Also from the previous pages, it is clear Roadkill is just sort of relishing the power that comes with the Black Cobra sanction, and thus doing things just for the pleasure of doing them . Also I have no idea why Roadkill wanted to terrorize a Bratwurst festival. Maybe whimsy? Maybe something Freudian related to his spammer-induced dick terror? Thankfully, it is nothing that actually *has* to be explained, because Roadkill doing random and violent things, is totally in character for Roadkill.
Anyway, if you want to make an edit to a speech bubble, perhaps change “and I’ll cut my vacation short.” to “and I’ll skip my side trip to Sheboygan.” That would make things extra clear, for people not totally paying attention, like myself.
By the way, did you know there is town in Japan with an annual dick festival? Uh… Kanamara Matsuri. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri
So I guess Sheboygan isn’t the only town where they celebrate sausages. 😉
JY: Apology accepted. Please mail your thumbs to my PO Box. As to why Roadkill wanted to terrorize a bratwurst festival? Hey, it’s a dream of mine as well.
And I thought the voicemail I get from collection agencies were ugly ! Roadkill should burn that phone… literally!
Here I was thinking Roadkill had abandoned his revenge-holiday, via a violent traffic-accident-causing-U-turn in that stolen limo, and he was racing home to check on Beepo.
Um… not quite. Moreover, he’s not answering his calls from the Broom Closet, warning of escalating danger – no doubt! And his spammer-revenge plans proceed apace! And he’s not 100% certain he’s got the right guy…
Oh, Roadkill! You psychotic little kitty! Now the Broom Closet is probably going to have to liquidate Beepo and Roadkill both, and maybe Squints too, before this is all over with.
Also, is that a commercial airliner falling out of the sky in the last panel? It must be those darned Arabs with box cutters. Again!
JY: Aargh! I may have to rewrite some of that limo sequence for the print edition. I had MEANT to imply that Roadkill was going to skip a side mission and cut right to the chase of killing the spammer. I THOUGHT I could trust you to understand that.
One of us has failed the other.
Oh, yeah, Roadkill is in for one HELL of a rude awakening when he finally answers his messages/the Broom Closet, possibly even before that if they actually cut him off like they arguably should at this point. Heck, how does he even know he came to the right place to find the spammer at all? he could be in utterly the wrong city for all he knows!
Dang! I’m sorry about that. If somebody is slacking off around here, it is probably me.
Looking back at pages 4 and 5 of “Kiss & Makeup” I see there are several clues I should have picked up on. The most important of which, is that Sheboygan is a city in Wisconsin, and that Bratwurst Days thing is a real event. (I actually looked that up today. Previously I had not heard of Sheboygan, or this festival.)
I mean, you’re giving us some clues as to the scale and scope of Roadkill’s road trip. He’s driving (probably west) on I-94, towards Wisconsin, in a limousine he stole from a Saudi ambassador. Possibly that theft ocured at the UN, in New York City. Also supposing Roadkill’s home, where the trip started, is some town in New York state, which is a guess, since that is where the author who writes him lives. I.e. it is a trip by car, actually several, stolen cars, and spans a few states of the Former United States, as far as one can get with several days of traveling by car.
Another good clue, is that it is raining in Roadkill’s and Beepo’s home town, but the sky is clear, wherever it is Roadkill is camped out, on that billboard, suggesting these places are far enough apart to have different weather.
Regarding sidequests: it is clear there are some, maybe several sidequests, involved in Roadkill’s journey. In fact, Roadkill uses the actual words “one little sidequest,” as differentiated from the “main event.” Also from the previous pages, it is clear Roadkill is just sort of relishing the power that comes with the Black Cobra sanction, and thus doing things just for the pleasure of doing them . Also I have no idea why Roadkill wanted to terrorize a Bratwurst festival. Maybe whimsy? Maybe something Freudian related to his spammer-induced dick terror? Thankfully, it is nothing that actually *has* to be explained, because Roadkill doing random and violent things, is totally in character for Roadkill.
Anyway, if you want to make an edit to a speech bubble, perhaps change “and I’ll cut my vacation short.” to “and I’ll skip my side trip to Sheboygan.” That would make things extra clear, for people not totally paying attention, like myself.
By the way, did you know there is town in Japan with an annual dick festival? Uh… Kanamara Matsuri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanamara_Matsuri
So I guess Sheboygan isn’t the only town where they celebrate sausages. 😉
JY: Apology accepted. Please mail your thumbs to my PO Box. As to why Roadkill wanted to terrorize a bratwurst festival? Hey, it’s a dream of mine as well.
No worries about the Broom Closet killing Beepo…
… Roadkill is going to want that all to himself when he finally checks his messages.
I was kind of expecting the one being that bested Roadkill to turn out to be a girl Roadkill.