I mourn the loss of comments on GoComics. There were many good comments about this one, including one about the gun that provided the headline for this post. And now they’ve all evaporated in GoComics redesign. Lets hope that when we return to the main site (assuming civilisation lasts that long) they get reinstated.
I thought this was a throwaway joke, but it grew into something much more. To my surprise it proved to be very popular, and then the invention of the tank provided enough jokes to keep me going up to the big Christmas storyline.
Written and drawn while I was in the States during the final surreal stages of the election. Was I inspired by an urge to hide behind a bunch of cushions until the tartrazine demagogue went away? Not really. I was inspired by being in a house which contained a dog, a sofa and lots of cushions. And I had an idea for a very bad pun which needed to be set up today…
And no, I don’t know how Sandy got in the house.