I just have to shake my head at Holly. Riding around in a cart is “a good idea”? I guess it could be fun, and it gets you out into the open air, away from the human-stuffed Comic Con anchovy tin…it just doesn’t strike me as something she’d enjoy, and it definitely doesn’t strike me as something John would suggest. It looks like something Tom Batiuk saw somewhere and said, “Hey, I gotta use that.”
If he were a far more interesting person than we’d been led to believe, I’d think John would suggest going to see Homestar Runner’s skull in the background there in the first panel on the left. Or going to eat at Buster’s Crab. (Can you believe I didn’t get that for a couple of minutes? I’m getting senile.)
Physical activity for these three would be a choice of last resort. And maybe that’s how this happened. Maybe all sorts of suggestions were made, and Holly sighed about all of them, and Harry was no help at all, fitfully moaning into his blanket, and John, internally screaming from boredom, finally saw this cart thing, and pointed, and that’s how this strip came into being. Another deadline met, Mr. Batiuk! Whew!
Oh, and the answer to your question, John, is no. None of them are helping you at all. You’ll die alone and afraid, not knowing what’s happening to you. Enjoy!
Son of Stuck Funky 
It should be “pedaling” instead of “peddling”. It’s called “writing.”
TB’s “peddling” something here all right, a giant pile of crap masquerading as a story about a comic book to be exact. It’s like he had to work everything he saw at comic con into the story somehow and unfortunately for the readers, everything he saw was boring and stupid. What a pitiful display.
Finally, Batiuk gets to the heart attack story he’s been longing to tell.
Again with Holly, real people do not talk like this. It’s as if Bats’ idea of normalcy is to speak with a thesaurus readily at hand so as to inject the big word into the little place holder…yeah, writing, LOL.
I’m surprised he hasn’t had these 3 stooges attend a panel talk given by Tom Batiuk.
@BigD1992 – Good catch! I never even noticed that. Hopefully, someone has a screen cap of the original, because it’ll probably be “altered” by the “helpful.”
And so we end the week with DSH dying because his compatriots see him as a mule. That sure is some writing.
Also, Batiuk’s Freudian slip is showing.
“Hey, let’s completely abandon the expensive convention we flew all this way to attend! It’s not like they have exclusive screenings of upcoming TV shows and movies, interesting panel discussions, or chances to get autographs there.”
Well if a character is going to die from a heart attack, let it be DSH John. I want Les dead, but I want his death to last a week and be slow and painful.
Again with Holly, real people do not talk like this.
Actually, I think she sounds a little bit like someone who gets histrionic over every little inconvenience, which makes enormous sense in this world. She’s acting as if her minor distress is something Crazy and Gross John should be concerned about and trying to relieve. They didn’t get this little cart because it’s convenient or fun or whatever. They got it to calm Holly down.
Anyway, the only downside of Gross John dying in this situation is that he doesn’t take Crazy down with him.
I took a peek over at Comics Kingdom. Tom Batiuk is back posting under another name, which I won’t reveal here (don’t feed him Google) but it’s so obviously him it’s amazing. Either that or it’s someone clinically insane.