Paging Dr. Fraud

Post two of this three post series, and yes, we have slowed this year long retrospective train down to ONE STRIP AT A TIME. Deal with it. It’ll speed up again, don’t you worry. I can’t imagine I’ll have much to say about ‘Strip #1,289 of DSH and Crazy talking about comics being nice.’ We’ll be speeding through that material like an out of control Simpsons Monorail.

The dream…
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The Graders of the Batiuk Comics Maker’s Gossip

Sunday October 30, 2011. Batiuk has Ayers spend hours of his life drawing a bunch of nerds in a pointless single panel strip as a homage to a Rembrandt painting. Why? I don’t know. I guess he’s trying to imply that the grading of second-hand comics by a group of high schoolers and small business owners has the same amount of solemnity and grandeur of elected officials grading the quality of hand woven cloth.

The only thing I got from it is a nerdy version of ‘I Spy’. I found ‘Star [The Clone Wars] Wars’, Hellboy, Stan Marsh, Venom, Domo, and Ground Zero comics. What can you find?

If they love comics so much, why do they all look dead inside?
Most of these Pilgrim looking chaps have a coy little Mona Lisa smirk going on. These guys love fabric!
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