Wow, for a comic that can take a week to show a character opening a letter in a mailbox this week’s pacing is breakneck. After arriving at the mansion featured in “Eyes Wide Shut” in today’s strip, Holly braves a quick buzz of the intercom, which is really there just to alert the Dobermans that someone’s arrived and it’s time for a mid-day snack.
Where is she? I have no idea. New York? Back in Ohio? Paris? Who knows? We may ever find out if this arc is just dropped again like Les’s “The cleaning ladies have some ideas for my script.” arc.
Son of Stuck Funky 
So The Chiseler resides at stately Hagglemore Manor (which he no doubt got a really good deal on), a reclusive comic book billionaire who only emerges to participate in really big-time comic book sales and auctions. This will no doubt be Holly’s most fearsome foe, way scarier and far more powerful than that biker weirdo over in Columbus and, uh…I guess that’s it really.
TB probably thought it be really clever to have Holly deal with a comic book villain-like for in an arc about comic book collecting. And maybe it would be, if someone competent wrote it, that is. I mean it’s already really stupid and she just got there, imagine how dumb it’ll be a week from now.
Where ever Holly is it must have been a long and arduous trek considering how much weight she’s lost.
Oh, goody. If I’m reading this right, we’re in for a week of his either being Batiuk’s idea of what a ‘bad’ fan is OR Jffff with more dough. I’m hoping the latter because the former would be excruciatingly stupid.
Or it will be done on the face of the regular comic book cover……
Oh, yes. We could well be in for a tribute to Silver Age comics tomorrow. Watch our first look at Hagglemore have him dressed up like the Lex Luthor who wanted to kill Superman for making him bald.
Chester represents Batiuk’s dream: the man whose mother never threw out his comic books and therefore had enough money to retire.
Unless Chester has extra’s of the issues in question he is not going to trade them for a newly created piece of art by a writer. Moreover, since he appears to be wealthy I’m sure 8K would mean a lot less to him than a complete series. That’s one (of many) thing about this series that has bothered me, people willing, nay eager to break up their collections to help Holly complete her’s.
“I’m pretty sure there are no lush, gated estates in New York City, in which case this cab ride has already put a huge dent in her comic-book buying budget.”
Inequality rears its ugly head.
This comic will serve as an example of voluntary redistribution.
A commentator over on Comics Kingdom says they hope the Chiseler is a diamond mine magnate—that would be cool if only if we get to view Holly being abducted and forced to labor in a blood diamond mine.
@TFHackett, well we can expect a lot of inconsistencies and retconning. Instead of starting a new project he should either fix FW or admit he’s bored with it and end it or turn it over to someone who gives a damn first.
So—let me make sure I have this right. The downfall of Batom Comics came about due to a cease-and-desist order. Do I have that right?
To Batominc, I say: In the end, sir, have you no sense of self-awareness?
That Batom history was seriously embarrassing.