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The Fall of Racer One

by Justin on June 5, 2008 at 12:13 am
The Fall of Racer One

No other strip has sat in our notebook longer than the Racer One strip. It was one of the first strips I ever wrote, but it was far from football season when it was written. So we simply tucked it aside and waited for a better time to run it. It has probably gone down so far as our most successful strip among students. We’re not sure what that says about school pride or animal rights.

The little boy and mother featured in the fourth panel are also the same ones from this strip from the previous semester. This kid gets a lot of punch lines for a rarely recurring character.

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9/11

by Justin on June 4, 2008 at 12:13 am
9/11

After the previous strip, we were happy to get no complaints over this strip. We received many positive comments after its printing and happened to be the one we spent the most time revising. We knew we had a difficult task about how to do a comic that was both respectful, but made a point. We probably did a good ten revisions before we settled with this version.

Not sure how often it is missed, but the dorm buildings cast shadows of the World Trade Center buildings. We worried that would not be obvious enough.

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A Frat Incident

by Justin on June 3, 2008 at 12:14 am
A Frat Incident

Well, this is the most controversial strip that we’ve ever done. What we thought was a simple play on words ignited the anger of at least one homosexual on campus. We were even compared to murderers and said to be inciting acts of hate against gays. It also has gone down as one of our most successful strips that people continue to compliment.

Besides missing the point, that this is no more violent toward homosexuals than showing a girl slapping a guy is violent toward heterosexuals, we think it is ironic that many miss another hint about Rick’s confusion in life. Is he, or isn’t he?

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Cerberus

by Justin on June 2, 2008 at 12:14 am
Cerberus

I think we had some momentary debate whether or not to leave in the “bitches” line. After the previous week got censored, we assumed that word, even if used correctly in context, would also get us a call from the newspaper office. Happily we were wrong, and this strip really established a push for President Czar as a more major character.

This was the first time President Czar had been called by name in the comic strip. Also, the previous week we got in trouble for setting one building on campus on fire, so this week we set the entire campus beyond the gates on fire.

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Mr. Mittens’ Guide for Freshmen

by Justin on June 1, 2008 at 12:15 am
Mr. Mittens’ Guide for Freshmen

Coming back from summer vacation, the first thing we realized is that a large portion of the student population had no idea what our comic was and we had to introduce it in some way to them. So we decided the best way was to let Mr. Mittens introduce freshmen to campus, while at the same time introducing them to the comic world. Of course, the original version got red marked and we had to submit this revised version.

The Racer Patrol characters are fairly well known, even without mention of who they are supposed to be. But the fourth panel features Billy and his friend, recurring characters from the previous semester.

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