What gets to coin the terms for different generations? Â Must be a good job, as you only have to come up with something new every twenty years or so. Â Who came up with Generation X, though? Â It sounds like something Microsoft’s marketing department messed up and released twenty years too early.
Personally, I’m holding out for Generation Wii. Â Should be any day now.
JUSTIN: coming soon
OFTEN MISSED: coming soon
APPEARING:
Dr. Klownus
Female Professor
Rick
Billy
We had what we thought were two pretty good jokes this week. It’s sometimes hard to temper the instinct to throw two jokes into one strip. Sometimes it works out, and others it makes the strip feel “crowded.” In this one, I think at least, it works fairly well. Plus, Dr. Klownus in his costume is a very, very amusing sight.
Mr. Mittens is already drunk at the Christmas party, which somehow felt fitting. Bonafide T. Gator, on the other hand, appears to be sipping wine. Who knew he was a creepy alligator with class?
In college we used to have a Halloween party every year. They met with varying levels of success, but it seemed appropriate that this should be echoed somehow in the comic strip. This is also one of the strip’s that really establishes President Czar’s complete indifference towards what his employees have to say.
Blind Professor and Dr. Bones make cameos again in this week’s strip. Dr. Bones seems vitally important for a Halloween strip, obviously. Both characters became fixtures of the Professor Hobo universe, though rarely featured in strips.
Early in the life of the comic we had already created several male professors. However, what we did not have were some female professors. So in the interest of gender equity (and romantic interest for our lead), we added her.
Female Professor, as far as we can tell, teaches humanities at the university. She is the nice grandmotherly type. She is also perhaps the only character who has better moral character than Professor Hobo. Often she finds herself in disbelief at the world around her, and we assume this is how many of the women we know feel when in our company.
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While perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, it is fairly accurate to compare working at a university to being part of a feudal serf system. This was one of those strips that we received far more feedback from professors than from students. It also established Mr. Mittens first real activity as head of the faculty senate. Many more shenanigans would follow from his administrative work.
Dr. Bones makes a cameo in this strip, along with the Masked Professor and the old science professor. It became a running gag to reuse certain characters to fill out backgrounds.
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.
There isn’t much to say about this strip, it is all pretty much there on the page. We had long thought about doing a joke about the Greek ads for parties than ran in the paper, but we were never quite sure which way to approach it. Of course, Mr. Mittens provided the perfect opportunity. This was also the first strip in which we gave a name to Megan’s character.
All the names in the ad are of friends of ours, but more often missed are the things that Mr. Mittens is carrying. Assorted items include a saw, fishing pole, and treasure map.
We’re the first to admit this probably isn’t one of our best strips. Usually, one of our strips fail, it is because we have spent far too much time rewriting it over and over again and in the process kill the joke by trying to get the wording exact. This one was the opposite. We basically had no rewrites. It still makes us laugh, but there is an inside joke there.
This was the third appearance for the female professor character. She was originally created for the Valentine’s Day strip, brought back once more for the staff meeting, but we weren’t sure if we’d really use her much. She appeared in the next week’s strip and became an essential character.
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