#22: SPLAT!

#23: Slavery Is Illegal

#24: A Free Man

#25: Mike Tyson

02-10-05

First off I'd like to thank Tom Turnasella at Distant Screaming for linking to my site. Way to go! I promise my comic will become more... satisfactory.

As the observant readers out there might have noticed, there are *gasp* FOUR comics today instead of only three. How exciting. The two reasons for this are: 1) the Derrick the Demon comics I posted yesterday seemed to be not so good when I was reviewing them and 2) there's 8 comics left in this Volume. "WHAT, VOLUMES???" I can imagine you saying out loud at the wonder of curious onlookers. Well, in the Bad Old Days I for some reason divided the comics up into several Volumes, I think because I felt I had improved or changed my style enough to consider Freedom Fries (well technically I just called it "Skippy" back then) on a higher plane of existance. Well, anyway, I don't do these Volume things anymore and if you were wondering I think there's about 6 or 7 "volumes" with this one being one of the shorter ones (maybe the shortest, who cares). Anyway there's 4 comics today and tomorrow, time to close this overlong paragraph...

For those of you that liked Derrick, you must be crying your beady little eyes out... and there is much rejoicing to do among the anti-Derrick crowd. Yes, after a full lifespan of 3 comics Derrick is no more. This one's kinda nice because it has 4 jokes (excluding the 'The End'). 1) A building falls down for apparently no reason and crushes Derrick. 2) We know the neighbor is going to find a demon buried in his front yard. Hee Hee! 3) Skippy expects the Demon to go to Heaven, which is fairly unlikely considering it's a demon 4) Skippy expects himself to go to Heaven. I'll note that this is the first comic that Jesus makes an appearance in! I didn't think it was until later. He is actually one of the main characters so if you like Jesus then /cheer, if you don't like him then /cry and /burninhell.

This one's cute although I don't like it because there's too much set-up and not enough self-urination to justify it. If there's four panels building up to a joke, that joke better be funny. Right now it's just sort of cute, and that's it. On a positive note, that pointing guy is pretty awesome and so is Skippy's cheerful pose in the last panel. And now that Skippy is free, we move to...

Yay! This is probably my favorite comic of the Bad Old Days. The neat-o part about this one is that what happened is implied although it doesn't say it. Skippy declares he can spit on policemen, then SOMETHING HAPPENS, then Skippy is confined once again. Thus we can determine that he spat on the policeman and got put in a cage. Cool huh... I'm just trying to say something nice about this one because I've always liked it but I don't have anything to really say about it.

Jesus, I'm still going here. OH, NO, I USED THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN! I wonder if this qualifies as an essay by now. Anyway, yeah it's Mike Tyson, and he is the one who knocked the building on Derrick! HOLY SHIT. NOOO. The 'grandmother' line wraps it up nicely. Hooray! It is indeed a very violence end.

Well, I might as well do the next four too. :( No, it's okay, I know that you're the only person actually reading this. ^___^ Anyway find out tomorrow how Skippy gets out of prison and also Orangenius is back, hey hey. "

-LC, ^__^