What a dump (of strips)!
The Magic: The Gathering thing did go on for one more strip, only to emphasize the complete lack of payoff. It goes so far as to remind you, the reader that you are wasting your time here. It’s not as bad now at the three-strips-a-day pace, but back then those six days Dave mentions are real days. This is the content that seemed reasonable to make at the time.
We also reach a complete apex. Harvest’s absolute best strip, and Flatliner’s most iconic sits in the middle. The Ugly Room lives and exists forever in my heart, having made its way as a placeholder graphic on so very many projects and message board avatars. I certainly hope he wasn’t ripping something else off that I never knew about. I was too afraid to ask.
Then there’s a strip that I’m assuming is about the 2003 film Daredevil. While the film was bad when it came out you also can’t say it aged well, either. You might say it fermented well and went from bad to laughably bad. It did leave its own forever marks on pop culture, even if we don’t think about them all the time (stupid MCU, helping us forget this train wreck.)
