The Man-In-Black is later revealed to be another character, but for the sake of folks reading through for the first time, the character tags are gonna refer to him as his codename.
A dean of the College of Arts and Sciences should probably understand that you can be smart while also being dumb about particular things. Even the geniuses among us have weird blindspots of irrationality. Of course, Joyce is being entirely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Man, I’d totally forgotten that Communion exists.
Here’s the last Roomies! that was ever published in a newspaper (which a nonzero number of verifiable people read), and it ran January 29, 1999. After this, Roomies! was properly a web-only webcomic, published to the lofty perches of Tripod. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Why am I even writing commentary for these strips. Everything I write down in them is what the next comic says.
Ahh, I remember those years when new knowledge was a threatening thing. Again, a theme I’ve been hitting harder in Dumbing of Age.
That’s advice that would have worked out pretty well, Sarah. This is one of those strips that “got me in trouble” with some of my long-time readers. As you can imagine, early Roomies! had gathered an audience that had some […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The newspaper skipped the past three strips and went directly to this one. But really, this is addressing the same subject matter, isn’t it? Think about it.
I think it’s these past few strips in particular that whetted my appetite for rendering Indiana University better as a setting. You can see a stone fence/wall behind Joyce in the first few panels here and a wider, fuller view […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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