The beard makes you look like a sissy.
on January 20, 2018 at 12:01 amChapter: The Seventh Power
Characters: Alisin Oberf, David Walkerton, Dina Sarazu, Jackie Thomas, Joe Rosenthal, Joyce Brown, Michael from Cool Cat Studio, Mike Green, Mike Warner, Rikk Oberf, Rumiko Tanaka, that poor RVer, Will Erixon
Location: Utah somewhere
CHEESE IT, IT’S THE COPS
Whoops, sorry, David. I’ll chime in on the business with Shanna’s pop-culture references the next time we see her, but the “evil Mike” thing is going to take some time to explain. It’s arguably the Keenspottiest thing I’ve ever written: referencing not only the comics in this crossover but two others that also belonged to the Keenspot webcomics collective at the time.
Mike Green from Maritza Campos’s College Roomies from Hell is a character Rikk met in a previous crossover, and has a lot in common with Mike Warner, though he’s more charismatic and has a tender side that doesn’t require alcohol. Clone Mike only showed up briefly in Cool Cat Studio before that series went on hiatus, but CCS‘s Gisele Lagace and I had worked together– I’d guest-write for her, she’d guest-draw for me– so the strip had a little connection with Fans.Really, this bit sprang from my desire to honor everyone at Keenspot who had helped me out most (David included). Somewhere around this time, I was entering talks that would lead Fans to exit Keenspot and spearhead a subscription-based comics service. The revenue situation was pretty much forcing my hand, but it wasn’t an easy choice: it felt like leaving family. So if I was going to have to go, I’d at least etch into the work as much of my gratitude as I could get away with. A second CRFH crossover would follow this one.
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I like the detail of the police arriving on the scene in the background of the first panel.
Mike had to make sure they know he’s an asshole. Couldn’t let the Fans think he’s a nice guy.
The first time I read this strip, it made me realize that every Mike I know is an asshole. Michaels are okay, and Mikeys too, but Mikes, man, just something about them.
I thought (the first time I read this) Mike was thinking to himself, not literally saying this out loud.
Really ups the Mike asshole factor.
The real question is where is Walky’s other hand?
Shouldn’t that craft say SEMMF?
I loved Cool Cat Studio! So glad to see Giselle has made a successfull career out of her art. Menage a 3 is her latest fun comic (that I know of)
I finally got to meet her at a comic con, she was one of the last people on my comic artists I want to meet list. She is a really nice person, even when I got nervous and managed to screw up the pronunciation of her name. Met the T man as well.
I’m pretty sure this was the first time I ever liked Mike.
I had quit reading Fans well before this point, because I cannot stand most of the characters, particularly Rikk.
Mike wouldn’t be Mike if his first instinct upon meeting new people is to mentally catalogue (and blurt out) relevant insults to fit them.
It will take a move to a different universe for Joe to realise that, yes, hot girls can also be geeks.
Sorry Rikk, Mike’s right about the beard. And growing it more just makes it worse.
In that first panel, the SEMME ship reminds me a lot of the ship in Futurama.
It’s the Groening underbite doing that, I think.
Overbite. Underbite is the lower jaw jutting forward.
Yeah, that too.
Does it feel weird to anyone else that Mike is just being randomly racist there? Maybe if I knew Fans I’d know some deeper reasoning he could have picked up on beyond “you all look alike to me” for his comment to Rumi, but since I don’t that’s what I’m getting out of it.
They’re both tiny and come off as younger than they are?
Yeah, that always bugged me too, but there’s just not much material with her. Rumy’s hard to make fun of
Complete tangent, but it just occurred to me that Walkyverse Ruth was killed by a truck from which she saved someone’s life… so by modern Japanese fiction logic, she’s now living the life of an overpowered heroine in a fantasy world. Probably has her own harem too.
I like this theory.
“BANKAI!”
*Trucks explode out of sword, start running over enemies*
Mike’s insult toward Rikk is my favorite here.
Originally Posted:
April 30, 2003
Right, that is Clone Mike, I knew I recognized him, been a long time since I read CCS, of course I still read everything the Pixie Trix collective produces. I recognized CRFH Mike, but I had forgotten about the crossover.