Stand up comedy! Pig Latin! Goth girls (well, they weren’t Goth back in Edison’s day, but still…)! I tells ya, Sunny Jim, this comic’s got it all!*
Actually, this comic was a lot of fun to draw. I needed to do the groupies bit (you’ll see why in a couple of strips) and after I started drawing I got the idea to have Victoria and Edison explain it as a dialogue. Then I had an image of them as 50’s comediennes, and hey, what the heck? Why not? It is a comic after all. Sometimes you just gotta grab the waterskis and let the muse take you where she wants to go.
Maybe someday I’ll draw Larry’s Glam Surfer Cowboy phase. Or leave that to one of my friends to draw. We’ll see.
And a big Gothic Thank You to melaredblu, she of Princess Chroma and Here I Lie Awake fame, for her input on Edison’s past. You are the bestest ever.stand
*Everything except Eleanor getting mad at Victoria. And a bit of a bombshell. I’m saving that for next time.
Yup, we all had the embarrassing teen phase. I channeled mine into…a lot of bad comics haha.
I came of age in the 70s, and, while we had the best music (mostly), we had the most questionable fashion sense (somewhat). Somewhere there are pictures of me with my attempt at a Justin Haywayrd hairstyle, looking dapper in my apple green three piece polyester suit…
I had a tie-dye blue polyester pantsuit that my mother sewed for me….
You, Tru, have out-groovied us all.
I’m still waiting for one of your friends to gift you with the glam surfer cowboy version of Larry. It would be awesome. 😀
Hmmm… it would, at that.
Maybe I could work it into a strip…now you’ve got me thinking.
Tragic romantic pastoral historical teen phase…. Shakespeare wrote a couple of those.
I’m always reminded of Helena and Hermia and Demetrius and Lysander from a fantastic performance of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” I saw twice in Detroit. Yeah, teen angst, 16th century style.
Well this changes the possible future you had for Edison when you thought you were ending the strip early.
It certainly could change it, if…
Ah, I can say no more. But yeah, it would change the whole thing. Hmmm…maybe I should think about a “what if?” glimpse into the future strip. Thanks for the idea, Mark!
You say embarrassing tragic romantic teen phase like it’s confined to adolescence, unless I’m doing it wrong