The Pen Comic, page 30

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ONE panel after explicitly stating how the Segue Piggy would usefully fill people in with the plot, the following artist opts to hamstring that option and destabilize one of the few factors in this thing stabilizing the chaotic plot. Well, that's what I get for associating with contrarians!

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"Blue", for those who weren't there then, was one of my house specialties lingering from my pre-BBS days: on long weekends before we discovered girls, my high school friends would get together, do a bulk rental of the worst B-movies we could find (eg. Texas Gladiators 2020), draw up characters for RPGs and then not play them. And for refreshments, we would concoct batches of "blue": everyone would go down to the corner store and buy some pop (J0lt cola? Yes please!) and penny candy, then we would return to mix it in a blender and produce the world's worst swamp water. A few drops of blue food colouring always ensured that the answer to "What are you drinking?" could always be "It's blue!", and it became the sole constant in the recipe. It was later codified, I think, in the recipe issue of our Kithe e-mag.

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"hamstring"...I see what you did there!

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Totally by accident. Not as embarrassing as my use of "denigrated" in a racially loaded context when empty_fork visited the other day.

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You are Canadian, you come from a land of constant and total ethnic harmony. You can't be expected to understand our brutal American history.