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                       “What the heck is going on here?”
                                        
“What do you mean you haven't read it for a year?” said Spring. [1] 

“I just haven't,” I said. 

“You hook me on Sluggy Freelance [2] and yet you haven't kept up!” 

“Well, smart pushers never take their own merchandise,” I said, dodging a
flying keyboard. 

That was a couple of days ago. So tonight I hunkered down and caught up with
a years worth of Sluggy Freelance [3]. Fire and Rain [4] has to be one of the
best story arcs Pete Abrams has done for Sluggy (and like Dave Sim's Cerebus
[5], Sluggy Freelance is one of those comics that you pretty much have to
read from the start or else it doesn't really make all that much sense; and
also like Cerebus, the artwork has progressed wonderfully). 

Now I finally can make in-jokes with Spring and Rob [6]. 

Ka-click 

[1] http://www.springdew.com/
[2] http://www.sluggy.com/
[3] http://www.sluggy.com/
[4] http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020114
[5] http://www.cerebus.org/
[6] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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