Saturday, July 23, 2011 |
Panel 1: In
the title panel of this Sunday-style colour comic, Evil Marie holds a
birthday cake with five candles on it out towards Marie and Casey, who
look puzzled. The strip's title, "West of Bathurst by Kari Maaren," is
done in the style of the original West of Bathurst banner. Panel 2: Marie, Evil Marie, and Casey are still lost in the magical mind-forest. Evil Marie: Ooh. Ooh! Do you know what today is? Marie: It's July eighteenth, the worst day ever. Panel 3: Evil Marie: Nah...that's only in-story. It's really our fifth anniversary. Marie: Our what? Panel 4: Evil Marie: Five years of thrice-weekly four-panel zaniness set in the hallowed halls of academe, plus occasionally in Thingy's head. Five years of angst and shocking plot twists. Panel 5: Evil Marie: Above all, five years of only ever breaking the fourth wall in non-canonical out-of-sequence strips. Booyah! Panel 6: Casey: Well, actually, the anniversary's tomorrow. Panel 7: Evil Marie [not at all pleased]: Damn it. Marie [to Casey]: Why do I never understand what's happening even when it's inside my own brain? Alt-Text: Hey, if you can't break your probably-no-breaking-the-fourth-wall-except-in-non-canonical-out-of-sequence-strips record the day before the fifth anniversary of your comic's debut, when CAN you break it? Go to commentary |