West of Bathurst, by Kari Maaren
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Saturday, September 28, 2013

West of Bathurst 1365

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(I'm sorry for the tardiness of this comic.  Friday and Saturday evening events combined with a huge pile of marking to make my weekend kind of crazy.  I hope to have Monday's comic up by Tuesday.)

This is another Talent Auction comic:  my last, in fact.  The Junior Fellow featured in the comic is Ryan Doherty, who won this cameo in the auction held two and a half years ago.  The reason he hasn't appeared until now is that Ryan takes a really, really long time to get back to you when you request he send you a photograph and some pertinent facts about himself.  He did finally get me the stuff a few months ago, around the same time that Ruedi contacted me regarding his comic.  I've waited a while on both of them because the summer was sort of taken up with Marie's whole underworld journey sort of thing.  Ruedi observed that he wouldn't fit very well into that (in fact, I believe he expressed some apprehension that he would end up playing Hades), and I agreed.  Now that things are...sort of...back to normal, I can at last discharge my obligations and make fun of these upstanding gentlemen.

And yes, Ryan is a self-described prankster.  I would like to see him do something with ferrets.

Saturday, September 28, 2013
Panel 1: In the title panel of this Sunday-style colour comic, we see part of a form. It reads:

Title of Proposal: West of Bathurst
Coordinator's Name: Kari Maaren
Time Frame: September 28, 2013, 2-3 p.m.
Materials Necessary: Rope ___ Chains [selected] Glue ___ Dagger ___ Sasquatch [selected] Feathers ___ Lead Pipe [selected] Wrench ___ Meat Pie [selected] Ja [word unfinished] Telescope ___ Bullwhip [selected] Sonic Screwdriver [selected] Xylo [word unfinished] Bird of Prey [selected] Davies Portrait [selected] Helicopter [Selected] Squi [word unfinished] Turkey Baster ___ Knitting Needles [selected] Bust of Elvis ___

Panel 2: A young white man named Ryan is sitting on the couch in the Davies College Puffy Couch Room with Baldwin and Steve. He is holding a piece of paper.

Ryan: Sorry, guys...the Elvis has been stolen twice already this month. Think of something more original.

Panel 3: Ryan is now sitting with two young women.

Ryan: Okay, sounds good, but have you considered rappelling instead of using a ladder?


Panel 4: Now it is a young man.

Ryan: The problem here is that your plan depends on catching Master Ramsay standing still. I don't think it's viable.

Panel 5: A shifty-looking young woman.

Ryan: Lose the raccoons.

Panel 6: Baldwin and Steve again.

Ryan: "Stealing the Elvis blindfolded" doesn't count as originality.

Panel 7: Steve and Baldwin walk away as their place is taken by a woman who looks oddly like the character Jennifer from It Never Rains, though Jennifer is still in high school at this point, so clearly, I need more character designs.

Baldwin: Man, I miss the days before Ryan became the official college prank coordinator.

Ryan [to not-Jennifer]: It would be better with ferrets.

Alt-Text: The pranks involving Sasquatches are always the most complicated.

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