I like this one. It has a parade of characters and a general insanity around it. I wish I could tie things up like this more often.
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I was originally going to do an extra few comics in this series, and explore some more craziness in legislation. I have become a strong advocate of mercilessly editing your own work, removing unnecessary pieces and where possible replacing words with pictures (these are comics, after all). However, I think in this case I cut too much and the message gets confusing.
Rep. Hassleblapp looks like he’s contradicting himself here, but this was designed to be him talking out of both sides of his mouth, depending on his audience. The bill was engineered for controversy. That was in a bunch of panels that I cut. Sometimes I think I edited this too heavily, but other times I remember that the reason I skipped these strips was because I felt it had bogged down too much because of all the dialog that wasn’t moving the main characters forward.
I think this is the most cynical set of comics I have yet done. At least, the most obviously cynical.
304-307 were added in two years (TWO YEARS!) after the fact. I had meant to go back and fill them in, and totally forgot until I was putting the books together. So, awesome! Lost comics!
Does it bother anyone else that legal language is archaic? I understand the need for precise language, but I can’t remember the last time I saw “Be it heretofore resolved” in a technical document. I really do feel like legal professionals subscribe to the theory that if they could find enough monkeys banging away at enough typewriters, some day the monkey room will turn out a document that will go down in legal history. I hear there are capuchin monkeys in South America that routinely use tools to dig for roots and break open nuts: These nut-busting simians would be perfect for the job.
I thought it would be funny to take a few humorous jabs at the men and women who serve us in Congress. Don’t worry too much about making jokes at their expense: They’ll simply expense it to the tax payer, which may very well be you. Really, this series of strips indirectly pokes fun at most U.S. citizens, and indirectly indirectly (indirectly squared?) pokes fun at many citizens of other countries who do business with (or fail trying to do business with) U.S. companies. I hope you enjoy.