This Year is Next Year’s Last Year
It’s trickier than I thought to find this comic online, but since I got this from Christopher at Cartoon Crossroads last year (that would be 2024, readers in the future. Sorry about the mess!), I’m going with the theory that you can either request a copy through his website or when you see him at the next convention. If not, I linked to Spit and a Half for their single copy, so whoever is fastest gets the comic! Christopher is an expert at repackaging vintage comics and making his own stories out of them, or at least that’s my conclusion after reading a couple of his comics. Which is great for gags (and boy howdy are there a lot of gags in this one), but I was impressed with how well he was able to put together a coherent narrative using these materials. The basic story is that there’s a ghost who is confused about how they died, who they were and just what was happening to them. It turns out that they attended the insurrection back in 2021 and were killed, and Christopher takes great delight in spending the bulk of the issue going over the people involved, their overall mindset, even the planning that went into it. But in a funny way, which is a tricky thing indeed when going over a riot that, you know, ended up completely destroying the country. Um, spoilers if you haven’t been watching the news, I guess. Then there’s the story of Casper the Friendly Non-Viable Fetus, and this time around he plays an ectopic pregnancy, which could never be viable and could only kill the mother. Hijinx ensue, and somehow that is true! As always around these parts, if you’re a conservative you probably won’t like the comic, but I also can’t imagine that you’d like much of anything that I have to say, so I don’t know why you’d stick around here to begin with. Other highlights include the many fake ads (they aren’t all funny, but with this many gags he still managed an impressive hit to miss ratio) and several articles about a fake board name called Croatoan. There’s some really great stuff in there, and I’d recommend getting your hands on this if you’re able. The race to get the single copy for sale that I saw online starts… now! $20
