Captain Heroic has a showdown with Countess Influencia, but the former waitress isn't interested in going back to the diner — and she certainly isn't hearing his excuses! She has the city at her feet, and in her book, that's a win!
Fairmount City's top hero sees it differently. There's a big difference between trending and mattering. The Countess may be impossible to ignore... but that also makes her impossible to choose.
Cartoonist Showcase
If you're in the Columbus area, make plans to stop by the Billy Ireland Library & Museum on August 8th from 1-5 p.m. It's a free event, and I'll be there sketching and signing along with a bunch of my pals from the NCS.
Transcript
Captain Heroic faces Countess Influencia (formerly Hailey the waitress)
Panel 1:
Captain Heroic: You don’t have to do this! Come back to Ralph’s and —
Hailey: Oh! NOW you want to talk to me in the diner!
Panel 2:
Captain Heroic: Hailey, I stopped making content with you because I didn’t want to be part of using you for “likes.”
Panel 3:
Hailey: Problem solved. Now I’m using THEM for likes.
Panel 4:
Hailey: Everyone is watching me — praising me! I’m impossible to ignore!
Panel 5:
Captain: And that means you’re impossible to choose.
The Wayans Brothers rip off Warner Brothers!
I just caught a movie trailer that made me really sad about the state of creativity in America today. Shawn and Marlon Wayans have made a movie in which a 3-foot adult poses as a baby to advance his crime career. He arranges to have himself left on some stranger’s doorstep — in a basket — so he can lay low while the cops search for him and his stolen loot. The unsuspecting strangers welcome the abandoned baby into their home, setting the scene for countless madcap antics.
Midway through the trailer, I started to feel a little deja vu coming on… then, as the “baby” smoked a thick stogie while shaving his 5-o’clock shadow in the bathroom, it hit me. I’ve already seen this! It was originally an animated Bugs Bunny short called Baby Buggy Bunny. The trailer makes it look as if the movie is a scene-by-scene reshoot — with a little sex and violence thrown in to put butts in seats.
