Chapter 17 | Page 1b: A Superhero, a Smartphone, and One Very Unfortunate Phrase

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Brad Guigar

#GuigarChristmasCountdown — Full Swing

On Tuesday, I launched this year’s daily Guigar Christmas Countdown, with a new single-panel cartoon dropping each day until Christmas. Here’s another sneak preview…

 

More are coming every day — each one paired with a conversation starter and full alt text. Catch them on Bluesky, Patreon chat, the Evil Inc Subreddit, or wherever holiday absurdity is legally sold.

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Thanks for being here. Whether you’re here for the story, the spice, the craft talk, or the chaos, I’m thrilled you’re part of this little universe I’m building.

Hailey wants a chance to shine — but Rose has other priorities.

Captain Heroic arrives at Ralph’s Diner with Justice Ltd’s new Director of Public Engagement, Yazmine Velour, who’s recording his visit. Hailey is desperate to take their table, hoping for a little secondhand fame.

Transcript 

A comic sequence inside Ralph’s Diner. Hailey excitedly asks Rose to let her wait on Captain Heroic, who has just walked in with Yazmine Velour filming him on her phone. Rose declines, explaining he’s already seated in her section. Hailey suggests Rose hide a pimple since they’re recording. Hailey directs her to emergency concealer in the storage closet and tells her to “look for an old bag.” 

Panel 1
Hailey: “Let me wait on him today! Just this once!”
Rose: “Sorry, dear, he’s already in my section.”

Panel 2
Hailey: “No problem. But since they’re recording, you’ll wanna cover up that pimple first.”

Panel 3
Hailey: “I’ve got emergency concealer in the storage closet.”
Hailey (continuing): “Look for an old bag.”

Panel 4
Rose (inside closet): “There’s no old bag in—”
Rose: “Oh. I get it.”

 

52 Web site

Posted on June 20, 2006 by Brad Guigar
DC Comics has been having a lot of fun with its 52 Web site, a site created to help readers follow 52, the comic series that will unfold this year, chronicling the aftermath of Infinite Crisis.

Check out the TV listings from the Daily Planet’s Senior Entertainment Columnist:

WGBS Announces Summer Season

Metropolis, May 17 — Last week, the series finale of “The Worst Wing” – a fictionalized version of the Luthor Administration – got its biggest ratings ever for a two-hour special where President Rex Boother pardoned himself on his way out of the Oval Office, only to be killed in an accident involving a lobbyist’s limo.

SPECIAL:
CRISIS OF INFINITE MIRTH
Comedians claiming to be from different dimensions offer their humorous looks at race, relationships and superheroes in a benefit for Star City.

SERIES PREMIERE:
LEADER OF THE BAND: SCARE TACTICS
Following last summer’s surprisingly popular reality show about the revived 1970s band Great Frog, this incarnation follows the cult-favorite “monster rock” phenomenon Scare Tactics as they look for a new lead singer. In the debut, singer Susie Kavanaugh has a voice unlike any the band has ever heard… but will being a soul-draining banshee keep her in the running, or make her the first contestant to be eliminated?

RETURNING SERIES:
I WANT A HOUSE! NO, A BIGGER HOUSE!
Master carpenter Roger Gail and country singer Alison Stevens travel the country, creating homes for people who need them. In the heartbreaking premiere, it’s a family who fled Bludhaven. Does a townhouse in Coast City offer them a second chance, or just a sad reminder of what they’ve lost?

GOOD KNIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
The sitcom about King Arthur’s trusted squire (Kevin McKinley) working at a Medieval-themed restaurant in 21st-century Metropolis returns for a third season. In the premiere, Sir Tristan decides to reveal his true background to his best friend, “mead wench” Traci (Alyssa Barrett) but will she believe him? Plus, comedian Frankie Sennett makes one of his popular cameos as Tristan’s meddling Uncle Modred.

MOVIE:
THE NEW FRONTIER
Director Darwyn Cooke’s award-winning 2004 epic about superheroics during the Kennedy era makes its network-television debut. HDTV viewers can enjoy the movie with enhanced “Absolute” features.

TV MOVIE:
INTERAMERICAN
Fact-based drama follows a suburban advertising executive (Gregg Rice) who quits his job and drives across country in search of the daughter he never knew he had… because her mother was his girlfriend on a parallel Earth.