Chapter 17 | Page 2b: The Ol’ Battle Ax

Posted on December 11, 2025 by Brad Guigar

The #GuigarChristmasCountdown Rolls On

Every day until Christmas, I’m releasing a brand-new holiday single-panel gag — and this year’s batch has already included:

  • Overworked elves

  • Malfunctioning snowmen

  • Questionable reindeer behavior

  • And Santas who are absolutely phoning it in

Next week’s cartoons keep the absurdity rolling. If you’re counting down to Christmas with me… buckle up. We’re not even halfway to the weirdest ones. Catch them on Bluesky, Patreon chat, or the Evil Inc Subreddit.

TRANSCRIPT

Panel 1 (Later)
Hailey: “Come on, Rose! This is a big opportunity for me! Just tell me what Cap’s ‘usual’ is!”

Panel 2
Rose (from inside the storage closet): “Fine. He loves chicken soup — extra crackers — and a tall lemonade.”

Panel 3
Rose: “Say… do you think you could open the door now? There’s not much air in here.”

Panel 4
Hailey: “If you look in the corner, you’ll see an old battle ax.”

Panel 5
Hailey: “There’s no battle ax in— Oh.”

Panel 6
SFX: KRAKK

Panel 7
Rose (calmly): “Thank you!”

Trinity #34… Ya Got Me Again…

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Brad Guigar
So Trinity does it to me again. I had completely fallen away from the story. The blue villagers… the screwed up characters… the plot threads dropped never to be seen again… the discordant art styles…

I had finally made a note to pull the title from my reserve list. I mean, it’s a weekly buy for me. That’s a lot of money to be sinking into something I scan over without actually reading anymore.

Except when I gave issue 30 one, final scan, I came across my all-time favorite character in the DCU in one, single panel. There was the poster boy for under-used brilliance, Plastic Man himself, shown on Page 21 as part of some sort of Tarot-card-based version of the Justice Society that the reality-altered Hawkman is assembling.

Aside: I’ve never, ever found Tarot cards more annoying than I do after reading this series. Please. Dear God, let this Reality Shift thing change the concept to Gin Rummy or Euchre or Uno or anything!

And last week, there’s the preview of Trinity #34.

And there’s my man Eel O’Brien, right there on the cover. Looks like the DCU might just use him for a few panels after years of neglect.

Damn you, Trinity, just when I thought I was out… you keep pulling me back in…