Monthly Archives June 2004

Those who wait

comic strip | panel 1 - FLYNN: Hands off, Roonie. The cookies will have cooled in a minute. “Good things come to those who wait.” | panel 2 - ROONIE: Yeah. | panel 3 - ROONIE: But hot, gooey, delicious things come to those who don’t.

Fences

comic strip | panel 1 - FLYNN: If good fences make good neighbors… | panel 2 - FLYNN: Then I am a GREAT neighbor. | panel 3 - FLYNN: In fact, I’m a solid birch, 500-foot long, IMPENETRABLE neighbor. | panel 4 - FLYNN: I put up a fence to keep you all out of this yeard, so STAY OUT.
ROONIE: Oh… OK. | panel 5 - A pause | panel 6 - FLYNN: WELL?! Don’t you WANT to come IN?! What’s the point of this stupid thing if you don’t WANT to come IN?! | panel 7 - A pause | panel 8 - FLYNN: NonononoNO! Don’t actually come IN! GAH! I don’t WANT you IN. I just want you to WANT to come in!
ROONIE: OH… OK. | panel 9 - ROONIE: Flynn, we want to come in.
FLYNN: Well, you CAN’T! HA! | panel 10 - A pause | panel 11 - ROONIE: I want to know how often he wants to want to come in… is what I want…

Collector

comic strip | panel 1 - FLYNN: No… no… no… no… no… mmm…. no… | panel 2 - FLYNN: OOO… a gem mint 10 1978 walnut! I better clean it, laminate it, and count all its crevices! | panel 3 - FLYNN: There’s a fine line between being a good COLLECTOR, and being OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE…. | panel 4 - FLYNN: And I think, by now, I’ve cleared that line by a good twenty feet….