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The Challenge Has Been Issued

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 07:09 PM

As I'm toonin' in the studio today, I get a call from my buddies Bill and Gene over at Unshelved.

After pleasantries were exchanged, they threw down the gauntlet: Would I, they wanted to know, be cartoonist enough to accept a challenge? A week of competition between our two strips, where we'd both have to write six days of material on some everyday, innocuous, uninspiring subject matter? Say...plastic coffee cup lids?

They -- confident, bestrident, mocking in their tone -- assumed I would not answer the call. But I said to them what I say to you now:

Cry havoc, and unleash the dogs of war!

(Be there! April 2nd! Two strips enter! One strip leaves! Hopefully mine! But maybe not! It's possible this could prove to be a bad decision on my part!)

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Panel Dialogue Location Props
1 NARRATOR: Most gyms have a 20-minute time limit on equipment when people are waiting.
GRAMP
Woman (Generic)
Gym
  • treadmill
2 NARRATOR: But everyone quickly figures out that you can hide your timer behind THE IMPENETRABLE WALL OF MYSTERY AND UNKNOWING
(SOUND FX): drrrrape...
GRAMP (draping towel over timer)
Gym
  • treadmill
  • Towel
3 NARRATOR: ...Your workout towel*
Woman (Generic): Um, sir? You've been walking on the treadmill for, like, an hour now...
GRAMP: No! ...NO! "Impenetrable wall of mystery and unknowing"! How could we ever know the true time? Oh, woe! Woe is us!
NARRATOR: * Also, "Newsweek" works pretty good.
Gym
  • treadmill
  • Towel

Character Info

Woman (Generic)
First Appearance
March 02, 2002
Recent Appearances
March 02, 2002
(SOUND FX)
First Appearance
December 25, 2001
Recent Appearances
June 05, 2006
NARRATOR
First Appearance
November 30, 2001
Recent Appearances
June 01, 2006
GRAMP
First Appearance
December 01, 2001
Recent Appearances
June 03, 2006


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