This was pretty good :) Might have worked better back when Dave had an editor (replaced with wife? dog? every person who unwittingly gets within his line of sight?), but still a pretty good comic.

On a personal note, 2008 was a much better year for me. I was much more sociable this year (after being quite unsociable for too many years) and I got one step closer to finishing university.

2009 looks to be even better with me being even more social and me scheduled to finish university (which will allow me to enter a world full of people closer to my age. Kind of hard to make friends when everyone is closer in age to your pesky little brother then they are you).

How is everyone else's year looking? Sure things on a global scale look bad, but the Great Depression doesn't mean everyone was miserable the entire time! No reason 2009 should be any different.

I didn't get it :(

"On the other hand, we've got friends and family that love us, we're going to be swearing in as president a man who, a hundred and fifty years ago, might very well have been considered property, and Paris Hilton and Britney Spears - bless their curiously malformed little hearts - are still working their butts off making utter and complete bozos of themselves for our amusement. Life could be worse."

Hi Dave,

That's a really cool effect with the post it note! Regardless of how 2008 went for individuals, I hope 2009 is a better year for everyone.

How about "Inkheart and Transformers 2 come to theaters in 2009"?

"Season 3 of Transformers Animated will start"?

Um, that's all I've got...

1. Worf gets his own starship and a series about how Klingons cruise space. Much fighting and disruptor fire in every episode. Sales of WWAKD t-shirts skyrocket making Dave and family multi-millionaires.
2. Linus Torvalds is named technology czar by president Obama. Linux boxes replace PCs in all government offices and viruses and hacking of government computers drops to below nuisance level.
3. Dave named as cartoonist laureate by president Obama, wins both the Pulitzer AND Nobel prizes for literature.
5. Flaco wins Tony for rendition of Hamlet. "To Squee, or not to Squee".

In Response to Shalaina (#46418):

I think the joke was the editor reminding him to include something positive in the punchline so that the comic strip wasn't completely depressing.

Such as "Book Five: Nerds on Parade is still out for sale."

"Harry Potter Movie Six is coming out this summer"

Sheldon: Shakira has announced she is marrying a duck.
Duck: Really?!?
Sheldon: But it's not you.

Sheldon: I'm still rich enough to keep us in pancakes and bacon for another year.