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Welcome! If you're new to the Friday Bonus Strip, you'll see it's a place where my scratchboard, unused ideas, and extra panels go. In this week's installment, you will deduce that I ultimately felt the phrase "get your flavor flav'd by cankle-jazzled washouts from the Raspberry Berets" was too many client-side processing speed bumps in one sentence. So, as much as I dearly loved it, it had to be simplified. Sometimes a fun set of ideas just comes across, in a speech bubble, as desperate and unrealistic overwriting.

Welcome to my weekly confessional, in other words.

(I'm also curious to see what, if anything, I can make out of this Arthurian "EXCALADE" thing that started happening when I was playing with fonts and typos.)

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Omnithea

Do Leo's new wings cart his corpse back to heaven?

Daniel M Ford

I would immediately buy a print or other product featuring Ray&Beef in EXCALADE

Bruce Wright

Not to go all Dave Barry on you, but Balkan Knife Criminals WOULD be a bitchin' name for a band

Jeff

Eat a reality of ass, Teodor

jordan b.

"eat a REALM of ass, Téodor" is the gift that keeps giving.

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

Even in your offcuts you make me look up words. I appreciate that. Palatino is a font that makes me think of Roman monuments. I know of Palatine Hill but not that it gave its name to typeface.

Distant Egg Song

"Ser Rost Beeficus of the Aching Woods, the devyl-wytch the peasants dub Teodor is loos'd upon the Reylme of Asse, and I fear he shall eate it all. We must make haste!"

Achewood

My Middle English is a bit spotty, are you saying that Téodor would be identified as a witch back then? Because I like that idea.

Achewood

Ah, my assumption was that everyone in early word processing encountered Palatino, but perhaps not everyone was as big a font dork as myself.

Achewood

Perhaps for Leo, oooo heaven is a place on earth

Achewood

I may rename the strip to that, actually

Achewood

Can't pretend it's nothin else, it is the most un-pretendable of meals

Achewood

Yeah, I'll admit that the Barry column in the Union Democrat was formative for young me.

Achewood

This may need to be a black t-shirt. Or tunic.

Achewood

Oh man don't make me fire this storyline up again

Julie (HiDeeHoGal)

Font dork? You, the creator or the strip about the guy who invented comic sans tasting the curb?

Nicholas Williams

I wonder if I would still find old Dave Barry columns funny. I found him STUPEFYINGLY funny as a sixth grader but that was actually 200 years ago and I’ve had pot and nudity in the intervening years. My tastes have grown more (rips enormous trombone fart) sophisticated since then.

Marc Elias

Every time you hear "dap skrit skrit FLUT" an angel gets more upper leg definition.

Distant Egg Song

Any creature capable of devouring an entire realm of ass would be identified as one, imo

Bruce Wright

I haven’t read his novels, but in general I’d say he knows his lane and stays in it. Hey, there’s a place for Benchley-style simple whimsy

Omnithea

Jehovah answering the door expecting DoorDash.

b.zap

Envelópe Martinez, Numero Uno Escalade

Achewood

Or a new Daft Punk song starts.

Achewood

It is worse than you even imagine

Achewood

I recently read his Florida Man book and found it to be just like dropping into the backseat of a familiar old parental car. He's an expert at precisely the kind of writing he designed. I don't know if novels were his lane. But he was always very kind and supportive of me so nary an ill word shall twinkle from my fingertips.

Achewood

Mister Bob's House of Soviet Eyewear was one of the moments where I became a writer

b.zap

Rockin lats bro

Bruce Wright

That’s heartening. He’s always seemed like he was on the side of the angels

Crumbles

Well great, now I need to know how Beef helps Ray get DJ Loose Charisma back.