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Blue Kryptonite

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The Script For Today's Comic!

Trailer Hitch, Part 2: Blue Kryptonite

SCENE:
Still in the coffee shop.

TANNER (in disbelief): Tom, how can you say the Superman Returns trailer looks bad?

TOM: I don’t know. It just looks played.

TANNER: He flies around! He saves a plane! He takes a goddamn bullet right in the eye! What more do you want?

TOM: Yeah, but Superman changed the rotation of the earth in the first movie. Now we’re back to saving planes. It feels like a letdown.

TANNER: Okay, he turned back time. But where could he go from there?

TOM (dead serious, not grinning at all – this is High Theory to him, even as he’s relating it casually): I dunno. I thought maybe he’d punch out God.

TANNER (facepalm): Oh, for God’s sake.

TOM: …or there could be snakes on the plane!

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In the beginning, there was Tom. And he was me. Oh, a disguised me, and a me in different circumstances, but still he was mostly an avenue to share my wise-assed comments through.

Then Tom took a step away from me. The difference really came to light as Roni and I were hashing out Gotterdammer(umlaut)ung, when I realized that actually, I’d kind of dig playing in Seth’s campaign. Oh, I wouldn’t like the sleazy girl-macking, but the ridiculous depth of characterization is something I’d take to.

That’s when I realized that it wasn’t simply that Tom didn’t like Seth. It was that to Tom, the 10x10 room and an orc with a pie were the perfect adventure. He didn’t like Seth’s campaign because of Karla, natch, but he also didn’t like it because he wants a beer, he wants his pretzels, and he wants to kill something in a dang dungeon.

In short, Tom is a crappy roleplayer. And thus, in that day, he became someone else – someone who’s not as smart as I am (or, at least, as smart as I think I am), someone possessed of far different tastes (I know in my heart that Tom really digs GWAR and finds the political stuff of the Dead Kennedies to be really boring), and someone who I would actively come into conflict here.

Today is the final step: Tom is now espousing something that I myself cannot fathom. In this strip, I am Tanner; Tom Rough is some whacko with a psychotic opinion. And it’s a little odd, considering how close we used to be, but I think Tom’s happier this way.

Or maybe I’m just nuts.

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Roni Says:

Has anyone else noticed how much new Superman looks like Jason Schwartzman?

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