I wanted to call the Superman spoof Superdoberman, but the syndicate made me change it to Superanimal for some reason. Some newspapers also got complaints about having a character with a tattoo in the strip.
Originally run Apr 2nd - Apr 3rd 2008.
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AT4W review: 2021-09-30 11:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My kids and their friends couldn't name a newspaper comic strip if you paid them.
Originally run Apr 2nd 2008.
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TV Tropes: 2021-09-29 11:30:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Ran 04/01...maybe we should have had Norm's Dad and Jeremy play an April Fools Day joke on Norm. :D
Originally run Apr 1st 2008.
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TV Tropes: 2021-09-28 10:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I do regret not stating Jeremy was gay when the strip ran in papers. Things were different then though and there would have been backlash. My syndicate felt we were too new for backlash. I comforted myself thinking we'd do it when we were in more papers. Little did I know :D Still, wish I'd been braver.
Originally run Mar 31st 2008.
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2021-09-27 14:28:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Too dark? :D
Originally run Mar 30th 2008.
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TV Tropes: 2021-09-26 16:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I like a lot of what Linkara said about these strips on 'Atop the Fourth Wall'. It made me laugh. :D Link below.
Originally run Mar 29th 2008.
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2021-09-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
2008? I'm going to say it...I think we started the whole 'Golden Girls' internet revival in popularity thing. :D
Originally run Mar 28th 2008.
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2021-09-24 11:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I think it's funny that Norm himself thought of Bridget as a "stupid hippy" in one of the earliest strips. I think it shows Norm isn't as different as he thinks.
Originally run Mar 27th 2008.
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2021-09-23 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I asked Melissa to base Norm's Dad off the Green Lantern villain Hector Hammond (the comic book version, not the movie version)
Originally run Mar 26th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0 2021-09-22 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Some people ask if this is baased on my actual family, to which I answer, "Shut up, Hippy". :D
Originally run Mar 24th 2008.
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TV Tropes: 2021-09-21 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
OK. THIS may be my favorite week's worth of strips from the original run. :D
Originally run Mar 24th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-20 15:40:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It's weird, because Norm was based on me, but now I look a lot more like Seamus. :D
Originally run Mar 23rd 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-20 00:00:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I still feel this way at my day job. :D
Originally run Mar 21st - 22nd 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-18 16:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
When Rex wears his orange shirt, or Maureen wears her grey outfit, I sometimes wonder if those strips take place in an alternate 'My Cage' universe. Like when Shaggy wears his red v-neck in 'Scooby Doo'.
Originally run Mar 20th 2008.
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AT4W review: 2021-09-16 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I should try and find the original scripts. I wonder what Norm's dialogue was in that 3rd panel. I know for one text panel like that I wrote the plot of an old "Brady Bunch" episode for fun.
Originally run Mar 19th 2008.
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AT4W review: 2021-09-15 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The Norm 2.0 strips may be my favorite week long series of strips from the original run.
Originally run Mar 17th - 18th 2008.
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TV Tropes: 2021-09-14 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Oddly, my day job is far more like the helpdesk's workers jobs than being in the position of Norm.
Originally run Mar 16th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-12 15:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I read exclusively in the bathroom. I want to put a bookshelf in there.
Originally run Mar 14th - 15th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-10 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course, without realizing, I showed my age using "Flux Capacitor". :D
Originally run Mar 12th - 13th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
TV Tropes: 2021-09-08 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
My kids have to go back to the conformity factory (aka school) this week. I hope it doesn't turn them into a me.
Originally run Mar 10th - 11th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
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2021-09-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Chuck Duckwing is a play on Charles Darwin. Also, I always wondered if we should've done a Man-Duck spin-off.
Originally run Mar 9th 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0
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2021-09-05 18:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The animal chef pic is quite the coincidence as my daughter is forcing us to wath 'Ratatoing' tonight. Also, I wonder what's in those meatballs. Hmmm.
Originally run Mar 7th - 8th 2008.
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2021-09-03 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The animals in the strip were picked by me asking people I thought had similar personalities to the characters to close their eyes and tell me the first animal that popped in their heads.
Originally run Mar 5th - 6th 2008.
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AT4W review: 2021-09-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
At one point I considered having humans as the pets on Earth 133. I doodled it once. That doodle still haunts my dreams to this day.
Originally run Mar 3rd - 4th 2008.
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2021-08-31 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Weird Al Yankovic's "In 3-D" was the first album I ever purchased (that's like downloading, but at a store). What was yours?
Originally run Mar 2nd 2008.
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AT4W review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLNaownbvX0 2021-08-30 01:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post
