And a full tip of the hat to crabby for the idea marching into RMDC like he was a brand new stripper and posting comics from when he was a brand new stripper. After all, back when we were brand new strippers, there wasn't even an RMDC! Like when I was brand new, two years ago today. Which of course is the justification for this post.

On that Tuesday two trips around the sun ago, I was led to this site by a twist of circumstance (and a random number generator) that has been explained before, and won't be repeated here in order to protect the innocent and keep you from going to Nebraska and lynching her. And at some point, I banged the "make a comic" button, twiddled around with some backgrounds and characters, eventually found an idea I could play with, and soon came up with this:

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Yeah, I know. Spontaneous combustion gag, ha ha ha! See why I don't chide newcomers too hard for doing what comes naturally when they're just getting their legs here? (Admittedly, that one had three advantages on your typical someone-catches-fire comic: an explanation for it happening tied in with a little joke (Spock: "A very little joke."), the first of my trademark gratuitous punny titles, and of course, NO, ZERO, ZIP, NADA! GRATUITOUS NARRATION BOXES!!!!).

Anyway, where was I? Oh, yeah, in the other 30 or so comics I whipped off that day, I got more experimental and original. From the free-form

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to the whimsical

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to several featuring our old friend Cthulhu.

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But even then, all my jokes were sophisticated.

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Ok, maybe not. But I got better. Honestly. Read my stuff if you care to.

I love you, Kaufman.

That stuff is still way above most of the stupid crap you read here. It's interesting, because one can see your inexperience, but at the same time you're coming up with original stuff, as opposed to horrendously bad stuff. Inexperience does not excuse horrendous comics. For example:

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My first comic. Note the artistic use of the over-inflated dialogue bubble that creates a hole in space-time below their feet.

Should we start a spontaneous combustion thread?

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Today's my third anniversary! So here are five more pieces of history from my Day One:

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And because you're such a good audience, five more pieces of first-day time-wasting!

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Those were great. It's as though you sprang fully-grown out of somebody's head.

And now some second-day covers from 3 years ago:

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Rate "good", next, rate "good", next....

I don't know...on the second day it looks as though you were just coasting on the former glory of your first day. On the third day you were probably just a washed-up has-been on the street doing some degrading herky-jerky dance in a tutu for nickels.

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I don't know...on the second day it looks as though you were just coasting on the former glory of your first day. On the third day you were probably just a washed-up has-been on the street doing some degrading herky-jerky dance in a tutu for nickels.

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Drat, I was planning a "Dog On Ball crosses America" comic. Stop doing stuff three years before I think of it!

Aaaah, kaufman. Like that first taste of vanilla ice cream.

I thought "5/29 is just around the corner... I could do my own 'first day' post." And then I read my stuff.

Nice kick off, Dr. K!