Where the Super Duper Fun Comix 2011 Special Came From

Right. In all the swirling chaos that is...well, my life right now...I'm gonna be putting out a ton of books and doing crazy stuff and I know stuff's gonna get lost in the shuffle, but these books are important to me. They come from places and mean things. Here's a story about one of the new ones.

So, back in the old days of the original "Super Duper Fun Comix", the stories were about Cactus Joe, Pengy Penguin, Walt, and Sped having these odd little adventures. I liked the way these weird characters that had no business hanging out together just all kinda clicked. Of course, the stories eventually got violent and crazy and someone would try to kill the Clown and blahblahblah. Time passed, and I did "SDF" where I separated out the old quartet. Cactus Joe and Pengy became this bizarre duo, while Walt and Sped went back to their roots as a comedy duo. But every so often I'd put the old gang back together, like in "SDF: Sombrero Friday". I also occasionally liked doing silly little stories when I could. Like "The Great Race" or the two issues of "New Super Duper Fun Comix" I did. I like silly little stories from time to time. I mean, not everything can be an Epic, right?

Anyway, I did a silly little All Ages story with Walt n' Sped late last year, and I had planned on doing one Walt n' Sped special a year. But this year, when I was starting to think about the idea, I found myself missing those old stories with the Clown & Penguin hanging out with their old buddies, Walt n' Sped. So, that's what I decided to do. I decided to throw Frimpy into the book because, well, I empathize with Frimpy. That guy's got no luck, just like me. I also dropped Penny Platypus into the book for no real good reason. Maybe I needed a female character. I dunno.

After that, I just needed something for them to do. My brain said innertubing. I've never ever been innertubing. Hell, I've never been rafting or kayaking or any of that crap. But I can imagine going innertubing, especially with my pals. Drifting downstream. Relaxing. Shootin' the breeze. Sounds cool, right?

I had my premise, now all I needed was the script.

Enter the Houston Airport.

Thanks to an 8 hour delayed flight, I got trapped in the Houston Airport. Now, I don't know if you've ever been trapped in an airport for what is, for all intents and purposes, an entire day, but it is boring. Very, very boring. You can only run around and ride monorails and eat overpriced terrible food for so long before you're about ready to blow your brains out.

So, I did the only thing I could think of to do. I went to work, doing what I do best. I happened to have my little Composition Notebook and a pen, so away I went. I wrote/thumbnailed the entire story in the airport while hanging out. That's probably why it's such an odd duck. There a weirdly Biblical theme to it, as a Giant Fish shows up and swallows up a couple of our heroes. There's also a completely out of left field spiritual moment in the dead center that's not funny or anything. But there's a lotta funny stuff throughout, though. Sped's dialogue cracks me up every time I see it. And it's silly and breezy and odd. It's pretty good for a comic written in an airport while I was feeling about as lonely and alone as one dude can possibly feel.

Oh, I also, somewhat ironically, wrote my awkward attempt at a porno comic while in the airport as well. I'm not gonna be publishing that one though.

What? I was lonely.

Anyway, if you found any of the above Rant even remotely interesting (and I can't see how you did, considering the whole thing was largely incoherent), then head over to www.torcpress.com and check out the "Super Duper Fun Comix 2011 Special". Yep.