The story in this strips follows directly on from the story of the previous strip - a technique we in the industry like to call "continuity" or "riding the storytrain". Research indicates that the importance placed on riding the storytrain is usually inversely proportional to how funny the comic is. I submit this as further evidence:
Quixotic Content
Strips from Questionable Content - a webcomic that I do not read - with their dialogue removed and the empty speech bubbles stuffed full of words I get from inside my head.
Golly what a zany loan shark organisation
Welling and wobbly
Always pay attention to your debts. Prioritise your attention by the shadyness of each individual debt.
The milk tray man was a trained ninja
Even mentioning ninjas makes me feel like some dirty internet catchphrase guy. I mean, ninjas are pretty funny but at this point it seems like the cliché is offsetting their inherent humour value. It's the same phenomenon that made me hate the weighted companion cube before I'd even played Portal.
The brunette has a bad idea
This strip doesn't have a punchline, but not in a clever post-modern way, I just didn't make one up.
For the record I like Sean Lennon more than I like John Lennon. Cibo Matto are cool. Don't kill Sean Lennon.
Been caught stealing
Happy new year, potential reader. I went away for a few days over the new year but - presumably because he's not as cool and popular as me - the guy from Questionable Content kept updating while I was away. This gives me some catching up to do. The first little bit of catching up is a story about robbing your depressed, easily-exploited friends.
Not all maroon
I've got a good feeling that tomorrow's strip is going to be set in a different location which is surely a great victory for everybody involved.
Put the kettle on
Yep, still the same two guys standing around in the same old room.
The next Questionable Content strip bloody better be set in a shed full of Victorian porcelain dolls taking afternoon tea or I'm fucked.