Guest Strip by Thomas Overbeck!
By Irma on December 1st, 2008Posted In: comics
Today I present you with guest strip for your enjoyment! (and it couldn’t come at a better time for me. I’ll explain on Thursday!)
I love love love this strip especially since I recently realized that the “younger generation” (woah, am I really saying that?) is too young to remember the GREAT bands of my early teens. (Not to say I don’t LOVE Foo Fighters – Because, OH, I DO!) Reminds me of a story someone an old friend told me a few years back. He was driving his little brother somewhere and Pearl Jam’s “Alive” came on the radio, and his little brother said “hey! This guy sounds just like the guy from ‘Creed!’” Um, yeah… Let’s all just take a moment here… cringe.
Anyway…
The artist of this strip is the very talented Thomas Overbeck of Times Like This, a comic about time travel! It’s extremely funny and very well drawn (as if you couldn’t already see that from the guest strip!). Go check it out, then check out one of my fav installments, and then take out some time to sit back, chill and start from the beginning! And please make sure you say “hello” while you’re there, and tell him how awesome he is!
Thank you so much for doing this Thomas! (as I’ve already said about fifty times… 
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I had this exact moment last week when I was talking to an 11 year old that never heard of Depeche Mode.
good job, your interpretation of their characters and personalities is excellent
Oh yeah, go the Foo Fighters!
Is Imy a contortionist? because her left arm sure is twisted! Ouch! thats gotta hurt!
I get this with movies a lot too. Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink…. good gawd….
Ha, I saw Pearl Jam open for Smahing Pumpkins and Red Hot Chillipeppers in 1990(?) – just before 10 came out. Pre-show had never heard of them, but they sure ROCKED.
the only good thing to ever..and i do mean EVER..come outa nirvana…dave grohl!
About 5 years ago, I was in charge of the photo library at the Internet Movie Database, and I had a college intern helping me catalog some photos (mostly identify the celebs in them and code their names into the database). She had a photo she couldn’t ID and called me over. I take a look and say “Oh, that’s Susannah Hoffs.”
She says “who?”
“Susannah Hoffs… from The Bangles.”
“The Bangles?”
“Yeah… Walk Like an Egyptian…”
She shakes her head. She’s drawing a blank. And I’m thinking “I’m soooo ooold!” I later find out, just about every person in the office over 30 is feeling the same way.
I should have just said “she’s in Austin Powers’s band.”
My aunt once heard two kids in a music shop saying, “Did you know Paul McCartney was in another band before he was in ‘Wings’?”.
I weep for our generation…
oh well; Grohl and bear it…