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I think this may be my favorite one yet. Also: when Colleen Coover and Trina Robbins both get pages in a Marvel Anthology you buy it. I don’t care what it is. Did Marissa buy Strange Tales Max? Because she should have bought that too!

I love the joke in this comic. However, I could have easily missed what comic they were talking about, in which case the comic would have completely fallen flat for me. A little zoom on the comic’s title in one panel would go a long way.

P.S. This isn’t meant as negative criticism, but as a cautionary tale. When I was writing comics for my university paper (York U’s Excalibur. Represent!), I myself once wrote a joke that was completely ruined because the text on a jar that was instrumental to the punchline got printed too small to be legible. Lesson learned!

HaHa Josh is absolutely basking in her anguish!!!! Poor Marissa….

Sam L, she DID mention the name of the comic in panel 8. Not quite the same as a clear logo, sure, but at least it was mentioned. (Heck, it wouldn`t surprise me if they had Marissa name-check the comic just in case they had that same problem you mentioned.)

I wonder, if this is in response to the legendary Kelly Thompson’s column about Girl Comics this week.

That would require far too little turnaround time, Tom.

Poor punchline.

I was rather hoping they’d get to the counter after all that and the bearded grognard in charge would be all, “Sorry, we don’t have any copies. No one pre-ordered and the budget is tight due to the economy, so we didn’t buy any. Also, I didn’t expect it to sell with a name like ‘Girl Comics’. Comics aren’t for girls.”

Ugly American, that’s more an essay than a punchline.

The one in the strip worked just fine.

Realistically, a bearded grognard would just say, “We didn’t order any,” but about half the crowd that reads this needs a deeper explanation.

i agree with Marrissa and the catch 22 she is in she does not like the book due to it saying woman at marvel can work at the little kids table but if she does not support and prove the idea is good marvel will use the thing to not let any more woman prove they are good at working on marvel characters. and end the glass ceiling in comics plus. one should know Josh would be there to bask in Marrissa misery

So, I assume the sunglasses are there so Josh can do his best David Caruso impression when he tells Marissa to buy her Girl Comics like a man.

YEEEAAAAOOOOOOWWWW!

I wonder, if this is in response to the legendary Kelly Thompson’s column about Girl Comics this week.

We’re not that organized. Sometimes– especially with a pretty big news item– we all end up going there, that’s all. Like the Captain America controversy a couple of weeks ago where Bill and Greg and I all ended up riffing on it.

There have been quite a few times that I’ll be working on something and then see that Kelly or MarkAndrew or Greg has gotten there a little ahead of me….at which point I’ll probably have a quiet “arrrrgh” and then either rewrite it to include a link or a mention of what they did or, if they’ve actually said everything I was going to say, just scrap it. I hardly ever have to throw work completely away, though.

I think it probably goes without saying that this is one of my favorite Comic Critics ever. If I wasn’t writing for CSBG (and thus planning to write about GC) I would have had the exact same response as Marissa.

Hehe, I was thinking along the same lines, only without the “liberal guilt/principled/whatever” anguish that Marissa is feeling. Fortunately, I suppose, I haven’t been able to go to the shop in a while anyways, so I’m sure it’s sold out. The last panel actually makes the strip funny.

Homerun.

Thank goodness my consumer habits aren’t tied into identity politics. Otherwise my anguish would be much like Marissa’s.

That third panel stands out as being a bit of a waste – in an already over crowded strip, I’m not quite sure what it’s doing there.

Or am I supposed to read Marissa’s rant in a stereotyped New York Jewish voice?

Putting every woman Marvel creator in one book keeps reminding me of Nat X’s 15 minute TV show on Saturday Night Live.

This is a good strip, but really text heavy.

That third panel stands out as being a bit of a waste – in an already over crowded strip, I’m not quite sure what it’s doing there.

Or am I supposed to read Marissa’s rant in a stereotyped New York Jewish voice?

Nah, just a little character moment. Plus, the word “goyim” just makes me giggle.