And you’re gonna get yet another post about this comic when that bullet arrives.
So I somehow ended up in a Twitter thread with Too Much Coffee Man‘s creator, the wonderful cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, and I took the opportunity to ask him a couple of questions about Jab #3. You know, the comic what had a bullet shot through its middle?
My questions both involved this ad that was inside the comic, for copies of the magazine shot with more powerful guns than the .22 caliber used on the “normal” books.
My first inquiry was “were the variants advertised a real thing?” to which Mr. Wheeler replied “Yep!” He stated they only did a few, and that they didn’t take any pictures of the process. That was a shame.
My next question was “did you sell any?” and his reply was that they “seemed like they sold a handful, but not many.” He did volunteer the added info that the shotgun variant “was the most fun (but scary)” which, as someone who’s fired a shotgun, I can probably attest to.
Best of all, he offered to send me a spent bullet and casing from the shoot, and boy oh boy I can’t wait to have that. What a great, hilarious addition that’ll be to What’s Left of the Vast Mikester Comic Archives.
A big thanks to Mr. Wheeler for letting me bother him a wee bit about this weird but wonderful piece of comics history.
Speaking of the Twitters, I don’t know if folks without an account can read tweets there again, but the Twitter widget I had in my sidebar seemed to be working when I just checked right now. And by “working” I mean “running dozens of my tweets down the side of my page instead of the usual five,” which is par for the course considering the new management there. For the meantime, I’ve removed that widget and replaced it with a simple text link.
Also here’s a reminder that I’m also on Bluesky (still invite-only, sorry) and Mastodon. And (yuck) Threads as (also yuck) “mikesterlingjr.”
“Thumbs up”
err… this is me acting like this is facebook
FYI – along the side panel I only see the words –
“Mike’s temporary Twitter sidebar link, while the widget is broken”
not, you know, actual twitter content.
Brian F – Yes, that link is all that’s supposed to be there. The Twitter widget that used to be there is broken. You’ll need to click the link to see all my exciting Twitter content (assuming ol’ Elon’s left the gates open for non-users or not).
Nope. Sorry, Mike. Still getting redirected to Twitter’s login page.
“running dozens of my tweets down the side of my page instead of the usual five,”
Yeah, it was like yer Twitter Greatest Hits yesterday!
“The Twitter widget that used to be there is broken”
Like twitter itself!
“copies of the magazine shot with more powerful guns”
The copies shot by the .357 were shot by the most powerful handgun in the world, and had to ask themselves “Do I Feel Lucky?”.
I believe direct links to tweets now work (though you can’t see replies/threads), but links to accounts do not.