Zed-7, Time Tourist: Zap Happy
Meet Zed-7, a character I tried to get into MAD magazine, only to be shot down because they already had an ongoing time travel cartoon! But I’m still here, and MAD has been thrown on the ash heap of history alongside other forgotten magazines like Puke and Snot and Ash Heap. Who’s laughing now??
Anyway, I hope you like Zed. If you do, I may do more Zed-7 strips in the future. (Which will be his past, of course.)
But milk this strip for all its worth! I will have some surprise Weapon Brown content for you next week, but then I am taking the rest of November off!
Well, not “off” exactly. I just have a hell of a lot of work left to do on Aftershock if I am going to get it out before the end of the year, so I really have to knuckle down and finish it. That means the weekly strip will be on hiatus until I am done. But rest assured that I will come roaring back in December with new content! (Join the darn mailing list already and you’ll know exactly when!)
Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t let any Clarissas or MAGA uncles ruin your family fun!
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Going out with a bang (or zap) ! Cool comic.
Yeah, shouldn’t there be someone from this moron’s time to make sure he can’t F things up? Cause I don’t see how that’s “restoring” the future any.
I have to wonder how Zed managed to bring a box of Froot Loops ™ into a courtroom. Most judges are real sticklers for courtroom decorum. The nice ones will say, “Hey buddy, this isn’t a movie theater, and then let the bailiff work you over.” The harsh ones will jail you for contempt. Thus, eating snackfood in a courtroom is going to be harder than stepping on a butterfly, which is not easy, because those little things are mighty flighty. Otherwise this story is very compelling. Maybe you could sell it to *Cracked* ? No. Wait. I guess you can’t. I just checked, and it looks like the print version of *Cracked* went out of business in 2007, in this timeline.
@Scorpinac, I hear you. Where is Jean-Claude Timecop, when you need him? Back in 1994, I guess.
Dude! I absolutely LOVE time plots! I can throw them at you all day long 😀
1971: Nasa gets a budget as big as the US military budget from a secret santa with a time machine
2021: Breaking news: Lunar colony 1 shattered by new crime wave. “It’s worse than ever” one elderly lunar settler said.
Or:
“Peter Dingleton the Fifth, the first trillionaire of the 21st century, got it into his mind that he had to climb all mountain peaks above 5000 m, not only in the present, but throughout Earth’s history. Unfortunately, after 150 years of antibiotics, the past was not prepared for his bacterial footprint, so his team had a steady and expensive job to mop up all the microorganisms he left at primordial mountains. Paying 1 cent per bacteria, he ultimately ran out of money around the Triassic.”