Really, I should just let me students write this comic.
But then they might want royalties.
I was tempted to add an extra beat panel between panels five and six and making it an eight-panel comic but then I'd need to finish with a snappy, sarcastic thought bubble, which might be inappropriate if I'm admitting that this situation actually happened nearly verbatim in class. I think nothing but the best of my students, particularly in public.
And if it's NOT (Spiced OR Rum) Then why are we even talking about it?
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age-inappropriate material.
And if you like this strip give it a +1, like I gave Vaughn (not his real name).
Because it's got to be carefully taut -- like the highwire you walk when you want to keep sarcastic responses out of your teaching (and then put them into comics instead).
Ironically, this comic was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I wasn't up to it.
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So I only had 9 such comics labeled, and many more that I remember were not. The problem is that there are some that I don't remember. Not surprising that I've reused some gags because I've forgotten that I'd done them before. Others I remember making, but I don't remember when I made them.
Slowly, I'm going through the archives. I'm up to 20 Music comics.
Which one is your favorite? And is it tagged?
First, there was a time when I would check what thought about a new film and act accordingly. That is, do the opposite, which actually worked out more than it didn't. That wasn't just film; lots of critics hated the "popular" stuff.
Ebert was also indirectly responsible for me getting two columns published in the New York Daily News. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, the News had a Counterpunch (Talk Back to the Critics) column in the Sunday paper. Two of the columns I had published were rebuttals to his columns. (The News carried him for a time.) One took him to task for a non-review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the other was a defense of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, in which Ebert found overt racial overtones, or some such nonsense.
In closing, I'm sure I preferred Ebert's TV show with Gene Siskel over individual columns. I enjoyed the clips back in the days when that was the only place you could find them, and you had two points of view to compare and contrast. And now both of them are gone.
When you know your audience, play the crowd. When you don't, play the odds.
Outside of the classroom, of course.