Ten Years!!!

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Obviously a time dilation in the temporal statis!

As I've said before, when I started this comic, I didn't expect continuing characters, not even teachers, but there were only so many math jokes, and a whole lot of teacher jokes. My artwork was even more simplistic back in the day, and I was happy with it ... for a while. But I realized that my original four students had to go. It was easier just to create new ones to fit the look I wanted.

Oddly, I had three characters in mind to use in the anniversary comic: the "English major", who was the blonde; the first character I ever gave a name to, Miss Bradley, the brunette; and the undistinguished auburn-haired young lady. What tipped it was that the first piece of dialogue I came up with was the "Mini-Me" comment.

The blonde would have to pair up with Judy, while the auburn would match Michele. Since Michele was elevated to main character, it made sense to give her the student teacher, and we had a winner.

What's her name? I don't know. If she appears again, she will have one. Suggestions and possible honorees are welcome, but I have shied away from punny names for my characters -- so much so that I wanted to name Annie after someone special, but she would have been "Annie Graham". Instead, I gave that name to Barbara.

Lots of changes in the past ten years -- both in the comic and my real life -- but this text is already too long. I'll post a reflection soon. I hope.

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Math Horror Movies: Curse of the . . .

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Coming soon: Curse of the Wolfmathspreader!!

Avoid conversations with this dude:
"He did the math." -- "He did the Monster math."
"The Monster math. -- "It was a graveyard smash."

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Math Horror Movies: Happy Friday the 13th!

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I think I'll call him Spencer. Spencer Trece.




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Math Horror Movies: Cyclops

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That one eye will get inside your mind!




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Function Transformation

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Unlike math, technology can quickly become obsolete with its function becoming nothing.

Mike gets a chuckle every time he says ''question Mark''.




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Three Four

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She's a good one, crazy about numbers. She loves factors and identities . . .

This is one of those that I've had in my head for a while, but I wanted a good verse to go with it.




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Fistful

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If they bring pencils, that's good. If they need one every day, that's bad. When I run out, it gets ugly.

This started as a quick sketch on a tablet. I have to stop doing those -- the cleanup took over three hours!




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(x, why?) Mini: Means

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To solve math crimes, you need to have means, medians and modes. Or something.




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New Science Teacher

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Scott at the Earth's Core? How does he get there? He burrows!!!

Okay, nevermind.

She may be new in the building, but he's still the new science teacher.




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Fall

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Any mistakes in the Science can be attributed to Scott's youth and inexperience at presenting the material and not necessarily his knowledge of the content.

But I wonder if "the bigger" he refers to are the senior teachers in the Teacher Room.

Happy First Day of Fall. I would have liked to have done something different for comic #1234 but timing prevented that. Things like that were good for "filler" comics when I was keeping a thrice-weekly schedule, but that's fallen off a bit. So I try to do things like that as "extra" comics.




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Happy "Talk Like a Pirate" Day 2017

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Talk like a Pirate or get kicked in the Booty! But never be Jumping the Shark!
On Captain Picaroon's orders!




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(x, why?) Mini: Having a Point

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An extra joke in the comments? What's the point?




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