Most days, I read the comics in the paper. It’s kind of an exercise in masochism, because they’re rarely funny. However, these two exceeeded my expectations. A little backstory for the first one. Paige, the girl in the foreground, has consented to attend a tremendously nerdy Halloween party (witness the host’s fancy Legolas outfit):
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I trust you are acquainted with the web-based strip: User Friendly (http://www.userfriendly.org/static/). I’ve known some of the people that appear in the strip — or clones of them. Hell, I’ve occasionally seen myself in the strip.