More Unused Strips
Shaenon: A couple more strips that never made it past the thumbnail stage. One of the notables buried in Colma is Phineas Gage, the 19th-century railroad worker who had an iron rod driven through his skull and survived. I really wanted to include him as a character in the Colma storyline, but alas, it was not to be.
In real life, of course, Gage did not have the iron rod stuck permanently in his head. He just carried it with him everywhere and called it his “constant companion.”
Channing: I was really upset that I effectively axed the Phineas Gage thing by scripting around it in such a way that it made its inclusion impractical. Stupid scripting. Maybe he’ll show up again at some point.
I saw a book about Gage at the library, complete with skull and crowbar pics… not quite as drawn here, but close… Poor guy absentminded tamped blasting powder in a hole, using a metal rod, that evidently struck a spark. Instant home-made cannon! Should have used wood… Who knows, we may see the Scooby Gang revisit Colma…
(TUNE: “Winnie The Pooh”, Sherman & Sherman)
Now on a Sunday, Shaenon tells
How strips from the arc were ripped …
They had to delete them, ’cause Jeffrey Wells
Could not fit them into the script!
Sketches we never got to see
Now fill up a Sunday page …
There’s Sweetheart and Wilkin and U-ni-ty,
And also, there’s Phineas Gage!
It’s …
Phineas Gage, Phineas Gage,
Savvy little navvy whose head’s undead!
It’s Phineas Gage, Phineas Gage,
Plain ol’ zany brain who likes trains!
I can’t decide if I should applaud your brilliance or curse you for using the earworm, so I’m not sure if this is straight up or sarcastic: Thanks.
“There were no bugs on Nick that morning—after all why not?”
Tune: obvious if you know it at all
There ain’t no bugs on me,
No, there ain’t no bugs on me,
There may be bugs on the anasigma thugs
but there ain’t no bugs on me.
Oh yes, do bring him back! We need him in our lives!