Just Copy and Paste!

Some of you long time fans may have noticed a little bit of a ‘repeat’ of our final punchline in this year’s Hallowe’en strip…  Back in 2003 Matt and I were still publishing Gen Y at York University in their paper ‘Excalibur’ and often times we’d have jokes very specific to York life.  That Hallowe’en (one that pretty much all of us agree featured our greatest University Costumes) we wrote up this strip about the absolute nightmare it was trying to find a good bar to go to on campus after our usual pub ‘The Open End’ had closed its doors for good. 

I always loved this comic and this punch line, but there was really no way to have anyone that didn’t go to York specifically during those years really get the appeal of it.  So given the chance to dust off the line about Remembrance Day being some sort of drinking Bonanza and drinking a ‘Poppy’ we jumped at it.

Here is the original strip in all it’s horribly drawn, coloured with markers and illegibal hand written glory! (Please note how far I’ve come!)

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[Oh, and the best part about this strip?  We found out that the staff of Blueberry Hill not only read our strip (and posted it in their bar), but were so flattered that we’d mention them as the only sane choice for students they went ahead and invented a drink called “The Poppy” just for us.  If memory serves it was it was Gin and Cranberry Juice… not exactly our favorite mix, but a hilarious honour none the less!]