Ah, the good old AMC Gremlin X. They were fun cars, but like all AMC cars, eventually died a very slow death. A little screen time for the ladies. We’re leading up to Lorraine getting her dark hair back… she’ll probably get a little help from Robyn at this point!
Elton John rocked on some of his songs, especially on his earlier stuff, and “The Bitch Is Back” is a great example of a fun pop song and a fitting song for today’s comic!
Today’s comic was totally different up until about 9:00pm last night. I had first drawn a comic where an image of the Gremlin was the joke. Not very funny unless you’re really familiar with the death of AMC cars. Then I did this version but with a totally different first three frames. I had Lorraine covering Robyn’s eyes, then Robyn excited by the site of an actual 1969 Mach 1 until Lorraine pointed out the Gremlin X next to it. I like this comic better as it is simple and just as effective without having to go to the bother of drawing the cars. Not that doing the cars is hard, it’s just they were not needed for the comic to deliver the laugh. Taught myself that simple is sometimes better. And here I say I’m lazy…
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Mmmm 69 Mach1 (Droooool)
Would a 8 year old car then have been better than a brand new Green Gremlin. I think not.
OMG a 69 Mach1!!! Ok story time… skip ahead if you don’t care… in 1989 I was working at a movie theater and this was way hot girl that worked there too. I was Assistant Manager (aka chief of the losers) and I had to take the matinee deposits to the bank. My car, a 77 Toyota Corona (ugh) wouldn’t start, so I asked Tiffany if she’d take me to the bank. I’m expecting her to have a Suzuki Samurai or some other pink putter, and se points to this gorgeous blue and black Mach 1. My jaw dropped.
We made it to the bank and back in record time. I convinced the main manager to let me take her with me to do deposits from there on out. When the dork wad fired her three weeks later, I keyed his car.
Good times, good times.
‘Round these parts we NEVER say “lazy”. We say “productive and creative time-savers”.
Although “lazy” would be easier.
Methinks an AMX would’ve been an even more obscure thing!
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I kinda like the blonde look. The most important question, as James Bond once pointed out, is “Do the collar and cuffs match?” 😉
I thought you were refering to a different model of car, what I found out later this morning to be the Pacer.
I was impressed to read how they made Pacers right-hand-drive for the UK market. Delightfully low-tech and highly dangerous too I should think. Judge for yourselves at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Pacer about halfway down the page.
The Pacer was the ugliest little car to come off the Detroit tracks too, until the advent of the excrable PT Cruiser, for a long time my least favourite car to be stuck behind/alongside/in front of since the mere sight of this eyesore-on-wheels could induce anti-peristalsis in me on the best of days. Of course, both of these pale into insignificance next to the Ugliest Damn Thing To Have An Engine Screwed To It – The Hummer and it’s cheaper look-alikes.Why the US public has fallen in love with these virulently painted rolling shoeboxes is beyond me.
I love the interaction between these two ladies.
And the joke worked well even without the car visual.
That’s typically the case with blondes. When they make the switch – they become a bitch 🙂
*Sigh* Lorraine…what a tease.
Hey, have I ever mentioned, I love how you post a track of the song that you take the titles of your strips from? Totally cool, both for the young’uns and the rest of us who get nostalgia flashbacks from reading. 😉