It’s one of my favorite strips by one of my favorite people, and I’d say check it out, but I’m pretty sure there’s nobody left on Earth who doesn’t read it.
I will say you should really try out one of his Super Stupor mini-comics. I say “mini,” but they’re really only mini in height/width dimensions. The story is dense enough to fill a mainstream comic trade paperback. I’m always surprised at how, in addition to Randy’s usual daily comic, he can simultaneously whip up this amazingly orchestrated and emotionally provocative story that plays brilliantly with superhero tropes. So jealous. I love these little things. They’re glossy genius.
Ten years? Really? Already? I’ve been reading the two SPs for so long that I forgot which I started reading first. Neither was terribly old when I started… I wanna say that I came in around the end of S*P’s year two for that one…
As fans I’m sure we’d like it if he kept a better schedule but you can’t have genius and organisation in the same package and still be interesting.
Happy Birthday Milholland strips.
May there be more rage quit, masturbating over offensive guest comics and beards in the futre.
One of the things I’ve always envied about Randy is how he’s able to still do strips while on the road. Like, drawing and scanning them in hotel rooms. And he’s in hotel rooms a lot. I have admittedly pretty good strip productivity, but it would crumble in that atmosphere.
Randy cut his teeth in the Superguy online superhero fiction group, I’m always glad to see him return to that genre with Super Stupor.
What do you think of his current storyline in the main strip, turning Mike Dowden into The Pythagorean?
I’m probably the only one that asks him for a return of Skinnybutt.
There’s more heart in a few pages of Super Stupor than everything DC has put out in the last five years that didn’t have “Gail Simone” on the cover. You think you’re getting a goofy little superhero genre parody zine and instead you get a genuinely moving story that will absolutely massacre your emotions.
I came into S*P in 2008. Read two years worth of strips in two hours! One of the best comics I’ve ever read in my life.
Kwaii of the Damned blows away anything Marvel, DC or image has produced in the last 25 years. The last time I was on the edge of my seat for a strip like that was during the Armor wars with Iron Man back in the day.
The Death of Davan’s mother is right up there as one of the best comic strips in the last 40 years. One of the most moving moments I’ve ever experienced in comic history.
Super Stupor is a great comic. I bought all three issues and i can highly recommend it. Randy puts so much heart into these strips Waiting for the fourth issue to come in the mail any day now…
I’m just dying to see Vanessa and Amber at a Ponies convention. That’s my dream crossover.