Monty by Jim Meddick for October 26, 2011

Brad can still talk? a good sign

Cool! Brad really was in the basement as postulated in these comments the last time he was seen. Let’s see if Dave and Chimpy show up as well.

I missed out on a couple of years, what happened to Mr Pi?

Bring back the archives.

Ah! Brad is resurrected from the dank, dark basement just in time for some Halloween action! Hope Gretchen is her usual imperturbable self….BTW, Brad is looking quite good, considering his affliction.

In response to Flogge: Dave, AKA Mr. Pi, appeared for the last time in a regular strip in some December, and then just stopped appearing. There was no story line that explained his disappearance. The professor arrived shortly before or after this, and filled his role as exasperated higher being. Mr. Medick develops a bunch of great characters, then just sadly lets them go – in particular Robotman, Loco, Mr. Pibbs (the anti-Garfield character) and Dave and Chimpy who had a great “Felix Unger/Oscar Madison” rapport. I suppose this keeps things fresh, but there’s something to be said for the familiar, and there’s always the risk that the new won’t live up to the old.

poor Brad, look what the coffee did to him. just not Gretchen’s cup of tea. btw, about Jim Meddick, he has to drop characters often enough because he’d go crazy if he couldn’t have that outlet of creating the new scenes.

My theory for the disappearance of characters is that Jim is skating just ahead of legal action for one reason or another, thus creating a need to dispatch the characters in question.

Damn, not the stupid zombie crap again.

Liking the Norman Bate’s mother effect at the top of the stairs…excellent comic use of shadowing, glowing spectacles, etc.

mikeod, come on, ya gotta admit zombies are way cooler than vampires and witches…..read Christopher Moore’s “The Stupidest Angel” and you’ll understand…

@ Montaholic, thanks for the update, was reading the archives and up to 2004 strips when the changeover to Gocomics occured.