Comments on: NEW STRIP :: WHAT WOULD DHARBIN DO? Teenage Heartbreak, Page 5/5

By: Liz B.

Liz B. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:14:37 +0000

My family didn't have a lot of money either so McDonald's was a really big deal when we got to have it. I still remember the time I found a ten dollar bill outside our local McD's as a child and insisting it was fate telling us to spend it at McDonald's (we did)! I even spent the first money I made working as a kid (five dollars) on a McRib.

Anyway I remember that song too and me and my best friend took the time to learn the whole thing as well! In our local paper I remember there was even a special insert that had a flexidisc recording to play on a record player (along with McDonald's coupons) and if you got the one that had the whole song on it you won a prize!

By: LOOKA

LOOKA — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:20:51 +0000

Fade out into melancholy with the stream of clouds in the last panel…

Those moments of surging against the walls of parental decisions sure leave their tracks.

AWESOME! …say it again: A-W-E-S-O-M-E!

By: DHARBIN!

DHARBIN! — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:22:06 +0000

Whoa Lordie, thanks guys!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:50:48 +0000

I agree with D. Blake, that the second-to-last panel is pretty great. Well done, Dusty.

Oh, and by the way, the title of this post says, "Page 4/5."

By: Mansell in Distress

Mansell in Distress — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:48:44 +0000

That was so sad and lovely. If I had been your dad, I would have offered to buy McDonald's for the "fam" as a consolation; but that would have been the wrong thing to do all the way around.

That is a tremendous comic Dustin– perhaps your best. It worked especially well as a serial. I remember the contests of my youth. The TV reminded you of it–LIMITED TIME ONLY!!!!– every damn fifteen minutes. After a while, it seemed as though time just stood still.
The wait for each page gave the childhood reminiscence an extra heft.
BRAVO!!!!

By: D. Blake Werts

D. Blake Werts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:48:15 +0000

Oh so misled!

Great story and even better story telling with the panel selection. The second-to-last panel is great–the somewhat stunned look with the left hand's fingers resting against the window glass is magic.