Comments on: Comic: Thrilling Days of Yesteryear http://evilartsandcrafts.com/comics/comic-thrilling-days-of-yesteryear/ A webcomic about movies, murder and macrame Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:51:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AKM http://evilartsandcrafts.com/comics/comic-thrilling-days-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-145 AKM Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:23:55 +0000 http://evilartsandcrafts.com/?p=507#comment-145 Aww, it's The Softer Side of Luke and Andrea. Love it! Here's to love and here's to you! Aww, it’s The Softer Side of Luke and Andrea. Love it! Here’s to love and here’s to you!

]]> By: Luke http://evilartsandcrafts.com/comics/comic-thrilling-days-of-yesteryear/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Luke Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:36:50 +0000 http://evilartsandcrafts.com/?p=507#comment-144 And, since no one asked, here's a brief guide to what's actually going on in the strip today. PANEL 1: Andrea and I met through my mother, who suggested she might make a good "proofreader for my book." (Of course, what she really meant was "conduit through which grandchildren might be manufactured.") So, we met on February 1, 2003, at Shenanigan's, a local bar and grill in Edwardsville, IL. We wound up talking for longer than either of us dared hope about They Might Be Giants and Cartoon Network, and exchanged mix CDs in the parking lot afterward. PANEL 2: After talking by phone and email for the next few weeks, I made my next trip back to Edwardsville (I was living in the cultural Mecca of Mexico, MO, at the time). This was around March 2 or 3 (?). Andrea suggested we take a walk down by the river in Alton, IL. Clearly, this was her bringing out the big guns, because if you know Andrea, you know that doing anything outside between November and the first of April just doesn't happen. She is a thinly skinned creature with freon where most people have blood. (Her words, not mine.) This was where we told each other "I love you" for the first time. We both knew it; I think she was just waiting for me to get up the nerve to say it. PANEL 3: We got married in the Edwardsville Moose Lodge on February 1, 2004, (making this our 6th anniversary of marriage and our 7th anniversary of being together). The Moose Lodge was kind of a last second necessity, as our original pick was iced in, and there was a real danger of someone losing control coming down the driveway and plowing through the wedding ceremony with an SUV. The Lodge was nice, though. No dancing, (except for our First Dance, which was to a TMBG cover of "We've Got a World That Swings") but we had Fritos, and my sister gave us a pair of pink plastic flamingos. Who could ask for anything more? PANEL 4: After moving back to the Edwardsville area, we wound up moving into our little house downtown. Woods in the back, nice deck, tiny little garage built for a Miata and not much else. Andrea got to work repainting (although the living room is eggplant purple, not the odd peachy pink we use on everything in the strip). This is also where we got The Big TV, so now our family is complete. PANEL 5: The best part of every day. And, since no one asked, here’s a brief guide to what’s actually going on in the strip today.

PANEL 1: Andrea and I met through my mother, who suggested she might make a good “proofreader for my book.” (Of course, what she really meant was “conduit through which grandchildren might be manufactured.”) So, we met on February 1, 2003, at Shenanigan’s, a local bar and grill in Edwardsville, IL. We wound up talking for longer than either of us dared hope about They Might Be Giants and Cartoon Network, and exchanged mix CDs in the parking lot afterward.

PANEL 2: After talking by phone and email for the next few weeks, I made my next trip back to Edwardsville (I was living in the cultural Mecca of Mexico, MO, at the time). This was around March 2 or 3 (?). Andrea suggested we take a walk down by the river in Alton, IL. Clearly, this was her bringing out the big guns, because if you know Andrea, you know that doing anything outside between November and the first of April just doesn’t happen. She is a thinly skinned creature with freon where most people have blood. (Her words, not mine.) This was where we told each other “I love you” for the first time. We both knew it; I think she was just waiting for me to get up the nerve to say it.

PANEL 3: We got married in the Edwardsville Moose Lodge on February 1, 2004, (making this our 6th anniversary of marriage and our 7th anniversary of being together). The Moose Lodge was kind of a last second necessity, as our original pick was iced in, and there was a real danger of someone losing control coming down the driveway and plowing through the wedding ceremony with an SUV. The Lodge was nice, though. No dancing, (except for our First Dance, which was to a TMBG cover of “We’ve Got a World That Swings”) but we had Fritos, and my sister gave us a pair of pink plastic flamingos. Who could ask for anything more?

PANEL 4: After moving back to the Edwardsville area, we wound up moving into our little house downtown. Woods in the back, nice deck, tiny little garage built for a Miata and not much else. Andrea got to work repainting (although the living room is eggplant purple, not the odd peachy pink we use on everything in the strip). This is also where we got The Big TV, so now our family is complete.

PANEL 5: The best part of every day.

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