Notes on #2: this one is a little late. I should have drawn it weeks ago. No self-respecting bar would tap a pumpkin beer in November. November is when you wonder “when am I going to get rid of this shit?” No one wants a pumpkin beer after Halloween. So, let’s pretend this takes place in late September, a perfectly reasonable time to pour a pumpkin ale or lager or cider or whatever. Why so late? The first one took too long, because I was fussing over the depiction of Chester, I wanted to get a good likeness out of respect for the man—-
Hey. Hi. I have a question.
What? Who is this?
Me. From last time. With the questions.
Okay….go ahead…
So, I just wondered. Did you know there’s another bird bartender in comics?
Okay, so?
Roz from Jeff McNelly’s Shoe.
I remember.
Well, don’t you think that’s unoriginal? Another female bird bartender?
Okay, no. Roz, a barnyard fowl of undetermined species was(is?) cook, waitress, bartender, proprietor of Roz’ Roost, a treetop diner in a bird centered comic strip.
Irma, on the other hand, is a Southern Hemispheric flightless avian who is employed at Kelly’s bar, by a human, I think (we haven’t gotten there yet) in a cat-led, multi-species strip. So, there’s the difference. Also, there are other elements that I leave it to the reader to discover. Get it?
I guess. But wouldn’t a mouse be better?
No! Whose strip is this, mine or yours? And how did you even get in here?
I’ve been here all the time.
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