TF Flashback: 1125 Fremont #7
Welcome to another edition of TF Flashback, where we revisit some old content from our early years on the web. In this series, we’re reposting issues of an old webcomic we used to do that “chronicled” John, Moe and Hilden’s year of living together in college.
1125 Fremont #7-Harry
I’m not sure why I felt the need to introduce another character at this point in the series, after just finishing the introductions to the mains ones. Harry was a friend of John’s who was also going to the same college and I remember him just…suddenly being there. One minute the house was empty and the next, Harry was there in John’s room playing Goldeneye like he’d been there all day. I’m sure it was just me not paying attention but he was like fucking Batman in my mind.
So, I decided to make Harry a running gag. I figured it might be amusing to have the Hilden character be tormented by Harry just showing up at random times. The joke only “ran” for about three issues however and now it just sort of comes off as an unecessary comic that breaks what little flow I had.
May 19th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Christ, I miss Harry. I got the chance to hang out with him about a year ago while he was in town with his family. He’s the same old guy; a completely lovable, kind, and hilarious dude. This comic reminds me of how we each had a class in the same building at the same time. I think it was around 1pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays or something like that. I was taking German and he was taking Russian, for some bizarre reason. During the second semester of our respective classes, we’d be walking over together and he’d say, “Do we want to learn a foreign language today, or go play Goldeneye?” More often than not we’d wind up ditching class so we could play Goldeneye.
Good times.
May 19th, 2010 at 11:23 am
There’s an 1125 Fremont comic that references that story.