Tuesday, August 10, 1999: Avery Jekyll

[NonsenseWords]

[Bocaj Claw]

I liked him better when he was trying to form a cult. Why are they friends with him again?

Avery, at least in strips like this one, is based on an actual childhood fairweather friend of mine, who was nice to me right up until he thought he could score points with a cooler kid by insulting me.

In so many instances, art is my final revenge.

[Arloest]

I hate to say it, but back in 6th grade I was quite guilty of doing what Avery did here.

[Tom_Radigan]

I hate to say it, but back in 6th grade I was quite guilty of doing what Avery did here.

I did that in 5th grade. Actually, there was this very annoying kid whom everyone hated, including me, but I only stuck with him because he was the only one more despised than me. What happened was, I did well on my third period report card, and the teacher announced that I was a child prodigy. The other kid, further away, looked unhappy with his report card, and some of the kids were making fun of him over it. Then I started making comments about how stupid he was. All the other kids started laughing. I made some more comments and had the whole classroom in an uproar. Kids who liked me, kids who didn't, kids who were at the school for years, kids who were newer, most my age, but the upper grades (who shared the classroom) as well, boys, girls-I was just stunned by the unaniminity of the reaction from all the other kids. During the rest of the school year, during recess, I would sing a song from a TV commercial, go up to the kid, who had an invitingly large nose, and grabbed and twisted it like a car ignition key. He ran away, but the other kids would copy what I did to him. He wasn't back the next year.

[Cactus Jack]

I think everybody new, or was that kid at some point. Probably both.

[Muninn]

What the hell, not all of us were like this at some point, don't lump everyone into the same category. I only teased the girls.