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Part Four of the Komic’s Origin Story

The Komic is a Superhero, killer comedian, and the main character in a series of graphic novels I hope to write and draw someday.

BTW: For the moment I just have a couple of sketches, so I’m interspersing some of my other cartoons through out the posts.

A Quick Recap of Parts 1, 2 & 3

Lily Puddly fell from a hospital window and landed on her head seconds after her birth. Bonnie Watson who ran a funeral parlor took her in. Lily’s one talent was telling jokes which she did wearing Groucho Marx glasses and a T-shirt that said The Komic. When Bonnie Watson was dying Lily Puddly told her a joke to ease her pain and Bonnie Watson died laughing. After that The Komic never finished a joke. When a couple of producers from Comedy Central pleaded with her to tell them a punch line she chanced it. She said “Pinocchio,” the punch line to a joke she’d told earlier. They died laughing. Later while waiting in line at a supermarket a boor was making fun of an elderly man buying a jumbo-pack of extra-absorbent diapers. Without realizing it, Lily Puddly was telling a joke and everyone in line was laughing. She left before she finished the story. The boor followed her and demanded to be told the punch line. She raised her sweatshirt so he could see her The Komic T-shirt. “Know who I am?” she asked. “Yes,” he said. “If I ever see you harassing someone again, I’ll tell you the punch line and you’ll die laughing,” Lily said. Lily Puddly now had a purpose in life: to stop mean people from being mean.

A Man Who Had No Sense of Humor

Lily Puddly had inherited the Odd Port Funeral Parlor from Bonnie Watson. This meant that if she told a punch line and somebody died laughing she’d either have a new client or have a way of getting rid of the body. Since she really hadn’t paid much attention to the running of the business, she stopped at the Library to check out the book, Everything You Need to Know about Funeral Parloring for Fun and Profit. Business regulations were almost non-existent in Odd Port, so the volume was slender.

“Will you teach me about humor?” Jack Spencer asked Lily Puddly. He was checking out the audio book Encyclopedia Britannica’s Volume 9, Extracti to Gamb.

Lily and Jack had been in the same class at the Odd Port School for Abnormal Children. Like business regulations, political correctness was also almost non-existent in Odd Port.

Lily Puddly’s abilities were never tested. She was sent to the school because everyone just assumed that anyone who fell two stories and landed on her head seconds after birth was brain damaged and could never achieve much in life.

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Jack had been tested. No one thought he could achieve much either. When given the diagnosis the only three words Jack heard were “a high functioning” and the only thing most other people heard was the rest of the diagnosis.

“Maybe you could start by explaining the joke you told at The Odd Port Comedy Club awhile back,” Jack said. “You know, the one where the punch line was ‘Pinocchio’ and the two producers and the bartender died laughing. I did not understand that joke at all.”

Lily Puddly felt faint.

“That joke was told by The Komic,” she finally stammered. “What makes you think I’m the Komic?”

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“You were wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and a T-shirt that you can get at Cafepress for $21.99.” Jack said. “How could I not know you were The Komic?”

“And I never understood how people couldn’t recognize Superman was Clark Kent. His glasses didn’t even have a big nose and mustache attached.” Lily added. “So why were you at the Comedy Club if you don’t understand humor?”