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How to See Your Heroes in a New Light

February 10, 2025 by Scott Meyer

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How to Realize What You Should Have Said

June 05, 2023 by Scott Meyer

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How to Make Two Superheroes Fight Each Other Upon First Meeting

June 06, 2022 by Scott Meyer

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How to Get Someone Up to Speed

April 25, 2022 by Scott Meyer

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How to Announce the Return of the Comic Strip You Ended Seven Years Ago

April 01, 2022 by Scott Meyer

A reminder: I don’t do April Fools jokes.


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How to Announce the Imminent End of Your Comic Strip

March 09, 2022 by Scott Meyer

It looks like this strip originally ran in July 2015. That’s weird. I usually make my major announcements on April 1st.

Huh, looking at the calendar, it seems April 1st is coming up soon. Hmm.

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How to Deal with Your Mistakes

February 25, 2022 by Scott Meyer

A long time ago, Missy and I were in a cash-poor position, and I decided to try earning a little side money by applying at a temp agency. They tested my typing ability and basic familiarity with Microsoft Office. I had used word processors before, but not Word. And at that point it had been a few years. In fact, the most advanced word processor I had used ran on a black and white Mac, if that gives you an idea. A few things had changed.

They asked me what the squiggly red line under a word in my document meant. I didn’t know.

Think about that. I did not know what the red line, the foundational interface of a modern spell checker, meant. To make it worse, while failing to answer that question, I looked directly at a misspelled word and didn’t catch the error.

I was not offered any work.

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How to Express Admiration

February 18, 2022 by Scott Meyer

Not to mention the subterranean city hidden beneath the Magic Kingdom.

I once had two middle-aged men walk up to me while I was working in one of the parks and ask me to solve an argument for them. One of the men said that he had heard there was an extensive tunnel system under the Magic Kingdom.

The other guy said, “No, there isn’t.”

I said, “There is.”

The first guy said, “I told you.”

The second guy said, “No, there isn’t.”

I said, “I’ve been in it, more than once.”

The second guy said, “You’re lying.”

I don’t have a lot of faith left in mankind’s ability to settle our differences.

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February 18, 2022 /Scott Meyer
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