As promised, a new episode of JVG: the comic strip debuts today!

Predictably, it seems to be a strip about doing a strip after not doing a strip for a while. Humorous! Predictable! Wanton!

From the NY Review of Books: Behind the scenes at Wal*Mart

The money you save from the "rolled-back prices" comes out of your pocket on tax day: ""...a two-hundred employee Wal*Mart store costs federal taxpayers $420,000 a year... That translates into a total annual welfare bill of $2.5 billion for Wal*Mart's 1.2 million US employees."

Lockhart takes my mockery of his new design with rage and — an unexpected bonus! — a timely Regan gag.

Well, played, Steele. I think you have a future in the "comedy" business. Or, perhaps, a past.

Lockhart redesigns, blames me. (Note: As of 5:55pm, 12/9, archive page has not yet received makeover. Check main page for new look.)

Among the innovations:
• BookofAges.com news feed eliminated
• Oppressive "headlines" for posts eliminated, reducing need for "cleverness" by a whopping 14%
• Cutting edge c. 1995 "basic black" background

Mssr. Steele claims that one of the reasons to redesign was to spur me into action. Very well, then, Steele. Your challenge has been accepted! Former Fan, sharpen your angry pen — the strip returns next week!* Catch up on back issues now!

*JVG.com makes no guarantees, express or implied, as to whether the strip will continue beyond that time frame.

Seems to me that if the self-interested residents of 927 5th Avenue are willing to evict one longtime resident because they're worried about bird crap and dead pigeons, then they'll be willing to let that resident come back if it's proved that he and his mate aren't responsible for the bird crap and dead pigeons. If, for instance, the bird crap and dead pigeon kept appearing at 927 5th Avenue, despite Pale Male's eviction. Like, even inside people's apartments.

If you know what I mean.

Anyone visiting 927 any time soon?