The Chase at Mount Stratemeyer
  • Jacob Adam
    October 19, 2010

    Nancy Drew comics? Or Nancy drew comics? Ha!

  • Esn
    October 19, 2010

    *Heart symbol*

  • Anonymous Coward
    October 19, 2010

    uhm hello this comic demonstrates design therefore an author clearly exists and hates all the same things we do

  • Tom S
    October 19, 2010

    While reading this strip, the only thing I could think about was Isadora Duncan.

  • rdi
    October 19, 2010

    I like the brandished, frame-breaking umbrella in the penultimate panel.

  • mjh
    October 19, 2010

    Is that “Standell St” in the first panel? A reference to “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White” perhaps?

  • Citizen Khan
    October 19, 2010

    Is that some literal fourth wall breaking in panel 8? Because if so, it is also – by directly interacting with the format of the comic – good ol’ metaphorical fourth wall breaking.

  • C W Cobalt
    October 19, 2010

    Dear Author,
    Your comic keeps getting better and better.

  • yachris
    October 19, 2010

    I wish I knew the song to the words they’re singing in the sixth panel. Or the rest of the words…

  • Mark
    October 19, 2010

    Holy Monkey! This one is profound, suggesting a whole new theology if you get the title reference. If you don’t, go Wiki “Edward Stratemeyer.” It would explain a whole helluva lot about this world if it turns out that the “author” is a committee of underpaid hacks.

  • Gina Kamentsky
    October 19, 2010

    I am now a huge fan of this author if she exists. If not I am a huge fan of the comic.

  • mjh
    October 19, 2010

    “Joe” would be Joe Hardy of the Hardy Boys, “Ned” is Tom Swift’s best fried Ned Newton, and “Flossie and Freddie” are the Bobbsey Twins.

  • Craig!
    October 19, 2010

    in my dream i am the author
    its me

  • betterforsome
    October 19, 2010

    Isn’t that guy the phony heiress they already foiled?

  • ...
    October 20, 2010

    Wow, this one is excellent. I haven’t seen interrogation of form this subtle since the last time I read “Krazy Kat.”

    Mark, thanks for getting me to look up the reference. It seems Edward Stratemeyer has more books sold to his “name” than J.K. Rowling. How weird is that?

  • Brian
    October 20, 2010

    @mjh: Ned is also the name of Nancy Drew’s always-worried boyfriend, which would make Girl’s admonishment both meaner and kinder in the same turn.

  • mjh
    October 20, 2010

    You are right; Nancy Drew’s boyfriend would be a better fit (which more or less implies that Girl is Nancy).

  • ross hershberger
    October 24, 2010

    Freddie and Flossie are the younger set of Bobbsey Twins. The older pair are Nan and Bert.

  • Nick Cave
    October 24, 2010

    What we once thought we had we didn’t, and what we have now will never be that way again
    So we call upon the author to explain

  • Alex
    October 28, 2010

    This reminds me a lot of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and the title characters’ recurring call for some direction.

    Glorious comic, and thanks for not requiring any registration to post comments!

  • Trillianapher
    November 23, 2010

    I kind of thought it had to do with Roland Barthes’s “Death of the Author”?

  • Devrim Kalkar
    December 22, 2010

    Original good guys win in the real life

  • Quizzical
    October 3, 2011

    The good guy insists upon an author, whilst the villain claims it is unknowable…

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