John and I once spoke to the head of a huge comic syndication and she told us we have to give people a reason to keep coming back. If everything was a “one-off,” meaning a single comic not attached to an upcoming or previous comic, people wouldn’t be as likely to want to read the next one. It was good advice. So we started to do mini-series comics, 3 or 4-part comics that hopefully keep you wanting to come back for more. She also showed us a comic featuring a pink unicorn to get us to think about what we could do to keep this different from all other comics, but thankfully we didn’t listen to that part (although we had one strip featuring a talking hedgehog). At any rate Sid is getting married. And that lit a fire under our collective imaginations. We thought, so Sid is an internet multi-millionaire, what kind of wedding would he and his fiancee want to throw? And then we let loose. After all, we’re spending Sid’s money, not ours. And his blushing bride Stevie just got a job at Google so she’s not exactly an economic slouch herself.

In this age of excess, with figures like Jeff Bezos building a yacht so huge he asked the city of Rotterdam to dismantle a bridge symbolizing their heroic resistance to the Nazi’s in WWII, so that his yacht could go out to sea, where 5 people paid $250,000 apiece to go to the bottom of the sea in a sardine can, and where Elon Musk sends up billion dollar rocket ships that crash seconds later and terms it a smashing success, how much fun could we have with a wedding? And where does the excess stop? For everybody who rents a private jet for a destination wedding, there are other people that OWN their own Lear Jets, forget about renting! And for everyone that owns a Lear Jet there are people that own Gulfstreams. And make sure the plane isn’t too big, because you want it to be able to land at smaller private airstrips.

Oh the problems of the rich! We had fun imagining how over-the-top you could make a wedding. I once questioned a family member (who shall go nameless) who once worked for an internet zillionaire (who shall go nameless), about his boss’s values. And he replied that the zillioinaire was a great dad because he booked NSYNC for his daughter’s bat mitzvah. Sid isn’t quite there yet, but give it time and we’ll see. As the summer races to a close, we’re hanging on for dear life and asking it to slow down. In the meantime enjoy the last couple weeks and we’ll see you next week with the final installments on Sid’s wedding (for now).

Thanks for continuing to be such loyal readers. We really appreciate it. And finally our new coffee table anthology of comics will be ready for the upcoming holiday season. Stay tuned and have a great weekend,

Andy and John