Chris:
If I were really vigilant, I would fix this in the archives so it was on the 26th instead of the 27th (thanks to a typo when I set the filename). But being off by one day in the archives isn't a big deal for a weekly comic, and considering how often we update a day or half a day late, it is probably accurate.

The joke is actually the opposite of how I reacted whenever I received an award for my writing. I loved having something else to pad my resume, and rarely talked about it with any other critics. Of course, giving Jack a job where he makes a living wage as a film critic was mainly so I wouldn't have to worry about a second source of income for him - when I was writing freelance reviews at 21, I made about $20 a week off of it. It was not a job I got into for the money.

The poster in the background is for the obscure Italian film, I Maiali Volano (directly translated it means "The Pigs Fly"). It is the heartbreaking story of a young girl who knows that she and her lover are destined to spend their lives together. When amazingly unlikely tragedy strikes though, she must find a way to overcome the pain, both emotional and physical, of living in a world without him. It is very hard to find, partially because it never got a wide release, and partially because Steph and I made it up for the comic.