Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for May 03, 2024

Well, if I ever go to Torrents, I guess I’ll take an umbrella.

Don’t drool on the keyboard, Horace.

DUCK, it’s a violent gust of Zzzzzzzzzz’s

The Dark And Stormy Side of The Horszzzzzzzzz!

Must be a pretty boring story if the author falls asleep during the first sentence.

Bulwer-Lyttons opening sentence goes on for another 300 words. I believe the novel was ‘Clarence Clifford’. Bulwer Lytton was considered a better writer than Dickens because he would never use a simple expression when a verbose one would do. (instead of ‘lighting his pipe’ someone in a Bulwer Lytton novel would ‘apply the Promethean spark to his tube.’) Every year there is a contest named after Lord Bulwer Lytton, sponsored by Stamford University. Applicants must write the worst opening sentence to a novel that no one will ever read the rest of. It has been running since 1982 and originally, the first prize was an original PEANUTS strip by Schulz. Second prize was the complete works of Bulwer Lytton (a lot.) Third prize was two copies of the complete works of Bulwer Lytton.

I get it! It happens to me every time I start reading the comics and nearly half way thr…

For it is in London that our scene is set.

The whole thing sounds like a real snorer.

You are leaning on the Z key, Horace. Avoid the delete key. We want to see you here again tomorrow!

Suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!

Horace’s laptop always becomes his naptop.

Ha! Beats counting sheep.

Awakened to Life by a horrendous clap of Thunder!! (Panel 4)

“The rain fell in Torrance, and Van Nuys, and even down in Los Angeles…”