And for Dessert…

And for Dessert…

Sex: Low sugar! No fat! (No artificial sweeteners?) The perfect way to end every meal!

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SCENE: Waitress tries to take order as a couple at a date kiss passonately.

WAITRESS: And for dessert...

Foreign Food Manners

Foreign Food Manners

Other fun customs from around the world…

—In Upper Crustovia it’s considered bad manners to spit in someone’s drink — while they’re looking.

—In Lower Crustovia it’s considered bad manners to knife someone in the back while they’re spitting in someone’s drink — unless it’s your drink.

—In Still Lower Crustovia it’s considered bad manners to not compliment someone on their knife wounds.

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SCENE: A man and three women are sitting around a dinner table.

SOUND (very loud): F-A-A-A-A-R-T

MAN: …and in my country that’s how we compliment the cook!

CREDITS: Art by Vince Colletta Studio, Color by Allen Freeman

Macho Men

Macho Men

Obviously, these guys are living in a state of denial. Possibly California.

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SCENE: Two men sitting at a restaurant. One is lighting a cigarette. The other is about to drink a cup of coffee. Neither looks at the other.

MAN #1: We can’t be gay! We’re tough, macho
guys!

MAN #2: Damn straight, Sweetie!

Meat Defeat

Meat Defeat

Rhyme that didn’t quite make the cut for this comic:

“By the pound, I’ve overpaid! My kisses deserve a better grade…of prime rib — USDA!”

Completely Different, Early Draft of This Comic:

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SCENE: A woman inspecting a cut of meat in her kitchen.

WOMAN (thinking): A butcher’s love is red and juicy!

WOMAN (thinking again): But I’m such a silly goosy...

WOMAN (thinking again): Settling for a man of meat..

WOMAN (thinking again): Whose beef is such a tiny treat!

Are Comics Fattening?

Are Comics Fattening?

This is the second of two Last Kiss comics that’ll appear in the “food” issue of the new Slam Bang anthology that debuts April 24, 2010 at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (S.P.A.C.E.) I won’t be there, but Slam Bang publisher (and Last Kiss colorist) Allen Freeman will be selling Slam Bang at his table. Drop by, tell him you’re a Last Kiss fan, and get a free Last Kiss note card.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? To read this comic in German click here.

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SCENE: A waiter in a small diner talks to a young woman at her as she sits at the restaurant counter.

CAPTION: I was born in Comicstown! But I craved real literature! I yearned for Tolstoyville! Hemingway Hills! Or even Dr. Seuss City! Friends begged me to stay! They offered me Slam Bang and Last Kiss! But nothing tempted me...’til that fateful day at the Cape 'n Cowl Cafe...

WAITER: You don't read comics? Well...I'll fix that! I'll give you a free doughnut for every comic you read!

WOMAN: Give me a stack of X-Men, you fiend! And keep 'em coming!