(3/13/08)
YAAAAAY!!!
So, guess I should explain the last three panels. See, some time ago, this fellah going by the name Charles Brubaker showed up on the CG forums and decided to start up a jam he called Keen Cruise. Now, starting up a jam is all well and good, but there were several problems with this one right from the start. First, Brubaker had maybe ten posts under his belt when he started it . . . nothing against newbies, but a jam is still something you should only get into with folks you know somewhat well. Second, the fellah wasn't really good at it anyway. And thirdly - and perhaps worstly - he decided to try and lay down a lot of rules for everyone to follow. The whole point of a jam is to just get in there and do stuff! Any stuff! A lot of the best stuff is stuff that breaks the rules!
So anyway, people almost immediately started breaking the rules, which exasperated Brubaker, which made the situation start declining, and finally . . . Brubaker died. No, not for real . . . someone (I can't remember who right off the top of my head, and a number of pictures in the thread have since been removed) drew a comic in which Brubaker was killed off, followed by a giant "YAAAAAY!!!". The blue cat just drew up a comic showing him brushing himself of and being all "Good thing I've got nine lives!", so someone else killed him off. Then someone else. And someone else! And probably some of the previous people again! And a few more times! And to cement the entire event permenantly in CG tradition, every comic ended with everyone going "YAAAAAY!!!"
Well, Bru is long gone now, but his memory lives on. Whenever someone says "Yay!" or any variation thereof on the forums anymore, a direct mention of Brubaker can't be very far away. He's also popped up in comic form in almost every jam made since then, usually meeting an untimely fate shortly thereafter . . . and who am I to go against tradition, neh?
YAAAAAY!!!
already!