So the other day I had one of those things where I sleep through a whole day and then wake up and the whole world has gone insane. Except instead of the whole world it's usually something to do with television. This time it seemed NBC had pushed Conan O'Brien too far in their sucking of Jay Leno's ass and Conan had decided to walk rather than see the Tonight Show pushed to 12:05 AM the next day. (What I haven't yet seen mentioned ANYWHERE is the fact (which I first read about when Conan first started on the Tonight Show) that one of his predecessors, Jack Paar, walked off in the middle of a broadcast over a censored joke and didn't come back for a month. Also interesting that no one has yet mentioned Conan's Late Night predecessor David Letterman leaving NBC over their giving the Tonight Show to Leno instead of him (and of course he started a competing show on CBS.) What I'm saying is NBC has a history of abusing talk show hosts and sucking Leno's ass. (Also I have read the censored joke and it is rather tame but quite amusing.))
Anyway, I had a silly idea when everyone started rallying around Conando that it might be neat to do a comic about it. I always have ideas for JB:MG stories where I confront some element of our culture which I have a problem with and then yell at it and then something violent and weird usually happens to wrap things up, this seemed perfect for that. But I didn't want to take too long off of Santa Claus Conquers the Saturnians to do it (and I couldn't be sure that the whole thing wouldn't resolve itself in a day) so it had to be as short as possible. So I wrote it and somehow it became a crossover event (which I've been wanting to do another crossover for awhile) and it also became the origin of a super-team. As is emblematic of my style but also due to the rushed working pace, the characters move as little as possible and some don't move at all (Conan for one.) But I did spend far too long designing a really awesome window shaped like the NBC logo which I will never be able to use for anything ever again. So yay me.
Here it is, in three parts:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
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