Deuteronomy 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

Dear Readers and Best Family Friends,

It is with HEAVY AND ROILING HEART that I tell you I am sorry for my long delay in responding to the disgusting allegations and indictments that the television mogul GREG UNUSUAL (a false and criminal moniker if I have ever heard one) has brought against me and my integrity in bringing these quality entertainments to you!!! But a lion when he is cornered will not yield, and this old lion has a few lunges left in him and as Mr Greg Unusual is about to find out……….. CALUMNY WILL BE PAID.

(If you do not yet know what I am talking about I HEREBY BAN YOU PERMANENTLY FROM READING THE STANFORD WEBCOMICS EXPERIMENT because I posted the video link to Mr. Greg Unusuals’ video-commentary only two days ago and it is impossible that you should have overlooked it if you are a true and regular reader of this site. If you want this permanent ban to be lifted I will consider an apology payment of not less than $21.53 plus $5 to cover PayPal transaction fees to be a good starting point! If you do want to get “up to speed” though I do not want to link again to Mr Unusual’s web-show so as to increase his Alexa traffic,

but I am sure it will be possible to contact the TV station he is broadcasting from and request VHS archive copies of the performance delivered to you for a nominal fee in addition to the fee that I have imposed on you to continue reading the “Experiment’.)

(The delay was caused, if you must pry, by the celebration of Mothers Day, that I suppose Greg Unusual decided was the perfect date to strike at decency, much as the National Socialists had done! As my mother has passed some years ago I nominally try to celebrate this day by visiting her grave, although this is tricky because her grave is in the plot in Dexton which is a little bit of a hump for this old traveler to hurdle once a year. Thus I tend to celebrate by visiting a grave that reminds me of hers right here in good old Hayti, MO, which allows me to PASS ON THE TIME SAVINGS TO YOU, BEST READERS! But this year the strategically-timed comments of MR GREG UNUUSAL have RIPPED THAT PLAN IN HALF LIKE A TWENTY CENT SOCK and I spent the whole Sacred Weekend at my ex spouse Linda Junior’s house with the video on her P. C. asking her to replay it again and again so that I could adequately respond to these garbage charges (currently I do not have a working P. C. owing to a financial situation related to the lack of donations lately,) and i assure you dear readers that if I had any thoughts of my dear departed mother moldering in her grave there in faraway windswept Dexton it was certainly NOT of filial piety but more of her ABIDING DEEP SHAME at what had become of her son at the hands of a smiling Satan of a film critic from the Ivy Leagues!!!!!!!!!!!

As to the substance of this Greg Lasuunu’s argument in his luridly “titled” web-show, “Personal Times”, I can make not heads or tails of it, except to say that YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT MR ULASNUU. For example it is STANFORD WEBCOMICS EXPERIMENT not STANFORD WEBCOMICS EXPERIENCE and I can tell you I spent a good two hours of my valuable time wondering just how you got me confused with someone like Jimmy Hendricks!!!! And it is a MISNOMER IN THE EXTREME to claim that my characters, my children, DO NOT DO ANYTHING. It is possible that my writing is far too subtle for the likes of you and that you do not understand the warp and woof of dealings and ideas that my characters undergo, much as we all do tossed about in this common chili pot called LIFE ITSELF, but I deal with the BIG THEMES Mr JOE COLLEGE GREG UNUSALU whether your philosophy professors and gurus taught you the COMMON SENSE GOD GAVE YOU or not! (And don’t try to convince me you didn’t go to college for it is written all over your ten dollar suit and your “red” tie! HIDDEN MESSAGE THERE MR UNUSUAL?) Also I do not know WHERE YOU GET OFF saying I have posted the same comic seven times in a row. It is true that with my perfect memory (which DOCTORS HAVE TESTED) I did not check this fact but I did not NEED to because it is as dear to me as the knowledge of my Savior. Who is YOUR Savior Mr. Gunus? And to the charges that I have taken content from my Brother-Web-Cartoonists for my own purposes I will not dignify with a response but pass over in silence much like the Washington Monument keeps silent vigil over the corruptions that pass beneath his stony brow. The one salient sensible point in your whole train wreck reportage was the comparison with the work of Jim “Garfield” Davis, who is a cartoonist who I have always seen as a kind of spiritual kinship toward, much as two ships or two cities can be “sisters”, and I am glad this objective fact has finally got some recognition though it makes me LITERALLY BILE UP to think that it is such a rude vehicle of truth as YOU MISTER UNUALSU that delivers this bountiful package to my door.

But I will not let old man sorrow bring old Steve Junior Down!!!!! Out of every rain there is new, sweet water brought to heal the land and so it shall be with this latest crisis. Although we do not agree on much anymore, I was able to work with “Lin” to obtain a four-color print-out in C, M and Y of Mr Greg Unsaluu’s face taken DIRECTLY FROM HIS OWN YOU-TUBED IMAGE. For the past day this image, folded quarter-wise in my breast pocket, has been my constant companion (or Vergil if you will) around Hayti, and all the luminaries I have shown it to (including Roxanne, line chief at Shoneys, and Ryan Thompson the unofficial notary public down at the cobbler shop, who is one of the models for Milgram from the comics beginnings, as a small note of trivia) have agreed that this BRACHIOCEPHALIC INDIVIDUAL is clearly UP TO NO GOOD.

But blackening your name in Hayti Mr. Unusual (and rest assured that everyone here now knows your name, rest assured) is only a tactical bonus for the primary purpose of this image. For this image I have then had framed with a frame costing (I do not mind telling you) UPWARDS OF FORTY $ at the frame shop and have hung it on my wall above my drawing-board, where I can see it whenever I look up from my art papers. They say dear readers that every great artist must rely on an “ideal reader” and I have never had this thing….until now. It is a strange roll of Fates Dice that this Ideal Reader must be in this case an Ideal Enemy, I know, and a curious sort of enemy at that: a Yale and Harvard-educated Popinjay from the Eastern Seaboard, the master of his own media-television Empire. But so fate will have it, and STEVE JUNIOR IS OE TO LOVE HIS FATE:

FROM NOW ON GREG UNUSUAL I MAKE THIS PRONOUNCEMENT: EVERY COMIC I DRAW IS FOR YOU. A DAGGER STRAIGHT INTO YOUR VIOLENT HEART.

I am too angry on this subject to speak any more at this time and will allow my computer pen and the amusing doings of my “Angels” to be my “voice” in this matter. However I want to leave you dear readers with one final thought. I have heard a lot about Kick-Starter as a means of generating funds and am interested in using this technology to begin a legal defense against Mr Greg Unusual and his TV network in order to bring down these slanders against my reputation. I have already begun organizing my business cards to this end in order to find the lawyer that I think is “right for me” and that understands the comic, but it would help a great deal if one of you readers would be willing to put together the Kick-starter on my behalf? If you are interested in being “point man” on this project please send a certified letter stating your intent to the Hayti Post Office. They know me and they will do what needs to be done.

In Solidarity,

Steve Junior

CEO and President Emeritus of Steve Junior Productions

PS: If any television networks are interested in purchasing rights to the story of my struggle with Mr. Greg Unusual I would be more than happy to initiate such discussions; please also send a certified letter as above.