I am a Purchasing Rockstar: Firing on All Cylinders

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This Purchasing Rockstar strip basically happened, unbidden, during a phone call to Rick Betschen of JRB Machine Tool. The first two panels are a nigh-verbatim transcript of our conversation. Rick is an actual rock star, in that he knows how to play the guitar and has played in bands. That’s more than one band.

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13 Comments

  1. Oh yeah those stuck up salesmen never accept trading junk… then again if you think about it we already trade stuff for round pieces of scrap metal and painted pieces of paper… well the scraps are made of extremely rare metals masterfully crafted and the paper money is backed by all governments as equal exchange for SAID stuff, but STILL isn’t it funny if you think aboot it? 😀

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    1. I actually wrote several alternate scripts for this one, where Rick was trying to trade the cylinders for all kinds of other things, like gold, Pokemon, and Tom Brady. When I have a chance, I may draw up the alternate panels and use them as bonus materials.

  2. I just noticed that the hard drug seller calls him Dog and not Dawg. That is pretty funny to me. I also like all the comments, they are funny too.

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