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I remember hesitating on this one quite a bit, because the joke ends on panel 3, but I needed to signal that this segment in the office is over. That’s the tricky thing about web comics, you don’t have time to linger on these questions because things need to be out regularly on a fairly

Not many men can say that they wrote a story about a lady falling in love with a top hat, but I… I am one of those men.

The very first Action Hat antagonist was King Douche (who predated Partner, actually), who was just, like, a generic looking king that no one liked. The next antagonist was a guy named Dr. Science, who was a scientist who would yell some science fact and run away, annoying Partner. As blessed by the muses as

Mendoza! He was the arch enemy to the team in the original comics and I had to have him serve the same role here, but at the time his only character traits were 1. Speaking in the third person and 2. That mustache. He actually really only ran around saying his own name. So, I

Most stories like this would require Action Hat to earn Partner’s respect by saving his life or cracking the case before they become friends and work as a team. That makes sense, they are making fun of the buddy cop genre, and you gotta expose those tropes to do that. The buddy cop genre isn’t

I felt I could have done more with Gun in this project, but it was probably a better idea to focus on Partner, Action Hat, Chief, and Lynda for now. This is the first appearance of Janice, who wasn’t a cast member yet, but is someone I’ve come to use a lot. She has significant

In the original comics, Chief was almost always in one panel yelling something for the team to address, like “ACTION HAT! THERE ARE DOGS WITH ATTITUDES AT THE FARMERS’ MARKET!” but that wasn’t going to work in this project because the workplace was going to need to be more fleshed out. This wasn’t going to