Set Description
The first time I heard the names 'Milk & Cheese' was in the spring of 1993.
One day when purchasing a recent copy of Deadline magazine (for the latest Tank Girl), the shop owner mentioned this issue was a particularly good because it featured 'Milk & Cheese'.
He then asked if I liked 'Milk & Cheese'.
Thinking he was pulling my leg - I replied "I prefer Wonderbread", paid for my magazine, and walked away.
The owner was probably as confused by my response as I am now.
When I got home / set down to read the magazine I discovered in the table of contents that there was a strip featuring 'Milk & Cheese'.
It was funny.
Violently funny.
I felt like a true idiot for responding the way I did.
Other than their appearances in Deadline I felt no desire to track down their comics.
I felt no connection to them.
They were one note / not 'cool'.
It wasn't until my first year of college when someone wore a 'Milk & Cheese' shirt to class one day that I met someone else who knew who they were. I was primarily taken aback that there was someone who didn't think it was 'uncool' to wear a comic book shirt around girls...
(Aside)
How do adults, that don't work / go to school together, become friends?
Is it via other friends?
Friends of friends become friends?
(/Aside)
I remember mentioning the fellow student to my girlfriend at the time and she said 'Talk to him. Compliment him on the shirt. Maybe he likes other comics. Quit acting like a girl.'
So I did eventually ask him about it...and we became fastbfriends.
Seth & I.
We bonded over comics.
Preacher primarily.
He hated Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
Had no interest in Tank Girl.
He enjoyed Pirate Corp$! over Milk & Cheese.
He lent me his Milk & Cheese trade and I finished it in two nights.
So, I set out finding my own copies to reread / collect.
I remember being so jealous that he had the 'Milk & Cheese' board game from Wizard magazine.
We played it once at his house.
He used it as a drinking / smoking game.
I used it as a game game.
Eventually my friend Seth moved away.
I was sad.
Years later (with an assist from Evan Dorkin on #3) I was able to complete a Pirate Corp$! run.
I do not share Seth's opinion that Pirate Corp$! > Milk & Cheese.
He must have really liked the ska stuff...Seth was into ska.
I would be remiss to not mention that my favorite series from Evan Dorkin is actually 'Dork!' / 'House of Fun'.
What is it?
It is smart. It is funny. It is never boring.
It features many different types (styles) of comics / characters / stories.
Comedy anthology featuring non-Pirate Corp$! / a few Milk & Cheese.
It is hard to explain properly.
The reason I don't slab my copies of Dork! is that there would be no ROI.
Just being honest.
