# CWC One-offs **URL:** https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164 **Category:** Coffee With Colin **Tags:** comic **Created:** [January 3, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164 "2019-01-03T04:41:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 11 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/1 "2019-01-03T04:41:38Z")
![SUMMER06_001](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/335e349f594d358c0617eeeafd7fc6facdf39ebf.png) Summer goes by fast. The [original meme](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eharmony-video-bio). ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/2 "2019-01-03T08:20:58Z")
![SUMMER06_002](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/4543f8bcf5fe28d79c73e48e6b59bde4a73c9def.png) Colin takes the Pepsi Challenge ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 3, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/3 "2019-01-03T09:05:23Z")
![SUMMER06_003](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/9e9a34a941520bacc8fa97c0b4cb6b84e26d359c.png) I think we’re at the third or fourth ring of NPCs here, starting from our core PCs. Pretty soon these strips will be “The Adventures of Colin’s Little Brother Austin”. ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/4 "2019-01-04T07:36:36Z")
![SUMMER06_004](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/b9150d09b93312e59f06e9a9dafb376a25f48d5f.png) I’m the cartoonist and even I’m confused. ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/5 "2019-01-04T08:06:18Z")
![SUMMER06_005](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/39725fb36685527905b1863b1a0381b4e398a020.png) It’s for science. ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 4, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/6 "2019-01-04T08:45:20Z")
![SUMMER06_006](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/4b1b293654a050ea606f42600dad68b6d94be3a6.png) Following the talk with Daph, Alycia works off some latent insecurity the way we all do: by picking on Jason. ---
### Author: ![Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/dave/32/6344_2.png) [@Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/Dave) #### Post date: [January 5, 2019, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/7 "2019-01-05T00:03:10Z")
She was just in the mode to do so. ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/8 "2019-01-20T06:45:01Z")
![SUMMER06_026](https://forum-menagerie-team-assets.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/9eae24fed23cf830c8495309f83a58a712b32848.png) Posted here due to activism-related content. I’m on a couple atheist/skeptic discords these days and some of the stories inspired this comic. ---
### Author: ![garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/garrett/32/3_2.png) [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett) #### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/9 "2019-01-20T06:52:02Z")
Apropos of nothing, if you haven’t already read the “Astro City” comics by Kurt Busiek, you really ought to. It’s a marvelously grown-up (“adult” gives the wrong impression) take on the comic universe, without deconstructing the tropes. The very first issue was a beautiful story about _why_ ordinary citizens would choose to live in a city constantly caught in hero-villain conflicts, and it’s just gotten better since then. One character in particular is relevant to Aria and Summer. Her story isn’t theirs, but it did what I have always tried to do with the Newman sisters: take this idea of a robot girl, hop into her POV, take her story seriously, let her be the protagonist, and really think about what it means to be her. > **[Beautie](https://astrocity.fandom.com/wiki/Beautie)** > > Beautie is a gynoid modeled after a child's doll. Created as a playmate, Beautie was disposed of when she was discovered. Waking up in Astro City, Beautie decided to fight against injustice so no one would be simply tossed away ever again. Beautie is... ---
### Author: ![Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/dave/32/6344_2.png) [@Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/Dave) #### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/10 "2019-01-22T01:10:37Z")
Hee. I love Alycia’s dialog here. ---
### Author: ![Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/user_avatar/forum.menagerie.team/dave/32/6344_2.png) [@Dave](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/Dave) #### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/cwc-one-offs/164/11 "2019-01-22T01:11:33Z")
Astro City is da bomb. I have all of the collections up to a point, and need to (now that I am gainfully re-employed) pick up the rest.