Dead Guy.

Dead Guy is a comic I began a very long time ago. It was never put online, and those four pages of strips and ideas are long-lost.

Some time in I spent an afternoon or two trying to remember the comics I had drawn up, ended up with two pages of comics that I still found funny, and a page of new ideas.

In I got round to putting them online on a free Wordpress blog.

In I finally fixed a typo in the old intro., and moved the comic to a new self-hosted Wordpress installation.

In I removed the blog and transferred the comics to this simple page.

I used to have a cute line on the 'about' page when I was still updating: I aim to update the comic every Friday. Friday is Dead Guyday!

For screen-reader users: Image descriptions are mostly not provided as the main gag is really just the changing title of each comic. The strip itself is mostly just three near-identical panels of a guy, dead, in a coffin, buried underground.

01. Dead Guy.

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02. Dead Guy takes an afternoon nap.

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03. Dead Guy does not like playing hot potato.

A hot potato is sitting, steaming, on Dead Guy's lap.

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04. Dead Guy's pants seem to be a bit higher than usual.

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05. Dead Guy spilt his tea.

There's a tea stain on the comic.

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06. Dead Guy remembers a girl he never loved.

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07. Dead Guy does not like flies.

A fly is buzzing round inside the coffin, flying from Dead Guy's lap and landing on their nose.

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08. Dead Guy has finally found his pillow.

There's now a pillow underneath Dead Guy's head :)

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09. Dead Guy feels a sneeze coming.

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10. Dead Guy is out of clean clothes.

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11. Dead Guy makes a wish.

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12. Dead Guy is humming to himself.

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13. Dead Guy is expecting company.

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14. Dead Guy removed his right shoe.

There's a badly-drawn bottle of alcohol in Dead Guy's right hand

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15. Dead Guy has a tan.

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16. Dead Guy wishes he had a watch.

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17. Dead Guy's fly is undone.

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18. Dead Guy is thinking about dogs.

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19. Dead Guy is having his tie cleaned.

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20. Dead Guy can't fly kites.

A kite is sitting over Dead Guy's face.

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21. Dead Guy thinks he can hear digging.

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22. Dead Guy got his tie back last week.

Dead Guy's tie actually reappearing in the previous strip.

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23. Dead Guy hasn't been paying his electricity bill.

Inside the coffin is now pitch black.

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24. Dead Guy is too hungover to do anything today.

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25. Dead Guy picked his scab too early.

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26. Dead Guy is thinking of moving.

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27. Dead Guy is wearing his grey suit, for a change.

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28. Dead Guy is fixing his car.

Instead of the usual view of Dead Guy from the waist-up, we see only Dead Guy's legs and feet.

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e-02. Dead Guy bought a mirror.

Instead of the usualy view of half of Dead Guy and their coffin, horizontal in the frame, we have two vertical, mirror images of the whole coffin, as if one is the mirror-image of the other.

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I found this with the rest of the images, but I don't think I ever published it. It was made to be a guest comic, but I'm not even sure if I ended up even sending it—.
This is roughly where in the timeline it should be—late .

29. Dead Guy could use a hand with these candles.

There's a big birthday cake on Dead Guy's lap.

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Happy belated birthday, Lu.

e-01. Dead Guy is not in this comic.

Two people sitting in a pub. One says 'I like your new hair'. The other replies 'Which one?'.

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30. Dead Guy has taken up smoking.

The coffin is filled with smoke, with a cigarette protruding.

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31. Dead Guy is staying with his parents for a bit.

Dead Guy is in an urn instead of a coffin.

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This was made as a birthday present.

32. Dead Guy bought a pug.

There's a dopey-looking pug, restlessly sitting on Dead Guy's chest.

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33. Dead Guy's pug is singing Christmas carols.

The pug looks like it's singing, and it the last frame it is scratchign it's ear.

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34. Dead Guy's pug is wearing a little Christmas hat.

In the last frame the party hat is on Dead Guy's face, and the dog's little tail is wagging.

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