Goofus, Gallant, Rashomon
Remember Goofus and Gallant? McSweeney's has posted a fabulous follow-up by Jim Stallard:

Ted, co-worker of Gallant:
That freak belonged to the cult of manners. Talk about a true believer. I rode on an airplane with him once, and he wouldn't start eating his meal until everyone was served.

And while surfing around for the appropriate link for the above, I found an insightful essay by Mena of the mothballed dollarshort.org, one of my former regular reads:

[A]re Goofus and Gallant brothers? Or, as Ben suggested, are they the same person being portrayed in parallel universes? Is the flip of Goofus's bangs supposed to indicated something sinister? Or, is it simply the key to the mystery? In some panels, Goofus and Gallant are shown interacting with identically drawn parents. But, if they are brothers, where are all Gallant's Goofus-imposed bruises?

Mena, by the way, is one of the brilliant minds behind Six Apart, the company that developed Movable Type, TypePad, TrackBack, and other very handy web-o-riffic tools. One of these days I'd like to play around with Movable Type; I just don't have time for that learning curve right now.
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