Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Topic

Comics about dorm life

Your chances at decent Duke housing, the roach next door who needs a cup of sugar, and hiding the still before Parents’ Weekend.

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Popularity rank 1 #400. Less Duke-centric

April 12, 1999

JOHNNY: Jay, here're the top ten better places to live than TRENT: 1. ON the Mongolian Grill, 2. Bill Burig's navel, 3. Two words: lemur dung, 4. the...

DIRECTOR: OK! CUT! Cut, people! Johnny, I'm Mike from Disney. To give the strip a BROADER appeal, we're replacing all "Duke" references with vague PRONOUNS.

JOHNNY: Um... oh, OK.
DIRECTOR: GREAT! OK, take 2, people!

JOHNNY: Um, Jay, here's the top ten better places to live than, uh, THERE: 1. Um... THERE, UH, 2. in HIS navel, 3. um... uh, animal crap... 4. THERE, oh, just forget it...

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Popularity rank 2 #306. Parent’s weekend

November 4, 1998

BEN: Parents Weekend's this weekend.
JOHNNY: Mmm-hmm.

BEN: Your parent's comin'?
JOHNNY: Yup. Yours?
BEN: Yup.

BEN AND JOHNNY: (sigh)

BEN: Guess we better dismantle the still.
JOHNNY: I should take down this poster, too.
POSTER: Getting a minimum wage job with a Duke degree is the COOLEST!

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Popularity rank 3 #158. De-segregate Duke shirt

October 23, 1997

REPORTERS: Get a shot of this, Earl, a freshman with a "de-segregate Duke" shirt!
SOUND: click click click

REPORTER: Kid, we're gonna plaster your face on 15,000 Chronicles, LEAST you can do is give us a quote, HMM?

FRESHMAN: UM, they were just giving out t-shirts AND... well, LOOK, I just... I don't... TRENT is... I'm not...
SOUND: click click click

REPORTER: "I'm mad as hell, and Nan's goin' down!" That's a quote, Earl! Headline: "Race riots rampage Randolph", let's go INCITE THE MASSES...
SOUND: click click click

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Popularity rank 4 #141. Housing problems in Hell

September 30, 1997

BEN: So, what's been the biggest PROBLEM with this whole "hell" thing?
GREG: Housing.

GREG: Now that we're HELL, we have to put up everyone who's been naughty since the DAWN OF TIME. It's a tight squeeze.

GREG: Right now, I'm stuck in an octuple with a Spanish warlord, Lizzie Borden, 4 of Ali Baba's 40 thieves, and the inventor of B.O.

JOHNNY: STILL. Beats Trent.
GREG: Yeah, STILL beats Trent.

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Popularity rank 5 #80. Chances at decent housing

March 25, 1997

JOHNNY: Hello, Housing? This is Johnny Williams.

JOHNNY: I'm a rising sophomore and an independent, I was just wondering about my chances at decent housing next year and...

JOHNNY: Why are you laughing?

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