Skip to content

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

Johnny the Mediocre Human

Comics from Duke in the '90s

  • Home
  • Comics
    • The College Comics
    • Chronicle Submission
    • The High School Comics
    • All comics
  • Characters
    • Johnny
    • Ben
    • Mo the Bat
    • All characters
  • Storylines
    • Meet the Cast
    • Nick and Mo Find the Bible
    • Introducing Fratman
    • All storylines
  • Topics
    • dating and relationships
    • computers
    • Duke basketball
    • All topics
  • Patreon
  • About
  • Your bookmark

Topic

Comics about freshmen

Often featuring…

  • Johnny

5 comics about this topicNewest firstMost popularOldest first

Popularity rank 1 #269. Openly nice

September 14, 1998

BEN: Some guy was just openly NICE to me on the bus! FOR NO REASON!
JOHNNY: Yeah, when I was movin' in, somebody asked me if I needed HELP!
BEN: The NERVE.
JOHNNY: Yeah. So I punched 'im.
BEN: FREAKIN' FRESHMEN. When will they learn?
JOHNNY: We're supposed to be bitchy and jaded around here!
BEN: Oh, I lost your bio book, sorry. Uh, I mean, SCREW YOU!

1 view ♥Like

Popularity rank 2 #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

1 view ♥Like

Popularity rank 3 #331. Krzyzewski Caverns

December 9, 1998

BEN: Wow, "Krzyzewski Caverns"!
JOHNNY: Every cave can have 10 people, and they all MUST have 1 freshman and 1 canary.
BEN: REALLY? Why?
JOHNNY: To test the AIR. See, old MINERS used to take a canary with them, and when it DIED, they know the air in the mine was going BAD.
BEN: So THAT'S how you use the canaries.
JOHNNY: No, that's how we use the FRESHMEN. We just keep the canaries around cuz they're cute l'il buggers.
CANARY: Tweet

0 views ♥Like

Popularity rank 4 #300. Freshmen on Mars

October 27, 1998

JOHNNY: How are the partygoers taking to the off-planet scene?
FRATMAN: Well, let's ask one...
JOHNNY: How do you like Mars?
FRESHMAN: It's an AWESOME club, real big. I wanna see other Franklin Street spots. And I hear Raleigh's over there in Orion's Belt.
JOHNNY: He really thinks this is Chapel Hill (chuckle).
FRATMAN: Ah, FRESHMEN, they're so CUTE at this age.
FRATMAN: Do you want some Aristocrat, little guy?
FRESHMAN: COOL! I live in GA... , uh, mean... in SPE, or something.

0 views ♥Like

Popularity rank 5 #149. I guess you can have fun without alcohol

October 10, 1997

JOHNNY: Wow, Fratman, I guess you really CAN have fun without alcohol...
BIZARRO FRATMAN: See?
FRATMAN: STOP RIGHT THERE!
JOHNNY: What the... ANOTHER Fratman?
FRATMAN: The REAL Fratman. This PUNK got me lost in foreign territory: PERKINS! He stole the W.H.O.J. and he's been causing TROUBLE ever since.
LABEL: Hathead!
NOTE: W.H.O.J. - White Hat of Justice
FRATMAN: His name's BIZARRO Fratman. We're IDENTICAL except HE doesn't uphold the seventh TENET of Frathood: "Thou shalt give BEER to freshmen. GIRLS. Who are HOT." Poor, sick bastard.
JOHNNY: How do I know you're the REAL one?
FRATMAN: DUH. I speak in GREEK LETTERS. 'Sides, he's got on OUTLET clothes. BLECH.
JOHNNY: OOOoooh.
BIZARRO FRATMAN: HEY! This is J. Crew, baby!

0 views ♥Like

Keep reading

Most popular comics…

  • 1 TV: Yes, Jeff, I am here live at the official rollout of the alpha version of Office 2000, codename Poughkeepsie...

    MSNBC

    1 2 Nov 8, ’96

  • 2 JOHNNY: What about you, Jay; are you dating anyone?
SOUND: push push push

    No big commitments

    0 3 Feb 10, ’99

  • 3 JOHNNY: Greetings, readers! Shalom and welcome to the exciting world of "Johnny"! I'm the main character of the strip, Jonathan G. Williams. You may remember me from my earlier work in the Chronicle, such as "Guy Watching TV" or "Guy at the Airport"...

    Welcome

    0 3 Jan 15, ’97

  • 4 NARRATOR: A character I never got to introduce: Bob the Pirate.
BEN: Jen! What's the symbol for "radius" of a circle?

    Bob the pirate

    0 2 Aug 15, ’99

  • 5 JAY: I dunno, how do get girls to like you, Johnny?
JOHNNY: Oh, I have a SYSTEM. The firs step is: get to be good friends with them.

    First step to getting girls

    0 2 Mar 25, ’99

Porter Mason holding up his book Cute Animals for Flawed People, The Complete Roonie the Rabbit, Book 1

My other comic, in print

Cute Animals for Flawed People

Roonie the Rabbit is the comic strip I'm drawing these days, and this is its first book: 301 comics about all your little emotional vulnerabilities.

Get the book→

The Roonie the Rabbit cast in a row

Also by Porter Mason

Roonie the Rabbit on Patreon

Join free to get all my latest comics by email, or for $5 a month get exclusive comics and every new comic a week early.

Join the Patreon→

Johnny the Mediocre Human

  • Home
  • Comics
  • Characters
  • Storylines
  • Topics
  • Patreon
  • About
© 1993–1999, Porter Mason, All Rights Reserved.