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Issue 2   
Snapy - Circa 1994:
Next on the list of my amazing childhood artistic triumphs is Snapy. As far as I know I only ever drew this one Snapy comic and then a single panel of a second one before I got bored of him. From what we can see though, Snapy seems to be some sort of fire-breathing dinosaur from the late cretacious period who has somehow found himself on modern-day earth. Also he has shades and a leather jacket so he must be cool.
The comic begins with Snapy visiting the local funfair. First stop is the burger stand, as his thousands of years of cryo-sleep have doubtless left him starving. So powerful are Snapy's jaws that when he bites his burger, the ketchup leaps out the other side of the bun and hits the salesman in the face. For some reason the sight of the slightly displeased burger salesman sends Snapy into a blind terror and he flees the scene, completely forgetting he's 8 foot tall and has razors for toes.
What comes next is a way-too-long montage of Snapy's day at the fair. He rides a rollercoaster (a recurring theme in my early work seemingly...), goes on a ghost train (where a traumatic encounter with a caveman nearly scares him to death), spills his popcorn on probably the world's most extreme Ferris Wheel (Upside down? Really?), and of course plays two video-games, one of which he wins at and one at which he loses.
Finally Snapy, who probably has ADD or something given his tendency to dash quickly from task-to-task, settles into a game of "Throw the ball into a bin with a cat-pig-thing peeping out of it." Apparently this is his kind of game, and he wins a prize: A full-sized, completely sharp sword. As if having a dinosaur running about wasn't dangerous enough, the carnies have armed him. Run for the hills!
Sword in hand, Snapy then decides to play some other game: Inflating a giant balloon shaped like his own head. I wish they had that when I went to the fair. Snapy is fairly good at this and chooses a bucket as his prize. A bucket? He got a sword on the last game! The quality of prizes at this fair seems to vary wildly.
Ah! But in the final two frames we see Snapy's plan come to fruition! He uses the sword to stab a hole in the back of a truck full of lemon juice, and fills his bucket with the sour yellow liquid. As the comic closes, he knowingly tells us "Bet you tought(sic) I went mad!" Well, Snapy, you are stealing buckets of lemon juice from the back of a truck in broad daylight while wielding a sword. Can you really blame us?
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© Conor Lynch 2010
