You Had Me, And You Lost Me: Why I don’t read Megatokyo (2004)

Piro was essentially the straight man for the craziness, and the fun of the strip was watching the straight laced young anime and manga fan try to cope with the insanity Largo brought into his life, while also dealing with the alien world Tokyo turned out to be, instead of how he’d imagined it. First off, a huge number of them are “Shirt Guy Dom” days — stick figure art done by one of Gallagher’s associates, in emulation of Sluggy Freelance’s “Shirt Guy Tom” filler art strips. Going back through the last several strips doesn’t show any Shirt Guy Dom’s (though it does show an ad for tee shirts that featured a sulky Piro complaining that he needs to actually produce a strip because “people are starting to complain,” which makes me think things haven’t changed all that much).

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