LAWMAKER-6!!!

Before Kurt Busiek was a living legend and long before he was roughly the size of the borough of Manhattan, he and his then roommate Adam Phillips created this amazingly strange page. Kurt was still pretending to be my friend back then, and Adam, who had the peculiar tendency to take on the personality and behavioral characteristics of whomever he was spending the most time with (in college, he spent a year being Scott McLeod's own personal Mini-Me, then moved on, and in my opinion, down, to Kurt after school), was pretending along with him, and they sent me this in one of the few pieces of snailmail I ever got from Kurt, and certainly the only one I ever got from Adam.

I've always thought LAWMAKER-6 was hilarious, and it certainly shows a side of Kurt he's been pretty careful to hide, if not outright suppress, since he became widely popular. Perhaps he no longer has his goofy sense of humor, though. He's certainly lost most of his memory of things that occurred between 1979 and 1985, at least, as pertains to his one time friendship with me. But hey, let's let the dead past cover over its own rotting carcass and get on with the funny stuff.

LAWMAKER-6!!!

The Nuclear Powered Knight of Right learns several cliche aphorisms in these few panels, including 'seek and ye shall find' and 'there are none so blind as those who will not see'. Well, actually, he doesn't LEARN anything.

(Note the cameo, supplied by inker Phillips, of Riverdale's favorite son in panel 4.)

Authors' Annotations

I love scribblings on the back of stuff. Adam's comments, at top, are unfortunately made partially illegible by a crease in the paper. Kurt's, at the bottom, are pretty readable, and again, display an aspect of his personality that he has either ruthlessly suppressed or just plain jettisoned since becoming successful. Can anyone imagine Eisner Award winning writer Kurt Busiek going 'woo woo!' these days? No wonder he doesn't like me any more.