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New And Old Friends is the third storyline group in the main canon of EGS. It opened on March 3rd, 2003 and closed on April 29th, 2003, for a total of 38 comics. This storyline group includes following minor storylines:

  • Flipping Cardboard: Justin works at Salty Crackers Comics and Nanase visits him. Justin's stalker Melissa shows up.
  • Lady Mysterious: Grace visits Ellen to suggest that they hang out together.
  • II slooF lirpA: Non-canon storyline where Dan and Minion are having technical problems that cause characters to transform.
  • Squirrel Diplomacy: Squirrels eat from Tedd's bird feeder and Grace negotiates with the squirrels.
  • Lunchtable Revelations: When Elliot and Sarah sit together for school lunch, Tedd and Susan can't get along. Elliot suggests that they tell each other something about themselves to make them friendlier, which succeeds as Susan reveals that her father cheated on her mother and Tedd recalls how his mother left.

Flipping Cardboard[]

On Saturday, February 2[1] Justin working a shift at the local comic shop while a nearby shopper nicknamed Duck and his friend used the word "gay" repeatedly as an insult, unaware of Justin's orientation.[2] More bored than irked, Justin invited Nanase over to keep him company.[3] When she arrived, noticing her presence had piqued the interest of the junior high school students in the store, Justin got her to help boost sales.[4]

Sometime later, Justin sensed the presence of Melissa and fled, asking Nanase to distract her. Nanase used a disguise spell.[5] Melissa said that she would seduce Justin and called him her boyfriend. Nanase feigned that she didn't speak English well and that she didn't know who Justin was. When Melissa left she dispelled her disguise illusion, but was noticed by Duck. He asked her for an illusory bikini peek; she granted his request for five bucks, using a quick bikini disguise.[6] When Justin returned, he lamented that Melissa couldn't take the hint that he's gay after she dated Justin once and mentioned that their relationship may have caused him to realize that he was gay, which Duck overheard.[7] When the Justin closed the shop, Duck approached him and apologized for his misuse of the word "gay".[8]

Lady Mysterious[]

The storyline began with a green-haired woman stepping outside, going back in for a jacket, and stepping outside again.[9] On Thursday, February 7,[10] she bought some candy.[11]

Then she swung by to see Ellen, introducing herself as Claire.[12] Once inside, she revealed that she was actually Grace,[13] using a new type of form Tedd had added during an upgrade to the TF gun. These new types of form, which are called "clone forms", turns anybody hit with one into an exact form, instead of adjusting for things such as height and weight, and was developed for the purpose of more adequate disguising. Another ramification of this was that multiple persons could be zapped by this form, and they would look exactly the same.[14] Ellen asked there was any other reason she had come over, and Grace admitted that she had also wanted to ask if they could "play" together on weekdays for a while, since she and Ellen didn't yet attend school like the others, which Ellen eventually deduced meant hanging out.[15] They played video games.[16]

When Tedd returned home, Ellen and Grace welcomed him in the Claire form and Grace's usual form.[17] The trio ended up having a photo shoot.[18] When Elliot saw the pictures Ellen admitted to him about having an interest in Tedd.[19]

II slooF lirpA[]

The storyline started with the top panels of the comic being the same as that of the one where Grace revealed her Claire form but after being let in, "Claire" revealed herself to be T.C.; this caused Brownie to cry out "What the meow?!" TC wanted to go out with Ellen, and she said only if he turned back.[20] Dan and Minion discussed why the last comic was messed up. Minion discovered that the cameras were pointing into another dimension and pushed a button to fix it, but instead of fixing the camera, it turned out to turn Dan into a cheerleader. Minion asked why Dan would have such a button, but Dan refused to answer.[21] While they were pressing buttons, Elliot and Sarah were turned into half-squirrels, fairies, each other, cats, and finally people with tails.[22] Ellen and Grace discussed the tails and what made them good, until they too disappeared, and they forgot about the whole thing.[23]

Squirrel Diplomacy[]

Tedd set out a bird feeder to gain useful insights on avians, only to encounter squirrels feeding from it.[24] After Elliot struck down Tedd's idea of scaring them off with a baseball bat, Grace worked out a deal with them to get separate food.[25] The squirrels disliked the new food, and demanded a statue as an apology.[26] Tedd provided it, only for them to call for a manlier statue with shrubbery. Tedd compared the whole thing to a Monty Python sketch, to which the squirrels said "Nih" in their noble language, and Tedd settled for setting out more bird food.[27]

Lunchtable Revelations[]

Sometime in February,[28] when lunchtime at Moperville North High School rolled around, and Elliot and Sarah decided to sit together for a change. As Tedd and Susan sit next to their respective friends, all four wound up together, much to Susan's and Tedd's annoyance.[29] Realizing the tension between Tedd and Susan might cause trouble, Elliot suggested a group bonding activity of sharing some personal information, while Sarah wanted to sneak off and make out in the janitor's closet.[30] Tedd said Susan would twist what he said into anti-male propaganda, while Susan said that Tedd would make anything she said into something perverse, which Tedd grudgingly admitted would be likely.[31]

Elliot went first, revealing he used to pick fights with bullies and quit around junior high, save for one freshman year to help Justin (though he's not mentioned by name).[31] Sarah went next, and admitted she drew comic strips that included a squirrel character named Dan.[32] Tedd went next, and contemplated what to talk about until he decided to admit his glasses don't correct his eyesight, but have some nice special features.[33] Susan tried out each feature in turn until she came to a blank one,[34] which prompted Tedd to explain and defend his removal and subsequent non-use of the x-ray feature.[35]

Susan finally went, and admitted not only that she was actually a natural blonde, but her full name is really Tiffany Susan Pompoms[36] and that the hair dyeing and the practice of going by Susan are to avoid association with her divorced father, who cheated with a young blonde and picked Susan's first name.[37] This point brought Tedd to relate that his own mother had divorced his father and now lived in Europe, bringing the two to a truce of sorts, exemplified when Susan attempted to shake his hand (which Tedd initially misinterpreted as aggression),[38] and used one of her hammers (actually breaking the hammer handle) to deliver a smack upside the head to Tony, who shoved Tedd.[39]

References[]

  1. Assuming chronological order it's between the end of Sister on January 31 (EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-02-02) and Lady Mysterious on the next Thursday; Justin's diary in EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-04 says that it's Saturday; three days before the end of Sister was the Monday of Relations.
  2. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-03
  3. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-04
  4. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-05
  5. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-07
  6. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-10
  7. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-11
  8. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-12
  9. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-13
  10. Thursday of the week after Sister, which ended on January 31 (EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-02-02), and three days before that was the Monday of Relations.
  11. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-14
  12. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-17
  13. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-18
  14. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-19
  15. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-20
  16. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-24
  17. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-25
  18. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-27
  19. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-03-31
  20. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-01
  21. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-02
  22. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-03
  23. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-04
  24. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-07
  25. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-08
  26. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-09
  27. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-10
  28. Assuming chronological order
  29. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-14
  30. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-15
  31. 31.0 31.1 EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-16
  32. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-17
  33. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-21
  34. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-22
  35. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-23
  36. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-24
  37. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-25
  38. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-28
  39. EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-04-299
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