plogg: The Usual Gang of Idiots

"The Usual Gang of Idiots" was written and drawn in 2006, and appeared in PLOGG #5 (May 2007). It was the last of four stories featuring Sarva. There's not much to know about the character: she lives in the notorious "Hell's Bathroom" section of an unnamed city (I suppose I could have made up a name, like "Metropolis" or "Gotham City"); she can take care of herself; and, despite her hostile environment, she's optimistic, but not quite a Pollyanna.

A few notes: The title of the story is what the writers and artists at MAD magazine were called. All of the comic book covers shown in the story are actual covers. Where the boxes of valuable Golden and Silver Age comics left on the sidewalk came from, and who the doomsayer, Edgar Allan Burroughs, is, is revealed in the very last panel. No, you haven't missed anything: I don't know who Mr Big Stuff is, either; but Sarva is always getting into trouble, so it doesn't surprise me that he'd want to deliver a warning to her personally. The wrestlers got their gimmick -- chaining themselves together and calling themselves "The Defiant Ones" -- from the 1958 movie of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as escaped convicts. As for Lord Rathbone, he's just a maniac who's seen too many Johnny Weissmuller movies.