Word: wheelerism
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...middle, with meager limbs and a permanent case of the jitters, he resembles a superhero only by dressing in a unitard with "TMCM" on the front. The top of his head explodes up and out into the shape of a giant coffee cup. Originally a tossed-off doodle, Shannon Wheeler's character first appeared in the mid-nineties and has now encompasses both comix collections and a magazine inspired by the character. "Too Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings" (Dark Horse; $12.95; 144pp.) is the third collection of the character's antics, while "Too Much Coffee Man," the magazine (Adhesive...
...black and white drawings combine simple cartooniness with careful shading for depth and substance. Wheeler has a lot of fun mixing things up, playing with layouts, panel sizes and angles. Most of the strips are short, though even the longer ones have a strange tendency to feel disconnected from page to page. One of the most cohesive and best of the lot doesn't even have TMCM in it. Instead, Wheeler re-examines the case of the woman who spilled McDonald's coffee on herself and sued, and in the end makes a case for the legitimacy of the woman...
...Paul, that’s a big one. Can you give me a two-wheeler?” he bellows, beckoning for shy, bespectacled Arlington resident Paul Riley—another mail room worker—to bring him a dolly...
...We’re really hectic today,” he says as he hurriedly pushes the two-wheeler into the mailroom. Valentine’s Day is a week away, one of the mailroom workers is on vacation and the spring semester is just underway—making this week one of the busiest of the year...
...provide this service?” said Robert W. Wheeler ’05. “I’m getting ready to go home for Christmas break and I have a paper due before I get back. The way things are now, I can’t even check my e-mail to get updates from my professor...