He's hungry... so hungry. And he's ready to tell you that your mom's recipe for baked ziti which has been handed down 4 generations from the old country, is crap. Well.... it is.
Meet Fred the Food critic, star of "Free Lunch". He?s a filthy slob with a bottomless stomach and an unkind word for everyone. Visit Fred each week as he and his cohorts get into mix up after mix up of food related fun.
And it's not kinky at all!
But please read it anyway.
Fred – a small time food critic more concerned about a free meal than pretty much anything else that’s going on. While he may not appear to care about the world around him Fed often finds himself in life or death situations, usually with fictional characters.
Irv – A photographer at the magazine that works exclusively taking pictures of the meals Fred eats. As you can imagine that’s a lot of food to be taking pictures of. Irv enjoys the chance to work but wishes he hadn’t wasted 4 years in college studying art and photography to end up taking pictures of Tuna melts and Disco fries.
Tank – This zombie with a mysterious past first met the gang during a world wired zombie outbreak. Tank is a zombie not ruled by his urges. His mother was bitten by a zombie while he was in the womb. He was born with all their power, but still humanity to control himself. Just like in the movie Blade. Ironically he’d never seen Blade before meeting Fred and Irv. He ended up really liking it.
Well look at this. A new Free Lunch strip. I’m just as surprised as you are, but we all knew it was just a matter of time. After stopping the strip in October of last year I had always been open about the strips inevitable return. I love the characters too much, and there’s no reason other than time and adult responsibility to not bring them back.
Last night while watching the new Victoria Beckham reality show with Yeo, I thought of this joke and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to make it work in context with the other strips I work on. It was a sign to dust off some characters that have experience being crude.
Does this mean they’re back for good even if it is in a different format with no color? Nope. I make no promises yet because I’m still knee deep in a very complex Matriculated story arc and the final stages of Turtle vs. Bunny, not to mention the summer block buster season and the summer comic convention season. Time is precious and Fred isn’t back yet. But I’m desperate to start telling jokes with him again. Keep hope alive.
For what it’s worth I really was impressed with Posh Spice. I expected her to come off as a frost bitch, but she’s really a decent person. Who’d of thunk it?
