Doppelganger of the Day

Du-Du-Du-Doppelganger

Welcome to the first post of Doppelganger of the Day. This was created, rather, inspired by my good friends KN and Jason Grant, who I lovingly drew a doodle for in Discrete Math. To recap, during Hidgeon's lecture,

MH: Oh man, I hope Merritt doesn't find out about the log we keep of her tardiness.

KN: Well, you said it in front of half this class, including Higdeon!

MH: Yeah, but we all hate her, and Higdeon's cool, she won't rat me out, will you Ms. Higdeon?

Higdeon: No. The entire English faculty is always late. They get on all out nerves.

MH: See?

Lawler: But the real question is, do you keep logs on all your teachers?

Higdeon: I don't have to worry, because I'm not late.

MH: No, only on teachers I... really don't like.

Higdeon: Why don't you like her?

MH: She makes us read crappy books like The Color Purple.

KN: You know, a lot of academics feel that way. Walker is one of those writers you either love or hate.

MH: In a way, that's what I'd like to be if I was a writer -- either loved or hated, but not in-between.

Sasha: If you were a writer, you'd do a lot more writing and a lot less talking, and that'd make me happy.

MH: That's not true! Look at Jason Grant, he talks a lot... oh, wait. You're right. Jason Grant never talks.

Jason Grant: You're right, I never talk.

MH: Never! KN just throws her voice when she talks to you all the time.

KN: Tee-hee. It's true!

MH: She likes talking to herself; it makes her feel smart. She likes talking to you because you're her doppelganger. (See? It was coming!)

Jason Grant and KN: [laughing] What's a doppelganger?

MH: It's... well... how do you describe a doppelganger?

Higdeon: [having given up teaching for the moment] A doppleganger is like an identical twin who you've never met, but is exactly like you.

MH: Exactly!

And so it began. I picked up my pen, and as I often do when I'm bored, I doodled out some drawings of doppelgangers. And, when I hook up my scanner in the morning, I will faithfully upload, each day, a comic (and perhaps story) about doppelgangers, however serious, absurd, or seriously absurd. There might be other things as well, but what's life without a little bit of unpredictibiliality?

posted by THE BOY SCHOLASTIC @ 11:42 PM