Brian Merrill

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“Yorick's Return” by Brian Merrill

Submitted to Contest #123

I’m the guy with the black trench coat and the half face mask who’s famous line: “You must pay the rent!” adorned so many peep shows, medicine bits and arcade parlor skits that the passé face schtick became the ridiculous—finally wangling into cartoon history as Snidely Whiplash sans mask.            That sad persona was pitted against an equally absurd buffoon nemesis/hero, Dudley Do- Right in the early days of kid vid. If that were not enough, a filmic comedy followed. Dudley should ...

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