TITLE The Bastich By Hart
PANEL 1 (BASTICH walks excitedly toward his polling place on election day.) BASTICH: Ah yes, ELECTION DAY... When the tired masses of this great nation gather to have their collective voices heard!
PANEL 2 (A POLL WORKER grabs BASTICH's shoulder as he walks by.) POLL WORKER: Hey, Buddy! What do you think you're trying to pull here?! BASTICH: What..? Have I not the right to vote..?
PANEL 3 (The POLL WORKER points angrily at BASTICH.) POLL WORKER: Yeah, but that doesn't give you the right to vote TWICE! I just sam you go in there a minute ago with a big ugly wig on! BASTICH: 'Wig," eh..?
PANEL 4 (FUTURE-STICH walks by BASTICH.) FUTURE-BASTICH: Hi 'Stich. BASTICH: There you are! You stole my VOTE! FUTURE-BASTICH: Well, of course I did! BASTICH: But... WHY?
PANEL 5 (BASTICH jabs FUTURE-STICH in the chest.) FUTURE-BASTICH: Just using my knowledge of the future to keep you from throwing away a valuable vote! BASTICH: Man, I never realized how much of a DICK I could be!
PANEL 6 (BASTICH catches PAST-STICH as he tries to sneak into the polling place.) FUTURE-BASTICH: Hey! This level of Dick-hood takes YEARS of practice to develop! Though I'll admit I always had a certain knack for it.
CREDITS Bastich (c) 1996 Joshua Adam Hart
Commentary
The Multi-stich saga resumes, showing how we can sometimes be most cruel to our own selves.
The 1996 U.S. Presidential Election finally came to a close a day before this strip saw print in the Orion. Bastich doesn't seem overly phased by his own failure to get on the ballot earlier that year.