Geranium Lake Properties, Jack Loki's guide to Georgia's Mesa

The Fifty Cent Trip

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, enough gilded ice

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

The Fifty Cent Trip

Geranium Lake Properties, blood oranges

And the above panel is what appeared in every other paper in the world.

Asemic comics are published here three times a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Geranium Lake Properties, golden delicious

It has to be admitted that most of the time, Newark's Star-Ledger got it right. In fact, there was one notable occasion when the Star-Ledger was the only paper that got GLP right. On the morning of Aug. 8, 1990, New Jersey residents opened their premier newspaper and discovered the above GLP panel in its customary pride-of-place, the right-hand corner of the Star-Ledger's comics page. The panel was part of a series that GLP historian Michael Veerduer would later call "The Fifty Cent Trip", in an article he wrote for the short-lived zine The Longest Salmon.