As the vehicle with captured Clive slowly became a speck on the horizon and vanished, Pim, Bim and Mr. Love pondered the event.
Pim Comic Strip
How I came to write Pim
People often ask how I came to write Pim. It seems like a thousand years since I discovered Pim, or that Pim
discovered me. Thankfully I kept detailed notes and saved photos from that time. While I can’t swear to the
absolute accuracy of what you are about to read, I have done my best to capture the essence of how Pim entered my life.
While expounding upon the number 5040 and its astounding quantity of factors, Clive was captured and taken away in a truck.
The basis for Clive’s self-proclaimed aesthetic exceptionality was that Clive had once entered and placed first in a Mr. Legs competition.
They came upon Pim and Bim to whom Clive explained the flaws in Russell and Whitehead’s ‘Principia Mathematica.’
Traversing the desert Mr. Love and Clive happened upon a lone chess grandmaster. Mr. Love put up financing for Clive who won in 23 moves.
Mr. Love met a traveller who had left the Academy to ruminate on matters requiring intellectual rigour.
Maybe we can dispense with exposition for once and just read the speech bubbles.
Mr. Love assembled what strength he had and headed into the void; the WDA remained in the infirmary, mithering to no one.
Slim escaped the archive by waiting until the librarian dozed off and appropriating the librarian’s map. Slim also took his shoes.
The WDA stayed many hours and many days, pontificating on books great philosophers had written, and on tales great uncles had told.
