Robin D. Laws’ comic strip The Birds is a favorite of mine. Highly verbal, confrontational, and funny as hell. His new collection of strips has a foreword by Jonathan Tweet that contains this little bit of writing, which is the best thing I’ve read in days:

While the birds in Robin’s strip are often the same from one panel to the next, each character has two distinct expressions. A cartoonist would probably base the two expressions on emotions, such as “happy” and “sad,” or “happy” and “angry.” But Robin isn’t a cartoonist, he’s a Canadian. The two expressions he gives his birds are “gun” and “no-gun.” In practice, the “no gun” expression actually means something more like “no gun (just yet).”

Robin D. Laws: Jonathan Tweet Forewords The Birds

I couldn’t be more pleased that the second anthology of Birds strips, There Goes My Dream Job, includes a foreword by seminal game designer, and my frequent collaborator over the years, Jonathan Tweet. Jonathan, who these days makes Google+ his social media HQ, wanted to post it to the world at larg…