MegaTokyo
Written and drawn by Piro Gallagher
Updates like a mule-train leader, cruel smile on his lips, carrot dangling, crop at the ready

It’s impossible to talk about Piro “Fred” Gallagher’s MegaTokyo without discussing the way people talk about Piro “Fred” Gallagher’s MegaTokyo. And how is that, indeed? The discourse has ranged from that fateful first plug at Penny Arcades to the depths of the MT fora themself, now a virtual tar mine — but one that holds the lure of gold. Even respected webcomic artist Eric “Wednesday” Burns has taken the time to plug MT in his personal blog.

But there’s one thing all those comments had in common — the English language. When the bounds of the Anglonet became too tight, MegaTokyo burst forth like Zeus from his own forehead, into German, Spanish, French, Norse, Norse again, I think, Esperanto, Music and Computerlish. Boundaries collapsed other boundaries; the reader is reminded of the proverbial slippery domino. MegaTokyo had a whole new world to talk to, and the world had a new MegaTokyo to talk about — with itself.

Isn’t that why we’re here, after all–to talk about webcomics? And when a webcomic can cause a magazine that talks about webcomics to talk about the way people talk about webcomics, we at Modern Humor Authority are neither too proud nor too humble to recognize a metamasterwork.

Thank you, MegaTokyo. If we’re lucky, our conversation will continue long after your content has ceased.

MegaTokyo receives eight stars out of infinity.

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