Sharing the weirdness

[telerib]

I've taken to reading Websnark, a critical review of webcomics (mostly). And I've come across one or two new comics that I like through it. But by far, the strangest, the weirdest, the most acid-trippin' one of all is:

Annie.

Yeah. Big blank eyes, curly red hair, optimistic weather forecaster. That Annie.

The recently ended plotline:

• Started off innocently enough. The Cowboy Radio Station is about to go off the air for want of listeners.
  
• Annie saves them with her incredible singing voice, bringing back the listeners.
  
• The Evil Guy gets mad, because he wants the land for his own nefarious purposes.
  
• Gasp! The Evil Guy is a Satanist! (Of the imaginary comic-book variety, not the contemporary Church of Satan.) He tries to mind-whammy Daddy Warbucks, but Daddy whammies him back, rather more physically.
  
• The Evil Guy plots. Wait, he's not really a Satanist. Or something. His father, an Ed Wood sort of director, was. And apparently sacrificed his wife during the filming of "The Iguana Queen from Mars" - on the land owned by the Cowboy Radio station! Her head was never found.
  
• The Evil Guy believes that he serves the Iguana Queen. How or if this concerns Satan is never really explained.
  
• He eventually snaps (after hearing Annie sing "Silent Night" on Cowboy Radio), curses the confused little crown-wearing iguana that he's been adoring, and proclaims *himself* the Iguana Queen.
  
• He returns to the ranch, believes he can hear his dead mother calling to him, and races off to the mesa. He needs her skull "properly aligned" to guide the spaceship in. (Touchingly, the Old Cowboys of Cowboy Radio agree that it "ain't right" that a man should be kept apart from his mother's skull, even if they are uneasy about the possibility of spaceship landings.) Our Heroes pursue.
  
• He hallucinates a Martian Iguana spaceship, come to take him home. Our Heroes (very ineffectually) try to prevent him from throwing himself off the mesa/into the spaceship.
  
• Rather than call the cops, they bury the body there - so his followers will have an eternal mystery, and can go on believing. Isn't that sweet of them? Now the guys on Cowboy Radio can have these problems for another generation.
  

Best part, hands down, had to be the two Iguana Minions. They just sort of get carried along, drawn with large, confused question marks over their heads as The Guy Who Feeds Us shouts at them to do marching drills and so forth.

We now move on to another story, just starting yesterday. We open with two (nefarious?) figures in... Ratznestistan.

No, really. It's right there, over the first frame.

In syndication, folks. I shake my head in disbelief, and watch the color trails.