<div>Welcome to the&nbsp;inaugural&nbsp;strip of Badass Con Carne, a weekly comic starring some of the most badass motherfuckers from history, living together, with internet access and some actual history thrown in for flavor. This bat-shit crazy idea was concocted one night by Ben and myself while we were several beers deep at a mall microbrew. We wanted to do a comic about badasses, but we wanted to hit on current events as well, and it had to be funny. At the time we were just throwing ideas back and forth, making connections with past and present, and misquoting both Tupac and Andrew Jackson through bouts of&nbsp;hysterical&nbsp;laughter. Ben was furiously writing all the ideas down as we jumped through history and his books looking for more ridiculous mash-ups we could use.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>The next day Ben sent me a typed version of what he could read from his OWN FUCKING notes, and it was a scattered mess. Honestly, we didn't even know what half of the notes meant and it wasn't funny. Just placing these people in awkward situations wasn't going to be enough, we needed to really get in there and shit all over preconceptions and make this ours. So he went back in and started making them into real characters, and I started doing some sketches, and it just started to fall into place. A bunch of other shit happened between then and now, but I am really excited to show you all what beer, sarcasm and two assholes can do when they put their minds to it.</div>
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<div>In the coming weeks we will be introducing the characters and their new lives, sprinkling in some real information where we can and hopefully making you chuckle along the way. If not, go have a six pack and read it again. I guarantee you will be saying, "Fuck bitches, get money!" all night.</div>
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