Welcome to the latest installment of our Saturday Morning Panels special editions, our chance to pay tribute to those series that have had lasting impact on our staff as they reach important milestones.
Today, it’s a look back at some of the best moments from John Allison’s “Giant Days,” which ended this week with the special one-shot “Giant Days: As Time Goes By.” If you have a series you’d like us to spotlight for a Saturday Morning Panels special edition later this year, make your case in the comments! Check back in a few weeks as we celebrate the end of “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl!”
“Giant Days” #1: Pure British physical comedy. – Matt Garcia
“Giant Days” #1: With friends like these, who needs a real masseuse? Also, can we celebrate Lisa Treiman for setting the visual tone and language of the series that Max Sarin kept, ran with, and made all their own. Hats off to the team, from Allison, to Treiman, to Sarin and along-side them all Cogar, and Fleming, and Campbell. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #4: Let the Orinoco flow, girl. – Matt Garcia
“Giant Days” #6: You know, those aren’t really enough to deter me from a vendetta, either. – Matt Garcia
“Giant Days” #25: Entangled in existential questions and sexy underwear. – Mark Tweedale
“Giant Days” #27: Oh, Esther… – Mark Tweedale
“Giant Days” #31: Speculators, take note. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days” #32: Life isn’t always so complicated, Esther. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days” #35: Extremely accurate assessments by both parties – Matt Lune
“Giant Days” #39: Well, it piqued
my interest. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days” #41: You might want to think about getting McGraw snipped, too, Susan. You can never be too safe. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days” #44: Scared Straight: Smartphone Edition. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days” #44: ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE. – Nick Palmieri
“Giant Days: Where Women Glow and Men Plunder” #1: Ah, the lure of the duty free. I fall prey to it every time. Doesn’t help that in some airports the duty free is a mall you have to walk through in order to get to your gate. – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days: Where Women Glow and Men Plunder” #1: After all that flying, he deserves that big Toblerone. And he doesn’t even need to sulk in the rain to enjoy it! – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days: Where Women Glow and Men Plunder” #1: Why not both? – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days: Where Women Glow and Men Plunder” #1: Not a euphemism. – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days” #45: Don’t mind me, I’m just over here, ugly crying. Esther you are good friend and deserve happiness and LOOK HOW MUCH YOU’VE GROWN! – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #48: Ah Susan, always with murder on the brain. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #49: Oh hey, it me, at 4am, as all my writings come back to haunt me. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #49: An accurate picture of every college student at this time of year ever. – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days” #50: Having had food poisoning from fish & chips before, I feel your pain cricket dude. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #51: We are in the alternate timeline when Esther does her vacation shopping at Lilly Pulitzer, but I have to admit she wears it well. – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days” #51: It’s a pain that bores deep because it hits hard and fast and you haven’t the defense prepared. It festers and rots and you wish you were anywhere but in your own skin. You wish you were gone with them but more so, you wish they were still here. With time, with friends, with those who care and those who listen, it can be healed. But the memory of the pain remains, even all these years later, like a filled hole that never could sustain plants upon its soil. – Elias Rosner
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“Giant Days” #51: As someone who has lost a parent (though not suddenly as McGraw did), this statement encapsulates the nature of grief and how to move forward from it so beautifully. Well done, John Allison. – Kate Kosturski
“Giant Days” #52: Long ago, the three key areas lived in harmony. Then, everything changed when the business attacked. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #53: She can see dimensions of studying us puny plebeians could never grasp. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days” #54: I will not miss you Dean Thompson but I am going to miss
everyone else oh god why does this series have to end I’m going to miss them all so much I’mnotcryingyou’recrying – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days: As Time Goes By” #1: YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH! We only have 40 more pages with the gang and I will hear NONE of your negativity about how positive they are. – Elias Rosner
“Giant Days: As Time Goes By” #1: If that isn’t the biggest mood, Esther, I don’t know what is. Your poor, goth soul. Where hath it gone?! – Elias Rosner
