Two Lumps

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Two Lumps
A sample strip from Two Lumps
Author(s)	James L. Grant and Mel Hynes
Website	http://www.twolumps.net
Current status	Updating every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Launch date	March 16, 2004.
Genre(s)	Comedy

Two Lumps - The Adventures of Ebenezer and Snooch is a webcomic which is drawn and written by James L. Grant and Mel Hynes. The first strip appeared on March 16, 2004.

The comic is currently hosted on Keenspot.

[edit] Cast

The main characters are a pair of sibling Russian Blue cats named Ebenezer (a.k.a. Eben or Benny) and Snooch. The strip is invariably written from their point of view. Other characters make occasional appearances: Grant himself appeared in the second strip (in a parody of Garfield's debut), and Hynes herself appears - or her legs do at any rate - with some regularity as the owner (or "Mom") of Ebenezer and Snooch, mirroring reality to some degree. The cats don't talk as such, but communicate by means of thought bubbles, facial expressions, and tail-twitching.

Ebenezer is the smart one. He is often portrayed deep in thought, doing complicated mathematical equations in his head, or pretending to be an Indiana Jones-type explorer, and usually frustrated by his less-intelligent brother. Eben's personality is sarcastic and snarky, usually playing the straight cat to Snooch's blundering buffoonery. He occasionally breaks the Fourth wall.

Snooch is obese, clumsy, and not very bright. When danger threatens him or his brother, he is utterly fearless, bordering on psychotic (which side of that border is left up to the reader). He comes up with compelling reasons for why cats do the things they do, such as The Two A.M. Crazies (well known to any cat owner).

[edit] Technical

The strip is hand-drawn and done almost exclusively in greyscale, and varies between one-shot gags and story arcs. Eben and Snooch's real-life counterparts (Raistlin and Caramon) provide most of the inspiration. The strip is updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.