Who'd have guessed that Dan Harmon would ever have an affinity for anything that could be considered nerdy? Compared with Dungeons & Dragons, sci-fi stories about alternate dimensions and David Fincher parodies, comics are basically the Ray-Bans and leather jacket of the modern age. It's plain to see from most episodes of Community that Harmon adores comics (hell, he even performs his weekly podcast at a comic book store), but to most people's knowledge he's never actually contributed to any kind of novel, graphic or otherwise. Well, you might be surprised that the co-writer of Monster House and creator of Community was writing comics way before anyone started paying him to crack jokes onscreen. Harmon wrote several issues of his good friend and frequent collaborator Rob Schrab's independent absurd science fiction comic series Scud: The Disposable Assassin in the mid-'90s and the spin-off La Cosa Nostroid, both set in a world where people can buy robot assassins from vending machines which self-destruct after having killed their target. This, of course, wasn't Harmon and Schrab's only collaboration: they've since worked together in developing The Sarah Silverman Program, creating the cult Jack Black/Owen Wilson pilot Heat Vision and Jack and Schrab has directed several episodes of Community, most notably "Basic Lupine Urology", the show's Law & Order parody concerning the 'murder' of a sweet potato.
