# Comic about hating Journey (the band)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089 "2018-08-23T02:38:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089/1 "2018-08-23T02:38:57Z")

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This is probably a long shot, but in the early to mid 90s (I think) I read a one-page or half-page comic strip called something like “I Hate Journey” or “Why I Hate Journey”. The author (I think it was a young woman) explained that she always hated the band Journey because of their bland music with silly lyrics (or something like that). Then her friend offers her a free ticket to a Journey concert and she agrees to go for some reason (to make fun of it? out of obligation? I forget). Then, at the concert, she realises that she is unconsciously singing along with the music and she hates herself for it. I specifically remember that she sings “Wheel in the Sky”, and every time I hear that song, I think of that comic.

Is this ringing a bell with anyone? Who wrote it? I’m pretty sure I read it in a compilation of different comic strips, like an issue of [Comic Relief](https://www.atomicavenue.com/atomic/TitleDetail.aspx?TitleID=28040). For some reason, I think there was also a Too Much Coffee Man strip in the same compilation, so maybe it was an issue of “Too Much Coffee Man”? I’m not sure.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089/2 "2018-08-24T11:18:33Z")

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I’ll give this one bump before letting this drop for another 20 years. I’m now 52% sure that it was in an issue of “Too Much Coffee Man” that I flipped through in a store, which I had never done before or since.

Wheel in the sky keep on turnin’  
Don’t know where I’ll be tomo-orrow

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089/3 "2018-08-24T19:14:18Z")

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[Is this it?](https://medium.com/the-nib/a-journey-paved-with-good-intentions-5c1e9cbe583c)

ETA: It is by the same guy who does “Too Much Coffee Man,” Shannon Wheeler. (Which does sound like a woman’s name.)

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-about-hating-journey-the-band/820089/4 "2018-08-24T22:31:56Z")

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Bingo! That was it, although I forgot the part where he likes Journey because of all of his fond memories of hating Journey. You’ll notice there’s a picture of a young woman singing “Wheel in the Sky” which is what confused me about the author (I suspect).

Edit: I read it way before 2015, though. Probably early 2000s (not mid-1990s as I speculated above).