On the Fastrack

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On the Fastrack is a comic strip drawn by Bill Holbrook about the doings of various characters at the fictional Fastrack, Inc.

Fastrack is run by its foundress, Rose Trellis, who is portrayed as a ruthless corporate leader, but with a recently-discovered but seldom seen, charitible side. Most storylines involve other characters, though, such as:

• Art Welding, who works in the computer room

• Wendy Rommel, his wife, Rose Trellis' assistant who does much of the day-to-day work of running Fastrack

• Rusty and Patina Welding, their children, who lead an online existence their parents are only dimly aware of, battling the Y2K Bug, and assisting Santa Claus with their computer skills.

• Bud Spore, the head of Fastrack's Information Technology Center, a stereotypical computer geek.

• His wife, Chelonia, the daughter of Rose Trellis

• Their daughter, Cookie, who "takes after her grandmother in all ways, save that she's too young to have read Machiavelli."

• The Moat Monster, a dragon-like creature that was spawned by Fastrack's toxic waste dump. Currently in charge of corporate security. The Moat Monster is capable of shapeshifting into the form of an attractive human woman, who uses the alias, "Candy Moatmonster." She has an ongoing cyberspace love affair with an IRS agent (who knows her true form).

Rose's ex-husband (and Chelonia's father) is hacker and convicted embezzler Phiby Fenster, whose hacking skills are so formidable that he managed to hack his way out of prison on more than one occasion (in a continuing story arc beginning in late August, 2007, he did so using an abacus).

Recently Rose married another high-level executive, Thornton, the politically-liberal leader of a non-profit organization. (More discussion needed here.)

The strip was originally about Bob Shirt and Melody Acapella. They still pop up occasionally, as Melody runs the company day care center where Patina and Rusty spend their afterschool hours.

Collections of On the Fastrack exist, but they are not always easy to find.

[edit] External links

• On the Fastrack (King Features)
• On the Fastrack comic (The Washington Post)

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