You don’t wanna go bog down your process, now do ya?
Your team has stuff to get done, and your team is being hunted down for individual beatings. Best to streamline that workflow.
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Oops! Except for the Patreon folks, who got this cartoon Monday morning, this is going up late. I have all this week’s cartoons done and ready to go, and didn’t hit all the correct buttons because I’m used to setting these up one at a time, right after I draw them.
*sigh* Trying to be better about my schedule is making me worse at my schedule.
It’s the simple questions in life that mean the most-
“Do you want dessert?”
“Why are we here?”
“Is your mom always like that?”
“What’s the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything?”
“Why?”
So, here, Hubris asks a question that Peter should have considered before now. “Why?” Do we know Why Peter wants to have a huge chain of stores? For fame? For money? For fulfilling a sense of importance and destiny that life has heretofore failed to provide? And Mal. Why does Mal care about this? Maybe ’cause he knows he’ll be needing a job pretty dang soon. Maybe ’cause Peter has more of an alpha personality than Mal can handle and he’ll wise up later. And Hubris? He probably knows Why Not, but maybe not Why.
You work with the tools you have.
If you got mad duct tape skillz, you can’t go sweating what skills you lack! Use what you got.
I know a guy who can spot four-leaf clovers while just walking along. I have trouble seeing them if you put then in my hand next to two three leaf clovers. But my buddy- if he needs luck? Boom. Skillz.
I dunno about you guys, but I can’t picture an alliance between the Outdoor Galore Store, Ex-Sportsmart employees, and Enis’s Good Sporting adding up to a viable challenge to the cold, calculating machinations of HomeTeam SportStores.
Of course, it might be only because of the people I’m lookin’ at in today’s strip. But, y’know, looks can be deceiving.
When you start trying to find a way to look at something you’ve done that puts you in the best light…
Chances are that the light was pretty sketchy, otherwise you wouldn’t have gone looking for better, right?
I said that in my ‘Dad’ voice. You knew that, di’ncha?
Not everyone’s always on the same page.
It’s cool. If we were all on the same page all the time, there’d be no arguments or war, or muggings or anything ’cause we’d all know how everyone else thinks, feels, and solves problems. We’d just be a big ol’ crowd milling around doing the same stuff for all the same reasons.
And there’d be nothing silly for the cartoonists to point out, since everyone would have the same opinions about wheat’s silly and whether it needed to be in a cartoon.
Boring.
So, we have different kinds of people, some of whom would build a machine gun for potatoes, and some who’d just carry an extra potato gun.
What about you?
I like cartoons where something is repeated.
This is a gentle stab at it. The first example that I can recall using in Hubris cartoons is when Kara first introduces Hubris to her dad. I even worked in a synonym, so I could wedge in more repetitions. I don’t recall how many repetitions it was back then and I’m too lazy to go find out. Plus, that was way back when Hubris was a horizontal cartoon strip, and there wasn’t as much room for dialogue. Maybe there were four or five. Maybe six. I can sorta picture using more, but…
Quick, who remembers what Mal is referring to?
Someone should have reminded him there was a Non-Disclosure Agreement with his name on it somewhere in the bowels of Sportsmart.
You guys remember, right? It wasn’t THAT long ago, was it?
Hmmmmm. Maybe it WAS.
