From the beginning, I wanted Hubriscomics to be kid-friendly… y’know, no nudity (I’d probably have more readership if I was one of those webcomics that put the girlies in bikinis every so often, but I just ain’t feelin’ it.) and no swearing, no drug humor… not as strictly as a newspaper would enforce things- I just had something different in mind. And then there’s the temptation to make a point with swearing, and I’ve avoided that, too. Too easy, really. But it does lead to some fairly juvenile vocabulary now and again. Today’s strip is a good example- “Midnight Urines” is funny to me. Partly because I grew up in a place where stilted euphemisms were occasionally pretty artful, and so I find them entertaining, and partly because I have fun picking through words I can use to see what sounds funny. Paste using the term ‘Wee’ for dog puddles (or unicorn puddles, if you’ve been reading for THAT long) tickles me. In my head, Durnell’s rural speaking voice is really funny when he’s trying to be a Southern Gentleman and avoid the use of the word ‘piss’. He doesn’t want to be that vulgar, so what he comes up with, while not exactly vulgar, is stilted enough to have it’s own goofy charm. I hope you agree… and that you hear something like Jeff Foxworthy’s accent while reading Durnell’s speech balloons.
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Explains why people keep running off, singing “Not gonna let ’em catch the Midnight Rider”.
That is where you enlist a friend with a big supersoaker. Someone sidles up and at the first sound of a zipper, SOAK. See how they like being wet at that hour. Other than that…. yes I could see Jeff Foxworthy as the voice over for Durnell. Um the other one is to put a LOT of pinecones around your tent, a big wide swath of them. They hurt if you have less than army boot wafflestompers on, and at least they make a heckuva lot of noise and they really throw someone standing up straightNlevel off kilter.
I have to admit, Durnell is one of those characters I think I would like to meet as an actual person. I’d say I have a wee bit of a crush on him if you’ll excuse the pun. [chuckles]
Twinkle. Drain the lizard. Whizz. Use the hose to put out a fire.
Drop a deuce. Sit and sthink. Peel paint.
can see jeff foxworthy or even larry the cable guy cast as daryle in a hubris movie or even an animated series.
Just me, but I don’t hear Daryle’s voice as being that thick. Of course it could be my reading voice makes corrections and such.