Meet Finn and Sawyer.
They run a business. A rafting business. There’s a narrow window when their business does well. Spring and early Fall are good. Summer is pretty good. Winter… well, you better have some money saved up before Winter arrives is all. Rain is okay in Summer, if it’s not too crazy. Rain in Fall is bad, usually. Rain in the Spring is a toss-up… depends on how bad everyone’s cabin fever has been over the Winter, y’know?
But constant rainstorms with lightning and hail and dark and flooding and the dam releasing tons of water per second, and bad stuff… That’s just horrible for business.
Another thing they have to worry about is locals who can just jump in the river South of the dam any time they feel like it. Once, the local high school football heroes took out one their father’s inflatable raft in flood stage water. These are guys who don’t know how to guide rafts and, like a lot of people, never took the time to do the things that drive local tourism. So- five kids who figured they’d be good at rafting because they LIVED there, after all, jumped into a flooded river without knowing to stay IN the surging, crashing, scary mid-stream. They stayed in the trees, thinking that’d be safer or better or more adventurous or something. We’ll never know what they were thinking, sadly.
The local community saw Finn and Sawyer’s rafting company as being to blame, of course. Darn idiots profiting on dangerous nonsense, plus it cost the town their most promising young ones …”and the playoffs, for sure.” as reportedly said by one local alderman, now rarely mentioned in polite company.
So when Finn and Sawyer decide to close for the day, well, that day’s kind of a disaster for them, y’know? Disaster.
We already had Clem Twang, and now we’ve got Finn and Sawyer. I sense a “marked twain” vibe developing in this story.
Yes, I know, Captain Obvious strikes again…
LOVE the Finn and Sawyer backstory, Greg!
Aquadoom Force, unite!
Lock up and go home? With all that’s happening out there? No, open or closed Finn and Sawyer had better stay where they are. Too bad their business doesn’t have a second story, they might need it.
BTW, LOVE the Buckets superheroes!
Couldn’t figure out where Chas found names. Finally saw the building Label in Panel 1. Maybe a heavier font, or a more contrasting color, would stand out better in the rain.
Got the names from Greg’s commentary. I wouldn’t have attempted to decipher that store sign.
And to underline just how sharp I’m not, I just now made the connection between “Sawyer & Finn” and rafting.
Where are we gonna put everyone once they get there? Sawyer and Finn looks a bit small
Not that this has anything to do with the comic, but my cats are so boring.
NEITHER wanted to try the smoked gouda I ‘dropped’ on the floor.
Seriously! Both sniffed it, lifted their nose, and scraped the floor “you filthy human! How dare you insult us!”
I think the weather’s gone WAAAAAY beyond a Little Squirrely.
Hope National Cartoonists Day was a good one for you.
Would this rafting company happen to be located in Eastern Tenn.? Sayyyy around a little river called the Ocoee?
Not according to the map that I had to draw myself in order to see where things were happening/moving/flooding, etc.
I don’t think I could bring myself to DO that to the Ocoee.
I dunno what is going on but now everything considers hubriscomics not to be safe because there is no https. D:
Working on it.
… or at least I’m trying to figure out who to call who knows how to work on it.
1) your web developer
2) your hosting company
3) ??
4) last result – me, because I’m not an expert but I’ve been messing around with web development both personally and professionally since before there was an internet. . I can probably at least figure out some of the right questions to ask. And I don’t mind trying. I love Hubris, you’ve given me much joy over the past years with both comics, and I’m happy to help if I can.
Longest rainstorm EVER…
That dam must be getting really full by now.
I keep getting a malware warning for this site!
It’s not malicious, his certificate has expired so it’s no longer being served over https. Browsers get funny about that these days.
He was trying to find someone that knows how to renew it. Greg, I can probably rustle up some knowledgeable help if you can’t find anyone else. I’ve never used that type of certificate, I pay my ISP to deal with it every year, but I can probably find someone who does know the steps.
C’mon Greg, we’re all pulling for ya! How can we help?
Longest rainstorm in all of history. I’m a bit worried. Did Greg Cravens die? Did I miss the news?
I’m still dealing with two children’s books (three if you count fixes on one that’s pretty much done) and banging my head on the wall trying to get ConCards doing… Plus, I’ve been going back and forth with my web host who says I have to change some one of code stuff with a company who says they don’t have any knowledge of hubriscomics.com . It’s not going well. I think my web host is in another country. All their updates happen in the middle of the night here.
Looks like your security certificate is sorted out – at long last!!! In a similar situation, it took me a little over an hour to recertify our security for 6 sites. But that was in 2012 – and I am in India. Maybe things are different now? And maybe your support is based in India too?!
Good to hear from Greg. Will keep checking everyday. Good luck on all your projects, but better to have too many than nothing at all.
Greg,
I check every day to see if there is a new posting. I am never disappointed. If there is one; Yeah! Happy start to the day! If there is not: “Patience, I tell myself. You are not paying Greg to produce for you. The man is trying to earn a living in a VERY tough field (commercial artist). There are no ads on his webpage, this comic seems to be a passion project. It is a free gift from him to the world. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. So practice your Patience today and peek in again tomorrow.
So- just to be clear: Are you still seeing the weird security certificate warning, or not now?
I’m seeing “Not secure” in the address bar, which I’ve been seeing for months before your certificate became a topic of conversation. I’m using the Brave browser.
Okay, now I’m looking at the site with IE, and no security issues appear; no “Not secure”, no nothing. Maybe it’s now a Brave issue. Even with the “Not Secure” the site has always worked fine on Brave.