As with any question, the answer is typically “It depends who you ask”. So now, when we ask “What do we do now?” it really depends on who you ask. If you ask the Inspectors, you get one answer, and if you ask the guys in the bar, you get another. Aaaaand everything in between.
Sorry for the continued delays!
Duke is an instigator. I mean, remember his team at The Great Stanky Creek OutdoorFest? It wasn’t called “Them Duke Boys” for nothing. He instigated that, and then stirred up trouble until it was just easier to keep that name than any of the others that people wanted. He laaauuuughed about that! And now, he’s trying to get Mal beat up and Ron possibly locked up. He probably hasn’t thought it that far through… probably just got as far as “I bet I can start a fight between the biggest guy here and the smallest guy here” and let it rip at that.
But here at the Buck’s Pass Bar, it’s all about who can pay what. Now. So, fight or no fight, there’s drinks to sell. Who’s buying?
I don’t suppose they wanted to rearrange the seating arrangements when they rescued Big Ron and Duke off of their truck.
I also don’t suppose they asked Mal if he had a different suggestion before everyone just piled in.
Isn’t that good?!
“Well, I’m back.”
Three guesses as to the name of the book that used that as its final words.
Apologies for the long, long, loooong delay. Life had to be lived, bills had to be paid, work had to get deadlined.
So- anyone remember where we were? It was a dark and stormy night. Something like that. Ryan and his brother Mal, and Mal’s close friend Shelley, are driving to the fishing cabin where they were expected by Ryan’s fishing buddies. Their names, according to the cartoon above, include “Big Ron”. And according to your memories of The Great Stanky Creek Outdoorfest Part 2, the other fisherman would be Duke. He must have been the guy filling out the Stanky Creek paperwork, too, ’cause the name of their team was “Them Duke Boys.” and you can’t trust Duke to fill out paperwork without some antic being perpetrated.
I don’t think I ever wrote that into the cartoons. That’s just background for you. (“Background” means stuff I meant to include in the story, then didn’t have room or inclination for)
Also, if anyone knows how to dig into the Dashboard on these dang websites and get things working correctly, by all means, get in touch and tell me how to fix this one.
Big Ron knows how to plan ahead. You know he’s the guy that always has the right bait for what’s biting, he has the tools to fix anything that might slow or stop the boat. Got a sharp pocket knife for getting that hook out the meat of your hand. Got one of those koosey things for putting his cup, can, or bottle into to keep it colder longer.
…and he’s got kegs for flotation when there’s gonna be a chance of the boat going to the bottom of the lake. A case of bottles isn’t going to do you any good when you need a ride back to shore in the direst of straits.
You gotta think of these things. Like Big Ron does.
Big Ron ought to know better than to just fling yourself at a slippy creature! You got to get a finger and thumb into his mouth and out the gills to get a proper grip.
Dang. Now that I come to write that, I’ve thought of another way I could’ve drawn this cartoon.
‘Member in that Avengers movie? Tony Stark says, “I HAVE a Plan of Attack. Attack!”
That’s Big Ron’s plan to win the boat race.
“Paddle ’til you win.”
It’s very sound logic. Or maybe it just very much sounds like it might be logic.
When adults are behaving like children, we occasionally tell them they’re acting like children. This rarely has the desired result of making the adult examine his or her behavior and correcting it, but typically makes them double down on the shouting rants that made us think the problem needed to be called to their attention in the first place.
Adults, anyhow, are capable of some pretty machiavellian bad stuff even when they’re behaving like adults.
And, as in today’s cartoon, it all begs the question “Behaving like an adult WHAT?”
Behaving like an adult human, I hope, is better than behaving like an adult jackass.
I think Big Ron is asking for trouble.
Not physical trouble, like Mal might pick an actual fight.
I think he might start dating Shelly. That might be trouble. They’re just too similar… relationships like that are volatile. Y’know. “Trouble”
I bet you thought I misspelled ‘unrequited’ love in the title didn’t ya?
But no. I just don’t see this obsession Big Ron has with Shelly as absolutely necessary.
Do you?
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