I guess I telegraphed this a little too plainly, but here it is…
Sound familiar?
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So, what’s a thing worth? Whatever someone will pay you for it.
I’ve seen people say that the value of a baseball card is a specific dollar amount because they read it in the price guide. Well, I know from growing up buying comics that the amounts in the price guide are only valid if you can get someone to cough ’em up.
Hubris might be overvaluing his store. Maybe not.
I’ve got an old Jeep. People ask how much I want for it. I say, “Six thousand.” and they say “It’s not worth that.” to which I reply “It’s worth more to me in my driveway than in yours.” So, yeah, my old rattletrap isn’t worth six thousand to a bank, or to some guy who randomly wants me to sell my Jeep without me saying “Hey, I think I’ll sell my Jeep.” but in the end… Well, in the end, Peter’s not going to be able to buy the Outdoor Galore Store. Wonder how he’ll react to that?
I occasionally have young people contact me asking for a job. They want to draw comic books, usually. When I tell them that I don’t publish comic books and therefore can’t hire them to draw comic books, there seems to be a bit of a disconnect- a moment where their great business plan recedes back to their first principles and falls in on itself. Same issues happen when people contact me to go into a speculative business with them. They don’t call it that, they say, “I have an idea for a children’s book, we should work together to do it!” And I have to explain that everyone I know has an idea for, and sometimes has written, a children’s book. Also, writing and illustrating a children’s book is the easy part- it’s finding an agent to lug the thing around to publishers that’s the hard, time consuming, industry-specific thing.
And that leads us to Peter Enis Wang… who has a great idea or two to pitch to Hubris.
Maybe you can see where his plan is going.
Stuff that sounds fun to you isn’t going to sound fun to everyone. You know what I mean. You like bicycles, and there are friends that gently rib you about riding. You like Necco wafers, and your friends correctly give you &^%$ about Necco wafers.
I don’t think that Pete and Hubris like the same stuff. Apes in a Monkey party, for instance.
You guys… have worked out the butt of my jokes with Peter now, haven’t you?
It’s that wonderful time of the year! Weird Week! When you don’t know what day of the week it is, what time of day it might be, and you’re supposed to be somewhere but you can’t remember which place it was.
See you in 2020, kiddos!
Whatever you’re celebrating, celebrate it happily!
Steven is kinda a worry wart.
We all are, I’m guessing, when it comes to the very specific things that worry us in particular.
Other stuff, that worries other people? Well, we’re oblivious and unhelpful at worrying about that stuff.
There are ‘just’ ideas, and there are ‘good’ ideas.
Mudpit in the long run-out of the Li’l Red Wagon race.
Good idea.
Hubris figures there’s no reason to burden the nice crowd with extra information they’ll never need.
You’d have done the same, right?
You’ve met them- those people that are far more concerned with getting that tiny little angle on things that someone else has than they are with whether or not that thing will do them any good.
Like the neighbor lady who used to boast that she got her bread for 39 cents a loaf by going way out of town to a little store she found. She spent a buck on gas, not to mention her valuable time, to save fifty cents on a loaf of bread.
This comic hearkens back to one a few days ago- remember?
Normally, I assume you guys remember every little thing in the strip. Heaven knows that experience bears that out.
So, in a few weeks, we need to watch the Gocomics.com people and their comments. I get it- I mean, they don’t just read Hubris, but seem to read dozens of comics every morning, I guess.
But in the 09-10 gocomics Hubris cartoon (the one where he’s sleeping in the store on the first night of the Fest) one commenter said, “Why is he sleeping in the store?” and of course I thought, “Because I just said in another strip that he would be…”
But the ‘another strip’ had been a while back and for someone who reads a lot of random gocomics every morning, she can’t be expected to recall everything Hubris offhandedly says.
Even if I want her to.
And it’s 9-11 today here in the States. The day when either the sort of thing you’d been vaguely dreading actually happened, or the kind of thing you never thought could ever happen here, did.
