Well, here we are advancing the plot again.
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There was a podcast a while back where the hosts talked about Hubriscomics.com. One of the things they said was that I was still kinda trying to do a gag-a-day feature, but that’d make it hard to put the whole thing together into a book later.
And the practical upshot is that sometimes, the cartoons advance the story without having a punchline.
I try to minimize that, of course, but here we are again.
For those of you who like that little storytelling, human spark… you’re welcome. For those of you who wanted to see Paste electrocute himself with an RV’s hydrogen cell and poo his pants… I’ll try to work that in later sometime. Or not. It sounds nasty.
Look, it’s Mr. Ziggy Foote, from The Wukilars. He’s so helpful. If he were any more helpful, he might have noticed that Mal was around and let him keep his feet on the ground.
Ever get that sinking feeling? You know, where you missed something?
Not like when you guys point out my grammar and spelling mistakes, I mean when you’ve fallen victim to my favorite aphorism:
“It’s the assumptions you don’t know you’re making that do you the most harm.”
So it’s like when you show up at what was clearly meant to be a Halloween party by the calendar, except that you were assuming that your host didn’t have a birthday a few days before Halloween. You may also have assumed that a costume of an extremely elderly man in a grossly exaggerated adult diaper was going to be such fun that year, but it’s not a good look at a party where the guest of honor is trying desperately to remain young and hip while the age he’s required to admit to belies everything he’s fronting.
Or it’s like when Kara realizes that the rules don’t actually specify anything beyond “Unicycle” and “Bow”.
So… Patreon patrons. Are you pleased at seeing the cartoons a day or so early, or does it kinda spoil seeing them here later? Or does seeing them here a little later feel like it’s spoiling the cartoons when you see them in a few weeks on GoComics.com?
Or maybe I should be asking the Non-Patrons if they’d like to be like you guys and get to see the cartoons a day early.
Or I could ask if Patrons should see the cartoons a week early or if that’d REALLY be weird.
Discuss.
Some of the games suggested on the applications you guys sent in to appear in the strip have been “offbeat” and “nuts” and “downright strange.”
You guys are the best, y’know?
I’ve modified some of the events you’ve put on your applications to make them fit the storylines. Sorry if that’s a problem… but, y’know… “Story”.
I hope that any of you who celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful one.
And if you didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s because your culture doesn’t have it, or because you don’t need to feel thankful for anything because you’re confident you have what you have for perfectly sound reasons.
Thanks.
Crowd behavior. There’s probably a university degree you can get in that.
Exhausted disinterest. That’s what you get when you take a university degree in Crowd Behavior.
A little exposition seemed to be in order today…
If only to disguise the punchline that was coming. I hope you didn’t see it coming.
Gonna go draw at the children’s hospital again today. Pictionary. The hospital has a sort of in-house TV studio (much easier since the advent of digital cameras and iPads. It’s nuts. Anyhow, I draw stuff, and kids and their families call to the studio from their rooms (which they are heartily sick of, I’m sure.) and guess what I’m drawing.
Kids are, I dunno, psychic or something. Seriously. I’ve gotta have, like, thirty things to draw figured out because it’s a forty minute show and ten seconds into each drawing, they’re already calling in. Last year around halloween, I had four lines- FOUR- on the board and the phone rings. Kid says “Vampire.” Right.
You know what the four lines were? You know what a ‘greater than’ sign is? Kind of an arrowhead? Yeah, I had two pointed up for the tips of the vampire’s pointed ears, and two pointed down for the collar on his cape. That’s it. Four open ended triangles at the outside edges of the board. First guess. six seconds. Vampire. I drew the rest of it just to prove to everyone else that the kid was right.
Psychic.
