There are several ways out of a tree.
This is one.
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You ever do that? Go out onto a natural Overlook and think “This dang rock has been out here in the rain and wind and cold… what’s holding it all together?”
And you don’t know any reason it hasn’t cracked off and fallen a thousand feet down into the valley maybe a hundred or so years ago.
So what are you doing standing on it admiring the view, when you could be in the car heading to dinner at the local BBQ place?
Yeah, me neither.
Hubris deserves some peace and quiet lately, don’t you agree? You might have to look close, but he’s there, right in the middle of the peace. Right next to the quiet.
And so, Hubris Embarks on his way, solitary. Alone. By himself.
Except for the raccoons. Who knows why they do anything they do.
Weirdos, they are.
That guy didn’t really have much of a chance, considering his ride. On top of that, he shouldn’t have stepped into the woods for a brief respite and told everyone else to “go on ahead. I’ll catch up.”
That’s how people in adventure novels (and a few horror stories) wind up in Chapter 1.
You know, Hubris probably has access to some of the finest bike locks known to the buying public.
And yet, he has Bob stash his bike up a tree.
If you’re gonna start an adventure, though, do you wanna do it by climbing up, and then dropping out of, a tree and whizzing away, or do you wanna start it by trying to remember the combination to a fat ol’ cable holding your bike hostage ’till you provide the answer it wants?
Feel free to ponder for a moment before answering.
The passing of the red hat.
These strips have run at the Patreon page already and incited a few comments about the End Of The Strip.
It’s not. I’m creating a crux or a cusp in order to re-set some of the players here. You’ll see.
I like this cartoon, though. If things WERE winding down for real, this’d be a hot one.
Marco the raccoon doesn’t seem to be fazed by Bob’s trick, even now that Hubris has learned it, too.
Maybe Marco taught Bob.
I don’t think Nikki knows how Bob’s universe works.
I don’t either, but I’m not in today’s strip, am I?
Enis can talk his way into and out of anything. Just ask him! He’ll tell ya. And tell ya. And tell ya.
I’ve met a few people like that. Look ya in the eye and tell you something that just… isn’t … so. But because they believe it for the moment, and because they expect you to believe it because they said it, and there’s that personal charm or charisma or psychic evil power or whatever they got, you sorta feel like you’re not just supposed to just walk away thinking “Poor stupid imbecile. I hope he doesn’t hurt himself.”
And you get drawn into the crazy.
