Peter Enis knows his tropes! How many TV shows and movies have used this simple, yet irritating, setup? About a thousandth of the Soap Operas that have used the one of people overhearing the exact plot point they shouldn’t/should hear while loitering just out of sight. Enis needs to set THAT one up soon.
Anyone will tell you. If you want to sign contracts, you need to make sure you have your backpack all squared away first. Can’t be splitting your attention between interpreting all those ‘wherefore’s and ‘hereafter referred to’s and worrying about whether you packed the T.P. in the top pouch or if its under the cookware.
An orderly mind is a happy mind.
Paste is where he wants to be. Nikki is where she needs to be, so Hubris absconded and went where he needed to be, right?
“All in their places with bright shining faces”
You’d think that, what with all the new and exciting stuff going on in his life, Paste wouldn’t have time to think “Hey, what if I just started a line of people. I bet I could eat my breakfast and enjoy sitting around while more people just added themselves to the line for no good reason whatsoever.”
He… probably wouldn’t have phrased it like that. Or even thought it through cohesively.
In fact, I sort of assume that most of what floats through his brain is a sort of instinctive mush of instructions and instigations that allow him to navigate his world. Evolutionarily, he’s the human equivalent of an avalanche. He happens, and whoever survives him has time to pass on their genes to the next generation. Those who aren’t wary enough to avoid him… well, dang… Darwin awards all ’round.
Hubris thinks what he thinks. He also knows that a lot of people who need therapy become therapists. And he knows that one of the first things you learn when becoming a therapist is that you can’t diagnose yourself or be your own therapist.
And so, Hubris thinks what he thinks. Maybe he ought to talk to a therapist?
Or a friend? Oh, wait…
So if we all rebel against our parents (and sometimes it’s not so much rebelling as just not really being bothered to take them as seriously as they’d like to be taken…) and your parents are all loosey-goosey and outdoorsy, but they TELL you to be all orderly and indoorsy, WHICH thing do you rebel against? And what if it’s the other way around and they work office jobs and tell you to become a flower child and join a commune?
Well, you rebel against what they SAY, of course… unless of course, they say it with a wink and a nod, then they’re HOPING you’ll rebel against that, in which case… Ah, forget it. Do what you do. They’re gonna say you’re rebelling anyhow. Turns out, it’s not up to you, but to whoever’s talking about you.
Everyone’s happy to know that Hubris doesn’t actually sleep in those weird outdated polo shirts, right?
Hubris has a drawer full of those shirts, and by golly, the especially torn-up ones would be good for PJs, wouldn’t they? Maybe tear the buttons off the collar. I dunno.
You know I’m not just assuming he owns torn-up ones. I’ve drawn a few into the strip over the years.
People are being awfully willful about what they’re willing to hear in each other’s words this week, aren’t they?
Must be a trend. Lots of people are into trends.
Oh, Steven, Steven, Steven… you’re about to be under a thumb, and you have no idea it’s coming.
Of course, after it’s actually happening, you may not have any idea it’s going on. So that’s okay.
Do you think Steven has Hubris’ ability to grin maniacally and keep doing whatever he was doing to begin with?
First things first- Welcome, everyone who used to see Hubris at GoComics. You had, what… ten or a dozen new strips when you got over here that hadn’t run yet at GC? So, I hope that was nice.
Second- some of us that are used to seeing four new cartoons here a week (ever since GoComics picked it up. That’s when we went to four) may have been irritated at getting three new strips here last week, like it was another of those high-deadline-and-Greg-can’t-keep-up weeks. But no! Now the deal is that we’re back to a M-W-F type schedule here at Hubriscomics.com, and Patreon.com/hubris patrons get four a week. It’s only fair. They’re horking up hard-earned shekels and bobs for some extra attention, so… there ya go.
Now, on with the show!
Kara’s acting competitive again. I think everyone’s on the same page now.
Of course, Kara wouldn’t have won at paintball… she was faintly distracted.
But let’s discuss the really important thing…
Does Bob just move so deliberately and easily that he fades into the background, or does he actually dematerialize like a swami or a yogi or one of those enlightened masters? If he’s manifesting himself at convenient places in the universe by will alone, that’s one thing. I don’t have time to become enlightened and he might as well just keep on keeping on. If he’s just humming quietly and slipping off when he feels like it, well, that’s a pretty nice bit of stagecraft, and I’d like some notes on it.
How ’bout you?
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