Jacquée seems to be fairly unflappable.
Maybe being hit in the head with a Mal flapped her a little, but she’s still on the job, and that’s what matters.
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I had the darnedest time trying to come up with interesting judges off the top of my head.
In the first Stanky Creek Outdoorfest, I had a little fun putting entertaining caricatures for the judges. I fully intend to this time too. Feel free to try and keep a list.
Mal better hope he doesn’t get that thing off the ground. He’ll lose a toe or four a second or two later.
Honestly, I have no good reason to have drawn him shoeless. I just felt it made the whole sport look just that much more nerve-wracking.
My apologies to the Patrons. I’m on the last lap of a giant job and I’m not keeping up with my Patron Posts (and a few other things.)
Closing in on it, though!
I video’d myself drawing this one- in that stop-motion sorta video, so it only takes, like, 28 seconds to letter and draw the whole thing. It’s nuts. Anyhow, it’s available to see if you’re a Patron of Hubris at Patreon. It’ll show up in your email inbox and you can look at it.
Or you could go looking around online, I guess. It’s out there somewhere.
Anyhow, I penciled really quick because I was afraid the video would be boring if I didn’t move along. I had fun making all the decisions as I inked instead of working them out more carefully in pencil first.
One of these days, I’ll pencil a whole strip slow and easy and video that for you while I talk about the aforementioned decisions made as I draw. That’ll be fun. Patrons will know when it’s ready. It’ll show up in your email.
It’s been a while since I did a photo background. Years, maybe.
Probably.
The title today refers, of course, to the classic comedy routing “Who’s on first?” as was made famous by Abbot and Costello.
But it wasn’t written by them. Nor even performed originally by them.
Turns out it was a sort of vaudeville standard, and Abbot and Costello were just really, really good at doing that routine about the time that vaudeville was being supplanted by radio, and eventually, by television. Vaudevillains, it turns out, would take material from other vaudevillians at the drop of a hat (which was probably another routine that was widely popularized from the stage, hat dropping being the wildly humorous thing it is, or was) and Abbot and Costello were really good at getting on radio and TV.
There’s probably an analog in current digital parlance. Feel free to consider and comment about such.
It’s always bothered me how often in stories that critical plot points are discovered by someone listening at the keyhole. I mean, even PG Wodehouse recognized it in some of his stories as an old trope. Back when my wife watched a particular soap opera (which is where I came up with my theory of ‘comic book time’ and why characters do the same crap every five years or so. “Oh, no, it’s another clone of Spider-Man”) any plot development was sprung upon the principal characters involved while they were standing in a darkened hallway putting their ears around a doorframe while nerve-wrackedly chewing a knuckle. (that’s a very soap opera acting skill- knuckle chewing)
Anyhow- another great soap-opera (and therefore comic book) acting skill is to make sure another person in the area hears what you’re pretending they can’t hear. That one doesn’t bother me, and I’ve included it here to show off my fine writing skillz.
I don’t think it ever occurred to Mal to examine the places other than Work where emotions might come into play.
‘Til now, that is.
And there are just so darn many of them to deal with all of a sudden…
Dating is tricky.
Especially if you’re not.
But in your head, you were.
But you don’t know what’s in the other person’s head.
‘Cause you don’t know that other person.
‘Cept, in your head, you do.
But then… you really, really don’t.
