I think Mr. Biner would have toasted “To Not Hubris” given the chance. But he wouldn’t have been happy about it.
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Nobody was surprised to discover that Mr. Biner had been stationed overseas, right?
Do you get the sense that no one has any particular respect for ol’ Steven?
Including Steven himself?
We’ll have to get him to work on that, won’t we?
According to Douglas Adams in ‘Last Chance To See’, it isn’t an author’s job to prop up stereotypes.
Of course, he pointed this out because he and his little group of English gorilla-watchers were being outclassed by German super-efficient, über-confident gorilla-watchers. He pointed out that it wasn’t his job to make them off-handedly arrogant and proficient just because they were German. So he decided that for the sake of the rest of the book, they’d be Latvian.
Maybe Erich isn’t smugly confident (how many people in this comic are smugly confident? Most of them?) and maybe he isn’t German.
Not my job to prop up stereotypes.
Now, about Mr. Biner…
It’s my birthday tomorrow. I make no claims as to whether I’ll manage a fresh cartoon.
I know how Hubris feels. Too much out-of-normal-routine going on.
Of course, the upside for you is that there’s less blather to read, here.
It’s always the way, isn’t it?
It’s like when you hold the door for someone at maybe the movie theater or someplace, then the next thirteen people brush through as though you were holding the door for them, not one of them bothering to put a hand on it to take the onus off of you. Then you see some nice older person and you figure you’ll hold the stupid door open a little while longer for that li’l ol’ soul who might appreciate it…
and they’re the person who takes the weight of the door off you as thought you’re insulting them by holding it, and lets you rejoin your family who are already across the parking lot waiting at the car and wondering where the hell you’ve been.
In the Hubris board game that I’ve started (and can’t find time to work on again lately), it’s entirely possible to use the strategy mentioned above.
You assign a second team member to gum up the works for the other teams, leaving your primary competitor with a better chance.
I learned that from those big bike races.
Well, that and ‘Talladega Nights’.
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.
Years ago, I did a Buckets cartoon where Larry looks at his dinner plate and says, “What’s this? Is this all?” and Sarah says, “You said you wanted to eat better and lose weight.” Larry replies, “That was YESTERDAY!”
As much as Larry is me (but then, so is nearly everyone else in my comic strips) I don’t want to be like that any more.
I did about as well with my food intake yesterday as I did the day before, but I sure would like to start backsliding already. Gonna be a long road to change my habits.
I liked the idea posted earlier about writing down everything I eat. Some things just aren’t worth the bother to eat if you have to go through the extra bother of writing them down. That’s the kind of thing that appeals to my sense of absurdity.
