Do you think Pete wants to spread any info around?
Do you suppose Pete actually knows the info he doesn’t want spread around?
We may have discovered why he doesn’t want it spread around!
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Peter just isn’t the kind of guy to write up an elaborate business plan. Or business anything, I guess.
I guess a lot of businesses are run like that.
Oh, it’s always like this, isn’t it? You take a new job, and it’s never quite what you were expecting.
You figured the boss would show up, and that you’d be welcomed by the other employees… and instead, you wind up standing in a parking lot with some dodgy looking stains here and there, and keeping an eye on the dodgy looking van (it might BE a dodge- can’t tell past the rust) parked all by itself next to the single light pole in the lot, and having to call and wake up the boss, and find that the new employees never heard of you… Oh, it’s all great fun and adventurous.
I imagine that there are people who enjoy discovering what cheap time slots Peter has his commercials in, just so they can be horrified at them.
There was a car repair place here years ago who ran their ads at, like, 4:30 a.m. They were great. They guy was all dressed up in a very fine suit, standing in front of a green screen talking as fast as he could so he could tell you as much as possible in 30 seconds. Behind him were flashing scenes of cars in various states of disrepair. What made the commercials funny is, in rapid-fire delivery, the guy said, “We specialize in foreign cars, we specialize in American cars, we specialize in body work, we specialize in painting,…” and on and on… They specialized in everything they did. By the end of it, even people who let language just flow over them with no thought woke up enough to go “Hang on, dude. Maybe go look up the word “specialize””
Think of Peter Enis Wang doing that kind of commercial, along with wildly misinterpreting what his inventory might be, and you’ve got it.
Dang. Now I’ve gotta make sure we see his commercials here.
There’s always a reason not to go home and let the good times come to a close, right?
“Whooofph!”
“WH-PANNNNG!”
and
“Wump!” “Wait!”
It’s a cartoon, brought to you by the letter ‘W’.
Oops! Except for the Patreon folks, who got this cartoon Monday morning, this is going up late. I have all this week’s cartoons done and ready to go, and didn’t hit all the correct buttons because I’m used to setting these up one at a time, right after I draw them.
*sigh* Trying to be better about my schedule is making me worse at my schedule.
It’s the simple questions in life that mean the most-
“Do you want dessert?”
“Why are we here?”
“Is your mom always like that?”
“What’s the ultimate question of Life, The Universe, and Everything?”
“Why?”
So, here, Hubris asks a question that Peter should have considered before now. “Why?” Do we know Why Peter wants to have a huge chain of stores? For fame? For money? For fulfilling a sense of importance and destiny that life has heretofore failed to provide? And Mal. Why does Mal care about this? Maybe ’cause he knows he’ll be needing a job pretty dang soon. Maybe ’cause Peter has more of an alpha personality than Mal can handle and he’ll wise up later. And Hubris? He probably knows Why Not, but maybe not Why.
I dunno about you guys, but I can’t picture an alliance between the Outdoor Galore Store, Ex-Sportsmart employees, and Enis’s Good Sporting adding up to a viable challenge to the cold, calculating machinations of HomeTeam SportStores.
Of course, it might be only because of the people I’m lookin’ at in today’s strip. But, y’know, looks can be deceiving.
I like cartoons where something is repeated.
This is a gentle stab at it. The first example that I can recall using in Hubris cartoons is when Kara first introduces Hubris to her dad. I even worked in a synonym, so I could wedge in more repetitions. I don’t recall how many repetitions it was back then and I’m too lazy to go find out. Plus, that was way back when Hubris was a horizontal cartoon strip, and there wasn’t as much room for dialogue. Maybe there were four or five. Maybe six. I can sorta picture using more, but…
