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…
Quick, who remembers what Mal is referring to?
Someone should have reminded him there was a Non-Disclosure Agreement with his name on it somewhere in the bowels of Sportsmart.
You guys remember, right? It wasn’t THAT long ago, was it?
Hmmmmm. Maybe it WAS.
I have yet to show anyone cutting Pete any slack.
What do you think? Should I find someone who’ll cut him some slack?
I’m back baby! Let the Cyborg revolution begin! Make sure you got a stair or a thick rug between you and your Roomba vacuums! Be careful what you say in front of your Alexa! Keep clear of all Zoltar machines! We’re taking over!
For those of you just happening across this cartoon by accident (not likely, but who knows?) I just had a pacemaker put in after an ‘event’. I can now read hard drives telepathically, and make vending machines gimme freebees just by putting my hand near the coin slot. That’s what pacemakers do, y’know? Yessiree, that’s what they do.
What can I say?
When you have a spectacle, sometimes, you need no more than the spectacle.
Here you go.
Okay, so some of you have already seen this cartoon, what with me posting it two spots out of place this past week.
And I figured I’d pull it out of the wrong place and put it here in the right place, but as long as folks have seen it, we’ll make it a ‘bonus’ cartoon for the weekend.
Some days, it looks like it’d be better to be reading on GoComics, don’t it?
Have I mentioned Ms. Wiggins-Ross’s first name before? I’m pretty sure I have.
And one of you guys at least has worked out Pete’s terrible name issue. I wonder if anyone has come full circle with it and worked out where the whole gag came from?
Anyhow, It’s Weird Week (the week between Christmas and New Year) and you know I usually don’t post this week. So, see you in 2020!
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