You know, Hubris probably has access to some of the finest bike locks known to the buying public.
And yet, he has Bob stash his bike up a tree.
If you’re gonna start an adventure, though, do you wanna do it by climbing up, and then dropping out of, a tree and whizzing away, or do you wanna start it by trying to remember the combination to a fat ol’ cable holding your bike hostage ’till you provide the answer it wants?
Feel free to ponder for a moment before answering.
One of my favorite old comic strips was Dennis The Menace.
I remember one gag where Dennis and Joey are looking over a disemboweled machine and Dennis tells Joey (who’s holding out a hammer) “You can’t fix no alarm clock with a big ol’ hammer! Bring me a little hammer.”
I don’t really have a point to make about that except Hank Ketcham was funny, and it’s gonna take a big hammer to get Lowell’s wagon rolling again.
I don’t know if I’ve ever done a real “to be continued” cartoon before.
You guys probably know.
By the way- a giant stack of Patron Goodies went out last week. I’m finally catching up on the long overdue stuff I should have sent ages ago.
That means, for all the newer Patrons- you get a little extra stuff.
And for all the long term Patrons… you get more stuff. I hope you don’t already have the things already.
Next up, I’m finally going to have the ‘Team Hubris” embroidered patches made. We should all have patches, don’t you think?
Let’s say “thanks” to all the worriers of the world. They’re the reason we have helmets, inspections, accountants, public address systems, insurance, and people minding the store. And ulcers. They also gave us all ulcers. They had them first, of course, and wanted to make sure the rest of us had them, too.
Also, Thanks to you guys for the birthday wishes, and thanks, Bic, for resubmitting your application!
I dislike being turned away from a public park for private reasons, but it happens. I live in a city with a lot of people. I get it.
But…
Showed up at Stanky Creek one morning to ride my bike only to discover that a race was about to happen. “Oh, foo. Now I gotta drive to my second choice” I thought, when a guy ran up to see if I was there for the race.
No, I told him, I was there for my usual ride. I didn’t know anything about any race.
He looked kinda guilty and started to gabble some crap about “Putting the race on ALL the websites.”
That’s a lot of websites, ain’t it? And apparently, I don’t look at ANY.
I rode in a couple of other parks that day. It’s cool. Races need to happen. But if you’re in charge of a race, just apologize to those who are inconvenienced by them. Don’t try to tell us that we’re not doing our jobs by looking at your website. I don’t know what website you’ve got. It’s better if I go off to my Plan B without some gabble in my ears.
Well, I had thought that this cartoon would be one of your extras that would run on Saturday, but I had three caricature gigs this weekend, so things got backed up. We’ll have to see if I can manage a couple more on Thursday and Saturday this week. Cross your fingers or toes or something. But don’t ask me to do another caricature job for a week or so.
ADDITIONAL INFO: got back into the studio only to discover that the cartoon didn’t go up today! Nuts! For the first time I got a red “Missed Schedule” notification. I don’t know why it missed updating. I didn’t click something somewhere yesterday when I loaded the cartoon. Sorry ’bout that!!
I had hoped to post this as an extra this past weekend, but I had to spend a lot of catchup time on an advertising gig. So, let’s see if I can manage five cartoons this week.
I had been kicking this idea around for a while, and needed a good place to slot it in. Everyone’s going off to work, I figured this was a good time. So I’m tinkering with it to see how it’s going to fit, and dogged if one of the regulars over at The Buckets/GoComics didn’t fling the idea out there from the blue. Like, yesterday. Man.
In the interest of being fair, if you want to believe that I jumped on the idea after it was mentioned yesterday (two days ago, since I’m writing this the day before the cartoon posts) then I have no evidence to support my own claim. David_42 must take the credit!
Remember your first extreme sport? Jumping into what seemed to be huuuuuge piles of leaves in the yard? The kid who did the backflips usually won, til your parents spotted it and said it was too dangerous to keep fooling around like that. Today, there’s probably some company making pads and headgear for jumping into leaf piles.
Here’s the computer file of the whole mural. There are no electrical boxes and exit signs to interfere, although the I-beams on the roof are marked in for space. And the access hatch that Lance’s torso fell across is marked in. Still, this is pretty much what the whole thing looks like. The impression you get while in the shop is different, because you can’t back up enough to get the mural to this scale in your line of vision (you’d find yourself in the back parking lot of the shop) In other words, you can’t actually see it at this size. You have to turn your head and scan across to get the whole thing. For scale, look at Lance’s bike. That’s a 1=1 scale bike that the shop owns, won at a charity raffle. Lance is full size. That makes it a pretty neat thing for the store to have. Because it’s behind and above you as you enter, there’s no “Whoa!” moment, at least not until you’ve been in the store and glance up at the colors. The only big difference between this file and the wall itself is that I was asked to scale back the shop logos in the sky and the parking area on the right. They’re not so obtrusive in the real version. Other differences are minor, decided on after seeing the thing on the wall.
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