The Friendly Judges got the ugly booth. The other booth with the pretty color discs must be at the boat race.
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You ever tried to ride one of those crazy things? I have. There’s a STEP welded to the frame so that you can step up and get into the seat and reach the pedals! You have to start the thing moving and leap onto it in motion! Crazy design. just… nuts.
I built a costume once. I may have mentioned it before. I have two friends that do amazing costume stuff, like for comic conventions and zombie walks and stuff. I was tired of being done up like Freddy Krueger, so I did my very best on one single, no-holds-barred costume.
And, as with a first attempt on anything, it had it’s drawbacks.
Primary among the drawbacks was the fact that little or no body heat could escape that suit. It was a hotbox. Once, I lost four pounds of ‘water weight’ while wearing it.
All this to say: What do you suppose the inside of Bud’s costume smells like now?
Have you tried to explain to a younger person about Batman? The Adam West version, I mean. It’s not easy. You can tell them that, back in the fifties and sixties, Batman was kinda goofy in the comics. There was a lot of smiling and ‘imaginary stories’ where Batman, Superman, their wives and super-children went on picnics and stuff.
I’m too lazy to dig out those old comics I got from the used book store, but really… Adam West’s Batman wasn’t too far off the mark. Then.
I did my best growing up in the 70’s when Batman got all dour and dark. Jim Aparo art and that kinda thing.
The Dark Knight and The Killing Joke were coming out as my comic buying days were waning.
And still, I don’t recall Batman ever getting his big ol’ cape stuck in a car door or anything.
I’ve heard that Asian actors had it very tough. George Takei, for example, was very grateful to be on Star Trek because he wasn’t, for a change, playing a waiter.
But when you hear there’s a guy from Japan doing archery while showing off tricky riding skills… well, you’d HAVE to think ‘Ninja’, right?
No.
Not unless you’re Durnell. I figure he’s one of those guys who still calls sushi ‘Bait’ and thinks it’s funny.
One morning, around daybreak, I was riding my unicycle on the trails at a local park (It’s okay, it’s a mountain unicycle. I haven’t owned a street wheel in years) and I rounded a bend up a hill, startling a few deer.
The females ran like… well, like deer, of course.
But the Buck. The Buck just stood his ground and made a sound I’m not accustomed to deer making around me. He “wuffed”, or something like it. A lot of air moved through his head, that’s all I know about the sound.
It was then that I conceived of a unicycle (and the cheap, yet dangerous, spiked pedals I used) as a weapon.
I didn’t think I could outrun that buck, nor outride him. And maybe it was mating season, when bucks feel the need to protect their females, or just randomly kick somebody’s ass. I wanted to know what sort of weapon could hold off a buck. I decided that I could get enough work done with that unicycle, if wielded properly, to consider it a weapon, even if it wouldn’t be a unicycle any more once it had been a weapon for a minute or two.
The buck turned and left before anything was put to the test.
But you can thank him for the train of thought that led to today’s cartoon.
So. If you’re not a Patreon patron, then you haven’t seen this cartoon before the release date. Patrons, though, get all the cartoons a day or so early, and they get extra jabbering by me about the silly stuff I do to make these cartoons. Yeah, they gotta pony up five bucks a month, or two, or whatever, but… they get stuff, too. Every so often, I finally get batches of things mailed out. I’m getting better about it.
Be a patron, if you can. It’s much appreciated.
Ahhhhhh, Cartoon Physics.
The same universal laws that had Elmer Fudd pause, hanging off the edge of a cliff just long enough to wave to the audience, before plummeting down a canyon side are at work here.
Okay, guys who know all about this stuff (or who can merrily speculate upon it whether they know all about it or not) If body A is balanced above the ground with a contact point which is, let’s say, an oval measuring two inches on its long axis fires arrow B along trajectory C with a force of D… How many squeaky, sproingy sounds does the foley editor get to make as body A hurtles backward?
I’m sure this is the case in a lot of fields. There are probably really fine musicians who play in various symphony orchestras. And then there are the total hotdogs who garner more attention and whose names become known. There are probably genius code writers crafting wonderful programs who are overshadowed by other code writers with a flair for self-promotion or a knack for working on the high-visibility stuff. Kara, I think, expects to compete hard and be taken seriously. Paste, on the other hand, expects to compete stylishly and teach everyone his name.
But I could be wrong, couldn’t I?
So, there’s a webcomic called “Cyanide and Happiness” which has spawned a card game called “Joking Hazard”.
If you like “Cards Against Humanity”, and you like comic strips in general, and you don’t have any young children that want to play your new card game with you… You should get “Joking Hazard”. Play it with two or three, maybe four other people that you’re pretty relaxed around.
But not with, as stated before, your children. Or your clergy. Or probably your parents. Or with co-workers who could then sue you for making the workplace uncomfortable.
Some of those cards get pretty rude.
