A lot of my humor comes from people being oblivious about themselves.
I still get tickled at a lot of comments under my other strip The Buckets on GoComics.com. A lot of commenters seem to think of comic strip characters as somehow ‘Other’, meaning ‘not themselves’. When, in fact, I’m often poking fun at the attitudes I’ve come to expect from them in the very comics they don’t see themselves in. I find it very satisfying.
The idea that Bob is like his dad and doesn’t see it is funny to me.
Always thought the comedian Dana Gould had the best assessment of inheriting personalities.
He said he was just like his dad. He had only two emotions, rage and suppressed rage.
Pretty sure I have some of my dad’s traits. Sadly it is not the ones he hoped.
My dad and I had a lot of butting heads. I went off to college and the first time I came back (for thanksgiving) I had to be picked up an hour away (where my rideshare ended). We were riding back, in silence. I was dead tired having written a final then getting in the car to freeze my body parts off to get home (back of a VW bug with no heat in -20 with snow…) and he said out of the blue ‘You remind me of me. Just like me at this age.’ After that we got along…
Hubris’ dad probably did try to be a dad, and with the tooth missing there, Hubris in dream is about 7… that would be a bad age to lose your dad… (though any age is, really, if you get along with them..)
Bob: “I mean, yeah, dude’s mellow is chemically based and mine’s life, but other than that, he’s too chill for this world.”
Everyone always said I was my Dad’s “Mini-me”. My sister and brother just came down for a family event. We took my niece to the zoo. My wife overheard my sister and brother gawping that I “Walked just like Dad”… How do you see something like that yourself??
HA! Greg I read the Bizarro comic, and posted it to your FB wall before reading this. LMAO