I signed a vendor contract today so I could do an illustration.
It was only a couple of pages long.
Cartoonists do NOT have elaborate vendor contracts. We mostly just sign away all our rights, and it’s done. Easy peasy.
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Yep. Lowell has survived that mess already. Heh. probably has about 3/4 of the boiler plate filled out in an electronic copy.
Hubris needs a break and not the kind that takes a cast….
Someone is not asking the obvious question. Why is Lowell being sued…
Because he can’t guide rafts on the river.
Yep- here’s the whole story, as hinted at throughout the previous couple of months: Mr. Smythe-Cholera, hot on the heels of his raft weekend with Hubris, decided that his whole company should do a raft weekend as a team-building exercise. He passed the info to the proper office hack, who looked through the vendor list for the company and found Sportsmart, instead of the Outdoor Galore Store. The office called Sportsmart and got the manager of the local branch, which was Lowell, who had just purchased a lot of Hubris’ old rafting, kayaking and hiking crap from his basement, where Paste and Bob were building a secret (and nearly useless) skatepark, agreed to put together a package deal for Mr. Smythe-Cholera’s company (Vinculum Banking) to go rafting for a weekend. Lowell had big dreams of expanding Sportsmarts services and saw this as a perfect test case. While double-checking Sportsmart’s initial quote, the office hack discovered that there were a lot of insurance and company policy issues that weren’t addressed. The office hack went over the Sportsmart manager’s head and asked his bosses to supply the proper forms for the discrepancies. When the bosses disavowed any knowledge of what’s going on, it was kicked upstairs by both companies to their legal departments. Lowell got wind of the mess and hired his own lawyer, a shyster who’d given him a business card back during Hubris’ Outdoorfest. Sportsmart, in an effort to mitigate the issue, asked Lowell to quit and take the blame, thus shielding stockholders from his blunder. Sportsmart and Vinculum banking (or their representative law firms) will have to come to some sort of agreement, but that leaves Lowell’s lawyer at loose ends. I think that’s it so far…
My apologies if some of that stuff was lost in the noise along the way.
Yay! Exposition! Lots and lots of words!
Webcomics don’t have words, they have talky pictures. Books have words!
Greg just gave birth to a novel! Yay!
No. My novel has goofy planets in it, not goofy lawyers.
But Greg, most of those goofy lawyers think the universe revolves around them anyways so you’re close on the planet bit…
Thanks! But, does Hubris know this?
Generally. Just before we switched to the vertical format, there was a cartoon where Hubris made a pretty good guess.
Thank you for the rebackground of the comic. I’d forgotten some of it’ when I was … unavailable.
Hubris: “We split the paperwork, 206 pages each?”
Lowell: “Fine. I get the half where I sign away all your rights. Easy peasy.”
Lowell has a lot of leverage.
and lowel winds up smelling like a rose in the end making hubris eat some crow. oh the evil and humality for hubris
I can relate. I’m a translator and it’s pretty much the same for us, with the added page or two of Non Disclosure Agreement where we promise not to tell anyone that *this* company has exactly the same fluff in their internal manual as all the other companies do.