So the back-and-forth is happening.
Wonder where that’ll lead.
Probably just where they two participants want it to lead, right?
Riiiiiiight
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I’m not sure Jimmy is quick to allow that anyone, even Self Proclaimed Management, is higher on the ladder of command than he is.
I’m not sure Jimmy wouldn’t have told a customer to go make the coffee while he went to turn on the lights.
I imagine Jimmy saying “&%*$ needs doing, and you’re standing around. You want the ^%$@ badminton set? Make some coffee while the lights and the register gets turned on! &%*$ needs doing, do some &%*$!!”
Since these cartoons have already run over on the Patreon page, I’ve already got some feedback on this one…
So let’s examine Kara’s behavior… Competition junkie tries to turn her life around by dating someone who dotes on her and suits her father and doesn’t enable her competition addiction.
And she tries to turn him into Hubris the very second that she’s accomplished her goal.
Yep. Perfectly normal human behavior.
I’m now going to the kitchen to get my fifth soda of the day that I swore off five times today already.
There are always those arguments, that, once you’re in them, you tend to either back down or double down. It all depends on whether you’re getting hot about it or cold about it.
People hot into an argument will double down even when there’s that little voice in their heads telling them it’s gonna cost ’em dear if they can’t shut up and think for a minute.
People cold on an argument are already thinking about tomorrow and how they’re gonna make sure this difference of opinion becomes something somebody’s gonna wish they hadn’t got hot over.
People who tend to waffle and waver between the hot and cold go lukewarm and… let’s face it, they don’t win or lose. They just set up to have another argument later on.
Everyone seems to be enjoying his or her time at the Outdoorfest! Including the various and sundry folks charged with security and safety.
It’s probably like theme park workers going back into the park on their days off- you’re just using work time to get comfortable and scout opportunities, right?
If real police officers drank as much coffee as TV cops, they’d vibrate til their eyes fell out. You ever notice that?
Cars. You guys who read here regularly know that I catch flak for how I draw, or fail to draw, cars.
But lemme tell ya- as wonky as it looks, the interior of the van in today’s cartoon is WAY better than it could be because I’ve had lots of practice. I’ve been drawing family vans in The Buckets since 2000.
People are all wonderfully squishy and organic and goony looking. Cars, though… yick. Be glad I’m not an auto engineer somewhere. Or, y’know what? Be SAD I’m not an auto engineer somewhere. All those uniform angles and sleek, slim seats? I’d have knocked that on its ear by now. I’d be designing squishy, organic, goony interiors.
And you’d LOVE ’em.
I’ve had plenty of time to think of different ways to sort the teams in some amusing way. I’ve doodled and discarded a lot of long-winded foolishness. After tinkering with ideas for weeks, here I am, making the whole thing into a coffee joke at the last minute… something I hadn’t even been kicking around if my notes are anything to go by.
Sometimes I think these stories are going on somewhere, and I’m just transcribing stuff for you. Stephen King talks about that in some of his forewords and in his book ‘On Writing’- he calls stories ‘found objects’, as though we’re just discovering them.
I’ve gotten too accustomed to my little inking routine- Place the pencils on the light table, affix some low-tack tape, drop down a fresh sheet of heavy drawing paper, take out my lettering pens…
Hold on. This one has no word balloons.
It’s been a while since I did a Hubris cartoon with no word balloons. The last one I can think of was the one with the twisty borders filled with Hubris’ nervous dreamscape. I don’t think that one had a word balloon…
Of course, the concept and layout of that one was different enough that I wasn’t surprised when there wasn’t any lettering to do.
This one took me by surprise, somehow.
It’s been a long day.
