Ha! You thought it was all done, yesterday. Right? But I got ya, right? Did I get ya?
Also, Urine punchline. Twice. Booyah. And just a few weeks after the big fart joke. We’re going downhill faster than a li’l red wagon, here.
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I don’t know if combining the last line of the scary story and the first joke to come after into one comic strip is a good idea or not. Objectively, I mean.
I think it’s great, personally. But as a storyteller (especially in this day and age of comment sections under comics) you realize that you can never accurately predict how the general population is going to respond.
You guys- the ones who come right straight to Hubriscomics.com- probably get it the way I intended. You guys wait, though, ’til this one goes to GoComics.com/hubris, and we’ll see how Non-Hubris-Specific Readers weigh in. That’ll be an acid test.
Oh, goodness. Urine humor.
Tricky to do urine humor. Lotta audience variability on the ol’ urine.
For all the ladies reading- those are “urinals” the the Ghostbusters are standing in front of.
You might wanna look up some old George Carlin routines about urinals, too. George was an insightful person, and so, like Lin, was able to make use of urine and urinals for humorous purposes.
You can visit Lin, as always, at Have Geek Will Travel.
From the beginning, I wanted Hubriscomics to be kid-friendly… y’know, no nudity (I’d probably have more readership if I was one of those webcomics that put the girlies in bikinis every so often, but I just ain’t feelin’ it.) and no swearing, no drug humor… not as strictly as a newspaper would enforce things- I just had something different in mind. And then there’s the temptation to make a point with swearing, and I’ve avoided that, too. Too easy, really. But it does lead to some fairly juvenile vocabulary now and again. Today’s strip is a good example- “Midnight Urines” is funny to me. Partly because I grew up in a place where stilted euphemisms were occasionally pretty artful, and so I find them entertaining, and partly because I have fun picking through words I can use to see what sounds funny. Paste using the term ‘Wee’ for dog puddles (or unicorn puddles, if you’ve been reading for THAT long) tickles me. In my head, Durnell’s rural speaking voice is really funny when he’s trying to be a Southern Gentleman and avoid the use of the word ‘piss’. He doesn’t want to be that vulgar, so what he comes up with, while not exactly vulgar, is stilted enough to have it’s own goofy charm. I hope you agree… and that you hear something like Jeff Foxworthy’s accent while reading Durnell’s speech balloons.
