Pickles

This was going to be the editorial cartoon for the upcoming issue of The Inquirer, but it was deemed not topical enough and something else was chosen.

Yay!

Walter

200

No Comic

Work, shit, you know. Back on schedule monday.

Ask not for whom the axe rings....

Father's Day

Superman Saves the Day

So for anyone that actually followed the Superman movies very closely, you may notice a semi-continuity error. Specifically, if you watched the movies as they came out in theaters, Superman doesn't turn back time at the end of Superman II to erase Lois's memory, he does it at the end of Superman after Lois dies and he wants to bring her back to life.

Except, in truth, it was written that he did it at the end of Superman II to fix all of the things that Zod destroyed and, as a nice byproduct, Lois's memory of the fact that Clark Kent was Superman was erased in the process. However, in a bizarre production layout, the makers of the films shot Superman and Superman II simultaneously, and somewhere along the way somebody decided that the time travel thing would be a cooler ending for Superman than for its sequel. As a result the backwards planet spin was detached from the second movie and stuck on to the first one, and instead of Superman accidentally erasing Lois Lane's memory as a result of fixing other, bigger, problems, he makes a specific point of super-powering the memories out of her, which turned out to be unwittingly creepy.

In later released versions of the movies they fix the ending of the Superman II so that the time travel bit is applied correctly - most likely because it makes the end of Superman II a whole lot less date rape-ey - and it is one of these alternate cuts that was my first experience with Superman II, and it's what i've always considered to be the "right" version.

So yeah. That's a long way of explaining why Superman is thinking about erasing Lois Lane's memory instead of bringing her back to life, in case that threw you for a loop.

Hot Day

That Barry...

Novelty Paintings

Full disclosure: i had to do some work on a different USB device last night, and when i sat down to do comics today i just did not have the energy to crawl under my desk and spend five minutes in the dark and the dust trying to untangle cables and get my tablet reconnected.

At the Butchers'

Bamboo

Drinking Problems

Ant Farm

In which i experiment with a new sport.

Sorry about the hand-written text-heavy comic. I didn't realize that i'd never transferred over my Blubber Buddies font until i'd already started. Oh well. Time to go spend an afternoon remaking a font...

No comics possibly for awhile

Fucked up my computer in a 2006 reenactment. Clearly for me it's death by water. We'll see how the old girl does after she dries out.

Planters Nuts finds new spokesman

Eletronics

We Could All Use a Little Help Sometimes

Not Actually a Comic

Ben Folds is coming back to play at the Warfield in San Francisco in May. Tickets go on sale tomorrow. Just wondering if anybody was interested in joining me.

This was honestly very funny in my head...

...although for the life of me i can't remember why.

Heels

The internet has decided to grace me with a veritable cornucopia of spambots, so until further notice we're on moderated comments.

Not that it really matters, as Rowyn appears to be the only one commenting anyways.

Piggy Bank

I probably could have tried harder on this one. Art-wise, anyways.

For Ryan

I was working on something for Ryan, but i'm super tired and i can't really finish it now.

Stupid

Life from my eyes

Technical Problems

I talked to a dude who said it may be that the drivers have been corrupted. Apparently it's a problem that WACOM has. So here's hoping that that's it.

TFU - The Trouble With Pants

Initially this was going to be several panels longer and actually use the phrase "potty dance", but i decided, in the end, that, as with violence and pick-up lines, the implied punchline is usually the better one.

TFU - This week's episode: The Trouble with College Girls

This realization dawned on me a few weeks ago when i met quite a nice girl and discovered that she was a half a decade too young for me. And i don't even mean like if she were five years older she'd be okay, i mean if she were five years older she would just be missing the cutoff for being acceptably aged.

God i'm old.

Oh yeah, postscript - i'm doing comics again.