Stupid

Life from my eyes

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.

the awkward turtle one

Concerning the numerical nature of wheels and awkwardness

Oldie but goodie. If you were somebody that i ran my comics by when i was at UCSD (i.e. all of you) then you probably recognize this one. But, you know, drawn better. So that's alright, right?

Also: link a brother. True story. It's okay, though, Mohammed. I know you've got to go and be a doctor and save the world. But - but i can dream.

100th comic!

Well. I say "100th comic", but really, it's harder than that to define. I would more specifically say that this is the 100th picture that conveys an idea - not all of which i would necessarily define as a comic. I mean, would you count dragon-roasting-hot-dog as a comic? Or the goodbye san diego stuff? Or the last strip? And this isn't even beginning to get into all the MQ filler that's been thrown in. But. If you just count some sort of art with some sort of idea as a comic, then this is the one hundredth one of those that i've put on the internet.

I return from my sabbatical!

"Sabbatical?" you ask, going through the archives, "what sabbatical? It looks like he did a strip yesterday!" In truth, gentle reader, i did this very clever thing whereby i abused a blogger mechanic that records all blog posts as having come from the moment they were created, not the moment they were posted. And so while it may appear to the untutored eye that the comic strip for monday, october 20th segues neatly into tuesday, october the 21st, that is in fact a lie. In reality i have been on a three and a half week sabbatical.

And by sabbatical i mean i got really tired of my glitchy copy of photoshop and used the fact that i was near my one-hundredth strip as an excuse to cop out and not deal with it for awhile. I'm going to try to catch up with two to three strips a day. Yeah. That's going to go well. I know. Just... just bear with me here, okay?

Fishing, part II.

So i watched the presidential debate this evening, and got depressed, and if there's one thing that'll get me out of a funk, it's doing Jesus jokes. Don't ask me why, i don't even know. It's just the way i'm wired.

Fishing

I *wish* i was on the news...

Imaginary Rica's been hanging out a lot

So it looks like Imaginary Rica has become a recurring character, mostly because i'm tired of generic bald circle-headed guy being my only conversational foil. Uh, Real Rica, if this bothers you, tell me, and i can make up some other imaginary character. I just got really good drawing Imaginary Rica's head (which is deceptively difficult) when i drew it like sixteen times for monday's strip.

Tales from Unemployment

So of course, the best part about this strip is that, if you look closely, you'll notice that i made me a font for my own handwriting because i didn't want to spend an hour writing in all those words by hand. The kicker being that it took me three and a half hours to make that font, and i'll probably be spending another cumulative three hours fixing it so it doesn't look like i'm concussed. But. C'est la vie. I suppose, barring somebody using this font to steal my identity, it was well spent time.

No ten day waiting period on *my* purchase...

True story, verbatum.

I'm sorry, i was playing a video game. For a week.

Hey, Fourth Panel Imaginary Rica? I'm really sorry about your head.

And thus ended my brief flirt with being a productive member of society

A distressingly true story.

Random aside: because of the subtlest of misplacements - i am only pixels off my mark - in the third panels the wide set eyes make me look vaguely touched in the head.

and thursday

Same Unemployment, Brand New Place

Tales from Unemployment

That's a real comic i was drawing. It did not make me audibly laugh out loud.

Tales from Unemployment