Update: This idea is still awesome [October 2, 2012]
Category: Commentary
anyway, happy shopping!
Hey, did you notice? The calendar goes up to the 34th. [October 2, 2012]
the cupcakes haunt me forever
Okay. The cupcake story. It’s not actually that amazing, so calm down.
The church I grew up in had something called “Care Groups”, where everybody was in little informal Bible study groups that would get together weekly. The kids were of course dragged along and chucked into any nearby basement or rec-room to socialize. Snacks were a fixture at these events. This time we met at the Unraus house, and one of the Unrau girls…I want to say her name was Jody? (Maybe???) All right, well, her name is canonically Jody now.
So the call went out that it was snacktime and Jody went upstairs while most of us stayed behind for a bit. I think the Blue Thunder movie on TV and we wanted to wait for commercials. She came back with a plate full of things, including some cupcakes.
Thinking that she was being a good host, since it was her house and everything, I said “Oh, thanks!” and snatched a cupcake under the assumption that they were for everyone.
False. They were hers alone. She was alarmed and offended that I would just steal from her plate, and I was incredibly embarrassed. I wouldn’t have done it if I’d have known!
I’m so sorry, Jody! If that’s even your name?
If it isn’t I’m sorry I got that wrong too [October 2, 2012]
admit it, you chuckled
There was a Youtube link to the Moroder song I had in mind but the link eventually broke and I can’t remember specifically which one it was any more. In any case, it doesn’t matter – the song didn’t actually make me sad. I’m sorry if you just now realized that sometimes I write things in my comics that aren’t true. [October 2, 2012]
tl;dr – I got crocs today
The ugly bird-things in panel 2 were actually supposed to be normal birds. I’m not good at drawing animals, however, so when this thing came out of my first attempt I decided to just roll with it. As always, here at Interesting Times my laziness quickly becomes an “artistic choice”! [October 2, 2012]
sore wa himitsu desu
The real joke here is that Dad actually doesn’t read this site regularly. To my knowledge he’s seen maybe a dozen comics total. But…*sniff*…I’m not bitter [Sept.4, 2012]
as always, let me know how this goes
You’ve probably noticed — having of course read every single comic up to this point, right? >:| — that when it comes to making up brands, advertisements or store names I tend to make them sound vaguely hostile. Using ALL CAPS certainly helps get this across. I’m not sure what it is about the idea that appeals to me, but I suppose I find it funny to imagine that they would just Give Up Being Nice about getting you to buy a dog or peas or whatever. They’re thinking listen, we can beat around the bush all day but we both know you are just going to buy a dang dog eventually. Let’s get this thing done. [Sept. 4, 2012]
history’s greatest monsters
I’m very happy with the 2nd panel. I feel a sympathetic tingle whenever I look at it, despite usually being bite-free. [Sept. 4 2012]
not original but I do not care
None of those things happened at the wedding. BUT I did manage to sneak lots of video game music into the reception. My aim was to pick music that didn’t sound out-of-place or call attention to itself, but if other nerds were actually paying attention I wanted them to feel rewarded for being in on the joke. And By George I do believe I succeeded at what I set out to do. [Sept. 4 2012]
what could possibly go wrong?
I was wondering what I’d written in the first panel so I went back to my workfile and enlarged it. Here we go:
- “Peace On Earth / Purity Of Essence”, a reference to the film Dr. Strangelove
- Dark City references care of the big spiral (which says “this is the way the world works now” around it) and “YOU CAN’T GO ROUND FOREVER” underneath it
- “Hot Jon?”, yet another Look Around You reference.
- Some sort of drawings based on vaguely occult-y symbols and what looks like it might be a representation of a heart rate monitor.
- 2+2+2+2…on until 20.
- The entire right-hand wall is comprised of an equation I’m sure I laboriously copied from a Google Search on “big equation” or something similar. Only it ends with “=COMEDY?” afterward.
The reason I was interested is that usually I just write nonsense, and do it small and messily enough that when the comic is resized it looks like meaningful text but isn’t. I’ll scribble phrases like “don’t read this please” and what have you. Here I probably spent more time on the first panel than the entire rest of the comic put together, and I guess I’ll always wonder what motivated me to do that. [September 4, 2012]