it's really real yeah
Back from awayness. The comic I was working on had to go into script rehab, where it gets up in front of all the other scripts and has to talk about the first time it got hooked on the taste of not being funny. So I had to shuffle things around.
I don’t consider Nobody Scores With Small Talk a real comic (those are longer and have to show me funny parts before I post them) but it does come from real experiences! Namely that on the flight I was surrounded by people reading Glenn Beck books. Granted this flight was from Dallas to Orange County, and granted I am used to being around people of differing opinions (cf. Dallas) but Beck lacks that je ne sais quoi oh wait I do know: he lacks the special reassuring aura that he won’t like pound on your door at 2 in the morning wondering if you can spare some Vicodin. So I was bugged. Another caveat: I despise the genre of the political fight book in general – no worthwhile book can be produced in that kind of time frame – so in Raoul’s place I’d likely prefer talking to the hunchback with the spider book as well, whether the other people were reading Beck, Friedman, Krugman, or Moore. I mean, spiders, right?
The other autobiographical part is that, in middle school, one of the books I read + was fascinated by in my spare time was entitled Animals Parasitic In Man. No spiders, but all kindsa tapeworms! Obviously I am putting this paragraph on my OkCupid.com profile right now.
It occurs to me that NS!/w Small Talk could actually work from two political viewpoints, which I think I am okay with. I have not tested it from the arete viewpoint however, which is a dire problem and one which I will address, um, someday probably.
Really real comics soon, until the summer break, which I seriously need this year. There are 360 of these fucking things! I went back and renumbered. You needed to know that, it’s true.
Here is a funny video about genitals. I was happy until I considered that maybe musical numbers are the new rock music and now I feel like sucking my thumb and listening to no wave in the fetal position, which coincidentally is what I was doing all last week.