How to Display Your Baby

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I’m pretty happy with this comic. I like the joke in the first panel. I got references to both Total Recall and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in there. Really though, the entire comic was written around the last panel. It was 2006 in Seattle. All of the strollers had tires like a monster truck, which wouldn’t have bothered me if the strollers were self-propelled instead of being push powered.

Hmm. A self-propelled stroller that the parent rides behind on a little wheeled platform. If it doesn’t already exist, it will within 5 years.

 

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How to Display Your Baby

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I’m pretty happy with this comic. I like the joke in the first panel. I got references to both Total Recall and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in there. Really though, the entire comic was written around the last panel. It was 2006 in Seattle. All of the strollers had tires like a monster truck, which wouldn’t have bothered me if the strollers were self-propelled instead of being push powered.

Hmm. A self-propelled stroller that the parent rides behind on a little wheeled platform. If it doesn’t already exist, it will within 5 years.

 

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How to Help a Friend Deal with Divorce

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Reading this comic, it may occur to you that it reads as if it should be a comic about Rick, even though Rick doesn’t appear in it. You might even be wondering why it isn’t a comic about Rick. The answer is that the comic isn’t about Rick because it is about “Ric.” The real person, Ric, upon whom the character Rick is based, was in the throes of his third divorce. While I was perfectly happy to write a comic about his problems, I didn’t have the nerve to actually use images of him in that comic.

It is a weakness I eventually overcame.

 

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How to Help a Friend Deal with Divorce

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Reading this comic, it may occur to you that it reads as if it should be a comic about Rick, even though Rick doesn’t appear in it. You might even be wondering why it isn’t a comic about Rick. The answer is that the comic isn’t about Rick because it is about “Ric.” The real person, Ric, upon whom the character Rick is based, was in the throes of his third divorce. While I was perfectly happy to write a comic about his problems, I didn’t have the nerve to actually use images of him in that comic.

It is a weakness I eventually overcame.

 

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How to Create and Wear a Memorable Halloween Costume

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You could milk the ghost of a dead X bit for your entire life. One prop from a different costume and last year’s ghost of a dead hobo costume becomes the ghost of a dead cowboy, or a pirate, or an astronaut. The possibilities are limitless, and the effort needed is limited in the extreme!

Note from Missy: The very concept of “fluorescent brown” both horrifies and delights me. Also, new template! That only lasts for a few comics, I believe.

 

The Meyer family has books on sale this week! My "The Authorities" and both of Missy's Villains books are 99¢ in the USA Kindle store, and 99p in the UK Kindle store.

 

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How to Create and Wear a Memorable Halloween Costume

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You could milk the ghost of a dead X bit for your entire life. One prop from a different costume and last year’s ghost of a dead hobo costume becomes the ghost of a dead cowboy, or a pirate, or an astronaut. The possibilities are limitless, and the effort needed is limited in the extreme!

Note from Missy: The very concept of “fluorescent brown” both horrifies and delights me. Also, new template! That only lasts for a few comics, I believe.

 

The Meyer family has books on sale this week! My "The Authorities" and both of Missy's Villains books are 99¢ in the USA Kindle store, and 99p in the UK Kindle store.

 

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How to Give a Kid a Story They'll Tell for the Rest of Their Life

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As with many of my comics, this one was based directly on a real conversation. The difference is that in this case I was the one saying something insane.

I suggested to a friend that we do this very thing. That we tell his kids that I’d challenged him to a trip around the world. That we make a big deal out of leaving. Then we’d part company, and he’d leave town on business, or whatever it was he was going to go do. When he got back to town, I’d pick him up at the airport with two suitcases covered with tourist stickers and two fake moustaches. I’d drive him home then park the car somewhere out of site and run the rest of the way on foot. He declined my offer, even though I said I’d let him win.

Note from Missy: This might be the first appearance of future-people. (When we’ll all wear … discs? Around our necks and sleeves? Can’t wait until we get farther into the future, when the codpieces show up.) I love the stickers on Scott’s suitcase here: five flavors of Disneyland, and Reno. 

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How to Give a Kid a Story They'll Tell for the Rest of Their Life

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As with many of my comics, this one was based directly on a real conversation. The difference is that in this case I was the one saying something insane.

I suggested to a friend that we do this very thing. That we tell his kids that I’d challenged him to a trip around the world. That we make a big deal out of leaving. Then we’d part company, and he’d leave town on business, or whatever it was he was going to go do. When he got back to town, I’d pick him up at the airport with two suitcases covered with tourist stickers and two fake moustaches. I’d drive him home then park the car somewhere out of site and run the rest of the way on foot. He declined my offer, even though I said I’d let him win.

Note from Missy: This might be the first appearance of future-people. (When we’ll all wear … discs? Around our necks and sleeves? Can’t wait until we get farther into the future, when the codpieces show up.) I love the stickers on Scott’s suitcase here: five flavors of Disneyland, and Reno. 

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