How to Tell if You're Getting Sick

Yeah, in retrospect I see Rick’s point. It does ring false when he wins. Of course, I can’t be sure if it rings false for thematic reasons or just because I know the real Rick and know how rare a victory is for him.

For the record, the last time I was in Seattle I hung around with Rick, and he got a belly ache by eating too much candy, which is quite a coincidence.

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How to Tell if You're Getting Sick

Yeah, in retrospect I see Rick’s point. It does ring false when he wins. Of course, I can’t be sure if it rings false for thematic reasons or just because I know the real Rick and know how rare a victory is for him.

For the record, the last time I was in Seattle I hung around with Rick, and he got a belly ache by eating too much candy, which is quite a coincidence.

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How to Describe a TV Show

Shortly after this comic ran, I got a nice e-mail from Mary Alice, the receptionist for Charm City Cakes on the show Ace of Cakes. Later, when they did an Ace of Cakes book (http://amzn.to/1T4b6fC ) they asked if they could put the comic in the foreword.

I also noticed a copy of the comic hanging in the bakery on the show.

I’d like to be able to say that I eventually stopped becoming giddy whenever I’d see my comic on TV, but that would be a lie.

Note from Missy: I miss Ace of Cakes. We need more kind, gentle shows on TV. And on that note, I wonder when the next series of The Great British Baking Show is going to air.

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How to Describe a TV Show

Shortly after this comic ran, I got a nice e-mail from Mary Alice, the receptionist for Charm City Cakes on the show Ace of Cakes. Later, when they did an Ace of Cakes book (http://amzn.to/1T4b6fC ) they asked if they could put the comic in the foreword.

I also noticed a copy of the comic hanging in the bakery on the show.

I’d like to be able to say that I eventually stopped becoming giddy whenever I’d see my comic on TV, but that would be a lie.

Note from Missy: I miss Ace of Cakes. We need more kind, gentle shows on TV. And on that note, I wonder when the next series of The Great British Baking Show is going to air.

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How to Apply the Laws of Physics to Personal Relationships: Vol. 2

This is the first time I did a comic openly revisiting the subject of a previous comic. Notice the word “openly.” I had revisited subjects before, but this time I couldn’t think of a way to disguise it as a new idea.

Also, looking at this, I’m amused by the fact that I took the picture of the friend I used as the model for the woman in the first and last panels on an evening in late October in Seattle, and I took the pictures of Rick mid-day in the middle of July. As a result, the comic features a woman bundled up in fuzzy clothes and a big scarf being hit on by a guy in a t-shirt and jogging shorts.

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How to Apply the Laws of Physics to Personal Relationships: Vol. 2

This is the first time I did a comic openly revisiting the subject of a previous comic. Notice the word “openly.” I had revisited subjects before, but this time I couldn’t think of a way to disguise it as a new idea.

Also, looking at this, I’m amused by the fact that I took the picture of the friend I used as the model for the woman in the first and last panels on an evening in late October in Seattle, and I took the pictures of Rick mid-day in the middle of July. As a result, the comic features a woman bundled up in fuzzy clothes and a big scarf being hit on by a guy in a t-shirt and jogging shorts.

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How to Pick a Restaurant

I would totally eat at Colonel Kraut’s Bratwurst Bunker. I picture the logo being a sausage impaled on one of those old German spiked helmets*.

There is a very good German buffet at EPCOT. We ate there a couple of times when one of my brothers was in town. It has been said that the difference between many Mexican dishes is all in how the chef folds the tortilla. By the same token, the difference between many German dishes is the circumference of the wienie, and how thin they slice it.

*Those helmets were called “Pickelhaube,” and the Wikipedia page about them just cost me ten minutes of my life. In WWI they discovered that the traditional pickelhaube was ill-suited to trench warfare, partly because the spike would stick up over the top of the trench and make the wearer a target. The solution: a new helmet design with a spike that was detachable!

Note from Missy: [1] I love how sour I am through this whole thing. [2] I went to Wikipedia to find out if “pickelhaube” had any root in “pickle.” (Turns out no: “pickel” is German for point or pickaxe.) I ended up falling down a rabbit hole for 15 minutes. Thanks a lot, Scott. No Rib Round-Up for you!

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How to Pick a Restaurant

I would totally eat at Colonel Kraut’s Bratwurst Bunker. I picture the logo being a sausage impaled on one of those old German spiked helmets*.

There is a very good German buffet at EPCOT. We ate there a couple of times when one of my brothers was in town. It has been said that the difference between many Mexican dishes is all in how the chef folds the tortilla. By the same token, the difference between many German dishes is the circumference of the wienie, and how thin they slice it.

*Those helmets were called “Pickelhaube,” and the Wikipedia page about them just cost me ten minutes of my life. In WWI they discovered that the traditional pickelhaube was ill-suited to trench warfare, partly because the spike would stick up over the top of the trench and make the wearer a target. The solution: a new helmet design with a spike that was detachable!

Note from Missy: [1] I love how sour I am through this whole thing. [2] I went to Wikipedia to find out if “pickelhaube” had any root in “pickle.” (Turns out no: “pickel” is German for point or pickaxe.) I ended up falling down a rabbit hole for 15 minutes. Thanks a lot, Scott. No Rib Round-Up for you!

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How to Deal with Trick-or-Treaters

I bothered to draw myself pouring Mr. Pibb, and to craft an instantly recognizable rendering of one of those plastic Halloween Jack-O-Lantern buckets, but the kids pirate costume consists entirely of a scribbled on eyepatch and a terrible drawing of a skull and crossbones.

It’s not that I’m lazy that bothers me. It’s that I can’t even bother to be consistent about it.

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How to Deal with Trick-or-Treaters

I bothered to draw myself pouring Mr. Pibb, and to craft an instantly recognizable rendering of one of those plastic Halloween Jack-O-Lantern buckets, but the kids pirate costume consists entirely of a scribbled on eyepatch and a terrible drawing of a skull and crossbones.

It’s not that I’m lazy that bothers me. It’s that I can’t even bother to be consistent about it.

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