I wouldn’t have added hair to my self-portraits under any circumstances. I find the act of hiding baldness far more shameful than baldness itself.
Also, I saved a great deal of effort by only having to draw a single curved line instead of a full head of hair. For the self-portrait artist, baldness is just more efficient.
Note from Missy: This comic made me want to watch Tim’s Vermeer again. Available for rent from Amazon and YouTube Movies!
There is no end to the life lessons one can draw from Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.
Here are but a few more examples:
When buying a birthday gift, booze will be more appreciated than a book.
If you are searching for a planet that’s hostile to life, don’t beam down to it yourself to have a look. No good can come of that. It is, after all, hostile.
Don’t fall prey to 2-dimensional thinking.
You can get away with the most ham-fisted secret code imaginable if you distract the listener by insulting Kirstie Alley for no reason.
If you’re going to kill Kirk, you’re going to have to go down there. You’re going to have to go down there!
If you maroon a homicidal revenge-obsessed maniac, maybe check in on him from time to time.
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My understanding is that the Russians ended up buying a supply of space pens from Fisher as well.
One technology the Russians had that we wanted when the Soviet Union collapsed was their ejector seat tech. They had much better ejector seats than we did. What that said about their planes is for you to decide.
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We really were apartment shopping, we really did tell the leasing agent that we didn’t need to go out on the patio, as we would not use it much (and it was July in Florida), and she really did just stand there, on the patio, refusing to move and repeating over and over “No, seriously, you have to come check this out,” until we finally knuckled under and joined her outside in the humidity.
We did end up renting the place. It was a brand-new building. The day we moved in I had to go to the rental office to complain because the peephole in the front door had been installed backward. The rental agent and a prospective renter waiting for her appointment and I all had a good laugh about the Seinfeld episode about the reverse peephole, then we lapsed into a silence, looking at each other awkwardly until I said, “But no, seriously, can you please send someone to fix it?”
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Panel one made me laugh out loud. It’s not often a pun qualifies as gross. Well done, past me.
The real person upon whom I based the character Athena is a delightful young woman I worked with at Walt Disney World. By chance, I bumped into her and a guy I also worked one day when I went to a movie theater. I was there solo, and as fate would have it, they just happened to be going to the same showing of the same movie. We all ended up sitting together, then I took their pictures in the lobby to include them in the comic.
Most of you reading this are probably thinking that I rudely hijacked these two young people’s date. I was worried about the same thing and surreptitiously offered to get lost, but was told emphatically that I should stay. And anyway, if it was a date, the lack of romance was not my fault so much as the fact that they went to see Jackass 3D.
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To be fair, when I was a kid I think my problem with naps was having my nap time strictly enforced and determined by someone else based (I now realize) primarily on when they needed a rest. Imagine if you disagreed with your supervisor at work and they said, “You’re getting a little cranky. I order you to go put your head down on your desk for the next twenty minutes.”
Even now, I would take that as an opportunity to demonstrate just how cranky I could be.
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In the font I used for dialog, at the scale in which I used it, the word “Android” followed by a semicolon looks like “Androidi,” which is what they should name the first robot to drive a race car. “Mario Androidi.”
That font is based on Missy’s handwriting. She made one based on mine as well, but it looked so unhinged she decided to name it “Scott Slaughter.”
Note from Missy: you can get the Basic Instructions dialog font, “Boldly Missy,” with a free commercial-use license! You can also get “Scott Slaughter” with the same free license, if that’s your jam. Heck, I have a whole bunch of fonts with free licenses, including a couple of feature-packed new ones!
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