2x2 Comic (about a serious feng shui fail)

Basically Pica, our cat, disagreed with the position of the floor fan that Michelle and I brought into the computer room over the Summer months. And by "disagreed" I mean her lunch disagreed with her stomach. The fan was on at the time.

Honestly, I was in the other room feeling miserable with the flu when it happened. Michelle shrieked and the folks she was on Ventrilo with while playing WoW thought she was fleeing the room in haste to take care of an ailing husband. Instead, she had bigger problems. The dialog is slightly exaggerated but only slightly.

2x2 Comic (about Mexican restaurants named El Viento)

Sometimes when you go to a Mexican restaurant, you find that you indulge and perhaps eat a little too much. Then afterward, when preparing to leave, you find that your clothes feel uncomfortably tight. Every once in awhile, the extra pressure exerted by said clothing is joined by the pressure of a seat belt. This leads to a chain reaction resulting in... ...well you know where this is going.

I love my wife. She's always helping me come up with new ideas for this strip.

Happy Brewfest, Warcrafters...

Apologies to people who do not play World of Warcraft, this week may seem a little... ...odd; even for me. We had another 2x2 strip written up and even roughly drawn out on the dry erase board but I was asked at 2:30pm today to hold off on doing it tonight without explanation.

In the game of WoW, there are seasonal silly events and one of my favorites is the Brewfest event which coincides roughly with Oktoberfest. There are beer-related activities, a special boss with unique gear that drops including a mole-machine teleporter. The whole thing is just goofy fun and I got a chuckle out of picturing a drunk orc stumbling out of Orgrimmar and hitting on the first green living thing he saw. Too bad Durotar is dotted with so many cacti. On the other hand, a cactus probably has smoother legs than a female orc...

2x2 Comic (about being a dude)

Sometimes it isn't so much "selective hearing" because the male mind doesn't actually key in on what it hears. Sometimes it is more about selective attention. Attention shifts from what's being said to what's being communicated and the result is written all over my face. This strip wasn't based on a specific actual conversation the way the previous 2 were, but more an extension how many conversations have gone. My mind doesn't always go to nudity but my face definitely says "I'm somewhere else right now, please leave a message."

On a side note, yes, her helmet is really large compared to her body and the image Michelle was originally trying to bring up as a strip idea is not far from reality. Without the riding jacket on with all its body armor, her helmet makes her look like a bobblehead.

2x2 Comic (about World of Warcraft, and Guitar Hero)

Ever notice how people start to refer to you by your avatar's name rather than your real name after you've been playing the same character for long enough? Ever had the urge to exploit that for your own egocentric amusement? I have and I haven't (yet). Heh. Conveniently Blizzard only bans characters if a complaint is registered. Create a sufficiently humorous yet inappropriate name and you're golden (just don't do it on an RP server, those merry folk will verily see to your prompt banishment from their digital constabulary).

2x2 Comic (about World of Warcraft, no kidding)

This strip is based on a real conversation that I had with my awesome, WoW-playing wife. When we read that the Horde was going to get goblins as a playable race and the Alliance (which already dominates the server in number of players) was going to get the coolest race in the game, she immediately tried to think of some way that Blizzard could make up for it. Like the good husband I am, I then immediately thought of a contradiction to her idea that made it seem ridiculous... ...that my characterization of her suggestion was no more ridiculous than goblins in the first place is probably what kept me from getting in trouble. We seriously laughed about this for a full hour.

Setting up my favorite non-pirate joke.

Last time was toilet humor, now it is a naked dude. I guess what is obvious here is that I'm not that creatively funny.

The issue now is that I'm really just setting up one of my favorite jokes that doesn't involve a pirate. So this is part 1 and part 2 will be in 2 weeks. Sorry to make you wait for such a low-brow punchline. I have other thoughts but attempting to express them with a force-5 sugar coma in full swing at 11pm is probably not a good idea.

Toilet Humor

It has been too long but I'm back. Things got a bit distracted around here and I'll spare everyone the boring details of why.

Now that the excuses are out of the way, let's get back to cartooning shall we? When in doubt a cartoonist always returns to his comfort zone, the old proverbial "well"... ...the porcelain fixture. Hilarity ensues.