Nueva Casablanca

 

I've done a comic using this quote before, see it here:  https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2013/09/casablanca.html 

Explanation: There's a famous line from the movie Casablanca - "Here's looking at you, kid." A baby goat is called a kid. A rabbit can also be called a hare but I think there's a technical difference. So I flipped the quote around and used animals. Also, "nueva" means "new" in Spanish.

Text:
Title: Nueva Casablanca 
Rabbit: That baby goat has a mean stare.
Turtle: Kid's looking at you, hare. 

Silly String Cheese

Is Silly String a thing anymore? It was rather popular when I was a youth. Did this character just rebrand spray cheese? Maybe. Don't go falling for any tricks today. Happy Birthday Eve to my sister! I remember when she had her birthday party on this auspicious holiday one year and our neighbor gave her a gift-wrapped boulder the size of a desktop computer tower. It was memorable. 

Text:
A: We've made the ultimate party food: Silly String Cheese!
B: *face-palming* 

True Story: Mystery

 

The mom brain hits hard sometimes. This mystery was solved within seconds of me stating the problems. 

Explanation: The little toddler fork had fallen into the disposal. I had not checked in there. I might have been avoiding it because I didn't want to fix it because I was fixating on finding the fork. Oh, the irony.

Text:
Title: True Story: Mystery
L: I cannot find Ori's little toddler fork anywhere - I've looked all over! Also, the sink disposal is making a weird grinding noise.
M: Hmmm.

Hip Hip Cheerios

 

Happy Birthday to my Oriole! For this comic to be the truest of stories, Ori would have been in a grocery cart - however, I did not wish to draw one so we have the modified version above. I think it's great when you use a new word around a little kid and they substitute it with whatever word they know (hip to hippo). 

Text:
Title: At the Grocery Store
O: Cheerios!
L: Hip, hip, cheerio.
O: No hippo, Mom - Cheerios.

GMO animals

 

So many critters fit in this comic. Now I'm thinking of these critters in the style of Avatar the Last Airbender, where they'd be half-n-half animals like a turtle-duck (a turtle shell with a duck head and four duck feet). This scene depicted is at a zoo, so that's a zookeeper talking to the confused lady. 

Text:
S: Squirrel monkeys? Elephant shrews? What's next, a kangaroo rat?!? When will the GMOs end?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Z: You are... confused.
P: *Squawk* rhino beetle *squawk* sloth bear

Musical Day of Creation

As a bonus, here's the sketch from my Sunday bulletin. My pastor is doing a sermon series on Creation - listen to it on SermonAudio.com! You can look it up by the sermon title and passage on the bulletin. 

Explanation: A music rest is a marking to show that you pause. The seventh day of Creation is when God rested, and is known as the day of rest. 

Text:
Whole-note rest: None of you got a day of creation.
Quarter-note and Eighth-note rests: *backing up their spokesperson*
Various music notations that are not rests: *sad* 

DST Reparations

 

Honestly, I would just like the time change to end. I'm trying to think how a state could give individuals their sleep back and I'm not coming up with anything. Let's just call it done and quit changing the clocks. I don't care if we stay in DST or Standard Time, just call it quits whenever we can get the votes to do so. 

Text:
A: DST has happened around 60 times, so we should get 60 hours of sleep in reparations.
B: But doesn't Standard Time negate it?
A: Nope, double it! 120!
B: Sure, shoot your shot. 

Take It All Back

The song being quoted is "Take It All Back" sung by Tauren Wells, We the Kingdom, and Davies. This song was going through my head as we had to Spring Ahead yet again. Can the time changing please end. 

Text:
A: You want to end DST?
B: 🎜Taking back what the enemy stole🎝

Humerus Femur

Humerus is a real word, despite what my spell-checker is trying to tell me. This comic came to me at a children's museum up in PA where they had a life-sized Operation game in the medical play-pretend area. It was very nicely done. Only tangentially related, there's a minor Star Wars character named Feemor and I keep thinking of his name when I write femur. 

Explanation: The second character is laughing (humorously) at the leg bone (femur, not humerus - which is an arm bone). 

Text:
P: This is the fossil I discovered. Why are you laughing?
F: Didn't you find this humerus?
P: That's a femur. 

ReMarkable

 

A friend gave this idea to me. The joke only works if your husband's name is Mark. Also yep that's a Star Wars reference with the company name. 

Text:
Billboard: Have you ever wanted to clone your husband? Well, now you can! KaminoTech Advanced
L: How reMarkable.
M: *understandably uncertain*

Introvert Audience Participation

 

I went to an excellent theater showing down in D.C. recently, but it started unexpectedly with some audience participation for which my group of introverts was happy to not get selected. I have to prepare beforehand when interaction is a possibility. It was a full theater but I was not about to draw 100+ figures for this comic. Though that would have been an interesting perspective, showing all the others excitedly looking for the ticket while the group of introverts is like NOPE gonna hand this off to an extrovert.

Text:
Title: Introverts
MC: Everyone look under your seat to find who has the golden ticket to come up on stage!
C: I better not find a ticket.
L: I did not come prepared for audience participation. 

Listerini

 

And an extended version:

For the carbivore with Halitosis.

Explanation: Linguini is a pasta. Listerine is a mouth wash. 

Text:
A: What's your idea?
B: Pasta that freshens your breath - Listerini!
Bonus:
A: I'll pass.
B: Dude, you need it!

Fashion Show

 

I don't recall what exactly sparked this comic but it was something in the fashion world. Those runways (or rather the designers) have some weird options. I think the spark was a fluffy purple dress that had cutouts, but it was so fluffy, and it was a rather garish shade of purple. 

Text:
Title: Watching a Fashion Show
S: That is hideous.
L: The color is the best part, and it's not a good color.

Skinny Genes

 

Happy Birthday to my Dad! You're the best <3
My father-in-law and I made eye contact when this conversation happened and I could tell that we had the same thought, which I then vocalized like above. My dad's side of the family has very strong metabolism, and my son is looking like he inherited that with how he is slimming out from his baby chubbiness. 

Explanation: "Genes" and "jeans" sound the same. Some people with skinny genes wear skinny jeans, but not all do. 

Text:
M: Ori has your father's skinny genes.
L: ... My dad does NOT have skinny jeans. 

Risk vs Reward vs Morals

 

Haha, this wouldn't happen. At least not too often, so that's good. Right?

Explanation: Usually things are low risk, low reward (i.e. give a dollar, receive a dollar or less) or high risk, high reward (give $1,000, receive $0 or $2,000). So if you have low risk, high reward (give $1, receive $0 or $2,000), that is a tempting combo (that could convince you to do something morally dubious). 

Text:
S1: Risk: Low. Reward: High. So clearly -
S2: Morals: Out the Window!