Happy 2021! here’s hoping it’s a better, saner, calmer, and more fun year for us all!
And sorry about starting the New Year off by being late. I was just about to scan this strip, when I realized it needed a “little more overinking.” But anyway, here it is! With a big Groovy, Kinda “Thank You” to best chums melaredblu and hipopotamo for helping brainstorm this strip.
Lots in store for this year. I’ll let it unfold as we go. I will say that next week’s strip (if I get it done on time!) will jump back to our favorite foursome (if you count Robespierre, and why woulnd’t you?). Big doin’s in the works!
UPDATE: That’s right. No comic today. I’m very sorry. It’s almost done.
I’m transitioning between jobs, so, for the next few months at least, I’ll be working 50-60 hours a week, so finding the time and energy to make Groovy, Kinda, will be a bit tricky. Rest assured though, that I’ve got some great stuff coming, and I’ll make time wherever I can.
Wait, they went to a liquor shop right across from Reade’s bookstore?
Is Edison *trying* to give Reade more ammo?
All that blood loss probably isn’t helping Nelson’s higher brain functions, either. Then again, blood loss in general might be the common theme here.
Nelson has higher brain functions?
What do you mean? The man’s a genius.
Well, some of the time, anyway.
Strangely enough, I had the exact same page in mind when I posted my comment. Great minds really DO think alike. ^^
Always glad to give whatever input I can come up with.
Always fun to revisit the Patrol years.
You’re a great help, brother. And the Patrol stuff is so much fun to do.
I’m with Nelson.
Selective hearing can do wonders for you quality of life.
Why, Hjels, you old flatterer. That’s the nicest thing anybody’s said to me today so far!
Yes please! 😀
Oh Gual, don’t ever change.
New job? Let’s see: you’ve bought books, sold books, loaned books, and taken books for a nice ride in the country. I don’t suppose the new job involves…books?
Oh Pops, how I wish it did. Nope, I will be working at our small, local grocery store. I live in a small town, so it’s nice to see all my library/bookstore friends again.
Well, OK…. Folks need to eat to stay strong enough to keep turning pages. Just this past Saturday I missed lunch because I was reading and lost track of time.
Ah, you’re my kind of reader, Pops.
I’ve done that before. 100 pages later, “Why am I so hungry?”
It may happen again soon-I just got my copy of “The Three Musketeers” from my local bookstore. It’s the most fun you can have reading a book, and a terrible temptation to drag me away from drawing.
Love my books. But my eyes are getting unhappy about all my reading and starting to make life difficult about it. I have a iPad so I can change the font size, but I still have a couple thousand dead tree books that AREN’T on the machine – this makes me very sad.
OH! FINALLY – One of my favorite books that I haven’t been able to read for years (not just dead tree – but LOST in the wilderness that is my living room) is Zelazny’s “This Immortal.” Previously when I looked it wasn’t available in e-book – and a new paperback (well, used) would have cost me over fifty bucks (rare, I guess). But I just checked and snapped that puppy up asap when I saw it on the kindle store!
As an aside, I was very surprised to find that he was only 58 when he passed, back in 1995. That’s sad. So many more books he could have written.
I hope you have a good 2021, Charlie (and all you other cats and kittens). So far I’m not optimistic. Just hope things in the US settle down. LOTS.
Sorry to hear about your eyes, Tru. I know how that is. Somehow typeface in books keeps shrinking over the years. Even when it’s a book we’ve had the whole time.
I’m hoping to go in for cataract surgery in the next few weeks. It’s been years since I could see with both eyes. Can’t wait.
Roger Zelazny? I haven’t heard of “This Immortal, but I’ll definitely check it out. I read “Lord of Light” three years back, and it blew me away. What a great book. Then I tried the Nine Princes in Amber series, but it petered out after a few books. If I run across a copy, I’ll send it off to you.
I think things will settle down to their usual dull roar in a few months. Fingers crossed.
I”m in such a good mood, I have to say. Can’t see for sh!t because I’ve been either reading or staring at this laptop for way too many hours now but MAN is it good to have that sociopath out of the decision-making process.
Also, just watched an interview with our new White House Press Secretary and find the comment section to be 98% blissful at how PLEASANT she seems – plus honest and non-abusive. There were two trolls who had to opine in various comment streams but their English was … sub-standard. Dunno if that means they’re stupid or foreign, to be honest. But non-representative, in any case.
I’ve been trawling through YouTube clips from the various Late Show hosts, mostly. Today they’re happy – tomorrow they’ll miss the incredible buffet of comedy gold (sometimes gallows humor but still…) that was #45. But I’ve been noticing that the comedy bits were never because of him directly – there wasn’t really much funny about him or his actions – but more about how much stupidity he surrounded himself with. Mostly they were furious and disgusted, but couched it in ways that enabled us to laugh.
Sorry – delete if I’m being too soap-boxy – I know politics isn’t what your site is about. I’m just so CHEERFUL!
Lord of Light is an amazing book, I agree. I was just reading about one of his more bizarre books, which was never intended to be published (“Creature of Light and Darkness”) and I think I’ll post the Agnostic’s Prayer to my facebook page because I’d forgotten it and it’s … well. Quite the piece of work.
I’ll just say I’m very, very relieved.
“Creatures of Light and Darkness” was never meant to be published? I did not know that. I had a copy in my hardcore sci-fi fan days, back before most of you were born. I don’t think I read it.
But then, I have lots of books I’ve never read. Someday…