Daily Comics, but make it CARS 🚙 🧨 💥 (Patreon)

Gooood Daily Comics Day, friends!

On Saturday night, I was 60 miles away in the woodsy mountains near the Maryland/Pennsylvania border, working a caricature gig. On my way home, my "low oil pressure" light came on, but then it turned off, so I proceeded with caution. On the opposite side of the road, heading towards me, was a large, strange creature backlit by very bright lights, nearly blinding me. I was ready to believe it was some strange local cryptid, only to pass it and realize it was a horse attached to an Amish buggy with super bright headlights.

I was already picturing how to draw that for your first Daily Comic of this week, when the oil pressure light came on again...

Anybody else have a sudden flush of ideas when you're stuck waiting for a distinct amount of time? (FYI, in newer cars, you can keep an interior light on for a very long time without draining the battery.) (Also, thank god for AAA.)

I ended up trashing the ideas I wrote down on that folded scrap of paper, but at least I got one last mediocre script out of the way so I could move on!

Here's the original art if you can relate! Scroll down for your 50% off coupon, as always!

So I didn't plan on writing about cars for every comic, but "upend my whole week" was kind of an understatement, because...

Four years of extra work to avoid a conflict? Put me in, coach!

Here's the original art for my conflict-avoidant friends!

Okay I'm assuming 90% of you don't care about cars, so skip this next paragraph if that's you. I'll make it visually obvious when Car Talk is over, using emojis.

For my car nerds: here's what happened.

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A local shop changed my oil about 2.5 months ago. I haven't driven much since, and didn't notice the deep puddle of oil that had been slowly leaking out of my car. I had my car towed to a (different!) shop about ten miles from my house; they called on Monday to tell me they found it 3 quarts low on oil, and the filter was super loose. They added oil but couldn't get the engine to turn over, so they tried to turn it manually with no luck. They concluded that the engine had seized.

I'm probably leaving out some crucial information here, so feel free to ask questions in the comments if you want more info!

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Okay back to comics.

... comics about CARS, muhahahaha!! [seasonally-appropriate spooky Halloween laugh]

Funny enough, I made a comic about my face when I'm angry, and it was the OTHER time something happened to this car (third comic down on this page).

Here's the original art, for my fellow look-stupid-when-mad friends!

I asked my local shop - the culprit shop - to let me know the moment they picked up my car, so that I could be there to take notes as they inspected it.

It's a crime to post this comic without photo evidence, but he tucked his tongue back into his mouth before I could get a photo.

Here's the original art for this comic, my fellow cat-blep fans! Remember to use DAILYSMILE50 at checkout for your 50% off!

And now I must return to my new part-time job as Defender of Julie the Kia Niro, a job I did not ask for and do not qualify for, so that I can make some headway on new Elephant Town pages! I'd hoped to launch this Monday, but you know what? That's not likely. And now you know why! So let's have a proper launch when this car business is out of the way. I'm sorry for the stupid wait, I hate it as much a I hate my face when I'm mad.

May all of you... just... not have car troubles this weekend. That's my weekend wish for you. No car troubles!! Even if you don't have a car, I hope you don't have to hear or see a car all weekend long. I hope at least one of you is going somewhere blissful where the number of cars is zero.

I do hope you see one blep. May you see a blep! Blep you all and have a blepped weekend!