Dailies (before Hourlies)! (Patreon)

Yesterday was Hourly Comic Day, but as you'll see in the last update here, I tweaked the rules to suit my schedule because I'm a 42 year old human being. So I'll have some hourlies to share with y'all later. :)

In the meantime...

Actually, Baley destroyed both of us. It probably didn't help that Ryan and I were too busy having our own feud after the sheep incident, but either way she slayed us. It was Baley's first win at Catan!!

Last Saturday was too beautiful out to stay indoors. So.

Burkittsville (with two "t"s - can I "sic" my own comic?) is the supposed location of the Blair Witch Project, although... well, you can read about it in the link. Most of the film was shot elsewhere. But locals know about Burkittsville because of it, and it's only about 25 minutes from us, so we decided to pop over for a tiny town visit. Other than a dry goods store and a closed post office, this was pretty much the whole town. 

What I found amazing was that you could look around in any direction from the crest of the cemetery, and it was all just countryside. Even though I knew my (now fairly metropolitan) hometown of Frederick was due east of there, I couldn't really see it. 

The first time I went to NYC, my first semester in college, I was dating a guy from Long Island and we went with his smartass friends who didn't like me. They were all a year older than me and gave me shit for looking up at the buildings "like a tourist." I spent the trip looking down and trying not to make eye contact with anyone.

The next time I went to New York, I'd broken up with that guy, and I looked anywhere I wanted. I think it was my second year in college. I was dating someone who loved me the way I was, who didn't seem to care about what kinds of jobs we ended up with in the future, and I felt more free than I ever did and probably ever will in my life. 

(I'm not sad about that - the things that make me less free now are the consequences of all the things that I love and that fulfill me - but I'm glad that I had that flirtation with aimless curiosity for awhile.)

On a more whimsical note...

I swear to god if the technology that fuels ChatGPT and Midjourney isn't well on its way to improving dating apps so my friends can stop suffering through that shitshow, someone out there is doing something wrong.

The worst part is, I was looking at that basket full of original art below the window thinking "I should really move that."

I'm trying to channel Farel Dalrymple (on Patreon) with that CRASH sound effect. His sound effects are soooo satisfying.

IMO, Hourly Comic Day should be able to be completed the next day (or the day after that!). I'll be wrapping them up in the next day or two.

You may recall that I did the same thing with 24-Hour Comic Day, which is in October - I changed it to 48-Hour Comic Weekend a couple of years ago, so that I could still get in a good challenge, but also get some SLEEP. (I even went out for a drink with Ryan, as I recall.) A challenge is a challenge even if you tweak the universal rules; if you want to do one, you should fit it into your life in a way that makes sense for you.

I hope I get to do another 48-hour comic soon, but this October will mark the 20th anniversary of Girls With Slingshots (!!!) and I'd really like to plan something to celebrate it this year. I'll keep you posted either way, of course!

Back to belated hourly comics for me... have a nice weekend, pals. <3