Suggested wine pairing: pinot noir.
UPDATE
Last week I was at this rented event space for a work thing, and it had a big kitchen. There was a table that had all these empty Folgers cans on it, and at one point this old lady made a comment about how much crappy coffee there was. I explained that they were empty cans and made a little joke about how they were just decoys meant to attract better coffee. I’ll tell ya, the next time I need a loan, I’m hitting her up first, because she had no interest.
Fortunately, Mountain Time isn’t geared toward the geriatric demographic, so I knew my next episode would be about decoy coffee cans. Thing is, I’ve already used that idea.
It gets really hard not to repeat yourself when you’ve already done a thing 1000 times! Add to that the (surprisingly lengthy) time I spend trying to make my crummy drawing skills presentable, and you’ve got a really spicy batch of creator-burnout chili in your Crock-Pot.
So I’ve decided to give myself a break on coming up with new ideas and finally start finishing up some old ones. There’s a whole big story that was supposed to be where the 2016 Series ended up, but I never actually made time to take it all on in one go. Remember how Chimneyfoot has been stranded in his drinking field for a year and a half? The next two or three comics after that are done and ready to go, but I don’t want to put them out until they’re all lined up and ready. (Doing it on the fly is how the 2016 Series ended up such a mess.)
So yeah, all of that was to say: It might look like Mountain Time is on hiatus, but I’m actually working really hard!
Now I’m just imagining maui-onion-potato-chip-flavored onion rings… with like, sea salt.
Honestly, I thought the 2016 series was pretty cohesive and awesome, a lot of my favorite comics are in there. Take whatever time you need, though; I know just what it’s like to have creative burnout, writer’s block, and all other variety of thing-producing maladies.
Cold: Man, I’m not really sure what that flavor is, but I know I really didn’t enjoy it when the lady bought Hawaiian hot dog buns or whatever, so I’ma give it a mild “disapprove.”
Xin: Again, I can always use a compliment, so thanks! But from my point of view, 2016 was a real mess because it was only supposed to be a quick jaunt to the Crypt to tie some things together, and it ended up ballooning to (I think roughly) 85 not-entirely-sequential episodes because I kept deciding to add new things to the NEXT part of the story. But thanks!
Maybe ironically, I thought one of the funniest things about the series was how even the characters seemed eager to make progress with their parts of the plot, only for something to stall them for two or three more strips, like a conversation being interrupted by something silly. Or the all-text strip where chimneyfoot was trying to explain what was going on and nobody else seemed to even be listening.
eew yeah hawaiian bread is terrible.