Suggested wine pairing: Syrah.
I know what you’re saying. ‘’Why does the chamber with the vault have rock walls, but the chamber with the ladder doesn’t? Also, shouldn’t the ladder chamber be cylindrical? That seems more efficient.’’
To which I say, ‘’I saw the plane hit the second tower live on TV. How am I supposed to get this bunker right with that kind of trauma? For additional information, I had a small Donato’s pizza with pepperoni and banana peppers for lunch that day, NERD.’’
Kentucky Derby is coming soon. I’ve been recovering from a vasectomy (which I’ve been euphemistically calling “fingers added to my jaw”), so sitting in my desk chair has been a bit iffy. Patience is a virtue, my friends.
The de facto owner of the alphabet is arguably Toral Cowieson. And good news for prospective buyers like Umberto Uco here — the Unicode Consortium is a not-for-profit organisation, so they’ll probably sell it at break-even.
That’s exactly what I thought he’d do with it, the moment I heard his name was Umberto. Wait, his initials are U.U.? He’s not… Umberto Unity, is he? If so, he lost some weight. Good for him. And speaking of bodily changes,
Aw I was hopin we’d have some lil Istos running around. Or, if already extant, some more. My dad had that done once and he did not enjoy it. But I enjoyed not having a series of half-siblings with the women he continued to marry after that, because it was awkward enough having stepbrothers and then not having those stepbrothers, over and over.
NAR: I feel like the alphabet predates Unicode. It just shows up pretty early on the Civ tech tree, y’know? But I have to admit some ignorance here—Unicode could totally be part of ceremonial burial for all I know.
Cold: His name is Umberto Umberto, which is part of one of the darker stealth jokes I’ve made on here.
I would totally fuck up raising little Istos. They’d probably end up seeing “Martyrs” before they were 10 and turn into either frightened little pancakes or sadistic little waffles.
Sorry to hear about your stepbrother situation. That kind of family stuff can definitely pancake or waffle a person.
Well, sure, they didn’t invent it originally. But it’s like, if you want to buy the rights to Mickey Mouse, you don’t have to exhume Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen corpse. (Or whichever way he was interred, I don’t know what the Unicode standards for burial were like back in 1966.)
Ahhhh I get it. The May King. which is why you’re posting this in May, and also why you’re Mayking more comics.
NAR: Fair enough. However, as someone who owns his own font covering every letter, I have to wonder if I own the alphabet.
Cold: It’s more literary than that, but I like your thinking. (I’m Mayking Kentucky Derby drawings right now, FWIW.)
Something about “rearranging the alphabet to put U and U together”… is a lobster derby anything like a horse one? Or maybe “lobster track” refers to some other way of tracking lobsters?
The lobster track is indeed for lobster racing. It’s infinitely better than the Kentucky Derby, in that I’m not expected to spend a lot of time writing essentially the same jokes about it every year.
(I genuinely dislike doing the Kentucky Derby, but it’s probably my most popular thing and I don’t know how to replace it.)
Aw jeez, if you don’t like it.. There’s gotta be other stuff to come up with funny names for. Unless that’s the part you don’t like…
You could look at like, mythological and heraldic animals and make up new, better names for them. Keythong? Why the hell is it a keythong?
The Derby review isn’t about making up new names, though. It’s about being given a bunch of reliably stupid prompts and riffing on them. THAT part is fun.
The annoying part is that the backbone of the piece is ALWAYS horses. You can try to write around it if you like, but you’re always going to run into dead ends and have to fall back on the horsey thing.
I do really like drawing the pterodactyl.
I just noticed Donna is no longer on the cast page. What good is a cast page without the comics resident hottie
Ahhh got it. Stupid prompts. like.. from tech support.
Or you could rank the foreign swear phrases.
That reminds me, isto, are you familiar with latest weird internet thing ‘Horse Race Tests’?