Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Out With the Old...

2024 YEAR IN REVIEW

2024 suuuuucked. Hopefully yours was better. Mine wasn't. And it's not even ending well either. Because of this year, I didn't get around to writing as much as I wanted to. I also didn't read as much as I wanted to. But 2025 will be better for both. Hopefully they let me have books, a Kindle, and my writing stuff in the Trump Camps I will inevitably wind up in.

Here are what I consider my better posts from 2024 in no particular order. The first is Harry Anderson's Sideshow, a look at the 1987 NBC special featuring Night Court's Harry Anderson running a carnival sideshow with several carnival acts and numerous celebrities. Next, The Inevitable Return of the Great White Dope features a full week of catching up after a break including a pretty decent classic strip. Going back to the beginning of the year, I began posting classic Born Loser strips starting with the very first one from May 1965, plus Brutus has already decided 2024 is going to suck. Good call, man.

In Diner Dilemma, Brutus is tired of his regular diner but does nothing about it and his life remains unchanged. And finally, in Mother Strange, adults eat some bugs and Mother Gargle is mad...Mean mad!

Feel free to peruse all 258 posts from 2024. Hell, feel free to scroll through all 4,357 posts going back to 2008. Don't worry. Nothing bad will happen. I wrote and posted all of them and I'm fine.

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A man dressed as a Native American--I'm going with cultural appropriation and not this is an actual Native American--angrily attacks the 12 arrows he shot with his bow because he wasn't able to hit the target.
February 2, 1966
Yeah, it's the arrows' fault.

I don't know what damage he expects to exert on these arrows, but I feel most of the damage will happen to the bow, which is also not at fault.

This guy seems drunk.

Brutus is at Echo Glen, shouting into the abyss again. "Happy New Year!" he yells. "Happy New Year!" the echo replies. "Here's to prosperity and success in 2025!" "You're kidding, right?" the echo responds.
Brutus was back at Echo Glen Point back in 2023 for the new year. It was also the day the last Funky Winkerbean was published. Wait. Was losing Funky Winkerbean part of problem? God, I hope not.

I feel Brutus' 2025 will remain exactly the same as every other previous year. The worst things that will happen to him are bad food at the diner, Veeblefester threatening to fire him, and way too many visits from Mother Gargle. We should all be so lucky in 2025.