Toothpick Tuesday

September 17, 1966

Should've put up a sign or something to say 'come home quietly'. Why is he even doing this? Is he trying to avoid some work at home he needs to do? "I need to go out an tar the roof. Hey! Are those toothpicks over there?"

Okay. Did they have this many toothpicks or did he go out and buy them? There have to be thousands now in that pile. Thousands.

Monotonize is barely a word and Veeblefester is definitely using it wrong here.

Hand of Fate

July 26, 1966

"Please no eating food in the art museum, sir."

So what's the worse violation here? Leaving trash on the floor or vandalizing the painting by eating the fruit in it?

I find it hard to believe Wilberforce doesn't know what fate is as an 8-or 9-year-old. Especially since he asked about it back in 2023, got the same answer, and made the same joke.

Pock!

June 7, 1966

Yeah, I'm not too keen on giant hands or things like that either. Mainly because my giant hand never got delivered from that community college I bought it from and now my son is somewhere lost in the sky.

2000

There should be a net or something to keep the balls from hitting the patrons. That could be a liability the bar won't want to deal with. But if you know balls will be flying at the bar, then why go to that bar?

Unlimited Brutus

February 5, 1966

Don't listen to Art Professor Maynard G. Krebs here. People of all ages lovingly utilize paint-by-number books while beatnik after beatnik have disappeared.

I mean, he's creating a paint by numbers and not doing one, right? I guess the strip and comment works either way.

I feel the same way. Can I have a discount on my bill because I never actually use the phone part? No one wants to talk to me unlimitedly either, and frankly, I don't blame them.

1225: NuPenny's Last Stand

It's Free State Festival Week in my hometown where my city becomes about 25% weirder. An art installation sponsored by the University of Kansas's Spencer Museum of Art is a NuPenny Toy Stand by Randy Regier. The location is secret but if you know people who have found it, they will tell you or you could probably figure it out. I figured out its location based on the pictures people were posting.

It was actually quite cool and I'm glad we all went out to look at it before the artist gave every one directions today.

Is Wilberforce thinking about becoming a vegetarian or is he just asking a random question in order to learn more about Hattie? I've thought about becoming a vegetarian but those thoughts don't last long as I love meat--all kinds. I know how we get our meat. It's disgusting but just about everything we do is disgusting when you really think about it.

Come on. Do it. Really think about it.

1204: Spider-Man Cares Not for HIPAA Laws

Is there nothing in this comic that can be construed as sexual?

I'm assuming that they are going to take Bull to a farm upstate?

Does patient-doctor confidentiality still apply when a superhero is listening in? Here's to next week featuring a six-day explanation from Dr. Stone about why he can't divulge information about Harry to the guy who murdered his father.

What does Michelangelo have to do with anything? Last I checked, being able to paint beautiful frescoes on ceilings isn't in high demand at the moment.

1197: Apologies to the Estates of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster

I used to love drawing. There was a time I wanted to do my own comic book and my own comic strip. I even did over a year of strips for a comic strip. I knew I wasn't the best artist but it passed for a simple comic strip. There were some things I did that looked really good. In fifth grade, we were supposed to do our own take on a famous painting. I took the Mona Lisa and turned her into Cyclops from the X-Men. I wish I still had that but it got lost somewhere between moving from Baldwin to Lawrence back in 2002 along with all the other art I kept.

When I was in middle school, my aunt paid for my cousin and me to take a summer drawing thing. It was a fun class but it was then I realized that I was a terrible artist. It's not that I didn't try because if I really take my time then I could do something pretty cool as this odd anthropomorphic leopard shows:

See? It's not too bad but I spent too much time on drawing it and didn't have time to color it. Our last assignment was to create a short comic book--four pages. I don't know why I didn't choose one of my comic strip characters but instead I made up a superhero that was similar to Superman in every way imaginable. I even remember going in with my family and all the other kids' families and going through all the books and mine was clearly the worst. I was so embarrassed and made sure that no one could connect that terrible comic to me.

I still have it, you can read it below. See if you can tell the parts where DC Comics/Warner Bros. could sue me. Keep an eye open, they're a little hard to see.

It was during my freshman year in high school that I finally decided to quit drawing. I was so excited about my year-long art class but as the year wore on, I realized that I was not getting any better so no more art for me. Except for my maps or doodles in the margins of my notebooks and Customer Service, I haven't drawn anything since.

Brutus, even if that were true, I would not consider you a "successful breadwinner." Breadwinner, sure, but not successful.

Superman Vs. Doomsday by Memed