15th

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Sounds like a good idea. Let's all gather 'round Veeblefester and stab him to death.

MR F

Wilberforce is in elementary school, why is being given As, Bs, Cs, Ds, and Fs. He should be getting Ss, Ms, and Es. Maybe this school uses a different grading system. The student either achieves learning and gets an A or they fluctuate in their learning and get an F.

True Love

Why is Gladys acting so serious about this? "I've taken an online test to determine how compatible couples are with each other. I'm going to need you to swab your mouth with his cotton stick and sign here, here, and here with your initial here."

Then How Old Does the Food Have To Be?

I don't know. I think it's time to stop eating here.

That's Still Reading

I don't think I've ever seen Gladys read anything except the newspaper or a magazine--which counts by the way. Brutus reads the same things so remember that when you point a finger at someone, you have three fingers pointing back at you.

Have we stopped calling it 'closed captioning' and are just calling them subtitles now?

On Schedule

I lost my computer several days ago. Well, I didn't lose it but the hard drive completely died so I was without a computer for a while. I do have a Chromebook so I wasn't completely computer-less but I couldn't do any writing. With the death of my hard drive brings the loss of two novels I was working on. Why weren't they saved somewhere else other than the computer? One, I didn't know I could use Microsoft Office's OneDrive but I plan on using that from now on. Two, I used to save on external drives but I have had a lot of those fail and I end up losing my data anyway. I plan on backing up to OneDrive, Google Drive, and an external drive from now on.

One novel I lost was Wilbur and Kolak, a novel I've been working on since 2004. This is the third time I have lost it so I'm thinking that fate is telling me that maybe Wilbur and Kolak isn't the book I should be working on. I'm going to retool it, change some parts of it that haven't aged well in the 14 years I've been writing it and just see what happens.

The other was Vagabond Girl, a story I've been working on diligently over the last year. Unlike Wilbur and Kolak which was written long-hand in a notebook, Vagabond Girl was written in a Rocketbook so what I wrote was erased when I done typing it up. Luckily, I kept notes on what happened in each chapter after writing it so I at least have a skeleton that I can rewrite this novel from.

For 2019, I decided to focus more on my writing and I've been doing a decent job of it until my computer died but I hope to get back into it as we get into spring and summer. Along with the novel, I have a few short stories to work on, a couple of novellas, several research projects I need warmer weather for, and a new Story Series that will post exclusively on Ko-Fi.

Speaking of Ko-Fi, if you would like to support my writing or research without the commitment of a recurring subscription, you can buy me a coffee or two on Ko-Fi which will encourage me to write more. And, as always, tell your friends about this site.  ▩

Wait. Wouldn't he be an hour ahead of schedule? If he had to be up at 8 then his alarm would be set for 7(?) so if the alarm goes off, it would still be 7 but the old 7 would be the new 8 so the old 7 would be a new 6(?). But it would still be 7 either way and give Brutus plenty of time to get to work because schedules don't shift because of Daylight Saving. 🤯

Dizzy Up the Girl

These seems like pretty serious problems. Your parents should probably take you a doctor and get your, I'm just going to assume it's vertigo, checked out. It's probably just an inner ear thing but I'd want to look at their brains--poke around in there just to be safe.

Please Don't Touch the Inner Children

Had Mother Gargle been standing there, she would've went "It looks like Brutus ate his inner child!" If Wilberforce was standing there, it'd be "I'm going to have a baby brother or sister?!" Either one is better than what we got going on here.

What is kind of funny is the pause Brutus and Gladys are doing while Kewpie is thinking. Gladys finishes her sentence and they just freeze while we focus on Kewpie for a few seconds and then they start talking again. Have you ever seen those clips of The Big Bang Theory without the laugh track? It's like that.

You're a Moob

This is the worst description of an implosion I've ever heard. An implosion wouldn't be in reverse because an explosion and implosion do essentially the same thing. The difference is an explosion is an outward force while implosion is an inward force. Instead of going out, it's going in.

Also, what is with Brutus' tiny hand in the second panel? It's not just me, right? That hand is tiny.

Why Did She Pour It?

The reaction Gladys gives in the last panel makes me think the Thornapples and Gargles are not Catholic and don't...is celebrate the right word?...Lent. I'm a little bothered by Gladys' remark in the first panel. "Your coffee is getting cold, Mama..." She's not a child. She doesn't need some sort of cue.