Not ready for this conversation

Miscellaneous marginalia, part 2

Here are more strange tales from my notebook margins.

Obligatorily relevant

I've been hurt too many times before

Mental Health (is back)

The party had been a smashing success, and each guest left with a gift bag of evidence to remember the good times they had had, and to be kept or buried somewhere outside of the reach of snooping federal marshals. 

I'll give you a reason to smile

I'll be right with you

One simple step

And then everything became happy. The end.

Why settle?

And to think I almost fell for it

Buy it by the barrel

I'm asking for a friend

And here's a hastily done bad photoshop version of another direction I was thinking of taking it:

Can I just say, by the way, that I have no idea whether either of these is actually funny? And I realize that's a subjective thing, but I'm still not sure.

Sounds like too much effort

Nah, it's fine. I am what I am.

Surprising gifts

Worried in space

Supervillains need origin stories, too

And so was born Prognathor, the Underbiter.

(for the curious: prognathism)

The allegory of the wall

I don't like this game

Less and less to lose

I thought you'd never ask

I don't know how to tell you this

Not rock bottom

Win back precious moments

Miscellaneous marginalia

 Dear friends and enemies, these are the things I drew in my notebook when I was supposed to be paying attention this week. Looking at them, I kind of wonder if I ever surpassed whatever mental age I reached in middle school, but I offer them to you here, in the hopes that you will be mildly entertained.

(You know, because a mermaid would have a trident, while this guy has a pitchfork. Guys? Get it?)

Make an exception, just this once

A new, worse kind of fame

New uses for old frustrations

All we have to fear

Or buses. Or enraged elephants. Or dying alone.

Though it may be tempting...

In the spirit of full disclosure, today's comic is partially influenced by the superb EP "Moon Colony Bloodbath" by the Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice.

The key to unlock your destiny

A gentle letdown