2024-06-30

Growth

 

A seedling cactus in a featureless expanse with washed-out colors. "I will not be pursuing growth until conditions improve."

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2024-06-29

Might be neat

 

Top caption: "Snakes with beaks:"; illustration: a snake with a beak; bottom caption: "Get on it, evolution!"

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2024-06-28

Identifying

 

A seabird asks a person floating on the ocean in a little pool floaty tube, "Are you the beast upon the waters?" The person says, "I am not representative of aquatic life."

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2024-06-27

Commune with nature

 

A person who has just emerged from a tent says, "Time to commune with nature!" A butterfly says, "Hey, thanks for the microplastics, jerk!" A bee asks, "That was *this* guy‽"

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2024-06-26

I tried

 

Person looking hopefully upward: I tried really hard today, / & the results were indistinguishable from not trying at all, to an outside observer, / but one of these days I really am going to get someone to go into my basement".

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2024-06-24

Mind changing

 

Top caption: The thrilling conclusion to "I have to get out of here", panel 1 of 4: / The panel shows the shovel-user, still sitting on the log, projects outward calm while saying, "I think—and I am furious about this—you are right." Bottom caption: See the rest on ko-fi.com/CrustaceanSingles .
 

I've just added one more four-panel entry to "I have to get out of here" to the yesterday's megapost on ko-fi.com/CrustaceanSingles. Here's the first of the four final panels, which I hope will interest you enough to follow a linkto a second location.

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2024-06-23

Catching up on getting out of here

 

Image of a shovel with the title "I have to get out of here".
 

For the dozen of you who were following the "I have to get out of here" story, this post starts at the beginning and catches up on the story I didn't post from 2024-06-19 to -23. Then there are several words I wrote about it all.

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2024-06-19

A break

 

I'm going to take a few days off. Posting a comic every day has been a big part of my whole deal for a very long time (thirteen years at the end of the next month) but it's a self-imposed rule. I'm not in trouble at all. Maybe I will even manage to convince myself of this. See you in a few days. Saturday, maybe.

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2024-06-18

Need to not

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person who dug a hole and fell into a chasm and dug into the cavern floor and found a hatch there and went down the hatch and fell from a cloud and landed in an ephemeral pond next to Grambo now replies to Grambo: "I'm happy for you. Truly. / Me, though...wherever I am, I need to not. / I can't wait weeks to keep digging. Guess I better start running."

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2024-06-17

How do you know

In continuation from yesterday's comic, Grambo addresses the person who fell out of the sky with a shovel and immediately tried to dig a hole in the body of water in which both characters stand: "How do you know you have to get out of here?" (The other holds their shovel and frowns at it.) "For the record, this is one of my favorite places in the world. An ephemeral pond."

 

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2024-06-16

As below, so above

 

This continuation from past days' comics takes the form of two vertical panels. First, on the left, in a sequence of three motions from the top down, the person who fell from the sky grabs their shovel and begins to dig at the water, which is of course futile, while saying "I have / to get out / of here". On the right, Grambo has straightened somewhat and says with a concerned face, "This, however, I don't think I can endorse."

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2024-06-15

Splash

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the unnamed person falling from the sky is just landing with a huge splash in a body of water of uncertain breadth or depth. Their shovel lands just ahead of them with a "SPLIP!" Nearby, Grambo (whose head and shoulders are sticking out of the water) says, "That's the spirit!"

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2024-06-14

Descent

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the unnamed person has stepped down through the hatch marked EXIT, which is seen above superimposed on the bottom of a cloud. The person is falling feet first; next to them falls the shovel.

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2024-06-13

Advice

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person who dug into the floor of the cavern to unearth a hatch with a handle and the word EXIT now kneels next to said hatch and puts a hand on the handle. "Got any advice?" they ask the other person in the cavern. The other replies, "Don't take my advice," before adding, "I'm the version that's stuck here." Another silence, and then, "I hope it goes better for you."

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2024-06-12

Exit

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person digging at the floor of the cavern has unearthed the source of the CLANG sound: a hatch in the floor with a handle and the single word "EXIT".

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2024-06-11

Clang

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person who dug a deep hole and fell into a cavern and met a person who is possibly themself has picked up their shovel and begun to dig into the floor of the cavern. But now, after only a few shovel strokes, the shovel hits something that goes CLANG!

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2024-06-10

In that case,

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, today's is in three panels. Panel 1 of 3: the person who has fallen into the cavern and sat up on its floor now leans forward to pick up the shovel they dropped before falling. The person says, "Well,". Panel 2 of 3: The same person leans on the shovel to pull themself upright. They say, "OK." Panel 3 of 3: a full-width view of the scene in which the person with the shovel is now digging into the floor of the cavern while the other person, who was already in the cavern when the former fell, looks on astonished consternation.

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2024-06-09

You always do this

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person who fell into the cavern has sat up on the floor and listens to the one who was already in the cavern: "We— you always do this. / 'I have to get out of here!' / And then you panic, and then sooner or later you end up here. / And then you have to get out of here."

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2024-06-08

Again?

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the person who was digging the hole has now fallen down the fissure that opened up beneath it and finds themself in a cavern with an uneven but smooth floor. The shovel they dropped is there. A red glow lights the walls but the source is unseen. Another person stands over them with folded arms and says, "Oh. You again."

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2024-06-07

A fissure appears

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, the cracking sound is the start of a wide fissure opening up directly beneath the hole the person was digging. The person leaps up against the wall in alarm. The enormous worm that was poking its head into the hole retreats, calling, "Good luck!" From the fissure below, red light glows and a voice shouts, "Hey! Who's dropping shovels‽"

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2024-06-06

Too late, topsider

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, a person stands in a deep hole they dug, facing an unusually large worm emerging into the hole. A tremendous CRACK sounds and the worm tells the person, "Well, you *had* to get out of here."

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2024-06-05

Topsider down

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, an unusually large worm sticks its head into the deep hole in which the person holding a shovel is standing. The worm tells the person, "Hey. Topsider. You have to get out of here."

I know that. How do you know that?

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2024-06-04

Down and out

 

In continuation from yesterday's comic, a person has dug themself into a deep hole, with the undug portions shown in cross-section, the only interesting detail from which is a worm poking its head into the dug portion and saying, "Heck?" At the bottom, the person stands with their shovel and thinks, "I have to get out of here."


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2024-06-03

Urgently

 

A person approaches behind another who is digging a hole with a shovel in a wide, flat expanse of short grass. "What are you doing?" asks the former. "I have to get out of here," replies the latter.

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2024-06-02

Fine. Good.

 

A smiling sun looks down on a grouchy stick figure and says, "I don't like you either!"

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2024-06-01

Don't

 

A happy bright sun in a clear sky says, "Beautiful morning!" A person standing on the ground looks up with folded arms and an irritated expression and says, "You're not allowed to talk to me."

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