”You know… as your best man I have many responsibilities, such as giving a speech.” ”Yes.” //
”But the most important one – to me, personally – is making sure you don’t run away from your own wedding.” ”How so?” //
”Well. Back in the day, it was the best man’t job to see that nothing would happen to the groom. However, if something DID happen, it was the best man’s duty to marry the now ’widowed’ bride.” //
”And since your other best men are married (to each other!) the law does not allow them to marry your bride. I, on the other hand, would not have a legal obstacle in this matter.” //
”And even though your bride is a very lovely person, I’m simply not leaning that way. So I’m just trying not to get married here.” //
”…so that would explain the snipers on the roof…” ”Yes.” //
”Well, Mr Brony didn’t try to run away before the wedding. So congratulations to him and his bride – I mean WIFE!” //
”And those snipers only had tranquilizer darts. And excellent aim.”

THE SAVIOR OF THE DAY

I went to a restaurant with Mr Brony, his bride and his other best men. //
”Aah! A bee!” //
”She won’t do anything to us.” ”Yeah, but I’m terrified of bees. I’ll go ask a waiter if they could do something about it.” //
”I hope that ’something’ isn’t ’a flyswatter’…” //
”Of course. I’ll try to come up with something.” ”Thank you.” //
”Got you, bee! Now, let’s take you outdoors.” //
”Thank you so much!” ”Also for the bee.” ”No problem!” //
”This is probably but a small thing… but this waiter handled the situation really well and cared for everyone involved. The bee-fearing customer was helped… as well as the small animal that had just ended up in a wrong place. And that made me feel really good.”

TIRED

”I’m tired, will be back at some point”

Tein viime vuonna näihin aikoihin koko lailla samanlaisen postauksen, jossa totesin että olen lomalla ja päivitän blogia jos jaksan. Sama tänään. En ole myöskään oikein jaksanut piirtää sarjiksia, eikä oikein ole huvittanutkaan, niin postaan mitä sattuu jos siltä tuntuu. Vähän unta ja teetä, kyllä se tästä taas lähtee.
Around this time last year I made a rather similar post as this one where I stated that I’m on vacation and will update the blog if I bother. Same today. I haven’t really had the energy or motivation to draw any comics lately either so I’ll post whatever I feel like if I feel like it at all. A little tea and some sleep and I’ll be up to it again.

No, ostin kyllä uusia tusseja ja käytin niitä piirtääkseni pienen kuvan Jeanista, joka on ihana velociraptor-pehmolelu, jonka Lumppari antoi minulle <3
Well, I did buy some new markers and drew a picture of Jean, the lovely velociraptor plushie that I got from Snowhorse <3

”Dinnertime, boys. Hello, Bruce. Clint. Tony. Steve…?” //
”Steve?” //
”Boys… I think Steve might be dead.” ”That would explain why he isn’t moving nor hissing.” //
”So, one of my roaches died. It’s a bid sad, of course, but I’ve got three left. I don’t know how old Steve was when I got him but I had him for more than a year.” //
”These roaches can live up to five years but I think they rarely do live that long. I hope that Steve had a good roach life.” //
”I’ll bury Steve in a plant jar.” //
”Would you boys like to say something?” ”No, we just hiss.”

A NICE CUSTOMER

Välihuomio: tässä en ole pariin viikkoon julkaissut, koska Sarjakuvablogit oli kaatunut. Onneksi näyttää nyt olevan kunnossa. Palaamme perinteiseen julkaisutahtiin. (Tämä tekninen häikkä tuli kyllä iloiseen tilanteeseen, kun on ollut niin kiirettä viime aikoina, etten ole ehtinyt piirtääkään kummemmin.)
Note: I haven’t posted anything in the past couple of weeks because the Comic Blogs service was down. Luckily, it seems everything is in order now. We’ll be back to our regular posting schedule. (These technical difficulties happened at a perfect time, though, as I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t really had the time to draw anyway.)


”I’d take a five euro Super Lottery ticker, please.” ”Of course.” //
”Where’s that key now…?” //
”You mean this one?” ”That is a HYPER Lottery ticket.” //
”This one…?” ”That is a ten euro ticket.” //
”This…?” ”Yes.” //
”I’m sorry. I don’t know why I messed up like this…” ”It’s alright. After all, you succeeded.”

Tämä tapaus sai minut itse asiassa tosi iloiseksi, varsinkin, kun se myyjä oli sellainen nuori nainen (vaikutti ”lukiotytöltä ensimmäisessä kesätyössään” tai jotain vastaavaa), ja asiakas oli myöhäiskeski-ikäinen ”setämies”, joten stereotyyppisesti siinä olisi voinut olla tosi ikävää kuittailua. Mutta he olivatkin oikein ystävällisiä toisilleen, varsinkin se asiakas, ja huomasin, että minun lisäkseni muut jonossa olleet ilahtuivat siitä, miten mukavia he olivat toisilleen, myyjän pienistä vaikeuksista huolimatta.
This little incident actually made me really happy, especially as the seller was a young female (something along the lines of ”a high school girl in her first summer job”) and the customer was a middle-aged man, so stereotypically there could have been some nasty mocking. But they were really nice and polite to each other, the customer especially, and I noticed that even other customers in the queue were delighted to see how nice they were to one another despite the seller’s troubles.

DINO GIRLS

”I’ve got you a gift. It’s that Stegosaurus plushie you once admired.” ”I love it!” //
Some weeks later… //
”I got you the stuffed toy Velociraptor you talked about.” ”Aww!” //
”We’re women in out thirties and we buy each other dinosaur toys.” ”It’s awesome to be able to use my salary for something like this.”