Cartoon Humor: Dropping Bombs

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Genesis of a Comic Strip Idea
Dogs are a lifestyle choice. You arrange your personal living space to accommodate them. We have a large fenced yard, dog run through the garage, beds, and comfy places in every room so they can hang out with us wherever we happen to be. Extra messes occur. You deal with them. Even when they involve bringing perfectly happy still-living wildlife indoors. Continue reading

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For the Man Who Has Everything…

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A thousand apologies… comic delayed due to technical difficulties…

UPDATE: Sabotage! Scalzi looked super-vexxed because he had to leave on a 2:15 am flight to Kuala Lumpur to “handle a couple of parking tickets”, as he put it. We think he left off a layer, removed a couple of visual jokes, and did some subtle word changes to bring our standards even lower than we usually keep them!

Punishment will be forthcoming.

Meanwhile, we’ve done a second take in a new post, so our readers will get the as-intended version. This one has been nuked. Please delete it from your RSS feeds and continue to enjoy Tempest in a Teardrop.

Are You Missing Some Jumbo Jets, Readers?

Someone has abandoned three airplanes at the Kuala Lumpur International airport in Malaysia. They have accumulated landing fees, parking tickets, and several families of Sunda Flying Lemurs. These aren’t just any airplanes, either. They are Boeing 747-200s. The Lemurs are clearly living the high life.

Aggravated littering is a serious crime. In fact, whoever abandoned the aircraft can be charged with violating a number of international climate change statutes. That sounds serious. The sentence involves six months of community service fumigating President Obama’s golf shoes. Yikes. Continue reading

Christmas Gift Ideas

Christmastime is always stressful because finding meaningful gifts at The Dollar Store is too darn difficult. But not this year. Gwyneth Paltrow and I are teaming up to showcase unique and affordable presents. Gwyneth (see, three sentences in and we are already on a  first-name basis) has done the heavy lifting and compiled the list on her website, goop. I’ve combed through and picked the ones I thought would interest Tempest in a Teardrop readers the most. Continue reading