Wham Bam Ham Can Jam

Hammy’s going to be fine. Seriously, he’s the main character. We’re not that stupid. Except for Game of Thrones who kills off their main character?

Not us, that’s who.

Have I mentioned how much I admire Game of Thrones?

 

Spud of Evil

This isn’t exactly what I wrote, but it’s close:

Hammy stands about the same distance as he is tall from the chip.
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2 parts.  Top middle and bottom:
Top:  Hammy falls forward to eat the chip (mouth open)
Bottom:  Hammy hits the edge of the chip  which sends it flipping backward over. 
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Bottom:  Chip stays in foreground as Hammy starts rolls away down a hill screaming.

Chip:   Giggle. 
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Tiny SFX PANEL:  CRUNCH. OW!
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Same POV as third panel.  Chip still where it was.  RJ and Verne.  RJ holds his foot up, inspect it.  Hammy further away. bouncing in the distance,  screaming.  

RJ:  I just cut my foot on a chip

V:  They use way too many preservatives these days. 

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Spud-Fu

Of all the instances depicting inanimate extruded potato crisps exhibiting martial arts skills in the comics, today’s cartoon…

…is certainly one of them.

Ham in a Can

This is shaping up to be a fun week (or two). T’s doing a great job. This might have something to do with the fact that there are hardly any words and he has a lot more room to draw.  Maybe.

But probably not.

 

Food at Play

Olympic Chip Diving Judges Scorecards:

9.7:  U.S. Judge

9.5:  Latvian Judge

9.3:  Chinese Judge

10.0:  Belize Judge

9.6:  Canadian Judge

8.3:  East German Judge

11.0:  Mole People from the Center of the Earth Judge

This Is Your Face On Peanut Butter

I was  thinking more lip smacking and tongue action, but this is good too.  I like that T added a spoon in the last panel.  As if Hammy travels with a set of utensils.

4 > A Thousand Million Eleventy-Seven

It’s all downhill after 4.

iThink Therefore iAm…

…iStuff.

Apple is the New Sears

I’ve never owned a PC.  Apple all the way since I bought a MacIIc in 1989 ($4500!).  For the most part, as a graphics person, Macs have been superior and worth the price premium.

I no longer think that’s the case.

A couple months ago I bought the latest MacBook Pro to replace my five year old MacBook.  It’s nice.  It’s shiny.  It works.  But it still crashes occasionally.  There’s some weird Lion bugs with Word and Photoshop.  It has some sort of crazy RAM allocation thing where 4 gigs of RAM somehow gets used up when it shouldn’t.  Blazing speed becomes pedestrian once three or four programs are open.  Safari and Flash have some sort of Celebrity Browser vs. Player Death Match going on.   And neither is winning.

I hate to admit it, but my new MacBook Pro is probably not worth the extra $800 or so over a similarly equipped PC.  My iPhone4 and my wife’s iPad2 are still worth the premium.  And that’s the problem.

Apple is the new Sears.

A million years ago Sears sold pretty much everything through its catalog.  You could order a house from Sears.  Sears never made houses.  They just made it relatively simpler to get a house.  Or a washtub.  Or long johns.  Or whatever.

Today, the iPad is the catalog.  The web is the US Postal Service.

Some of you might say, ‘No, Amazon is the new Sears.”  Yes, Amazon sells a wider variety of things, but Apple has the better catalog.  And Apple isn’t going to just stop with selling (or charging a toll) for media. Some day soon you’ll be able to by all the long johns you want at the iSears.

And it’s too bad.  Because in 15 or 20 years they’ll get bloated and slow and arrogant (more arrogant) and all Microsofted and some new, new thing will kick their ass.

Style matters.  Substance matters more. Owning the toll booth matters most.

Until someone finally builds my flying car.