Collecting Cockney rhyming slang and British colloquialisms — especially from the Dickensian era — is a favorite pastime of mine. This observation came to me during the earliest days of the strip’s development, around 2008, and the new year seemed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m ending the year on a low pun and a high note, with the appearance of our Australian stallion friend Gabriel Clyde. The character was first seen making an editorial comment about a joke I made regarding “oat cuisine.” It[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seems like scams are everywhere, these days. This joke is a callback to an earlier comic about Sheila’s possible vacation plans. Fair warning; There may be one more bit of silliness associated with this Las Vegas lark. Whether or not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, gimmie a break. I just completed a huge, 85-strip love story arc for Theo and Cora. You think this is easy? Snort. Harrumph. For those who may not remember, author Peter Packer wrote (among other things) 25 of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lightfoot summarizes his case well. As we’ve already seen, Theo has considered this from a few directions already, and it’s part of his reason for sending Cora back home. The late-80s TV series Beauty and the Beast included an amazing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some of my patrons (via Patreon) have applauded this comic for addressing a common complaint against furry as a concept, regardless of whether in visual, literary, or other forms. My time on this soapbox will be brief. These are, after[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Few nights are as lonely as the ones spent without someone you’ve fallen in love with. So many questions, so many hopes and fears. Even when a relationship has grown to the point where we know that we will see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In The Merchant of Venice, Portia is to be wed to whosoever chooses the correct chest, from a selection of three. The first contender is the Prince of Morocco, who sees the three casks and the notes upon each (Act[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In my short story “Real Love on a Train” (the title is a play on the title of music by Tangerine Dream), one of the characters observes, “Falling in love is effortless; maintaining it requires effort, but it’s worthwhile effort.”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “eHarmony” advertising of matching people “on 23 different levels” became part of the commercial television landscape as early as its August 2000 launch. I dropped watching commercial TV and cable in August 2008, so I have to hope that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…