Do You Have Any Guns pt. 1
Yep. Going there. The last two strips got a little heavy, and we’re going to see more of Alex’s story in the upcoming months. But for now? SILLINESS.
Those of you who have been reading my other comics for the last 14 years online…
God, I’m getting old.
…well, I guess that’s topical to this bit. Making money on webcomics is very different from other traditional entertainment ventures. 99% of my comics revenue comes from merchandise. And yeah, before June, there will be a FTF shirt, possibly some other fun, inexpensive merch. But for right now, there’s something I do every year.
My birthday is coming up, and since the age of 20, I’ve been collecting ink. Tattoos. I’ve limited myself to only one tattoo a year (although I’ve sometimes exceeded that limit because uh, I wanted to). Usually purchased sometime close to my birthday. I don’t like having big parties for my birthday – every one of these after the age of 21 has just seemed like “woo, I’ve burned through another year of my finite time left on this planet”. I also don’t need my friends and family to buy me a bunch of expensive gifts.
What I do ask is that if you feel like helping me have a grand birthday, Paypal me a dollar or two. If enough people do it, the money adds up, and even a dollar helps toward me getting my newest ink. I haven’t fully decided on what I want to get this year – I have four different designs kicking around, and how much I can raise will decide whether I get a small one or a big one. After I get the ink, pics, of course, will be forthcoming.
Wanna help a guy out? Here ya go!
In the unlikely event that I raise more than enough money for a fairly large tattoo, the excess will go toward beer, bullets, and and upgrading the computer I do my art upon.
As long as this arc doesn’t end with Salad Days, that’s all I’m saying.
Oh, bra-VO! Finest gun shop in the city, because it’s so clean!
So does this bit end with the customer throwing a chunk of cheddar at Mick’s head?
the question is, where is the bloody bazouki player
^This!
Last Sunday, I was at one of the biggest gun stores in Richmond. It was BARE. The only things left on the rifle racks were a smattering of Fudd guns, 2 NFA goodies, and a long-distance target rifle of some sort. There were two military rifles — a SMLE and a 1903A3. The only 1911s were $2000 and up race guns. The Taurus case was empty except for one lonesome Judge.
If the ban goes down in flames, millions of people will be lining up to buy new production.
Danish boomstick? Venezuelan beaver rifle? (this may be the best play on this idea I’ve seen ever)
Customer: “Berdan?”
Mick: “Yes!”
Customer: “Really, you have Berdan primers?”
Mick: “Oh, sorry, I thought you were referring to me: Mister Berdan.”
Customer: ಠ_ಠ
Would you believe I cut that exact joke out of the strips?
And for that, we thank you.
Oi you! Out of my head!
Along that same line, I just did a strip that goes up one week from today, and I think it might be slightly more viciously mocking politics than I expected. I know I said I would try to not get political in this comic, but… you didn’t believe me, did you? I didn’t even believe me.
ONOES TEH HORROR
Also, I pimped you over at LGC.
Saw that! Thankye!
I thought you already had with the Feinstein strip? Well, whatever. I didn’t believe you before that either. There’s too much good material on both sides.
My wife decided she wanted a .40 S&W chambered AR carbine a week before the news of an impending gun ban. All I wanted was a stripped lower! Just one! By the time I had chosen the brand they had gone from $125 to $400. The next day $1000. I can understand capitalism but once the ban is quashed I’m gonna laugh at the morans that dropped the coin on such a thing.
Oh, most excellent. I’m partway through my Yule-delivered gigantic tome, The Complete And Annotated, so this is particularly timely and welcome.
Quite curious to see how you twist the ending, since the original involves a gun… 🙂
I have a colt AR delta HBAR I’ve been thinking of selling…now may be the time LOL
Politics are ment to be made fun of, it is full of clowns.
I have a theory – That you can only have a finite number of tattoos, before you arrive at an event horizon, after which, it is no longer possible to get more tattoos, instead, the number of tattoos you have DEcreases, until the number of tattoos you have once again stabilizes at one.
So what you’re saying is that you’ll either get anti-tattoos, or tattoos of bare skin?
Nope. Just that there is a finite amount of space on your body that you can fill, before new tattoos have to essentially merge with old ones. Eventually, they’re all merged, and you’ve once again got just one tattoo.
This is why I no longer know how to answer the question “how many tattoos do you have?” I got my first on my left upper arm – the deltoid muscle – of the Danny Elfman tribal skull logo. In the years since, I’ve added a pair of dice rolling an eleven below it, and a four-of-a-kind poker hand above it. The gambling tats were both added in one session. Is that two tats? Three? One? I have multiple tattos, all black tribalish stuff, across my chest, shoulders, and back. They all continue a motif, but it’s the culmination of at least 9 different sessions. How many tattoos do they count as?
When I answer nowadays, I usually just say “a lot.”
Hm. I generally go by discreet images – thus, the dice and the poker hand would be two different tattoos, despite being done in the same session – but then you run into the problem of “How many tattoos does does a whole tribal piece contain?”
Yeah, I’m thinking that once you get about one or two, “A couple” is the safe bet, until you have enough that you think you should move up to “a lot.” And after that? “A whole bunch.”
Question for ya: Some floon irl (who shall herein remain nameless, as he also claims to read this strip) claims that taxes on ammo have gone up SEVENFOLD since Obama.
True? Not? Sorta? Way off?
Semi-specifically, what gun legislation has and has not come thundering down –or even quietly sneaking in–since Obama was first inaugurated?
Your take, in as much detail as you’d care to expound upon here?
The taxes on ammo haven’t budged a single penny in Obama’s time. Retailers may have knocked the cost of a box of ammo up a buck or two, but nothng awful. Ask him for proof, because this is horseshit.
More than a buck or two. I’ve seen PMC .223 going for $1 a round, and people wanting $0.80 / round for TULA.
Because I will very probably have to talk to him about it again, inasmuch as he is a relative-in-law, who WILL not leave the subject alone, in what is supposed to be friendly conversation..
There haven’t been any new taxes federally, there might be local or state taxes. But retailers have jacked prices up all over the place. I tried to buy a brick of .22lr the other day, and the clerk wanted to charge me over $50 dollars. For reference, I’ve paid $10-15 for a brick of .22 most of my life.
That isn’t to say that the government, or persons therein, is not trying to affect ammunition and firearms prices other ways. For example; Chicago, and possibly CA and NY, have pulled the pensions of employees of firearm manufacturers.
Just pimped the site out to Liberal Rifle Association a few minutes ago, expect traffic numbers to jump somewhat around 10-30%.
https://www.facebook.com/rightsofpeople
Heh. Thank you! But… 10-30%? I think you underestimate how many people read this comic.
have you seen the rewritable tatto ?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/moodinq-tattoo.shtml
Oh screw that. Bah.
THANK YOU
Cheese shop bit, good bit.