I had my own family emergency last week. Harrowing. It’s always fun to see your boss’s face when you interrupt a meeting and note that your daughter has gone missing, and you need to leave. It all turned out OK in the end – my idiot daughter decided that skipping school would be a good idea.
Her children will be born grounded. Writing this on Saturday: She is currently scrubbing the grout on our tile floors, and has been all day. Our house has over 1800 sq ft of tile floors. She has a long row to hoe.
This was one strip where the characters wrote their own dialogue, and I have no idea why Mick’s final reply here tickles me. But it does.
I don’t know where this huge spike in readership is coming from, but: Hello, internets! Welcome! If you wanted a comic about romance and guns, with various dick jokes and other tomfoolery, welcome! And if you were looking for a comment section where you can debate shit about guns with me, or religion, or abortion, or any other political hotpoint, here I am! And after I beat you in the debate, you can go on Reddit and tell everyone what a jackass I am! Greetings!
I think this post needs a soundtrack, don’t you?
I had the pleasure of sharing a couple drinks with Wes Borland after Black Light Burns opened for Combichrist here, a few years back. Dude is a rockingly cool cat. Very down-to-earth, very affable, and has many a story to tell, indeed. Also, he has a scathing sense of humor.
The comment section is one of the best parts! Welcome, new readers. Hope you brought your brains.
…and possibly some thick skin and flame-proof underwear.
I agree about the comments section; it makes a great comic even better. jlgrant is always ready to smack down douchebags, and the rest of us do a pretty good job of staying civil. I’ve seen more than a few times where somebody comes in with (frankly) a newbie question/comment and gets an actual, and even polite, answer. Just don’t trash-talk Mosin-Nagants. 🙂
Damnright!
Most people I know who write any sort of fiction for any length of time says that the characters more often than not write themselves.
That is true Biker Greek, when I was writing Super Squire, some times the story moved off the outline. And some times the dialogue was better. Oh Super Squire was spoof of SCA in a Rocky and Bullwinke radio comedy method.
I once got in a debate here, and ended up going out and buying more guns. God BLESS Failure to Fire!
amen, sir. amen.
Arguing with forum members is like mud wrestling hogs… After a while you realize the hogs like it.
I bought my first Mosin-Nagant (Finnish 91/24 w/ Bohler barrel) and 2 spam cans of ammo because of this comic. Now I too can fire huge fuckoff bullets into enemies of the Motherland, or an old refrigerator.
Is capitalist pig old refrigerator!
Big Danny Lohner, fan good pick on the music. Keep up the good work on comic
I am glad she’s OK, and just had a case of childhood stupidity. Nothing like scrubbing the grout with toothbrush to cure one of stupidity.
It is interesting how that happens, I’m working on a novel and in addition to characters creating their own dialogue, they’re actually developing completely different characteristics than I initially had in mind.
I was once locked out of my house due to a combination of childhood stupidity and wet mittens (I was maybe four, couldn’t turn the doorknob and couldn’t figure out to take the goddamn mittens off). My dad was inside sleeping and my mom was at work.
To this day they still talk about the time I “got lost” despite the fact that the police “found” me about two blocks from where my mom worked. I might have been an idiot but I definitely knew where I was going.
If the characters DON’T write their own dialog, there’s something wrong. Seriously, I know I’m on the wrong track in a story when writing is like pulling teeth. When I’m on the right track, the words just flow out like I’ve been eating sugar-free gummi-bears (they exist. They have a warning label due to their.. effects.). When things go well, I am not so much “writing” as “reading a story scrolling up on my screen in real time”.
Jeez, glad it worked out with the daughter. Must have been terrifying – but at least you get the chance to make her PAY for those terrors!
Hey, this comic is expanding my horizons. And it gives me a space to relate cool post deployment drunken shenanigans without worrying about an Article 15 or a pissed off sorority girl with a snub nose Taurus in .327 Mag coming at me.
Your jump in readership is entirely proportional to the amount of pictures you post of you in a kilt looking sassy.
Your readership jump may perhaps stem from GunWire linking to your site. It’s own traffic is exploding.
Like the strips, they’re fun…
Hm. Could be. They started linking FTF back in November, but there has been a significant increase in traffic since Friday…
Probably from the Firearm, Handgun, and Texas searches going on because of the NRA conclave in Houston.
The last line tickled me, too. I’m still trying to figure out how (and why) one would steal a bed.
Spite or more nefarious reasons.
I found you through two lumps. The comic is pretty good. I have to admit to changing my position on guns after reading it. You and most of the people commenting seem pretty cool.
Glad your kid is ok, they will be dumb though won’t they. I do not know how any of us survived childhood.