More seasonal employees!
On the left is Jen Aside, who’s been a reader basically forever and is a very active member in the comments. On the right is Dave L, who’s been a reader for even longer than forever, and was one of my Dude People at my wedding. Yes, that means he’s technically already been in a daily update, for free, but apparently he wanted more.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Aww, I didn’t get to first my own appearance? *HARUMPH*
So close Jen. So close.
I actually do have gerbils, so I wouldn’t actually be like that, tho =o
Sorry, dog died recently, plot hits very close to home.
*ahem*
ANYWAY
Congrats on your appearance! YAAAAAY!
You give the most depressing congratulations.
You are not alone in this. >= Mine passed a month back…
XD THREE PANELS WOW
Now I’m jealous! ;D
I dunno, you won’t have to fight somebody for the original D=
I draw digitally these days, so there are no originals! Mwahahahaha!
How do you sell the lineart for bucketloads of cash? Limit the number of digital copies you’ll make available?
People very very seldomly bought originals, so that’s not really a lost income feed.
But doing it on the computer is so efficient that it allows me to do two webcomics at the same time, which doubles my income, by comparison. Two webcomics couldn’t happen if I hand-drew them.
no originals makes me a sad panda
It’s been pretty nice for me, actually. I’d otherwise amass two new original pages a day that have to go into storage. Eventually I’d just have to start tossing or burning them. The pile I have from my hardcopy years is big enough already.
BUT THE CASH WILLIS! THINK OF THE CASH!!!
… Or you could sell the Tablet or whatever you work off of to upgrade when necessary…
Either way. THINK OF THE CASH!
Yeah, see above.
Would you ever having like a sale of some Original art? I wouldnt mind buying some of the Original It’s Walky! art. (but wait until next November and I’ll be out of school and rich
)
It’s Walky! art is something I’ve never sold, and I’ve held onto all of it. The only time I ever gifted art was to Maggie, and so basically I own that art again. Long story short, Roomies!/IW! art isn’t for sale.
J&W! and Shortpacked!, sure.
Upgrade to what exactly?
Booooooo D=<
[speaking of, do you still have the Ted Forth original? or was that after you converted to all digital?]
It was drawn on paper, but I believe Francesco Marciuliano might have it.
Well, that’s cool. And makes perfect sense. I guess at least I have the ’80s theme song Lost =D
Even if all your originals are about half an inch too tall for my art sleeves =(
I totally give you permission to just cut half an inch off the bottom margins.
Even if there’s no lost information, cutting original artwork makes me cry =( I did that for other pieces and totally regretted it later.
Granted, I actually cut the image, but oversize frames = NO EXCUSE
[although, they're expensive and slightly harder to find now]
I hope they don’t flush him down the toilet.
You’re think goldfish and gaters not hamsters.
But I bet Mike would flush it anyways! Just for fun!
That would jam up the plumbing!
You’re forgetting, that’s Mike we’re dealing with. He could force anything down
Please PLEASE do not mention HamHams and plumbing in the same sentence. I don’t think even Mike would do that, even for a nickle. Soot the little guy into orbit, sure. Make his hamster-ball the core of a chrysanthemum firework, no problem and would be totally Mike [ mean yet sweetly spectacular ]
Dunno about the ‘new Mike’, but original flavor mike could have very easily flushed a hamster, I’m fairly certain.
He’s mellowed some in recent years.
Not that easily, unless… are these dwarf hamsters?
She needs a hug. I wish I had an Amber maquette to hug!
I think plushies are better for hugging. Less hard and poky.
congratulations on being updated from readers to seasonal help!
It must be bad if they volunteered for toilet cleaning duty.
Can’t blame them.
I know that feel, I know it all to well.
Since I work at a convenience store I will gladly counsel end of life issues over cleaning the restroom any time.
They’re seasonal. They don’t know yet.
I dunno some bigger stores that have restrooms, kinda hide them. I know the Best Buy near me had one, I remembered using it a decade ago, but they’d rearranged things several times since then so buy the washing machines was no longer a way to remember the location. 5 hourly employees later I finally hit a manager that knew they had a bathroom and where it was.
Now, I’m wondering what hoops I’d need to jump through to end up being featured as a Seasonal next year.
Same here! It’d be fun to be working at Shortpacked! I could be a character kind of like Ninja Rick, maybe even replace him!
It’s about buying into the incentive program, like a sponsorship. But it also appears you get the bonus of Willis saying good stuff about you if you’re, like, cool people and stuff.
If by “incentive program” you mean “sponsoring his Kickstarter project at the $300 level,” then yes, it’s exactly like that. (also, it makes sense that people who have known him the longest and are actual friends would be willing to donate that kind of cash)
I came into the reader party late. But I did read through ALL of Joyce and Walky, Shortpacked, and DOA in about less than a month. Gotta account for something. Started reading in February
By the way, this has been bugging me a bit, but hamsters don’t really live very long. They have a life span if abot 3-4 years. Maybe 5 if you’re lucky and I know bunnies last even less than that at about 1 maybe 2 years.
Also, you can send Amber to Chick-Fil-A Eastgate or Kenwood Towne Center. I’d be willing to help her with the situation.
Rabbits can live for 8 years actually in captivity if you keep them well. 6-8 is normal, and if you’re amazing you can even push for 9. They therefore usually live longer than hamsters.
Strange. Because some friends of mine seem to have bad life spans with their rabbits no matter how well they take care of them. None of them have lasted linger than 2 yrs
Is it possible the rabbits contracted myxomatosis? Is that there over in America?
Also it isn’t that hard unfortunately to literally scare a rabbit to death in certain circumstances, so if they’re kept outside, a neighbours dog or cat could give them a nasty fright. One bad moment, even when the dog or cat doesn’t get to it can end an otherwise well cared for bunny.
Guess that could be possible, yeah. I know they had a cat, but she was mostly outside. Not sure how they died though.
I can’t remember how old the previous rabbits made it to (didn’t pay as much attention to that when I was a kid), but the last 3 rabbits I’ve had made it to 10+ years. “House Rabbit Handbook” by Marinell Harriman is a good source for learning more about caring for them. =)
3 rabbits lasting 10+ years?
You’re clearly the king of rabbits!
I never know if it’s a good thing with my animals really, since that means they get to the point of what Amber is dealing with for Snkrs. -_-; Geriatrics can be tough, but as long as they’re still happy…yanno? Having to make the end-it decision is never easy.
And I so can’t even take my own comments seriously with the Cyclops being pooped on gravatar. OMG XD /facepalm
I’d have the same response if I was asked that on the first day of work too.
Apropos of nothing, but since a number of posters here have an interest in Superheroes, I thought the following link might be of interest.
It is a battle report of a Halloween themed game of Pulp City. Pulp City is a superheroes miniatures game, and the poster put his report in comic book format.
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=247082
I envy Davel’s hair and Van Dyke. Curse my father’s baldness! (and his father’s, and his father’s father, etc.)
I must be lucky…all the men on my dad’s side of the family have full, well coiffed heads of hair…my grand father is in his 80′s and still has a thick head of hair.
Sorry, what were you saying?
You should be cursing the baldness of the men on your mother’s side! That’s the decision-maker.
What?! But my maternal grandfather still had a (mostly) full head of hair when he died at 94! Aww, man. I got cheated.
I think a better diagnostic would be to examine any uncles on your mom’s side.
Male pattern baldness is carried on the X chromosome, like color blindness.
This is true. The baldness gene carries on the X chromosome.
A mother with X(bald) and X(notbald) is simply a carrier, and the one X chromosome she passes to her son (or daughter) could be either one.
A mother with X(bald) X(bald) will go bald. She will pass one X(bald) chromosome onto her daughter, so she’d better not marry a balding man if she wants her daughters to go bald.
A man cannot pass his X(bald) chromosome onto his son, because the son inherits the Y(whatever) chromosome instead. He can pass the X(bald) gene onto his daughter, which is how a woman becomes X(bald) and X(bald). If the mother doesn’t have the X(bald) gene then the daughter in that case becomes a carrier.
My father is balding, but my maternal grandfather is not. My mother is not balding. Therefore, it’s likely that I carry the balding gene. My SO is balding. We therefore will have balding sons — and possibly even balding daughters
My entire dad’s side of the family* is bald. And not, like, kind of bald. I mean really, really, really bald. My mother’s side has no bald guys, as far as I can tell, but I’m not very familiar with it (and the vast majority of my mother’s side is female anyway).
This is somewhere around 30 bald guys. My dad has something like 5 brothers (or was it 6?) and they mostly had 4+ kids each.
I suppose it’s possible (and actually more likely) that these 2 generations have had extraordinarily bad luck in picking girls with the X chromosome, but I like to imagine that my family has created a new mutation that REALLY hates hair on the tops of men’s heads. Even though I know that’s rather silly. Still, one of my uncles was COMPLETELY bald at 16 – I just lucked out and started balding at 16. I didn’t have to start shaving my head until I was maybe 20? I forget when I started exactly.
*I do have one male cousin with a full head of hair. He is, and understandably so, absolutely paranoid for his mane and takes more care of it than most girls do of their hair.
Wow.
I always assumed that my baldness came from my dad, who started losing his hair in his mid-thirties. (I started going bald in my early-twenties, and IIRC started shaving my head when I was 25 or 26); and I blamed my gray hair (yup, jackpot! I was a twenty something with gray hair and baldness) on my mother’s side, because 4 of her 8 brothers started getting gray hair during their twenties, and I have several cousins – both male and female – with gray hair since their early teens. I started going gray when I was 18, IIRC.
So … wow. Got to check further, but none of my uncles are bald … I also feel cheated.
-airfox
Why did she bring her hamster to work? O_o;;
So Malaya can happen upon them and be insensitive about her pet’s impending death. Perhaps even cause it to happen by accident.
So would would we need a thimble to hold Malaya’s remains or would Amber leave enough to fill a matchbox?
Neither. Someone will need to get the vacuum cleaner.
Malaya used to bring a her iguana Fuckface.
But she brought Fuckface because she saw Amber bringing the hamhams.
So if Fuckface causes the death of her hamster Amber has herself to blame?
Those are very hard decisions to make for only seasonals
Readers cameo, oh my!
I have never so wanted to hug a webcomic character in my life. .____.
I pretty much only work in animal-related part-time jobs (vet tech, dog groomer) so I’m so, so used to this conversation. And the therapy involved therein. Amber is such a good hamstermom.
Anyone else have the feeling Amber’s going to wind up killing that hamster?
if by “amber” you mean “the fetus via amber”, then yes.
Give it to Mike so he can… “Euthanize” it.
i don’t think mike would do that. maybe if amber wanted it, but couldn’t go through with it herself.
when i was a kid and heard people talk about euthanasia, it just made me wonder why people were so worried about asian kids. it took me way too long to figure out what they were really talking about.
Amber in the last panel broke my heart. SO SAD.
Poor Amber, I had the something like that with my kitten a few years ago.
My Hampster had a stroke when I was little. It was very traumatic. Its easy to get attached to the little fuzzballs, that’s for sure.
On the one hand, a pet is aging and dying and I totally sympathize with that as one of my cats has a bad case of inoperable cancer…
But on the other hand, you got the seasonal help to volunteer cleaning the bathrooms.
It’s possible to have a GOOD case of inoperable cancer?
Maybe if it’s the kind that gets better.
All the fuss makes me wonder what happened to Mike’s hamster Anakin…
It lost an epic battle with another hamster, losing most of it’s limbs and fur in the process. Mike and Joe saved it using alien tech, and it now lives inside a tiny mech suit, where it terrorizes the cats in the neighbourhood.
I imagine Galasso will compliment her on her mental torture techniques to compel the temps to unpleasant work?