The Doctor has returned! We’ve not seen Dr. Carlin since late in 2009 as he pulled drum sticks out of Richard Carpenter’s ass. Seems injured butts are a theme for this comic… I will have to run that one by my shrink later. I was bit in the ass by our dog as a very young kid… Shrinks love this kind of shit. 🙂
Monday’s comic will be a full page filled with all types of goodies and then I’ll take the rest of the week off to catch my breath slightly. Been a rough month and the old fart has to rest a bit. Only a couple days and I’ll be back at it.
Please help out if you can and go pick up the “4 for $4” sale in the store. All four e-Books for only $4.00. 149 pages of comics and extras to read in nice high resolution PDF form. The wife’s medical bills are piling up again and it’s time to knock some of them down. I appreciate anything you all can do to help.
Not intentional, but here’s another Doobie Brothers tune from their 1989 reunion album “Cycles”. It featured the “Captain and Me” line-up and was nearly as good. The ol’ band could crank when it wanted too!
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Huh, lots of familiar faces showing up this week.
That is part of why I pulled down the first year’s comics. There were many good ideas that were not handled very well from a writing and/or drawing aspect. So I wanted to come back to those sub-plots and do them correctly.
I’ve been wanting to bring back Dr. Carlin for a long time. On Monday you’ll find out why he’s in Lombard.
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the hippie-dippy doctor man makes his triuphant return! 😀
YES! Long over due too….
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I’m guessing Dr. Carlin’s specialty is proctology.
It is now!
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Great that you had the doc call him Chuck. Like you I go my middle name and I’m sure (since you wrote it in your strip) you like I have gotten quite a few “How’s it going Bill” in your life from doctors, insurance agents, random people on the phone et cetera.
Yeah, if someone calls me “Bill” it’s a sure sign they’re trying to sell me something. I don’t even give them a chance, I just hang up.
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I was wondering how many people would remember Bud’s real name is Charles. You win a shiny new dime.
Someday, at a Convention, I will have to bring a bag of dimes with me (new of course) and hand them out to folks…
Well, I couldn’t see the doctor calling him ‘Hardin’… 😛
And holy frak, was that really as long ago as 2009? Wow!
Holy frak indeed… and yes, it was in December of 2009. WAY too long to not have the good doctor in the house.
I’m gonna have to do a Dr. Who crossover here soon…
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Ah…but *which* Doctor Who? ~grins~ Mind you, since it was Tom Baker’s Doctor in 1977, and his scarf, floppy hat, greatcoat and curly hair make him one of the most distinctive Doctors Who (Doctor Whos? – ahh, never mind…), he’ll be easy-peasy to draw!
~offers you a jelly baby~
Yes, Mr. Baker would be THE Doctor I’d do… one, he’s the one I actually remember (hair & scarf does it).
I have a desktop I’m working on and shall finish it up… someday soon.
like the name “Bud” doesn’t have it’s own double meaning. 🙂
Yeah, not many folks catch on that the “bud” is the part of the pot plant you actually smoke… thus Bud’s name.
He’s named for my great-Grandfather and that fact, BTW.
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Uh oh? Should Bud be worried xD?
Well, yes…
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Hey, Byron, knowing your interests in the year 1977 and boobs, I naturally thought of you when I found these photos of SF convention costumes in 1977. Damn, nobody owned a bra in the 70s. The Barsoomian outfits are as good as what’s in the John Carter movie, and less safe for work; the transparent white lingerie is really what Elinore wore in the movie Wizards. Check out both galleries.
Ah, good times, good times…
Yes, people think I make up that a lot of women (a lot) did not wear a bra. Particularly in the performing arts arena. But, on a Saturday night in a just about any bar, 75% of the women were bra-less and sporting Farrah Fawcett headlights.
You think I make this stuff up? 😛
Duuuude. I had no idea people were doing this shi-, um, this *stuff* back in 1977 – I’d long assumed it was part of the Bizarro universe that seemed to have started in the ’80s! But these must be the real deal, because none of the female cosplayers are the size of an entire suburb, as so many are these days. Many thanks for a fascinating look into history 🙂
I was not a comic geek back in the ’70s… as you all will find out soon as Bud takes on some geeks in a comic book store.
My first convention was a Star Trek convention in the early ’90s. Wore a “Lost in Space” handmade sweat shirt just to piss off the Trekkors. My first comic con was in 2010 and it was a strange experience indeed. Cosplay is huge, I guess. I am one who would dress up, but not like that. I’d put on a ST:TNG uniform or Lost In Space silver space suit (which I do have one in my closet).
The stuff shown in those galleries are practically porn. Never seen women’s breasts hanging out today… ah, the ’70s. Indeed…
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My first convention is…well…never, and furthermore Ain’t Gonna Happen. I find the whole idea of fandoms incomprehensible, and I think it’s sad that the once-innocent word ‘fan’, meaning ‘I like this [book/telly series/film/author/actor] very much’, has been hijacked by the shall we say ‘scarily overenthusiastic and obsessed persons’ out there :-S
I started buying Marvel and DC comics when I was a child, but not for the stories; to put it simply, comics were my porn (and remain, historically, my ONLY porn. Porn is another one of those things I don’t get. Why watch when you can be doing?). And that was mostly GL and the Flash, because they were the least over-muscled of the superheroes. Mmm, Green Lantern…
Or even the *real* deal. Stupid clumsy fingers 😛
Once again the “magician” known as the Master of the 1977 Universe (me) has corrected your typo for you. I must look into a system that allows a commenter to edit his/her response. Next website design…
ROFL! Maybe you should now use your Mighty Morphin Moderator Powers to delete my correction comment and these answers… 😀
“mighty morphin’ moderator” !!!!!!!
bwahahahahaahahahhahahahahahhhahha!!!!!!!
@Dee – I wins the internets, eh? 😛
“Your butt has seen its share of injuries” …… I’ll bet that ass is cracked right up the middle! #TrueStory
“My the door knob hit you where the good Lord split you…”
Archie Bunker.
One of the few lines I remember him saying. 😛
“Dr. Carlin”, eh? What are the seven forbidden words in a doctor’s office?