What a day… I didn’t get the backgrounds or shading done, but will later. Done! If you don’t see an office background in the first and last frames, refresh the page, it’s there now.
So, today is my 52nd birthday, and as I’m typing this at 12:30am, I’m enjoying it already! I thankful for many things but I’m really happy to be doing 1977 and having so much fun doing it that I’ll stay up to 12:30am even though I have to get up at 5:30 with my youngest son. I’m also thankful to have a great readership as you guys & gals joining me in on the fun. It’s not the same without you. I’ve always said I’ll do the comic as long as it makes me laugh. Even now at this late hour, I chuckle at my characters. I don’t see that changing any time soon…
The song title is from 1970 and a little known group called Crow. The full song title is “Evil Woman (Don’t Pull Your Games On Me) and is a great early 70s pop-rocker. Fitting that Bud thinks he’s “evil” by being left-handed. Good for Jeff too! Also, there are many, many “Evil Woman” songs out there, the ones I know of are by Black Sabbath, Doobie Brothers and Electric Light Orchestra. What a range!
(I should point out that the Black Sabbath version, which was originally on the UK version of their 1st album & not in the USA is a COVER of the Crow song. Yes, Black Sabbath covered the Crow tune. The Sabbath version didn’t really come to the USA until some time later which is why I was not familiar with it at first)
Later! And thanks to everyone for the well wishes on my BIRTHDAY! Now put on the party hats and let’s rock this joint…
Discussion (40) ¬
Nice to see you run with Bud’s lefty punch. However, I’m with Jeff that just because you’re a lefty doesn’t mean your evil……. Even if the nuns did try to get me to write with my right hand during the time I was in Catholic elementary school……. Didn’t work. 😛
I’ve been reading for a while, but this is my first post..
happy birthday! thanks for a great comic.
I thought that stereotype belonged to women?
My wife is left handed, and she’s DEFINITELY evil. Though I am also wondering why Jeff is standing on the agent’s head.
Happy Birthday, Byron.
Happy Birthday!
And I’m left-handed, but I’m only evil sometimes.
RE: vince – Yeah, I was thinking about it Sunday as I drew the comic for Monday. Then it was mentioned in the comments and I thought it might be a good way to bring out that Bud is superstitious and that quiet Jeff actually has a brain too (he’s been seen reading a number of “heady” books in the comic thus far).
I never attended a Catholic school, but knew my share of Nuns and, man, were they quick with those damn wooden rulers. They were like Jedi Knights deflecting blaster shots…. you could not escape their wrath. So, I feel for you!
Greetings Rosie! Glad to have you along for the ride! And thanks for the b-day wishes! 😀
RE: michaelschenker – Yes, people associate the dumb blonde thing mostly to women, but I’ve known a few bone-headed blonde men too… so I thought it funny to apply to Jeff, our resident blondie.
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RE: Nicole – I’ve known a number of Nicoles in my life, and all of them were evil in a very fun way! 🙂
(No, not that way… people have such dirty minds… 😀 )
RE: Kevin – Because Jeff is blonde… and mostly because he’s a stoner and didn’t notice… they do that, you gotta watch them closely sometimes.
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Isn’t “Evil Woman” a song by ELO too? Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 😀
ELO, Black Sabbath, Doobie Brothers, and more… but the one by Crow is my favorite… and still not on iTunes… bastards…
First – HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Second – will the left-handed thing mess with Bud’s bass playing?
RE: Phoenix – You bet it will. I tried to play a left-handed bass once and it totally messed my mind. We’re so wired to do things a certain way, so I totally couldn’t do it. So it amazes me when I see McCartney playing a right-handed bass upside down with his left hand. Evil is right…
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my brother learned guitar backwards.
anyway, i wished you a happy birthday on twitter, but happy birthday again byron!
The Birthday of Byron
One beer always has to be the first
it tastes good…
but surely wouldn’t be the last
One beer could never quench my thirst
twenty beers later…
and the night goes pretty fast
Screaming he runs through the hall
blaming his sobriety,
into the bathroom he falls
Contemplating over the toilet rim
he reorganises his stomach,
and pours the next one in.
Hope that, despite all this, you had a good birthday! To the next 52! Cheers.
Hey, you know why blonde women have bruises around their belly buttons?
Because blonde men are dumb too!
Happy 52nd (belatedly!)
Thank you Shozo! I truly appreciate all the well wishes I received yesterday!
RE: Eddurd – Ah, blonde jokes! Love ’em all. In our politically correct world it is good to have at least one group of folks you can tease without being sued!
RE: Audible Atrocity – Wow, man… A birthday poem about tossing up your shoes whilst praying to the porcelain God! (shudders) I spent WAY too many nights in public bathrooms of bars back in the late 70s. I haven’t brought that out in Bud yet, but sooner or later Bud will end up there. Thank you for the poem, that is quite creative. Is that something you wrote or is it from the internet somewhere? I’d love to use that in a comic someday…
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Drunk under a tree, Bud met God.
Will he, over a toilet, meet the devil?
Maybe being a hot lefty babe could summon the beast, heheheh…
I’m totally embarassed for not wishing you happy birthday via email – I wrote about the 1st series, and forgot about the birthday. I’m always forgetting everything…
Well, hope you have a great year! Congrats man!
Thanks ferabreu! No worries… I like hearing from readers for any reason. It spices up my day for sure!
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feel free, its all mine, as long as you don’t forget where you got it from.
Audible Atrocity – No problem. Send me an email and we can chat off-line. byron@1977thecomic.com
Happy belated bithday greetings from someone a little further down the road.
Happy Birthday, Byron.
And yeah – I was just about to mention the “playing hand reversed” thing, too. Hmmmm… what WILL s/he do…?
hope you had an awesome birthday!
THe backgrounds there look really nice 😀 and poor rocky 😛
RE is the great. Even better than silent hill
RE: world of warcraft hacks – Welcome aboard! Glad you like the comic! There’s lot more coming, so stick around!
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Oh, how funny! I’m left handed myself, but I’m not evil. I’m adorable. >:)
I thought being left-handed just meant that I get notebook-ring print on my hand when I’m writing. 🙂
Great comic, B!
Fun fact: ‘blonde’ is the only adjective in the English language that has a masculine form and a feminine form. ‘Blonde’ is the feminine; ‘blond’ is the masculine. Jeff’s calling himself a girl in this strip.
Well, slap me up-side the head… I did not know that. I always wondered why there were two versions.
Well, back in the day, many a guy with long hair got confused (for a moment) for the opposite sex. It was both fun and embarrassing at the same time.
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Not just back in the day, either. I’ve got a rat tail, and it’s happened to me, though not any time recently.
Actually, the Modern English word “left” comes not from a Latin source but from the Old English word “left”, which carried meanings of “idle”, “weak”, and “useless”.
It’s the modern English word “sinister” that comes from the Latin word “sinister”, meaning “(on the) left”. The word carried strong negative connotations in Greek augury because the Greek augur faced north, having the East on his right, but also carried strong positive connotations in Roman augury because the Roman augur faced south, having the East on his left. When English loaned the word, only the negative connotations remained.
You just taught an old dog a new lesson it seems. I get most of my information from various sources on the web and, one, they cannot always be relied on as being 100% correct, and two, my interpretation of the facts leave something to be desired often.
Thanks and thanks for reading!
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Hey Mr. Byron… Great Comic, I am born on the 5th of February as well. I love your work sir
Happy birthday a bit early! Thank you for enjoying my comic! It makes me very happy when folks enjoy my work.
Bye bye mon contract bye bye easy street be Mitsue wear a bikini top, jacket, mini skirt, thigh highs and cowboy hat with cute pigtails.