And the deal is done… or maybe not. We’ll have to see next week. Remember, Bud is clever. 🙂 He has to be, he’s reading a “Superman” comic!
- I was making a little fun of the dramatic comic character pose in the 3rd frame as Budette points down at the Mystic Frog. Comics can take themselves a bit too seriously sometimes, and it’s good to cut-loose at our own expense.
- I’m also adding some sarcasm to the contract text too… if you can read it. Tad small once it’s on the web.
- And since we can’t put up real phone numbers in movies and TV shows (thus why the JL5- is used as there’s no prefix 555 anywhere), I took JL5- and made it XL5- in honor of “Fireball XL5”. Now, there’s no area code shown, as we wouldn’t have needed it back in 1977 as Chicagoland had all but ONE area code at the time, so if you go calling that number, well, you’re your own.
- Also note the “TNA” underneath the Death Star logo on the phone. More fun at AT&T’s expense.
Continuing the “Fireball” theme, here’s a song from the Deep Purple album of the same name. “Anyone’s Daughter” is a nice break from their usual sound and also a very funny song. “I made the judge’s daughter. Yes I did, it was nice.” And more like that. 🙂 Starts off a tad quiet then picks up in volume.
https://youtu.be/rjG2xgKDQ-Q?t=28s
That was easy…too easy as it seems. There has to be another twist to this, right ? 🙁
Yes, it was too easy… something has to be around the bend. 🙂
We’re back! Great! I got to the end of an archive binge, srart to then finish, and felt oddly bereaved, as you do. Lovely to see the tale continues…
St Patrick’s Day has passed without acknowledgement (yet). I went back and checked… Robyn has no doubt wreaked the usual havoc in a green-tinted haze somewhere. In the spirit of raising a glass or ten, and knowing Robyn has been out drinking the day – somewhere – may I suggest an appropriate song for the day? Back in 1973, an Irish band called the Horslips revolutionised Irish trad music forever. it had stuck in a time-warp involving either a line of four guys in Aran sweaters singing the old standards with the mandatory finger-in-the-ear (this is iron law and statute for folk singers everywhere, not just the Irish sort. Regard English folkies Steeleye Span). And if it wasn’t the Dubliners, the other meme was a bunch of genial fellas bashing, blowing and scraping at trad instruments. (The Chieftains).
The Horslips changed all that, with the 1973 album “Happy to Meet, Sorrow to Part”. They used some of the old instruments, but added electric guitars and amps. There was even a touch of Gaelic Reggae on one track.
This song is on a theme close to Irish hearts. Some translation. The lyrics roughly mean “I lost it all to strong drink, but am I bothered?”
http://youtu.be/2I0fyqFU_ws
For Robyn!
No, I didn’t do a St. Paddy’s Day comic this year. I’m trying to stay focused on the story and not pop in a bunch of “extra” non-essential comics like I have in the past. Also, the whole gang isn’t around at the moment, so when they come back, I’ll get in the mood then. 🙂
And given that the other chaos-magent in Plan 9 might very well have been out drinking with Robyn on the night of the 17th March, we cannot omit this, also by the Horslips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YuAbkDT94
Trouble! I try to chase Trouble but it chases me! Trouble! trouble… Trouble with a capital “T”…
I took out the extra link to the same video. When there’s 2 or more links in a comment, it’s marked as spam. So, as the Master of the Universe here, I was able to approve your commment. 🙂
Finally found this link to Denis Leary’s “Traditional Irish Folk Song” parody. I love this.
Bloody genius! Leary is great – an Irish-American with a truly warped sense of humour who doesn’t take himself or the whole Irish-American thing too seriously.
There are NEVER any magic frogs around when you NEED them.
Interesting you should mention that because I envisioned Bud finding another mystic frog, ticking it off and getting another curse of gender transformation.
Don’t give me any ideas… I just run amok most of the time. 🙂
😛
beware of lawyers bearing contract’s. Bud if all don’t turn out as you hope for, you can always “Shop until you drop.”
Lawyers and contracts are two things I avoid like the plague these days. Nothing ever good came from either of them.
Incidentally, that bloody awful wallpaper. Lovely little incidental detail – it screams “middle 1970’s” at you.
Bud could have been real mean to the mystic frog have him off shore of a really large lake with a long swim surrounded by hungry bass or pike or even wels catfish. End the spell or you’ll be some ones dinner and I’ll be one hot lady. Or threaten to sell him to high school biology class or alligator farm , feed him to raccoons, hire him as a singing frog, hire him for the muppet show, threaten to cut off his legs giving him wooden one like a tiny pirate and have a French eat them in front of him. Let the Robertsons hunt him with luck he’ll turn them into women.