If you’ve ever caught your Mr. Happy in a zipper, you can imagine a cat making a scratching pole out of one would certainly take the romance out of any situation.  Bud seems to get around E.R. rooms a lot.  Takes a licking and keeps on ticking…

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There are times I get really happy with my sketch versions of the comics and then when I ink them the “energy” or looseness is somehow lost in the translation.  I have gotten more at ease with my inking and just have at it, but it’s still basically tracing.  I will clean this one up and do the ink/color job to it, but I wanted to let this version out for a bit as I just like the look.  Also, I ate up most of my evening editing a 20-year-old S-VHS video I shot of Bachman-Turner Overdrive in concert.  I thought the tape was lost, but emerged recently in a bunch of boxes found in an old office of mine.  I spent most of my time taking the audio and beefing it up.  BTO cannot be “meek” and I’ve added some much needed punch.

I’ve updated the comic and done something I’ve never done before… no, it’s not showing an erect penis, but I changed the 4th panel punch line to be more stinging with today’s current events.  I will not open up the health care debate on this comic post, I’ll save that for a blog post here in a bit, but I felt strongly enough about the subject to change the punch line.  It’s not as funny as the original, but it is more relevant at the moment.  As a person who’s been without any health insurance for 5 years now (long story) it is not the Health Care Bill Americans should be afraid of, but rather the fact that we *need* health insurance at all.  America is the only country in the world who’s health care system is run for profit.  And by doing so, we’ve ruined our system with greed and abuse by all sides.  I’ll stop there.  Look for a blog post in a bit.

What a perfect song for today’s comic, and released in 1977 to boot!  Double Jeopardy points!  Ted Nugent rocked hard and loud.  Despite being a real nut when it comes to hunting and stuff, Nuge sure can play a mean guitar.  Favorite Nuge riff is from “Great White Buffalo”.  There are no social mores in Nuge’s lyrics, but who is listening to them anyway?  I wasn’t.

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