Annie has been a minor character for some time now. She lives next door to Bud and Jeff and is usually annoying them with her pet hamster. But since I retired the first year of comics, Annie hasn’t been seen all that much (except for when Jeff modified her Big Wheel once). So, Annie was originally in grade school, maybe 8 years old. So, I’ve “aged” her through the miracle of a Time/Warp Shift in the Universe and now she’s closer to 13 and will begin to show signs of having a young girl’s crush on Jeff. Bud, of course, will just annoy her. Who can blame him, she just shot him in the ass.
Speaking of Bud’s ass… it’s been the target of several injuries now. (See some of the suggested comic titles below) First a soldering iron injury, then he shot himself in the ass and now an arrow has punctured his gluteus maximus. More on that someday too.
Been a while since I did any Benatar, and what better song than “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” for today? Yeah, I’m sure you’ll tell me. Anyone, rock this one while you read the comic.
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not really an Annie Oakley is she.
pat benatar rules. STILL.
Bud used to be able to sit down, then he took an arrow in his ass…. 😉
Isnt that bow/arrow what all the teenagers are using to kill one another for sport in that “Hunger Games” movie?!? … which I’m fine with, as long as no one leaves one of those whipper snappers with an arrow in its backside on my front lawn! #GetOffMyLawn
Lucky for Bud, that appears to be a target arrow, rather than a hunting broadhead. There are serious degrees to “pain-in-the-ass.” I’d guess he won’t be sitting comfortable for several weeks, and that’s the sort of injury that requires a “Good Friend” to tend to. Will Jeff draw “danger duty” ..? 😉
I worked construction with an old Navy salt who did a decade of duty in Cuba from about 1968-ish onward. He mentioned once or twice that “A Buddy never lets you down when flack is in the air. But, a Good Buddy is one who takes leave, gets two blow jobs in town and brings one back for you.”
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Soooo … on one of our forays back to the modern timeline, will Bud be showing off his scars to Lorraine ..? She could about read his ass like a braille history of misfortune by now. In the dark, even. 😛
Yea! Pat Benatar! ANYtime, anytime at all! 🙂
Hahahaha!!!!! ….. too late!!!!! 😀
By the way, the strip looks great even it is not finished yet.
Woops! Too late xD!
Loving it equally in monochrome and colour. Sometimes I prefer one or the other for a particular strip, but these are tied!
Well at least she has good form.
The ol’ “That’s gonna leave a mark…” certainly applies here! Closest I’ve got is a scar on the top of my right foot from playing mumblety peg with my cousin when I was about 12 (do kids even know what that is in our overly protective, safety-at-all-cost, helmet-&-pads-for-everything society now?).
A side note Byron – (yeah I know I’m known for those…) While I know that this is a strip about Sex, Drugs, & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, I’ve always appreciated that you enjoy various music genres like me, & I think like me, appreciate musicianship & well crafted music be it pop, classical, jazz, etc. That being said, I have to pay homage to the passing yesterdayof a bluegrass & country legend, Earl Scruggs. How many people of our (& ensuing) generation/s were exposed to his mastery of the banjo thru the Beverly Hillbillies in our weekly tune in to – at least for us red-blooded males, ogle Elly May Clampett? A true giant in the music world, & from what I’ve heard & read about him, a true gentleman & great human being – a loss for all lovers of great music & musicianship.
I have a feelng that Big Wheel she rode helped her travel back in time a few years…..wonder if anyone remembers the Moifications Bud made to that one
Heart, “Dream of the archer”
Or even the Horslips again, “Furniture” –
“The best and straightest arrow
Is the one that will range
Far from the archer’s bow”