Never bounce a check to a musician… they don’t like it very much. So, Jeff’s been taking lessons from Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top? Yes, when you have rich parents, just about anything can happen. But we’re about to see why Jeff must get a job. He’s been a happy landlord all this time as you know. Excitement builds.
Moral: Before you bad-mouth someone, look behind you… oh, yeah, they’re there.
Three comics this week. But I have a plan to increase the output. More on that later. I have one or two things to firm up.
Note there’s another Desktop to download over there -> in the Calendar. Look for the “S – M – L” letters and click on the size you want. S = 1440×900, M = 1680×1050, and L = 1920×1200. If want other sizes, email me. And there’s a new Lorraine’s Polaroids over there on the left <-.
Mother Nature turned the damn heat off and Chicagoland has gone from the wonderful 70s to the chilly 50s. Jeez, can’t we get one month where ALL our utilities are low? Damn weather.
So, in honor of Billy Gibbons in his 1977 splendor making an appearance today, a little more ZZ Top for you. Actually, as the story goes, ZZ Top took a break in 1977. When they got back together two years later, it was then that Gibbons and Hill realized they had grown out their beards in tandem without knowing it. The rest is history.
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I always preferred them before the beards 😛
Could Jeff be a superstar in the making?
I’ve been pretty lucky (touches wood) throughout my life. Whenever I’ve rubbished someone, they either aren’t there or I’ve said my bit while looking them straight through the eye. At least that way, if they feel like taking a swing at me, I’ve been looking right at them & don’t blind-sided.
Just because Jeff takes lessons from an accomplished master don’t mean he practices & plays like the master. I guess we’ll see. So far we’ve seen all the comedic Plan 9 disasters (I still chuckle over the Back in the U.S.S.R. gag from their Latvia trip). Not so much their successes …
Hey, By The Way – nice new wallpaper you put up! I keep forgetting to check that box over the calendar … it’s real easy to tune it out over the background noise due to size & location. Every time I do notice a new wallpaper, I always get concerned that I’ve drifted off and missed a couple of good ones.
This one’s got a great, classic shirt on Bud that looks fantastic. Sweet sweet fan service of Lorraine, something for the ladies with Jeff almost wearing a shirt and Robyn .. ?? Robyn!! 🙁 *weeps*
Well. Better luck next time. I did just get an entire week featuring her topless for the most part …
As any drummer will tell you, being stuck in the back is not the best way to get into the spotlight. I think they started putting drummers up on risers just so the audience could *see* them. I’m sure it’s for other reasons, but hey, it’s early on a Monday…
I cut my teeth playing bass in a High School Jazz Band. I always loved just being handed a chord chart and just making it up as I go. That works in rock and roll to a certain extent, but quite often I’m just tagging along with the rhythm guitar. But, you’re right, just because I learned Jazz doesn’t mean I always play in a Jazz style. So, Jeff’s style has yet to be revealed.
I’m making this up as I go along too, so that doesn’t help. 🙂
And the drummer often credited for request a riser to be seen? Ringo.
Well, if it’s good enough for Ringo, it should certainly be good enough for Robyn. Too bad she favors pants instead of skirt, which would make her commando option even more interesting.
However, I certainly adore her in shorts and snug pants, so Carry On, Good Sir.
I smell an opportunity for Chet to get involved with (comically malfunctioning) stage props.
Another vote for the new wallpaper here! And do y9u realise that there are things that simply might *have* to happen with Plan 9? I mean, a body like Lorraine’s will!get!noticed! (I have a few thoughts, but we can discuss them…elsewhere…). Also, I can see the band becoming very famous in their own area at the least – even if it’s just as a one hit wonder in the American Midwest. After all, the American midwest is big enough to assure a band fame and ~cough Bob Seger cough~ fortune without even going further afield…
Ah, the good ol’ Midwest… land of Lincoln and corn fields. Home to Captain Kirk (I”‘m from Iowa, I only work in outer space…”) and home to many bands.
Chicago has spurred on a number of bands from the Buckinghams to Styx. Local bands like Off Broadway have touched the national scene briefly too. So, yeah, having Plan 9 have a charting single here in Chicago would be very likely, especially in the 70s as there was still the “pay for play” stuff going on. Hand a DJ enough cash/coke, and you were on the air.
I digress, but simply, yes, we need to get Plan 9 on the road here soon. I think you all will see that the job storyline will lead to something here soon enough!
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How come no one remembers the third guy in the band? He should have grown his beard out too.
He didn’t need to grow one, he’s already the third Beard in the band, Frank’ly I am amused that you’d forgotten. ;D
The drummer, Frank Beard, oddly enough never grew out a beard but does have a good ‘stash. Frank, like most drummers, sits quietly in the background and lays down a solid beat while Gibbons and Hill are up front puttin’ on the show. It seems Beard is quite happy in his role.
Oh, Mr. HiredSword, much of what Mr. Bearman says is with tongue firmly planted in cheek Just a friendly reminder.
Hence, the smiley… ;D
Now THERE’S a punch! Nice one.
Funny, but I didn’t even realize that I would have had two comics in a row with a punch being thrown. So, I’m glad I redid Robyn’s strip and left it to this one. And the sketch for this one always had the guy in it too. I don’t know, I’m making these up as I go!
*laughs* The guy in the Black Sabbath shirt (circa 1977, when Sabbath had run aground) thinks that ZZ Top’s ship had sailed? Ha! Thankfully, both bands had a bit more juice left in ’em after 1977. Isn’t it funny, in hindsight, how much things deviate over time from where you think they are in the moment?
FINALLY!! Someone notices the Sabbath fan bashing ZZ Top! I was laughing my ass off at this guy jumping all over Jeff about Gibbons and it seems my humor on that level slipped by most, or it was just too stupid to comment on.
Anyway, thank you for noticing! 😛
Hey I enjoyed your web comic. I wrote review of it on my blog. I’m hard but fair but you did pretty good, Congrats! http://rainofgods.blogspot.com/
This one was in the spam folder… see? I double posted for you! 🙂
I did enjoy your web comic I did a web comic review of it on my blog. I hard but I’m fair. You did good though, congrats!
Another fan named Antione! Welcome to the party pal!
Reviews are reviews and at this point I don’t take them too seriously, but yours is thought out and provides valid points. The comic has improved big-time over the years. My comic timing is much better and my current drawing just blows away what I did in 2008. The first four months or so of 2008 I was getting my shit together and by August I was taking the band on the road to county fairs, nudist colonies (which they’re going to return there as I’m much better at naked ladies now) and starting up a deep storyline that involves Bud and gang’s struggles in life and music.
As far as rating the comic, I think my current header is warning enough. If people start reading a comic that declares it is about Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll and then get pissed at seeing ONE naked boob, then I’m not to blame for that. I’m not going to slap some damn PG-17 rating up on my banner. You’ll figure it out.
I see so many other sites that use really disgusting language (for no apparent reason except to shock readers) and open nudity which have NO disclaimers at all. I’m not a family friendly comic strip. I don’t advertise to be one either. But I’m a long way from offensive. So I don’t think it’s an issue.
As far as numbering my archives, I see no point to that. All you have to do is click on the page and see the comic starts in 2008 and there are more than just a few updates. So, I’m not into numbers. BTW, this is comic post number 431 and the site averages 15 comments per post (which is great considering how few the early comics got. The highest comment total is 77. Nice number!
I’m also a major smart ass. So, there’s my review of your review! We’ve scored each other well!
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AFAICT you only have one Antoine. The one above is ‘Antione’. Either that means it’s ‘the one who’s anti everything’ or it means ‘my mother couldn’t spell’ 😛
You’ve also referred to yourself as ‘a major smart ass’. I suppose there’s some validity in that ~grins~ but – BUT – I remain mystified as to why you’ve repeatedly referred to yourself as a prick. Maybe there’s some different definition of the term out your way, but I doubt it. A prick is a messer (as we say over on my patch), a shithead, a vindictive and untrustworthy person, a general bad person. None of these apply to you, so what’s the deal?
Well, to my sister-in-law, prick was *not* untrustworthy or vindictive, but shithead applies. In my younger days (and she called me a prick back in 1984 when I was a mere 27) I was most annoying at times and very self-centered. Having kids and losing a trio of people very dear to me (my Mom, my Mother-in-Law and my sister-in-law … all to cancer) has put me on a better road and my shithead days are behind me.
Now, I only have my ego to put up with and it’s not too bad. As a “budding” cartoonist, I hope to put a lot more fun back in my life and from the fine folks I’ve met and gotten to know over the past year or so, that is becoming a reality. Of course, I always have folks like you around too. With a major set of friends like that, one cannot fail.
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Fair dues on the backstory – but believe me when I say no-one with ego problems would ever be so self-critical and self-effacing in public as you are in the comments sections of 1977 😀
Yer doin’ verra well!
Fair enough in your response to my gripe about the content warning. It is in the title. I guess I was in too much a rush to read your comic. So I totally missed it. My fault– I changed that part of my review. I expected you to respond like you did. Thanks for being predictable it makes life fun.
You didn’t have to change your review… I know most folks will probably glaze over that part too. But I’m against any type of rating system for comics (except hard core stuff). Just me and my 70s attitude.
If I’m anything, I’m fun. 😛
I got a kick outta this one, Byron. It incorporated nearly everything that’s great about this series: humor, drinking, music, and fightin’. I imagined the T&A, so I’m in a good place right now. 😀
Thanks George! I aim to please! There’s been a lot of T&A of late, so I had to get some “guy” stuff into this one. Yep, nothing better than music, beer and a good bar fight. I avoided the fists in most of the bars I was in.
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