I never attended a “swingers” party, as we in the rock and roll business call that “gigging.” I have heard of putting your car keys in a pile and you pull out a set and get that guy’s wife/girlfriend. Rather sexist if you ask me. I ended up with our lead guitarist’s left overs most weekends. What is it with girls and lead guitarists? Didn’t matter, I just enjoyed myself. The drummer got what was left over from me, so he had that going for him. 😉
Drawing a spit-take is not all that easy… having never done one before that is. Then the damn lines get covered up by Lorraine. I wanted to leave her out, but hey, it’s Lorraine… Getting Jeff’s cheeks puffed up while maintaining “his look” was a bit of a challenge too. Then I went all out and showed his eyes. Hard to show him “wide-eyed” most of the time with those golden locks in his face. And he spilled his beer, which turned out rather “thick” too…
Today’s title is pulled from Boston’s second effort “Don’t Look Back” from 1978. Most of the songs on side 2 of the vinyl release (records for you youngsters) were put there by guitarist and group leader Tom Scholz as he was not pleased with them. Boston had been put under a lot of pressure to release a second album as their first album is to date still the best selling debut album of all time. So, naturally the record company wanted a follow-up. Scholz is infamous for being a perfectionist and apparently a grand pain in the ass. He got pressure from fellow band mates to get the album done and so he pushed the songs he didn’t like to side 2. By the time Boston released their third album in 1986, Scholz had gotten rid of most of the group save lead singer Brad Delp. I bought Boston’s fourth album in 1994 (I guess 8 years is what it takes for Scholz to produce an album) and gave up on them after that as the “magic” was gone.
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Discussion (19) ¬
Swinging always sounds like fun when you’re talking about other people’s wives. I just have a hard time sharing. 🙂
I couldn’t do a swingers party. I’d probably end up with Saggy Maggie or someone – and yeah, I’d have a hard time sharing as well 🙂
Gigging? No wonder Quagmire always says Giggety Giggety Giggety.
Tom Scholz is truly an inspirations to us multi-instrumentalists
RIP Tom Scholz
Oh, man, I’d want to have those five minutes back if I were Jeff.
yeah, I never did a spit-take either… but now I want to give it a shot!
wow…. there is something that I would never want to learn about my folks.
Byron — that’s a funny kind of beer glass, isn’t that the kind they use for champagne cocktails? Or maybe he only thinks its beer because the family is so rich they drink their “beer” out of “big bottles” haha!
Spit take was fine, but I have a suggestion on the spilt beer.
When you spill beer on a counter, what does it look like? I know you wanted to show the amber color of the beer, but in truth it just looks wet. It’s dark, with some reflections where it catches specific light sources. If you really want to show the beer color, you can hint at it by making your amber color on a separate layer from the bar top, and then multiplying it. This will hint at the color of the beer, and give you the darker look you need. Also, since you are looking through a clear, refractive substance, you are much more likely to have light edges than shadowed. (Though I’d probably stay away from this entirely since it’s way too easy to make your spill look taller than you want this way.) Finally, beer sitting on a counter top isn’t going to have “flow lines” in it, and beer in the action of being spilled is still going to be coming out of the cup.
The last panel is better with Lorraine in it. 🙂
An alternative to the spit-take for the reaction to “too much information” I’ve always found effective (as a reader, can’t draw for toffee myself) is the one used by Berkley Breathed in the old “Bloom County” strip. Smile on lips, big, odd-sized eyes and “bamboozles” around the head. See the strip where Lola Granola admits to already knowing about the Birds and the Bees to her rather naive mother before her, Lola’s, attempted marriage to Opus for an example.
Damn and blast English’s lack of a reflexive pronoun.