A bit of a twist for ol’ Bud. Obviously he likes girls but he’s not use to the, oh, operator’s manual of his current state. We’ll have to see where this goes.
The Beatles. Yes, the band that Paul McCartney was in before Wings. I think their best album by any shadow of a doubt is “Abbey Road” as it was their best produced effort (the recording of the drums stands out even today) and featured a diverse set of sounds from the silly “Octopus’s Garden” to the delightful “Here Comes the Sun” to the rockin’ “The End” which is on the verge of actually being hard rock. The Beatles shut up long enough to give us a classic rock album that no one should be without. But, it seems Apple is big on keeping the Beatles’ songs off websites like Grooveshark (where I get the songs to post here), so instead I give you “Lola” from the Kinks, which also fits today’s comic, but kinda backwards. Oh, Grooveshark did have a version of “Polythene Pam” but it was done by the Bee Gees from the wretched “Sgt. Peppers” film done in the late 70s. Gag me with a 9 iron, that film was bad.
I picked Lennon’s “Polythene Pam” for the single line “You should see Polythene Pam. She’s so good lookin’ that she looks like man…” Wonderful lyric from Lennon and typical of his style.
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You’re missing a word in the very first line of Polythene Pam, y’know… 😀
Looks great. Will check back when the finished product is due!
Both have been updated! Thanks! 🙂
Woot! Gorgeous colours, too. And that’s from me wot detest most computer-painting colours. Nice!
Oh this might be an interesting time for the Budette to change back…… either after or during their misadventure………… Bud might be soooooooo dead if that happens……
That rather depends on how he handles the next episode. Having him change back after a Close Encounter Of The Best Kind and precipitate a mega-cootie moment from the cute daughter of Sapho would be sorta predictable, so I doubt this is going that way.
Odd that she-bud would be picked up by a chick in a bar where hetero harrasment was taking place. My experience has been that these things have their place, and that place is not the same place as the other place.
Before you speculate, my first contract in the US was for a site in Greenwich Village. All the local watering holes were full of tolerant but off-limits ladies, and gentlemen who could tell who was just passin’ through and were surprisingly tolerant (unless they thought you were coming to the zoo to see the animals, in which case you could find yourself in for some performance theater).
No doubt this unexpected venue is part of an elaborate plot set-up. I’m eagerly waiting to see what Byron has planned.
I get your basic reasoning on “that place is not the same place” but I also know that if your regular watering hole has dried up, so to speak, then you make the rounds. Also, Bud has also been turning down guys in the bar, so keep that in mind. It was also just simply easier to write this strip this way. I go for easy you know…
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Oh, I already had Bud transform in bed with Jeff’s cousin Debbie, so I am not one to repeat a joke unless I pull a brain fart. When a comic or TV show stoops to doing the same joke over and over, then it’s time for it to be put to rest. I imagine that was partly why Bill Waters retired “Calvin & Hobbes” as he was doing snowman jokes, Calvin in class daydreaming, Spaceman Biff, etc. jokes over and over. Nothing was really new in Calvin and Hobbes for some time there. I love that comic, but if you read them today, you can see he was starting to repeat himself. Hard not to after 10 years.
bow chicka bow bow!
I found some videos I had edited back in the mid-80s and the music really sounds today like the music you’d hear on cheap porn flicks you rent in hotel rooms in Vegas on a Wednesday night because you’re tired from walking the strip… not that I’ve ever done that… nooooo, sir!
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LOL! And now you’ve reminded me of the hot blond twin high-schooler groupies** (in a drophead Mustang, no less) I scored in Lost Wages one of the times I played there. Otherwise known as Oh What a Night. I think your soundtrack would have gone well then. Ah, those were the days…
** Yes, there were boy groupies too 😀
Lordy! I do declare! I’m gettin’ a case of the vapors!
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LOL! I didn’t know you were into hot boys 😛 😛 😛
Bud is finally blessed! I never would have thought of this twist. 🙂 Nice coloring on this one, too.
Thanks, George! I remember some of the bars I was in the 70s had all these crazy lights and colors going on. Covered up the puke nicely. So I had to put in some vivid colors on this one. Bars were also switching from rock to disco and I didn’t have enough “room” to work in Bud being disgusted by being in a now disco bar. Soon though…
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Oh, I like where this is going! YES
Seems to be the hit of the holidays… 🙂
Love the coloring on this one Byron!
Thanks, Irma! I had fun doing it too! My days as a videographer and having to set key lights, back lights, etc., helps a great deal when shading a comic. I know where the shadows and highlights should fall… I don’t always succeed, but this time we a winner!
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Wait– WAIT!!! … I need to get my web cam set up and angled properly!! =)
I’m getting my webcam for Christmas, so I’ll have to re-visit this comic then…
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A “great surgeon” I should have had such a great surgeon. I never get hit on by hot babes, mores the pity.
This is amusing. I’m glad I got the Bud & Bud “lite” mug. Though it does beg the question. What does Bud do now? Buddhism? Weed? Or just a lot of Xanax?
I think lots of weed… If Bud is anything like me (and he is…) he’ll just shrug it off and go with the flow. What’s the quote about “When in Rome…”? Should apply here nicely.
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PS: I should get you a new mug since I’ve updated Bud’s looks this time. More Farrah hair this time.
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I never smoked weed, but I eat so much xanax I rattle when i walk. I always followed the Fat Freddie rule “I don’t trust anything that does not come in a nice clean Gel Capsule” IE. Getting high before you drop acid is like wearing a blindfold on the roller coaster, you miss all the good stuff. 🙂
You want to do me a new Bud & Bud mug? I’d Love it! I can keep the old one in my shrinks office, “she liked it too” Great mug, just the right size. I noticed the HUGE hair, I miss big hair. I remember when all it took was a good blowcomb……
I knew that frog was no good.
I knew you’d draw a girl hitting on a girl.
But I am sure you’ll never draw a guy hitting on a guy XD
Ah, I have two quotes for when someone states I’ll “never” do something. One is from Star Trek II when Kirk states “As your teacher, Mr. Spock, is fond of saying, ‘I like to think there always are … possibilities.’ ” And the second is from Han Solo in “Empire Strikes Back” when being chased by the Empire in the Falcon he replies to a doubting C3PO “Never tell me the odds!” Which for me means I don’t believe in the term “never”.
All things in due time my friend! 🙂
Would it be like anything I drew?
What you did would not be out of the realm of the comic given the right set up. I’m nearly done with this storyline and things go back to “normal” next month, so stay tooned!
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I wish I could for once see Bud and Jeff together…
heeeeeeey now! What’s Bud gonna do…? hmm.
Well, at heart he’s a guy… I think we can guess what he’s gonna do…
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I say Bud goes for it; I mean look at her, as you can say she was attractively built… (yeah yeah yeah)
LOL! Now I gotta find the song with the lyric in it!
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Whoa! O.O
Indeed! 🙂
FYI, one of the arcs with the transformed Bud is missing the Transformation tag. Specifically the one where he transforms in bed with Debbie. https://1977thecomic.com/2008/06/04/06042008/ through https://1977thecomic.com/2008/06/09/06092008/
Makes it hard to find in the archive search like the others.
Thank you for putting that bug in my ear, as I know I’m not really good at adding those in and they are very handy. I was going to spend some time over the holidays updating the tags best I could. I’m looking into how Comic Press does “chapters” and thinking of breaking those storylines together into those types of categories as well.
More to do… 🙂
“Lola” is one of my favorite songs. I was kind of disappointed when the double-CD best of the Kinks album I picked up didn’t include it. Oh well, plenty of other good tracks on it.
“Polythene Pam” is also great, as was most of what the Beatles did. I like /Abbey Road/, though it’s not my favorite Beatles album. I don’t really have a permanent favorite, actually, it shifts with my mood. /A Hard Day’s Night/ used to be my least favorite, but after seeing the film again for the first time in years the other night my opinion of it has gone up a fair bit.
Oh don’t date Buddet if you are a lesbian she’ll change sex when excited and you’ll be disappointed but I love Buddet’s top. Buddet doesn’t need a make over she looks great now if she could find a miniskirt and heels that top would look better.