Welcome to the first official comic post for 2010! It was a busy holiday creating desktops for the Subscriber area and rewriting this finale.
So, those of you thinking that the Mystic Frog’s spell was holding up Bud’s soul, you were right on the money. But, if you go back to the comic from February 5th (heh, my birthday!) you will see that Bud was concerned about being left-handed as a woman. That comic is a HUGE hint to tomorrow’s comic. Part Two tomorrow and then the big double-sized Part Three on Friday.
The Blues Brothers covered a great Sam & Dave song from the 60s for their 1978 album “Briefcase Full of Blues”. “Soul Man” has a much different meaning then how I’m using it here, but Bud certainly is a “soul man” or at least will be shortly… Oh, the genesis of the Blues Brothers was on a January 17, 1976, Saturday Night Live skit. Trivia story (stop me if you’ve heard it) In 1977 (when else?) I use play poker every Saturday night with the TV-10 News production grunts. We got together at 8:00pm to watch “M.A.S.H.” then played poker until 10:30 at which point we ate pizza, drank mass quantities of beer and watched “SNL” until Midnight. Then we played poker until the sun came up Sunday morning. I’d drag my ass in as the Church folks were driving by my apartment and I reeked of beer, pizza, cigars and pot. Mothers would cover their kid’s eyes as I walked by half in the bag. Good days, good days…
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Discussion (23) ¬
I have a killer Blues Brothers CD that I pop in every time that we travel somewhere. It seems to fit somehow. I was a big fan of M.A.S.H. in the early seasons when Wayne Rogers and McLean Stephenson were on it. It seemed to lose my interest after those 2 left. Excellent comic today btw… 🙂
I the first two seasons of M.A.S.H. on DVD and they’re just frakkin’ hilarious. They still had the canned laugh tracks, the show was a tad edgier with a larger cast (emulating the movie still) and it hadn’t gone soft and mushy as it did in it’s later years. Radar was not the sweet innocent man-child they made him out to be later in the show. He’s seen drinking beer and holding on to women in several first season shows. Funny how they forgot about that stuff…
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Yeah, it was edgier then. Plus Frank Burns helped a lot, too, haha. I really didn’t like Potter, BJ and Winchester for the most part. Maybe they were trying to ‘mature’ the show some how.
It went middle of the road with Potter & Winchester. No more adultery with “Hot Lips” which in itself was kinda racy for TV. Older Army doctor and the snobbish upper-class doctor combined to make for a very blah show. BJ was okay but was not Trapper John.
That’s why I only bought the first two seasons. After that, Henry Blake’s character was killed off and it went down hill fast.
Trapper and Henry lasted through the first three seasons. I liked the new cast additions during seasons 4-6, but I agree with you that the show lost something when they turned Radar into a naif and toning down the Hawkey-Hotlips conflict.
Potter was actually more like the original version of Blake than what McLean Stephenson portrayed, so I was okay with that change, and Trapper was so much like Hawkeye that I prefered BJ even if he was blander — he gave them more variety to work with. Burns would have been better if he’d been written as smarter. As it was, he was too much the witless foil, and Winchester was an improvement because he was more of a challenge when he went up against Hawkeye and company. Sometimes he even won. So for me the middle period of the show was best, and it was only in the last few seasons that I thought blandness overwhelmed it.
Guess the ol’ Devil can’t take those that are left-handed…… good news for me! 🙂
South paws rule, we just don’t know it yet…
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Those left-handers are usually the good ones. (I’m right handed)
Yeah, I’m doomed to. Silly right-handed thingy…
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Leftie over HERE!! I was about to say that SNL didn’t come on until 11:30 but then I remembered Central Time.
Central time rules the World my friend, and don’t you forget it! You folks in the Eastern time zone have to stay up sooooo late to see the news or Letterman. Back in 1966 when I spent a summer in California (and way before satellite delay) I was totally confused why “Lost In Space” which normally came on at 6:30pm was suddenly on in the afternoon at 4:30pm? At age 9, time zones was not a concept I was willing to accept. Time had to be the same for everyone, right? Made my head explode…
Yes but while we are celebrating new years, you are still anxiously waiting for the ball to drop.
Plus the 8PM shows are on at 7. Who has time to get home for that?
LOL! Get home? By 7:00pm we’ve eaten dinner and been home for two hours. You east coasters don’t get to work until, what, Noon? 😉 I was at my office typically by 7:30am and on the phone with clients shortly thereafter. It’s funny the differences a couple thousand miles makes. You also commute on trains, buses, etc. a lot more and we just drive. More room out here in the Mid-West for our cars.
I drove in New York city once and I can see why you folks DO take the subway etc.. What a mess that was!
Uncanny Byron. I had the same schedule almost to the letter – I didn’t play Poker with TV news production grunts, usually my reprobate musician buddies & fellow collage slackers, & sometimes we’d hit Taco Bell instead of Domino’s, but everything else fits the script! Nothing will ever come close to the original SNL cast man, pure genius!
Nope, always pizza, it was a tradition we never broke. Crap, I think it was Domino’s as well, but those nights are very blurry now. Luckily we played penny ante or else I’d lost my shirt (I did anyway, but they were cheap shirts).
It was a great way to kill a Saturday night… especially since most of us weren’t dating anyway. Hey, we were TV grunts… not high on the popularity list with the ladies.
Well, damn. If the Devil ever get’s me to try to sign a contract I’m totally feigning not being able to sign with my proper hand. Wait, that won’t work. I’m ambidextrous. LOL.
Ambidextrous, eh? I think that puts you in Limbo or something… 🙂
Now I am curious to know if you ever drew Bud writing something… and if you put the pen in the correct hand, depending on the gender-of-the-day.
That was a very bizarre sentence to write. But for you Byron, I wrote it.
It is truly appreciated too! 😀
I think I have been gender correct with Bud’s dominant hand. I have a tendency to draw characters holding things with their right hands anyway, so that’s not always true.
I can’t wait to see what all this means. You’ve got me hooked, Byron. 😀
One of the best things I love about the Blues Brother’s “Soul Man”, the rhythm guitarist (Steve “the Colonel” Cropper) is the same Steve from Sam and Dave.
So when Jake says, “Play it Steve” (as Sam and Dave did) he is talking to the REAL Steve. And Steve Cropper is playing his original solo riff (and still plays it to this day when the Blues Brother’s Band is on tour)
I’m loving this storyline. But I have one question… what happens if you’re ambidextrous? Hmmmm….