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… 🙂
Guess the ol’ Devil can’t take those that are left-handed…… good news for me! 🙂
Those left-handers are usually the good ones. (I’m right handed)
Leftie over HERE!! I was about to say that SNL didn’t come on until 11:30 but then I remembered Central Time.
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!
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.
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.
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….