Whoops! I was pretty sure footed most of the time when I tied a good drunk on, but every so often I had my mishaps. I never fell OUT of the car, but once I slid OFF a car. Running up to my friend’s car, not realizing he had just freshly waxed the damn thing, I did a “Superman” type jump onto the hood of the car and was instantly propelled onto the sidewalk on the other side. A sober person would have simply gotten into the car.
Notice Bud being a tad “angry”? Hmmm… Not saying anything else. If you don’t know what happens to Bud when he gets angry, then read up on the archive. One never knows what the future may hold…
“Take It Easy” is a nice easy rocker from the Eagles. I’m a fan of the Eagles with Joe Walsh as they acquired a slighter rougher edge to their music, particularly on “The Long Run”. But today’s comic title is inspired by their 1972 hit penned by Glen Frey and Jackson Browne. The lead off lyrics inspired me to make this today’s title:
“Well, I’m running down the road tryin’ to loosen my load…”
And Bud is doing just that… 😉
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Oh god, I KNOW what happens when he’s angry…
Excellent! We’ll have to see what the future brings! 🙂
this is gonna be gooooooood
Well…. yes it is…
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I wonder if it happens if that voids the Devil’s contract……… and what Jeff’s parents would say if they saw the Budette……..
All good theories! Let’s play this one out and see what happens! 🙂
OK…thought this one was Little River Band but then remembered it is called Take it Easy ON ME.
Little River Band! I bought an import of their greatest hits somewhere around 1979 or so. A great Aussie band for their time that gets ignored a lot. Their single “Help Is On Its Way” in 1977 kicked off a long string of Top 10 hits in the USA. I see they had 13 total Top 40 hits after that and sold 25 millions albums. And people go “Who are these guys?”
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..uh, that maybe hurt
Well, he is drunk, so it’s not gonna hurt until the next day…
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Excellent! I thought you would have gone with ‘Bad Moon Rising’ for the title, but reading your explanation, it all makes sense.
“Bad Moon Rising” was the easy way out. I try to think of something a little different then the obvious. You readers keep me on my toes…
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At least they’re not going through Colorado, where there could have been a 500 ft drop! That would be a bad hangover.
Yeah, I have driven through Colorado back in the 80s and there are cars & trucks on some mountain sides just stuck there as they can’t tow them out due to the angles and stuff. Hate to be the driver left INSIDE one of those vehicles. Ugh.
Bud will be a bit more fortunate though…
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Oh…and his bare ass is out! That’s gonna leave a mark.
He already has a bullet wound back there, so now some skid marks will complete the look! You’re getting ahead of me! Sneaky you!
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Interesting that people look forward so…*eagerly*…to the coming change. S’all a bit…Freudian if you ask me. Probably caused by seeing “The Lumberjack Song” performed at too early an age.
I hope the ditches are wide and soft in Nebraska, otherwise someone’s going to have “embarrasing personal itch” for a long time while the road rash heals. :o)
Well, I use “cartoon physics” a lot and this story line will use it to the max. Bud will be okay for having fallen out of a car at highway speeds.
As for the transformation, I’m not saying what’s coming next as you readers like to second guess me all the time, so bread crumbs do not always lead to the path home!
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if they were here in colorado, they were in the mountains, and it was snowing out, bud would be too cold to even want to be droppin’ trou. 😀
what’s amazing to most is that sometimes when yer going up steep inclines up in the mountains, it seems like yer perfectly level. however yer car, being in 2nd gear and having to climb really hard, says otherwise. 😉
you totally need to have the gang drive thru here, stop in denver, stir up trouble, drink some coors, and shove a few cases of it into the trunk (having mysteriously run outta huber). that woz the thing to do back in the 70’s here. rocky mountain high, anyone? 😀 …
i recall that one of my uncles used to always bring back as many cases of coors as he could afford when visiting here in 70’s from minnesota, before he moved here. it is so funny that everyone thought that the beer was more potent when in actuality it was simply the altitude that got you f’d up more quickly.
i live so close to the coors plant that i smell it when they’re seriously brewin’. i actually have grown to love the smell of burning malt, and it smells great when they’re in high gear…
–dee!
Nah, I’ve dropped trou here in Illinois’ winters, no big deal. Big Jim & the Twins were none too happy, but it wasn’t all that bad!
I spent a few days up in the “hills” around Golden back in the summer of 1980. Walked in the stream that feeds the Coors plant. Big mistake was my buddy and I rode our bikes DOWN the mountain into Golden to eat dinner. The ride back up was none to pleasant. Slept the night in a tent… no animals interrupted our sleep… then washed my hair in REALLY cold spring water. Now, that was not fun at all. Slept on a mountain in Golden is one more thing on my “Done That Once In My Life” list… Swimming in an East Coast hurricane is another…
I like comedian Gallagher’s routine on how the early settlers reacted when they reached Denver, took one look at the mountains and went “Fuck it. Let’s build a football stadium!” Love that line.
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umm… there are no mountains in golden … there are FOOTHILLS in golden … 😉
the new stadium is a pain in the rump for the people that live around it (mile high’s gone now; replaced by invesco field — crappiest acoustics ever for a stadium). i live a couple’a miles away from the stadium and whenever there’s an event its irritating as people park in my neighborhood and suddenly traffic goes from nothing to gridlock. bad planning. that never happened when the old stadium was here.
i used to ride my motorcycle year round when it was nice, altho i usually did my best to get home before dark. there are usually a few times during the winters here where it will warm up to 75 during the day and then when the sun sets it drops down to below freezing. bone chilling. 75 mph and even in leathers yer legs get numb mighty fast. if that happened to me, when i got home i’d usually have to sit with the engine idling and my legs near the block or the exhaust to warm them up enough to be able to get off the bike.
i dunno man… i’m originally from minneapolis, and i know what cold midwestern winters are like (nothing like -30 with full-on windchills so cold that you literally can’t be outside for more than a few minutes without risking frostbite or certain doom), but riding around in the mountains in the wintertime (or even the spring) in a convertible in colorado isn’t exactly warm … even if you are blitzed. 😉
–dee!
Yes, I forgot those are called foothills, thank you! To us farm boys of Illinois, they’re damn mountains. I did make it up an actual mountain. Drove to about 12,000 and then walked up to about 14,000. Don’t remember which peak it was. Windy and cold and it was JUNE! Ah, the good life..
Been drunk in the winter so much as a younger man, the cold didn’t bother me. Police did, but not the cold…
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This is by far one of the funniest 1977’s yet! Every panel was hilarious. Great job, Byron! I’ll have to remember not to moon drunk from a moving vehicle now. 🙂
Hey George! Thanks for the compliment! On this Road Trip series, I’ve been trying to make it as strong as possible as it is an on-going story (and a long one as they haven’t even gotten past Nebraska yet) and I’m trying to make it as visually interesting as well as funny with each strip. Telling a story and keeping a joke in each strip is not an easy task, but one challenge I’ve enjoyed!
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Just discovered your comic. This is great stuff! I’ll be back!
Glad to have you along for the ride! Welcome! And, rock on…
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heh heh heh, this should prove entertaining.
I try… 😉
Ah, Nebraska: Gateway to South Dakota.
They really need a better state motto.
“Nebraska: Nothing Ever Happens Here. Come Sit A Spell… Please?”
Just realized that Robin is apparently driving the car and we didn’t get a look at her…… is her shirt still soaked from the Wet T-Shirt Contest?
Nope, everyone’s high & dry… literally. The air in Nebraska is dry so your wet clothes would dry out quickly. Nothing against Nebraska, but it was a very LONG BORING state to drive through on my way to Colorado some years ago. I think you can start to see the mountains on the horizon too which just gets your hopes up that “you’re getting closer to the mountains” but alas they’re still about a day’s drive off.
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Ouch!!!!!
Yes… 😀
Hey, I grew up in Iowa and I was born in Nebraska! Don’t moon either one!!! jk
Byron — I bet you that is the fastest time between moon rise and moon set in the whole history of the world!
That was awesome. I figured for getting whacked in the ass with a tree branch, not falling out of the car! LOL!