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Risky Click
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Training Montage

I’ve had this idea for awhile. I think this applies to many aspects of life, where we buy a bunch of stuff to ostensibly improve some area of our life (“I’d be a better artist if I just had some new pens!"), only to immediately move on to something else and not take advantage of the things we just bought.
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The Most Common Body Types

I used to love the Animorphs books when I was a kid. Not sure what got me thinking about them recently. Anyways, I got to produce some of the weirdest drawings I’ve ever done for this comic. Photo reference: Walrus from zanskar
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Airbnb Checkout Instructions

This was inspired by a recent family trip. It was a great time, but we were left with this daunting list of chores on checking out:
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Numeric Bumper Stickers Decoded

I park behind a car with that 100.2 bumper sticker every time I go to comic meetup. Western States Endurance Run is a real thing, a one-day ultra marathon through the mountains. I can’t imagine.
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Child's Play
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Tools of Mental Health

The inspiration for this comic came from reading about a ‘coping saw’ and I thought about ‘hardly coping saw’. I went through a few different books worth of tools to try to find things that might match that vibe. Reference credits: Pipe wrench based on image from Tools A Visual History, illustrated by Lee John Philips Monkey wrench based on image from Tools A Visual History, illustrated by Lee John Philips Hole saw based on Walmart item Scroll saw based on “Scroll Saw 101 - How To Use A Scroll Saw” YouTube video
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Soft-boiled

Original thumbnails:
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Another Man's Treasure
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Sounds Good to Me

This is virtually what happened to my wife and I, except for Raffi actually being #1 in our Spotify wrapped. Maybe next year..
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