Ha! i still find this to be true. Towards the end of a trip i start withdrawing. Either from lack of privacy, or, hm…. probably a desire to return to my usual routine (which I like very much, thank you).
Humorously, maybe, sometimes it is also simply because I’m hungry. This strip works on so many levels! :)
I find it an interesting phenomenon that some jokes get more lame and then resurge as funnier than ever and then lame again. It’s like the ebb and flow of the ocean.
That is Peter Zale of “Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet” fame. We became friends when the internet was new and we were two of the few people online doing webcomics back in 1996. A great guy, and we still keep in touch.
That’s a funny truth. I did a lot of acting in high school and college, and cartooning is very much like and very much unlike cartooning.
Goodbyes after a long road trip are always surreal. The trip has become your life in a way, and so it’s a real intense thing. Or, at least, I’ve found it to be that way.
For some reason I always mix up “-in-law” and “step-.” Don’t know why i can’t keep them straight. Glad I got this one correct. I think.
I like that after traveling she always ends up on Lenny’s couch. Sometimes I wish I had a magic couch like that.
Sarcasm is hard to deliver to someone you’ve just met. One really needs a point of reference and familiarity with inflection to be up on it.












