Stay In Your Lane

 

After my preschooler saw them painting lines on a road between us and the library, every time we went on that road she told me about how they painted it that one time and how we needed to avoid the orange cones (that were no longer there). 

Can we make this a new version of "stay in your lane"? Like, someone is giving advice that they aren't skilled enough to give and you just say "they're painting the lines on the road of *said skill*."

Text:
A: They're painting the lines on Montgomery Road today.
B: Why are you telling me this?
A: Stay in your lane, bro.

My Chaos Monster

 

I feel the need to add that the name Persephone can mean "Chaos Bringer" and while that's not my kid's name, it's slightly relevant.

Currently (while scheduling this) I have a cut on my fingertip and it's annoying to type so I'm going to be keeping these notes short.

Text:
L: Buddy, you are so chaotic.
O: No, I'm Ori. 

Rouxing Dinner

 

Roux is "a mixture of fat (especially butter) and flour used in making sauces" per Google’s English dictionary, which is provided by Oxford Languages. It's pronounced /ro͞o/ so therefore "rouxining" would be pronounced like "ruining." And "oui oui" is "yes yes" in French, pronounced like "we we." 

Text:
L: Why did you add flour to the melting butter?!? You're roux-ining dinner!!!
M: Oui oui.

Jira Opportunities

It's actually "Work Item" instead of "Issue" but I like my version better. What Jira Opportunities are you working on today? 

Explanation: Jira is a type of program management software, which is something that teams can use to track what they're creating or fixing, and individual items in there were called Issues but now they're called Work Items. I've heard plenty of quotes about seeing issues as opportunities, to get you to reframe your mindset about a situation. 

Text:
M: Jira is rebranding, so now Jira Issues is - 
L: Jira Opportunities? 

Get the Ball

 

True Story. I thought it had rolled under something or was lost but nope, just being held by little brother.

Text:
R: Can you help me get the purple ball?
L: Sure, where is it?
R: In Ori's hand.

Season with Grace and Salt

"Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person." - Colossians 4:6, ESV

Text:

H: Could we branch out and try some new seasonings? *holding a carton of Old Bay*
W: *gasp* We season with salt and grace in this house!

Leaving Leaves

 

Happy Birthday to my grandma and two of my nieces! 
Oh, the English language. Those leaves are leaving, as they do. Is this a comic from the wrong season? Nope, my kids have been collecting leaves from the edges of our yard and piling them on the patio, only for the wind to clear them away. 

Text:
R: Nooooo - the wind is blowing away our pile!!!
L: That is the way of leaves - they leave.

Tea Mail

 

I've been getting loose leaf tea from Plum Deluxe and they have an excellent selection and quality of teas. My daughter's confusion over getting tea in the mail was quite cute and she was laughing quite a bit, picturing a mug of tea in the mailbox. 

Text:
L: *sees notification on phone* Let's get the mail because my tea has arrived.
R: You have a cup of tea in the mailbox?!?!

Stuck Stick

 

Happy Mother's Day! You never know what you'll need to tell your kids next. Did not think I'd be instructing my two-year-old to not uproot trees, yet here we are. He was trying with all his might to get that stick.

Text:
O: Stick STUCK!!!
L: That's a baby tree, buddy. Don't uproot the sapling. 

Bingo Card Full

Congrats to the college graduates, especially my youngest brother! Woohoo! 

I read a text image by thisone0verhere and I just had to draw it. I couldn't decide where the person should hold their bingo dauber so I drew it both ways. 

Also, if you notice my comics looking a little different, I'm experimenting with drawing using a Nomad tablet. We shall see how it goes. I kinda like it but it takes some getting used to. 

Text:
"My 2025 bingo card is full and they're still calling numbers left and right" --@thisone0verhere

Person stressed, holding a bingo card that's covered in red dots

Announcer: B5 I27 I7 O32 G1 N17 I52 B42 ...

Kids Crafts

You finish the setup for one craft and they're asking for another but you still need to do the cleanup for the last and all the prep work for the next. And they just want to add the googly eyes, which is fair. 

Text:
Kids crafts would be so much easier if kids were not involved.
*parent stressing while children use craft supplies with wild abandon*

Happy Star Wars Day

Happy Star Wars Day! "May the Fourth be with you"
Here are some comics from previous years, namely 2017 and 2022. I was experimenting with digital creation in 2017 - using the basic shapes and typing rather than just free-handing it all. Fun fact: my SW comics are a mix of Star Wars and Snow White ones - I should really name them differently to keep them distinct. 

https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2017/03/heavysabers.html

https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2017/04/lifesavers-vs-lightsabers.html

https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2022/09/grievous-mistake.html

One Small Step for Man

 

I do pay attention to the sermon, but I also doodle. You should listen to the sermon - it's on SermonAudio under Pastor Sung Cho at Faith Bible Church.

Explanation: Some astronauts can take a personal item with them to space (Captain Chris Hadfield brought his guitar and recorded "Space Oddity" on the ISS) so I figured an astronaut could take a dinosaur footprint maker and leave some amazing footprints on whatever surface they explore. 

Text:
Inset image of dinosaur tracks next to astronaut footprints.
A1: I thought your personal item was odd, but it's genius!
A2: *holding a stick with a dinosaur footprint on the base end*