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*

Gnaming a Gnome

 

Alternate ending: 

Sometimes I come up with more than one way to do a comic and I can't pick which version I like better so here are both and you can decide. This set has a bit of Shakespeare in it. 

Explanation: "Gnome" and "Romeo" can be combined to make "Gnomeo" which is the name of a gnome in a cartoon version of Romeo and Juliet. Paris is the name of a character in Romeo and Juliet (he's supposed to marry Juliet). Fun fact: I learned about Paris from Twilight rather than R&J, which shows you can learn things from unexpected sources. 

Text:
A: Why did you name your gnome Paris?
L: "Gnomeo" seemed too on the gnose.
A: What's in a gname, anyway?
Alternate ending:
A: It's an excellent gname.

My gnome, Paris.

Recipe Options

 

Happy Birthday to my Robin! She likes looking at recipe videos on my phone and deciding if we can make it or not. The latest one we made is dandelion flatbread and it was quite tasty! The recipe in this comic was some fluffy dessert with all sorts of dairy in it - I have finally come to realize that with lactose intolerance, if I want to make a recipe then I only want to be subbing out one, max two ingredients for non-dairy versions. Otherwise, brace for failure. 

Text:
*Looking at recipe videos on my phone*
R: We can make that!
L: We cannot because that is all dairy, and Mom can't eat lactose.
R: We can make it, and I'll eat it.

Riddle Up

 

Again with the riddles :) So I like to jokingly bemoan how the cumulative numbers keep increasing on any statistic that the media is tracking. That's how cumulative numbers work - they can only go up or level off. Your age is a cumulative number so my partial answer could be correct. 

Text:
M: What goes up but never down?
L: Cumulative -
M: Your age.
L: Yep, that.

Riddle Down

 

My husband was reading kid riddles to me and I was answering them in unexpected ways. Fun all around. My kids were confused but they are preschool/toddler aged so that's a bit young for word plays. 

Text:
M: What goes down but never up?
L: My mood.
M: ... Rain.

None Good

 

Happy Easter! He is risen, just as He said. 

This comic is a true story showing how Ori will emphatically answer questions with "yes" or "no" without regard to what has been asked. 

Explanation: The Bible says there is none good, no not one. Therefore, Ori is correct to say he is not good. The second comic references total depravity, which is a doctrine much contested (but the author believes all are born sinful and can only be redeemed through the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross). 

Text:
L: Are ya good?
O: No!
M: He is theologically sound.

L: Are you utterly depraved?
O: No!
M: He needs a hermeneutics refresher.

Revive a Baguette

 

True story, I didn't read/watch the Instagram post about how to revive a baguette. But I am fairly certain it did not involve an AED (automated external defibrillator, used to restart a person's heart). 

Text:
A: I need an AED! *holding a long thin bread*
B: That's not how you revive a baguette.
A: How do you?
B: One weird trick that I didn't watch, so I don't know.

Coax a Fire

 

I forget when this idea was sparked :) 

Explanation: "coaxing a fire" is when you gently prod and blow on a dying fire to get it to crackle back to life. "Coaxing" can also mean encouraging a person. I feel like it's a type of computer cable as well...

Text:
A: You can do it!
B: That's not how you coax a fire.