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. 

Tasty Dinner Meat

 

Well a compliment is a compliment. I did tell her several times before this that we were eating fish and that it was salmon but she decided it was chicken and that was that. 

Text:
R: Mom, dinner was so good - the chicken was yummy!
L: I'm glad you liked it - it was salmon. 

Parenting While Sick Still

 

Some days it be like that. 

Text:
Title: Parenting While Sick
L: *coughing so hard I can't breathe*
O: READ BOOK, MOM! READ BOOK!

Parenting While Sick

 

Every parent can relate. Have you ever wanted every minute of your day scheduled? Get a preschooler. They come with zero sympathy for the sickness they spread to you.

Text:
Title: Parenting While Sick
R: After you finish blowing your nose, we're gonna play this game.
L: T'anks for t'e itinerary. 

Fascianating

 

I came up with this when looking at an exercise routine titled "fascia release on the roller" and I did not have a roller so instead I looked up what fascia was and yep, it was fascinating or rather fascia-nating.

Text:
A: *talking about fascia tissue*
L: That's fascia-nating! 

Nueva Casablanca

 

I've done a comic using this quote before, see it here:  https://comics.comicaltruestory.com/2013/09/casablanca.html 

Explanation: There's a famous line from the movie Casablanca - "Here's looking at you, kid." A baby goat is called a kid. A rabbit can also be called a hare but I think there's a technical difference. So I flipped the quote around and used animals. Also, "nueva" means "new" in Spanish.

Text:
Title: Nueva Casablanca 
Rabbit: That baby goat has a mean stare.
Turtle: Kid's looking at you, hare. 

Silly String Cheese

Is Silly String a thing anymore? It was rather popular when I was a youth. Did this character just rebrand spray cheese? Maybe. Don't go falling for any tricks today. Happy Birthday Eve to my sister! I remember when she had her birthday party on this auspicious holiday one year and our neighbor gave her a gift-wrapped boulder the size of a desktop computer tower. It was memorable. 

Text:
A: We've made the ultimate party food: Silly String Cheese!
B: *face-palming* 

True Story: Mystery

 

The mom brain hits hard sometimes. This mystery was solved within seconds of me stating the problems. 

Explanation: The little toddler fork had fallen into the disposal. I had not checked in there. I might have been avoiding it because I didn't want to fix it because I was fixating on finding the fork. Oh, the irony.

Text:
Title: True Story: Mystery
L: I cannot find Ori's little toddler fork anywhere - I've looked all over! Also, the sink disposal is making a weird grinding noise.
M: Hmmm.

Hip Hip Cheerios

 

Happy Birthday to my Oriole! For this comic to be the truest of stories, Ori would have been in a grocery cart - however, I did not wish to draw one so we have the modified version above. I think it's great when you use a new word around a little kid and they substitute it with whatever word they know (hip to hippo). 

Text:
Title: At the Grocery Store
O: Cheerios!
L: Hip, hip, cheerio.
O: No hippo, Mom - Cheerios.

GMO animals

 

So many critters fit in this comic. Now I'm thinking of these critters in the style of Avatar the Last Airbender, where they'd be half-n-half animals like a turtle-duck (a turtle shell with a duck head and four duck feet). This scene depicted is at a zoo, so that's a zookeeper talking to the confused lady. 

Text:
S: Squirrel monkeys? Elephant shrews? What's next, a kangaroo rat?!? When will the GMOs end?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Z: You are... confused.
P: *Squawk* rhino beetle *squawk* sloth bear

Musical Day of Creation

As a bonus, here's the sketch from my Sunday bulletin. My pastor is doing a sermon series on Creation - listen to it on SermonAudio.com! You can look it up by the sermon title and passage on the bulletin. 

Explanation: A music rest is a marking to show that you pause. The seventh day of Creation is when God rested, and is known as the day of rest. 

Text:
Whole-note rest: None of you got a day of creation.
Quarter-note and Eighth-note rests: *backing up their spokesperson*
Various music notations that are not rests: *sad* 

DST Reparations

 

Honestly, I would just like the time change to end. I'm trying to think how a state could give individuals their sleep back and I'm not coming up with anything. Let's just call it done and quit changing the clocks. I don't care if we stay in DST or Standard Time, just call it quits whenever we can get the votes to do so. 

Text:
A: DST has happened around 60 times, so we should get 60 hours of sleep in reparations.
B: But doesn't Standard Time negate it?
A: Nope, double it! 120!
B: Sure, shoot your shot. 

Take It All Back

The song being quoted is "Take It All Back" sung by Tauren Wells, We the Kingdom, and Davies. This song was going through my head as we had to Spring Ahead yet again. Can the time changing please end. 

Text:
A: You want to end DST?
B: 🎜Taking back what the enemy stole🎝