Text:
M: What goes up but never down?
L: Cumulative -
M: Your age.
L: Yep, that.
True Story
A blog for my thoughts that come out as comics
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Riddle Up
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
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.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
None Good
L: Are ya good?
O: No!
M: He is theologically sound.
O: No!
M: He needs a hermeneutics refresher.
Thursday, April 17, 2025
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.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Tasty Dinner Meat
R: Mom, dinner was so good - the chicken was yummy!
L: I'm glad you liked it - it was salmon.
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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!
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
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!
Thursday, April 3, 2025
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.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Silly String Cheese
A: We've made the ultimate party food: Silly String Cheese!
B: *face-palming*
Sunday, March 30, 2025
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.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
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.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
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
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Musical Day of Creation
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*