Torpedo Trajectory

 

Happy Birthday to my Mom-in-Law!
Sometimes when you game, there is strategy needed. And sometimes, the strategy does not work out like you'd hope. Yes, he is playing on a Switch because drawing someone at a computer is a step more advanced than I wanted to do. Yes, that's an AtlA reference at the end. 

Explanation: if the torpedoes go off while still on the ship, you are sunk. You want them to go off when they hit the enemy's ship, not when they're still in your ship.

Text:
L: How is the game going?
M: The torpedoes have gone off, but they were still in the ship.
L: That's rough, buddy.

Sky Bison vs Ground Bison

 

Happy Birthday to my nephew!
I have a crocheted Appa in our teddy bear basket downstairs and I'm waiting for the day when Lucy realizes that one of those critters is mythological. We have a regular bison teddy (teddy bison? bison bear?) from our trip out to Nebraska and yeah the sky bison does not look at all like a regular bison, with the extra legs and the coloring and the massive tail. 

Explanation: Appa is a sky bison from a kid's show. In the real world, you can buy bison meat in several forms including ground (like ground beef). The comic plays on the sky vs ground dichotomy. 

Text:
M: That is Appa, a sky bison.
L: You can't find those in a grocery store.
M: Nope, they only have ground bison.
L2: *obliviously playing with Appa*

Triple Ginger

 I sketched this out and didn't get around to inking or digitalizing because I just really like it and wanted to post it quickly. Triple Ginger Cookies are delicious and have ground ginger, crystallized ginger, and fresh ginger in them. Here's a recipe. 

This comic was semi-inspired by a meme I saw about a person reading a recipe and getting to the ingredient "ground ginger" - at this, he exclaims "as opposed to what, sky ginger?" Clearly he is confusing "ground" meaning to grind something up with "ground" as in earth. 

Explanation: In the cartoon "Avatar: The Last Airbender", their world is divided into four countries: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. The Fire Nation tries for world domination, and the intro sequence for the show mentions "everything changed when the fire nation attacked." I took "ground" ginger to be from the Earth Kingdom, so it follows that sky ginger would be from the Air Nomads and water ginger from the Water Tribes. 

The initials below are referencing characters in Batman: Alfred (the butler), Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, and Jason Todd (Bruce Wayne's sons). I considered having the last line said by Bruce, but thought of that after it was written and didn't want to find the space to add another person.

Text:
A: Enjoy these triple ginger cookies, young sirs.
D: Whoa, how are there three types of ginger?
A: Well first there is ground ginger.
D: Ok.
T: Then there is sky ginger.
A: No-
J: Thirdly there is water ginger.
D: I think I've had that kind in lo mein.
A: That would be water chestnut.
T: But everything changed when the fire gingers attacked.