Great power means don’t push those who can take it from you.

This strip was a challenge to draw, to fit in all the action and angles to convey the joke.

There it is, the “fetch” joke again. But only used when it felt perfect, as it did here.

I really enjoyed drawing the last panel, which was in the running for possible covers for book #1.

And this is yet another way to exploit the “fetch” (as you can see in the tags below) device with Blake, in a way which felt fresh and fun. Oh, and horrible. :)

it was fun taking the instructions for knitting and try to pare it down into one panel. “go ‘yo’” was my favorite.

Although someone wrote me, I forgot who, who tried to do the stitch according to my instructions and it came out looking like a triangular crepe.

See, here’s another one you might not know unless you grew up with only wood to heat your home. The piles are BIG. By this I mean that you stack little logs maybe 5 feet tall and 30 feet long outside your house and cover it in plastic. And so when a stack tips over, woe betide who might be underneath it.

By the way, I’m LOVING hearing all of your stories about wood burning childhoods.

When you’re on the commanding end, “fetch” never gets old.

Sometimes it’s hard to think of the truly unexpected (which is what humor is largely based on), which is yet not so surprising upon reflection; but “fetching” his sword was up there.

Interesting angled first panel for “batman” style drama too. :)

I find that so much of humor is based on the “nature” of a character, and so telling a dog “fetch” is so repeatedly ripe for it. Dog’s can’t help it. You say “fetch” and bang, they’re off.

As the story goes, the scorpion said “No, frog, of course I won’t sting you if you carry me across the pond. If I did, then we would BOTH drown.” Upon stinging (of course), as they both sink, the frog asks why. “Because,” said the scorpion, “it is in my nature.”

I LOVED stick racing as a kid. Because it all involves watching and shouted commentary, and there’s no action aside from saying “ready set go” and dropping the sticks. How fun is that?!

I was really proud of the art in this one. The different perspectives as well as the stone-work in panel 2.