The Return of Stickman #1162

The Return of Stickman #1161

When my wife started to read this she was wondering if it was going to go anyplace, then she started laughing and I knew I had a winner.

The Return of Stickman #1160

I took just a few liberties with the real situation that inspired this strip. I made the child older. In real life the child was a three month infant. Oh, and I left out the part about the father hiding behind a dumpster with the child.

The Return of Stickman #1159

This strip was inspired by a set of instructions I received for a meeting I had this morning. And while I made it to my meeting without making a wrong turn, there has been many a time when I was less fortunate.

The Comic Critic Reviews The Ballad of Narayama

The Ballad of Narayama is not a tale of noble samurai or skilled swordsmanship. It’s about a small, very poor, rural feudal Japanese village in the middle of nowhere, where avoiding starvation is the primary goal. Instead of glorious battles filled with banners flapping brightly in the wind, there is a far more intimate war being waged within the hamlet. And like any war, it’s not pretty. The unfolding story provides tremendous insight to a side of Japanese culture that few see. I was very happy with the DVD, which often had two sets of subtitles going on, one set for the dialog and another set for the definition of words and customs not well known outside Japan. A must-see for those who love films from and about Japan.

The Return of Stickman #1158

I hate American news media. Here the Chinese have done something fantastic, they've entered the space race. And the only thing the U.S. can find in way of response in the news outlets? They ate some dog. Most new outlets didn't mention the fermented rice soup, the spicy pig skin, or the other really yummy foods they had on the trip. (Don't knock fermented rice soup if you haven't had it.) The media was working the Asian stereotype angle so hard on this story I'm surprised nobody used the headline: "It's not Tang!" Hooray for the Chinese! Kudos to them for getting into space. And thank you American news media for once again making the citizens of our country look like a bunch of nimrods.

The Return of Stickman #1157

This is my favorite ketchup and I don't think I'm going to miss the salt at all. I hear that Heinz will also be enlarging the size of the little ketchup packets. I wonder if they are going to keep that change as quiet as the recipe change.