Ever get that feeling that you’re stuck in a rut?
Yeah, so it’s probably a cheap trick appealing to the Populist Outrage, but many times leafing through the financial section of the paper these days, I get all rage-y. Better to joke about it, I guess, then to suffer a heart attack over it.
This game together wonderfully Steve – great job! Love this one, and love his punchline in the last panel.
Come on, Steve…If a predator is bloodthirsty AND has no conscious, that kind stuff is second nature, done on autopilot, without thought of consequence. What’s he doin’? Settin’ up a self-appointed “elite” cult within bloodthirsty, consciousless predators? Ya did good, my lightsab… er pixal-slingin’ friend.
Tom’s right . . . punchline is really good. What puts it over the top (in a good way) is that the “bloodthirsty predator with no conscience” is sportin’ a really bad red and blue golf cap. Priceless!
I love their casual nature throughout this scene. And as everyone has said above, the punchline is great.
It’s nice that you chose humor over sitting at home crying over a strong drink even though that might be what many of us feel like doing when we read the ridiculousness that is the financial news.
Ha Ha! Great!
This is one solid comic, Steve, with a keen observation of the business world in general. You have created some cool characters and a great environment. I can’t wait to see more.
Wow! I just adore the artwork… there’s something so classic about it that brings me back to reading the Sunday funnies with my dad when I was a youngin’.
Glad you can use your comics as a stress reliever. Please, no heart attacks.
Thanks, Joe. I can’t claim any special insight into the business world. I see the world through the eyes of a cartoonist, and mock that which upsets me – and that which I don’t understand – with equal intensity.
Wow, Dawn – that’s about the nicest thing you could say about this comic. Reading the Sunday funnies back in my youth is the precise thing that inspires Croaker’s Gorge. I loved Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and Doonesbury. I know I can make a funny comic, and I know how to make a political comic. But commenting on the political status quo while still making it funny would be a win for me. I’m working on it, but I’d rather be funny than topical, so you’ve made my day. Thanks for stopping by! And… yeah. I’ll keep my health intact, thanks for the wellwishing.
I love it!
It’s funny, Tony – for some reason, I was flashing on Calamities of Nature while I was drawing this one. Maybe it’s the philosophical discussion happening while the characters are walking through the environment, I’m not sure. But I’m glad you like it – thanks for the note!
Great. You got my blood boiling again Steve. I am going to be fuming all day over this subject!
You’re welcome! heh heh
Love it!! Bookmarked!
Thank you, Joel! I’ll do my best to keep ‘em coming!
I keeping you to your word on this
Great artwork with a keen edge describing where many of us are finding ourselves. The social commentary is reminiscent of the old “Pogo” strips. As he said, “We have met the enemy and they is us.” Bookmarked and looking forward to future strips
Right on, Joel.
Bruce – I’m always delighted when intelligent, literate people find this strip. That is the audience I hope for. Now to try to be worthy of them…
Thanks for the note!
Thanks, you’re too kind. But I would say that you are closer to being in the league of Copper than Calamities.
A poem by Walt Kelly, lamenting the Okefenokee Swamp filling up with trash:
Slow the thought gets thru the bonnet
Don’t drink don’t swim
WALK upon it!
These degenerate swamp critters look like second-generation Okefenokees – the cranky & corruptible survivors who evolved to live in that trash & pollution. Awesome start, Ogden!
Hi, Phlip! I suppose comparisons to Walt Kelley and Pogo are inevitable regarding Croaker’s Gorge, but I always take it as a compliment, and an honor. Thanks for the note, and the poem!
the more things change, the more they stay the same
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You gotta know I really like this series, too. I wonder…was it inspired as…a better “Pogo”? And, was Leo inspired by “Shoe’s” the Loon? He looks like a Nathan Fillionized (long legs, bushy hair, big beak) loon passing for a stork. I Lovethat crazy ole bird. And I Loveyerstuff, too, Og.
Heya, Tink. Wow, no… I would never be so immodest as to think I could outdo Walt Kelley. I just grew up on a farm with a ton of animals, and when I sat down to write a strip, this is what came out.
Leo wasn’t directly inspired by The Loon, but when I was learning how to ink, I looked at a lot of Jeff MacNelley’s stuff, so who knows? I think you can see his influence in the trees, the leaves, the lost-and-found ink line, the fat brush lines. I’m actually surprised more people don’t ask me more about Shoe than Pogo.
Leo’s based on a bird we had in the lake on the farm where I grew up – a Great Blue Heron – though I doubt anyone would recognize him as such…
Og, this is as good a Sunday page as has ever been done.
Walt Kelly smiles ‘pon thee.
;o)