Crustacean Singles: November 2023

2023-11-30

Doing it

Panel 1 of 2: A cloud with a scowling facial expression looks at a little stick figure, cross-legged and meditative, who is floating nearly at its own level in the sky. The cloud says, "You're doing it wrong". Panel 2 of 2: A closeup on the stick figure, who smiles serenely and raises one hand in a discursive gesture: "How can that be when I am in fact doing it?"

I think it is enough for now.

2023-11-29

Head in the clouds

A stick figure with extremely long legs and arms stands high in the sky, head among the clouds, and thinks, "always got my head in the clouds". The clouds scowl and one says, "We'd really rather you didn't."

2023-11-28

Communicative intent

A puffy cloud bears a passing resemblance to a hand performing a rude gesture involving its middle finger. It also has a face with a grumpy expression and says, "If you choose to interpret my current, purely coincidental form as intentional communication of an idea, that's on you."

2023-11-27

Angry weather

A stick figure wields a net on the end of a very long pole, extending it into a stormy sky with angry-faced grey clouds. A bird with an eyepatch and a prosthetic hook replacing one of its feet perches on a branch nearby and says, "You better hope you don't really get one."

2023-11-26

I don't appreciate the tone

Two distant stick figures look up at a formation of clouds that appears to resemble letters spelling the word "RIGHT". One says, "Seems sarcastic."

2023-11-25

Heyyy

Panel 1 of 2: Two fluffy clouds float near each other in the sky. The one on the left smiles blankly, while the one on the right smiles perhaps a little flirtatiously. Panel 2 of 2: the cloud on the left has opened up its entire side (not its still-smiling mouth) and is devouring the other, whose expression has shifted into alarm.

2023-11-24

Unexpected and wrong

A fluffy cloud rests atop a tree trunk as though it were the tree's cartoonishly drawn foliage. It looks down in confusion. "That can't be right."

2023-11-23

Drifted

A sad cloud alone in a stormy sky says, "Sorry we drifted apart".

Get it? Because they're clouds? Do you get my joke

2023-11-22

Mutuality

Two clouds next to each other have smaller tufts of cloud between them resembling the smaller trails of thought bubbles in cartooning convention. One looks excited, while the other, skeptical, says, "I don't think it necessarily means we're mutually imaginary."

2023-11-21

Parade?

A cloud wears a ridiculous face disguise of thick glasses with false eyebrows, nose, and mustache. It says, "No, I don't know anything about what happen to that parade. I don't even know what parade is. I am simple cloud."

2023-11-20

How are you

One cloud asks another, "How are you doing?" The other says, "Wrong."

2023-11-19

Howdy

It's just a cartoonish drawing of a cloud that is shaped like a tall cowboy hat. The cloud has a happy little face. The cloud says, "Howdy".

2023-11-18

Do you think it hurts

One cloud says to another, "Do you think it hurts when you rain away?" The other says, "Or maybe it's nice. Who cares? At least then it's over." An asterisk leads to a footnote reading "Little do they know, they're trapped in the water cycle until the Sun's expansion strips the Earth of its atmosphere and water after billions of years."

2023-11-17

You can't

Panel 1 of 2: a bird approaches a large cloud, beginning to land on its surface. The cloud has a face with a bothered, confused expression and says, "Hey. No. You can't do that—". Panel 2 of 2: the bird has fully landed on the cloud and has pulled up a chunk of cloud in its beak. Its head is cocked inquisitively to the side but its expression is unreadable. The cloud's face is now shocked and possibly pained. END

2023-11-16

Nebulous social status

Two stick figures lie on the grass and look up at clouds in a blue sky. One points and says, "That one looks like a friend!" The other says, "You shouldn't form parasocial relationships with clouds."

2023-11-15

Purists

A cloud addresses a hot air balloon (or the person piloting it): "It's hard to argue with results, but you're still not doing it *right*."

2023-11-14

Posted rules

A sign stuck into the ground says "Sky to remain clear at all times". One cloud looks at it worriedly, while another grins and says, "What's city hall gonna do about it?"

I was feeling stuck compulsively making this useless stuff every day. Then I stumbled into an even more specific (constrained) version, like locking myself inside a box inside the cell I'd already locked myself inside. Where do I go from here? What am I doing with my l

2023-11-13

It's not supposed to do that

A cloud with a face is inside a building, floating by a window and looking out at a sky full of gigantic floating stick figures. "The sky is doing that thing wrong again."

2023-11-12

That cloud looks like

A cloud has sprouted legs and walks upon the earth, crushing one member of a picnic as two others run away. The cloud says, "Now who looks like a slumpy muddle?"

2023-11-11

Correct if wrong

One cloud says to another, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but—" and the other replies, "OK, when's a good time to work through the considerable backlog?"

2023-11-10

Drifted

Several stick figures sit and recline on clouds which are also their own thought bubbles, with little thought bubble trails coming from their (the stick figures') heads. They gaze lovingly at their thought bubbles/clouds. "And so they drifted / each in love with / their own idea".

(your idea does not love you back)

2023-11-09

Far beyond

A cloud in the approximate shape of a head with a triple-forked beard floats in the foreground of a sky with scattered clouds. It has a face and uses one of its beard forks as a tentacle to grasp a tiny human figure, holding it up as though speaking to it. "I will grow too weird to be deemed right or wrong".

This increasingly feels like it's run its course, but I barely remember who I was before the wrongposting began.

2023-11-08

Wrong and right

A cloud has settled on the ground and is devouring one of the people who came over to inspect it while others look on in horror or run away. The cloud says, "If this is wrong, I don't want to be right."

What has being right ever done for me?

2023-11-07

Doing, wrong, et cetera

A cloud in the sky looks down at a cloud lying on the ground and says, "You're doing it wrong." The cloud on the ground is surrounded by tiny stick figures approaching it with varying degrees of caution. Its facial expression is anticipatory and somewhat intense. It replies to the other cloud, "You don't know what I'm doing."

2023-11-06

Possibly not right

Two distant stick figures stand and sit respectively on a low grassy hill. One points up at an improbable formation of clouds. The clouds seen from the reader's perspective appear to spell out the word "wrong", although of course this would be mirrored from the perspective of the people on the hill. The pointing person asks the other, "Do those clouds look right to you?"

The fact that I suspect this to be my greatest accomplishment is more a reflection on all my past work than a recommendation of the comic you see before you, but

2023-11-05

First person dual inclusive

The sun in the sky has a sad face and is crying glowing yellow tears like rain. A cloud with a face has bright shining lines emanating from it. The cloud says to the sun, "We're doing it wrong."

2023-11-04

Still?

A cartoonish cloud looks down at a crying person whose tears are dropping like rain. The cloud says, "You're doing it wrong."

2023-11-03

Debatable

A cartoonish cloud with a face looks down at a person's thought bubble, which resembles the cloud, but which also contains an imagined slice of pizza. The cloud says to the thought bubble, "You're doing it wrong."

2023-11-02

Just so you know

Several more or less realistic fluffy clouds float in the sky. Among them is one cartoonish cloud with a face. One of the realistic clouds says to the cartoonish one, "You're doing it wrong."

2023-11-01

A little free advice

A cloud with a face looks down at a person holding a kite and says, "You're doing it wrong."