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2024-10-04

Self-assessment

 

Red Guy, whacking self over head with a club labeled "self-congratulation" and grinning vacantly: "I am good at this." Blue Guy, limbs writhing pensively and placing one finger on the chin, also pensively: "This one may be too subtle for me."

You are doing another of your "metaphors"?

 

(CrustaceanSingles presents: Red Guy and Blue Guy, where the 'guy's are gender-neutral and the colors are an accident of birth, not a sign of political or sports affiliation. And they change shape! It's fun.)

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2024-05-16

Huh

 

Person 1, pointing: Is that a question mark hovering over your head? Person 2, slumped and looking confused: Yeah. I don't get it.
 

Keep in mind that your booing will only make me stronger.

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2024-04-13

Surprised

 

Person 1 asks Person 2, who has an exclamation mark hovering above their head, "You surprised about something?" Person 2 says, "Hours ago. Mildly. Now I can't get the dang thing to go away."

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2024-04-09

Concerning

Person looking into mirror says, "Gotta think of something funny... Hating myself is funny, right?" The reflection says, "Actually it's really concerning—" The person cuts off the reflection with "Haha, yeah. Concerning is funny."
Thanks, mirror. Good talk.

 

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2024-02-10

Please do not

Panel 1 of 2: a hand holds a bottle, about to pour its contents into a glass. The label reads "Juice that turns you inside out". A speech bubble breaks in from outside the top of the frame and says, "Wait! Don't!" Panel 2 of 2: Zooms out to show the stick figure holding the bottle, looking around confused for the source of the voice. The voice continues from outside the top of this panel: "It would be impossible to draw."

 

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2024-01-30

On the multiplication of the juices

 

A number of identical bottles, the foremost one with little burst lines suggesting a sudden action. Each has an identical label reading "Juice that turns you into an identical bottle of juice if you drink even a sip".

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2024-01-28

Potato joke

 

One person stands at a counter upon which sit various vegetables and one kitchen knife. Another person approaches from behind and asks, "Do you have a potato I could borrow?" "What for?" "A joke." "What's the joke?" "If I explain it, it won't be funny." That's it. That's the whole comic.

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2023-09-23

OK

A figure resembling a half-abstractified version of Clippy, the failed Microsoft entity, announces that "Trouble is on its way". A hypercube appears below its speech bubble containing the response "OK." and a mouse cursor approaches the hypercube. Weird, huh?

I've come to the conclusion that if I'm to continue CrustaceanSingles at all, I have to give myself room to make weird nonsense like this. Thank you for understanding.

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2023-09-21

OK so what if

 

A person has a thought bubble that descends into total illegibility after starting with "OK so what if there's this person at a bus stop". The thought bubble is rapidly floating away and the person is reaching futilely after it, calling, "No, come back! I'm not done with you!"


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2023-09-16

Consider this an invitation

 

A person pulls aside a curtain and looks out the window, where the sky has been replaced with the alpha channel familiar to those who spend too much time editing images using layers. It's a white-on-grey checker pattern that shows wherever pixels aren't and under pixels that are at less than 100% opacity. The person says, "The sky is doing that thing again."

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2023-09-14

In the frame

 

In the foreground, seen from the back, a stick figure holds up a wide frame in front of two other standing stick figures. One of these two holds up exasperated hands and says, "Come on, man. Put that down." The other, arms folded, adds, "We already said we don't want to be in your comic."

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2023-08-29

Dollar signs

 

A person walks on a sidewalk holding a bulky sack labeled with a dollar sign in each hand. Another person sits against the wall of a building to the side and calls out, "Hey, Moneybags! Spare a couple bucks?" The one with the sacks smiles and says, "Oh, I don't have any money! These sacks are full of dollar signs. They're clearly labeled as such."

Wish I could help, but...

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2023-07-30

Searching for the words

 

A distraught stick figure has a speech bubble in dashed lines that contains a word search. I have no idea how to render that accessible to a screen reader, so I hope it's not too much of a disappointment if I just write the words obfuscated therein: "I don't know how to explain".

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2023-07-26

Twelve years today

 

One person stands apprehensively behind a second person who is seated at a desk. The desk is strewn with papers bearing crude doodles (faintly visible are a stick figure with antlers whose speech bubble contains a frowning face, a bird with an exclamation mark, Lobsterman, and a rough copy of Munch's The Scream). The standing person says, "You've been doing this every day for twelve years?" The one at the desk doesn't look up but tiredly says, "Yeah, but I can stop anytime I want."

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2023-07-23

I can fly?

 

A person soars through the air, happy and surprised. "I can fly? Just by being incredulous about the fact that I can fly? / I sure hope I don't overthink this."

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2023-07-05

Co-sign

 

A dejected stick figure holds a sign reading, "Please help me come up with a better sign."

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2023-06-24

Handy to blame

 

A poorly drawn hand with a poorly drawn little face on its palm thinks, "I should learn how to draw."
 
If your hand has a face, it's responsible for its own failures. I don't make the rules.

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2023-06-22

It is once again juice time

 

Panel 1 of 3: a bottle sits on a table. The label reads "Juice that makes you accept your fate." Panel 2 of 3: A stick figure tips the bottle back and drinks deeply from it, thinking, "There's nothing I can do about this." Panel 3 of 3: A second figure asks the first, "Oh hey, how's that juice?" The first replies, "Inevitable."

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2023-05-16

Funny in some sense or other

Person pressing one palm against one closed eye says, "The funny thing about migraines is, you are actually listening to me too loudly."

When you have a migraine, it's hard to think about anything else. So you may find yourself thinking, "OK, then I'll make a comic about migraines." Let today's CrustaceanSingles be a cautionary tale: don't make comics about migraines while you have a migraine.

Also, please keep it down over there.

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2023-05-07

Realism

 

Panel 1 of 2: One stick figure says to another, "Please try to be realistic." Panel 2 of 2: the other figure has transformed into a more realistic drawing of a person, subject to the limitations of my talent as an illustrator. They say, "It's just not my aesthetic."

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