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Casual Friday—Head in the Fridge

It’s at this point that I started entering the Bobble-head phase of the comic.  For some reason, everyone had giant heads, and sometimes they had insanely large heads (these will be fixed).  this one, it’s noticeable, but not really horrible.  I should point out that part of it was intentional.  I grew up with Family Circus and Tumbleweeds, and any number of other comics where everyone in the strip had insanely large heads, and I was trying to keep up the tradition.  At least that’s what I tell myself when I look at most of these.

This comic begins the introduction of both Dead Bill and Scot’s sneaky suspicion that not everything in the O’Riordan/Davis household was exactly normal.  Despite not being a particularly popular character, Dead Bill was a useful plot device.  Since he floated around the house in a mostly harmless ghostly fashion, he had plenty of opportunities to observe the world and offer a nudge to people who needed one.  This will come up later.

Casual Friday—Spelling

There are a couple of single-panel comics scattered throughout the run of Casual Notice.  They mostly occur when I didn’t have enough action to justify multiple panels, as with this one.  I decided early on that we would never see any of Scot’s students.  A teacher’s relationship with his students is an odd one under the best of circumstances.  In most cases, public school teachers see any given student for one-to-six hours, five days a week, for maybe nine months, if they’re lucky.  That you so often hear of the profound effect that good teachers have on people’s lives speaks more to the insane devotion and skill of good teachers than it does to the potential for damage done by mediocre and bad ones.

Think about it, a teacher’s influence amounts to about 26 days of your life, and that influence is divided between 20 to 40 other people.  So let’s be generous and say that a teacher can reasonably devote a single day to a given student.  Yet some teachers are so good at what they do, or care so much about the students they’re charged with instructing, that that single day shines in the student’s memory for thirty years or more.  It changes the direction of lives, and rewrites history.

Think about that the next time someone bitches about teachers’ unions but doesn’t say a word about the insane salaries paid to upper-level administrators.

Anyway, I decided not to show the students, because I expected the comic to run a few years (it ran five) and I had no intention of letting any of the students become strip regulars.  These were AP kids, and the odds that they would be slouching around school for six years (as in Head of the Class) were pretty slim.

Casual Friday

So this is the first story comic, and, in it, we establish that Scot has moved in with Penny, having previously shared an apartment with Steve.  I don’t love the art, and the “Dharma and Greg” joke is dated, but there are worse (in case you were wondering why I didn’t fix it).  Looking at these old comics I have to pick and choose what’s bad but part of my “style” (for want of a better word) at the time and what’s just truly awful.  Believe me, the awful is coming.

My next comic will be more exciting as i will be mentioning some experiences in the dating world, all awful hahah but many are funny, I even have one from an adult site, because believe me Horny females are also online looking for sex right now so if you want some you can very easily get it! And let me know your experience, we might be able to make it into a comic?

This is an idea that has been on my mind for a very long time, if you are interest let me know so we can share ideas and make our routine world an fun and awesome place.