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This was something that really required more panels than my standard 6. As a general rule, on workdays, I'm up and out of bed well before Heidi. I feed the pets, get the coffee going, etc. (This is also largely motivated by my bladder waking me up earlier. lol) So, to summarize, YES. This basically DID all happen. Some of it was altered to make it PG, as the shirt that got caught on the door handle was IN MY HAND... because I don't actually sleep in a nightshirt. But this isn't THAT kind of strip. ;) The TITLE this week is a reference to the idea that NONE of this was funny at ALL when it was happening. In the real world, it triggered a panic attack and I freaked out hard afterwards. BUT, with time, I realized it was funny and decided to make it a strip.

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Yeaaaah, it was... FUN around the house for a little bit this last month. They have calmed down considerably since, but more often than not, Lucipurr is chilling down in the basement with Rick just in case. Nutbar cats. lol

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Somewhere around the end of March, the cats started going crazy. There's more to say on this, and the strip will cover that as well, but for now, let me say that this DID happen, aaaand I peed myself a little when it did. Wasn't gonna draw THAT, though. ;)

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In my defense, I REALLY thought that the spider had LET GO of its web. It LOOKED like it had, when I pulled my arm back in to the car. The spider flew back in... and I NEVER found it again. That was an anxiety-filled drive to work. lol

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All it takes is ONE little tweak to the routine I have for myself in the morning to utterly muck with my focus and ability to remember my own head. This is WAY worse when I am having to do something I DON'T have a routine or pattern for, but it's the most FUNNY to comment on in my morning routine. It's more detailed than THIS, but it served the format best to streamline it a smidge.

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Now, I KNOW we aren't the only folks who spend longer scrolling through streaming menus than we do actually watching stuff sometimes. It was a fairly straightforward concept for a strip, so with this one, I had a LOT of fun coming up with a little business for the scene. The bit with scritching Mewsikeen adds a bit of fun to the overall image, I think.

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For a while, I had considered trying to draw this IN the style of Voltron, but since my Anxiety Brigade are only occasionally recurring characters, I wanted to make sure they were recognizable. Well, at least to folks who read this comic regularly. I have no idea if this will make ANY sense to new readers. lol

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Lately, I feel like I'm STARTING each morning on cut 990 out of the 1,000 I can deal with on any given day. As such, when little nothing stuff like this happens... and dang does it happen... it really feels nigh-impossible to keep my $#!+ together. lol

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This strip was inspired by a PREVIOUS piece I had done, drawing up a bunch of heads all showing different expressions. It was a fun visual exercise, but I really wanted to work the idea into an actual narrative. Heidi noticing me making the weird faces provided me with the inspiration to work it all together and have fun with it. :)

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So, for anyone who remembers the Alex Ross oversized Treasury Edition comics of the late 90s and early 2000s, this should be VERY familiar to you. If not, you can just Google "Alex Ross Treasury Edition Covers" and see for yourself. I LOVED those books and, for a while, tried figuring out his techniques to no avail. I am STILL no Alex Ross, but with Clip Studio Paint I was able to just sort play around and PRETEND. This was a lot of fun to play with as a parody/homage.  Hope you enjoy!

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Like MOST of my style homages, I just HAD to color this one. I chose, here, to go with a watercolor approach similar to some Walt Kelly pieces in some books I have in this style that I really like.

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Happy Maypril Fool's Day! (IYKYK) I've wanted to do a full-strip homage to Walt Kelly's BRILLIANT and gorgeous comic strip, POGO, for a while now and I had a LOT of fun working on this one! And yes, I wrote and drew this on the 22nd of February, which is often a cause of minor stress with scheduling as I hate waiting so long to run these after drawing them. Here's hoping the weather when it RUNS will match what I'm writing NOW. lol ALSO, if you want to see this strip in sparkling COLOR, become a PATREON backer now and check back on Friday for awesome, full-color fun!

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This is something of a recreation of a couple of different doctor's appointments I've had over the years. Just in case I worry anyone, my blood pressure is very well controlled, and the JUMP shown here actually happened a few YEARS ago when it very much wasn't. I WAS getting my blood pressure checked, and the doctor asked me a somewhat unknowingly triggering question, and this happened much to everyone's surprise. I decided to take THAT

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So, for the record, this strip is a combination of separate experiences at the doctors. The appointment with this specific question was a couple of weeks ago and did not cause a BP spike. I am medicated and my BP is very well managed. The BP spike due to a stressful question asked mid-test, AND the nurse's reaction to what happened, actually occurred YEARS ago before I was on BP meds. Sometimes, that's how strip gags are constructed, where something will happen now that reminds me of something funny that happened a long time ago, and they merge to form the punchline Voltron!

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So, after writing down an idea late at night that was hard to make sense of in the morning, I thought it would be funny to just draw the idea EXACTLY as I had written it in the night with my eyes half closed. It's a VERY goofy idea, but I had fun with it. And yes, we do have forks in the kitchen that I DO NOT like using. They are just uncomfortable to use and I will swap them out. lol