STW Calendar Revisited, Part II

January 7-12

Peeling off a few more days, trying to make sure that my daughter with hoarding tendencies actually throws out all the old pages instead of trying to keep them around…

This one isn’t bad! I wonder what inspired this one. Half the time in these early STW days I was grabbing onto any line in a conversation I’d have, rolling it around mentally and seeing if there was anything I could make from it. “Gertrude” is one of those names that I really enjoy, something that completely screams “1890’s" or “this person is unquestionably either a displaced time-traveler or their parents were being very specific”. Also, “Grain” is very, very funny. I have a feeling I’m going to appreciate the ridiculous of the items on the bottom more than the comic itself most days.

“Horace” is another example of one of my favorite names, another name that hasn’t been popular in a very long time. The comic is fine? It was inspired by many years of undergrad and grad school insisting on wearing sandals all year long, even in moderate snow and even in the lab (which you should never do, and no, covering your feet with rubber gloves does not solve the problem). The soundtrack song for this day, Frank Turner’s “Photosynthesis”, is still a great song and a good anthem for living life well.

This feel very down-the-middle STW, solid, nothing spectacular. I’m proud of everything that the comic was but sometimes it’s amazing that it was enough to catch on in popularity.

If all the word-of-the-day in this first run are food, then why did I go for ‘icing’ and not ‘ice cream’ or any other I word? Strange. The song for the day on this page, Joel Plaskett’s “Through and Through and Through”, also remains utterly enjoyable. Great music video, too, very Canadian.

This is hard-core puns well before STW leaned into almost nothing but puns near the end. I could see many of those types of STW working well in a drawn comic format, too. “Rainvelations” is very, very good, I’m proud of myself for that one.

I remain completely convinced that if we are ever able to implement superpowers in people, that it won’t be flight or anything physics defying, but instead just human manifestation of features already present in other animal species. This bit about squid ink was taken from a longer script I’d tried to write, and now it would seem like it was referencing Finding Nemo and someone inking themselves. Ah well.

Oh God way too many words in this. This needed to be three or four panels. Good concept, decent message, ok punchline, but terribly formatted. I wonder what Melanie from Clearwater, Florida is up to these days?

I knew the holiday here was Joe Namath without looking it up. And “Swept Inside” by Future Islands is another song that’s apparently about past ambitions and growing up, and if I ever actually listened to the lyrics of songs, one might think I had a kind of obsession that I should talk about in therapy.

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More to come as long as days continue to pass!