Priorities

Last week, my best friend had a baby and has been understandably out of touch and (pre-)occupied. Thus, my random comments, odd stories, comic discussions, and good-for-nothing banter has been piling up waiting for his return. Mixed in with that is my excitement and concern for him and his family.

When I sit down and look for him on chat, I think about him, his baby, and his wife and wonder how they are doing and how they are coping with such a giant, fantastic change. At the same time, the typical idiocies that we pass back and forth come to mind and I am sort of hit with a weight of realization. Here I am, working, goofing off, reading comics, teaching, grading, and generally just sort of living non-chalantly, and there he is with a baby. A human baby. A defenseless, dependent, pure, innocent human baby that will need nurturing, attention, education, morals, and an unfathomable amount of love.

I realized that, compared to having a baby, everything I do must be pretty insignificant... and with that realization came a double dose of hope. Firstly, and rather selfishly, is that having a baby does not change everything everything; and secondly, that I will one day be able to experience such a change.

Cash & West and 5CC

My buddy, Question Everything, created a comic book for Christmas last year for his brother-in-law that starred his two sons. He is in the process of publishing it online here.

It stars Cash and Weston as two police detectives, and follows them as they try to unravel a mystery involving all their favorite cartoon characters! Check it out!

He also draws the comic 5 Color Control. It is about the card game Magic the Gathering and has a casts of real life people that do not-so-real-life things. However, if you visit Toys from the Attic, you my find yourself wondering which world you are actually in. Check it out!