Close Encounters, Third Kind
If Zelda starts carving mountains out of mashed potatoes, everyone should worry.
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“Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t!”
I agree with Patti. Zelda must feel 3 bricks shy of a full load.
The alien squirrel is favoring Zelda, because, as everyone knows, squirrels love nuts.
Oh, by the way…
SQUIRREL!!!
LOL @JoanH: This who storyline was created just so I could have Witchy confuse Hydesquirrel with an alien. But now that you mention it, I do need to have Witchy confuse something REAL with an alien at some point. *chuckle* at Mole-rats in da NEWD! I read up on them when Kim Possible was a popular cartoon. One of the characters had a naked mole-rat as a pet.
PattiT and Dale: I do believe Witchy is losing her grip. What shall we do about that?
Cemalidor: <3 I love making you laugh!
Hoomi:
Hoomi: We have dogs. We were doing something similar in our house before UP came out! hahahah
Jakub: That may be a story arc.. or at least two strips where there’s something going on, but instead of helping the situation, Zelda just stands there acting all superior. “See? I TOLD you…” Hahahaha
Calicomo: OoOOoOoo….<3 You have a good rememberer.
Moonpuppy: Oh no, on the Nano!! Don’t throw out the story, tho! there’s something in there you can use later! I have lost because I just don’t have the writing moxie yet…Jumping in at the last minute didn’t help. However, I have material for a side comic should I wish to do one.
We have four Australian Shepherds. Thank heavens we don’t have squirrels anywhere near the yard. My OCD dog will remember that she saw a lizard duck under this weed two weeks ago, and will keep waiting for it to come back out.
Moonpuppy, don’t give up. One of the cardinal rules of NaNoWriMo (and writing in general) is that it’s okay for the first draft to suck. We are our own worst critics, and one of the first steps is to send our critical side off on vacation and just WRITE!
This is a DAMN good strip!
Sight gag, character expression and pacing are SUPERB.
*Big Fan,
~Jonathan
don’t give up….. Sarah is doing short stories. She has several so far, write now edit later. The idea is to turn off the internal editor and develop fluency. It will come.
Hydesquirrel rocks.
OOoOoh, Hoomi! I’ve been looking forward to that movie! *fingers crossed that it doesn’t bite!*
Fangrider! LOL! I had totally forgotten about the frog! His name is “Michigan J. Frog” and that cartoon would make me laugh so hard. (nowadays, my car does that..It will clunk clunk clunk, but when I take it into the repair shop…nothing.)
Jonathan: Oh THANK YOU so much. <3
Calico: I wish I’d thought of that! BRILLIANT! A bunch of short stories makes it more manageable to my brain. I should just pick a theme and do bunches of stories.
I’m not going to throw it out, because I like the characters(granted they all need a bit of tweaking) and if I do NaNo again next year…I will make it a fantasy next year, maybe sci-fi…
As soon as Hubby said “the size of that squirrel”, I just KNEW it was the Hyde squirrel! It reminds me of the Bugs Bunny Jekyll and Hyde cartoon. Now it’s a squirrel. Poof! Now it’s a monster. And just because something is “native to Earth” doesn’t mean it can’t be monstrous- or alien-appearing. For example, have you SEEN naked mole-rats? Definitely Not Of This World! Hee Hee!