Thursday
Jan192012
How to Help Your Child Pick a Role Model
I'm posting this comic to the site early to make up for the comic lost to the protest yesterday, and because I'm feeling some guilt in general. Time has been scarce lately. That's why there've been reruns the last couple of Fridays. I hope to rectify the situation soon.
Thanks for your patience.
January 19, 2012
Reader Comments (46)
The first two panels are gold. Came out of nowhere and whacked me with the funny.
LIKE A NINJA!
Damn...now I want my daughter to be a ninja too. Either that or marry a rich guy with a yacht.
A great BI and the bonus of it being early too.
Please add 'do' to the second panel though. "Do ninjas 'do' chores?"
Damnit, I wished my mother had been badmouthing doctors when I was young...
Now you have to do a strip with the exclaimation "Like a VIKING!"
In order to meet my nitpicking quota for the day, I feel obligated to point out that one of the speech bubbles in panel 2 should probably say "Do ninjas do chores?".
Speaking of picking nits, the plural of ninja is actually ninja. "Pluralling" doesn't change a word in Japanese :)
^Rob: And if we were speaking Japanese, that would mean something.
This was an awesome comic from start to finish. Bravo, sir.
Great comic! You are forgiven for not delivering me your FREE comics yesterday, or, you know, whatever it is that your guilt was about. :-)
I join one of the comments above and beg you to exploit this theme more. Not only Vikings, but also Ninjas vs. Pirates!
I believe today I shall end every sentence with "like a NINJA!"
My wife should be hitting me with her figurative rolling-pin by dinner.
Seems like there's a Dr McNinja crossover somewhere in here.
Aww, I feel bad that you feel guilty. Hey, did you know the copyright still says 2011?
There. With any luck, I've replaced your guilt with rage.
Perhaps it's because I have an 8 year old son for whom this rings so very true, but you made me laugh a lot with this one.
Artfully done - I'm still chuckling.
When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be a ninja. I thought: Every kid says they're going to be something like this, but I'm actually going to do it. I'm going to train and become a ninja.
I never even took karate. Now I'm a business reporter. And I'm a little overweight. Nothing ninja in any of that.
"My wife should be hitting me with her figurative rolling-pin by dinner." (Like the ninja!)
Rick's got long hair again! Excellent comic - keep up the good work!
@Invisible Editor
Ninja: "...a covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja
The more you know...
Awesome comic, loved the line about "eliminating" weeds. And the suggestion to badmouth the doctor. hehe
I also join that above comment about furthering this thing. Maybe when the kid gets a bit older, he'll start wearing turtlenecks himself, and go travelling around reading books with short sentences.
Or maybe after the ninja stuff, he'll get into the usual Space! versions of things.
No guilt about yesterday, please. It was in the service of an important cause.
I hope he decides he wants to be a pirate next. :>
-Cougar :{)
This one is great. And it's actually educational, too (I find your best comics are).
"…but we all know kids will pick other heroes to emulate as well."
Hmm, so parents are heroes. You made that so subtle… like the ninja.
Epic comic today, Shihan-san Scott.
When I took care of the weeds in the garden, I did it LIKE A GAIJIN!