OUR ADVENTURE CONTINUES 007 - LONG DISTANCE LOVE

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This strip was originally published on February 12, 2013 over at www.ouradventurecontinues.com

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Valentine's Day is coming up and so we thought we'd take a break from the main storyline of two guys trying to create something together, to bring you a strip about true love and the complications of romance in the workplace.

Meet Roland and Mindy, two star crossed lovers torn apart by the tragic concept of working at separate registers, just a few feet apart. These are brand new characters for Our Adventure Continues, and nfortunately you won't be seeing them again for a great long while, if ever, but that's just the way things go.

Roland, if you'll remember, was featured in a couple of Christmas strips in our Variety Smack run.

Remember, if you want Harold and I to get the band back together and create more comic strip fun, please say so by leaving a comment below.

Thank you, there is more to come!

VARIETY SMACK 009 - THE BEARD OF DOOM

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This strip was originally published on November 17, 2011

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See, the way I figured it was that since Harold got to live out one of his fantasies through the comic (see the last strip), then doggone it, I was gonna too.

This is, again, another retail inspired strip. I was, as I stated before, working at a Walgreens at the time I wrote a lot of these, so my experiences there would sometimes trickle into the comic.

One thing that had always bothered me about working retail were the people that would come up to the counter and spend the entire time I'm ringing them up talking on their phone.

Well, I don't know about you, but I've always found that sort of behavior downright rude. And frankly, it tended to get me a mite angry.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fairly antisocial guy, I wasn't looking to hold meaningful conversations with these people, but my very human dignity did want a little acknowledgement that I existed, that I wasn't just a vending machine they were plunking money into.

Smart phones, social media at our fingertips, it's all slowly killing society. These innovations designed to connect people from around the world and allow us to interact socially with each other over great distances is also destroying the way we interact with each other face to face.

I don't know, maybe I'm just old and cranky.

Also, I just want to point out real quick that Harold put little Teddy Bear faces on my jammies and I love that.

Remember, if you want Harold and I to get the band back together and create more comic strip fun, please say so by leaving a comment below.

VARIETY SMACK 007 - THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

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This strip was originally published on November 11, 2011

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Yes, it's another retail inspired strip.

I love this time of year. I love the fall, and I love the holiday season. This time of year really helps, for me, to cement the importance of family, and that's why, for me, it is the most wonderful time of the year.

However, this strip was written during my third holiday season working in retail, an institution that gives this time a year a whole new meaning.

That was a decade ago, but the experiences there, during that time, during the holiday season, have forever stained my soul.

Because working in retain as the holiday season dawns means dealing with customers while making sure the promo aisle is stocked and looks nice, even after hundreds of people rifle through the products, people who never put stuff back where it goes (seriously, how hard is that . . . ok, I'm guilty of it too, but still!), people who stampede through each and every day like a herd of wildebeest and never once, not once, say 'thank you' or 'excuse me' or 'nice shirt', yet always have a boatload of negative things to say like 'this is too expensive' or 'you never have what I want' or 'your shirt is ugly'!

And what's up with that!? I like my shirt! My wife bought me this shirt, and frankly I don't give much of a rat's furry behind what you think about my shirt!

I'm sorry, I seem to have gotten away from my original train of thought. Where was I?

Oh yeah:

I love this time of year, even though the retail industry, as a collective, does its best to try and dampen my spirits.

Remember, if you want Harold and I to get the band back together and create more comic strip fun, please say so by leaving a comment below.

Happy Veterans Day!

VARIETY SMACK 006 - WORKING FOR A LIVING

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This strip was originally published on November 8, 2011

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This is another strip that I based on an actual experience of mine.

At the time Harold and I were doing Variety Smack, I was working at a Walgreens as a second job, and I'd be there, in my Walgreens shirt and nametag, stocking shelves, and most nights someone would come up to me and ask if I worked there.

I can admit that I never responded the way our man above did, but I always wanted to. I just never did, because frankly, I'm a bit of a coward.

Remember, if you want Harold and I to get the band back together and create more comic strip fun, please say so by leaving a comment below.

Thanks!