There’s the end of the arc! Sorry for the added delay on it. In other news, I’ve reached California!
We all knew this arc wasn’t going to end without Johan in a Thor costume somehow. No, it’s not 100% accurate, but if I’m not losing any sleep over it. I was half tempted to put the raccoon in a Loki costume but I felt that would be too much.
So next week, we’ll be starting the Guest Strips/Ask Ginger quickies. This will give me a chance to work on a buffer so we can finally get back on a regular schedule. Mondays will be the Guest Strips, Thursdays will be the Ask Ginger. And if all goes well, after the break, those will be regular comic updates once again. I’m still taking Questions for Ginger (Ginger -at- GingersBread.com) so if you want to ask her something, go for it.
About the hiatus in general – Having checked in with the office, I can say that taking time to make a buffer is totally the move to make this summer. I’m the only archaeologist on my district at the moment, meaning I’m kind of in charge of the archaeology department. And the piles of work already waiting on my desk don’t seem like a good sign for stress levels. But I’ve got a pile of scripts that I’m going to try to work on in batches on days I’m not going crazy (which I’m going to maximize). I just might not be popping up online a lot and my response time to things will be horribly slowed.
If you’re not interested in the guest strips (you’re going to miss out on some talented folks!) and just want to know when regular comics start back up – Sorry, I don’t have a date for you yet because there are a few more guest strips I may or may not get. You can keep track, though, by following the Twitter or the RSS feed. And I’ll be putting a notice on the site when I know.
Thanks for reading, thanks for the patience!
Silly raccoon. That’s Thor, not Achilles, or Green Lantern Alan Scott. Your pointy wooden stick is useless!
Still, excellent timing putting Johan in the costume during the opening weekend of The Avengers. One would almost think this was planned the whole time.
It went from not at all being planned to “Oh hey, this chaos may have a silver lining.” planning. Or as it’s known in job hunting buzz word speak: Adaptive Planning.
Like we didn’t see that coming. XD
“Three of use”? Just thought I’d point that out.
And the alt text says “…run an hide?”
And in my personal canon, it was thrown much farther away and is running back and is only now just miles away (and apparently, I think the raccoon has superspeed).
The Thor costume is a nice touch. He’d better have worn a Thor costume on at least one Halloween.
I noticed that too. Not sure if you were aiming for ‘us’ or ‘youse’.
It’s fixed! This is the chaotic hell of making a post and not being able to do anything about it.
Everyone run! He’s upgraded to arsonist!
I almost kinda wanted to see a corny TO BE CONTINUED sign at the bottom lol
To be fair, “Dun Dun Dun!” is arguably as corny at this point in its usage. And it basically means “To Be Continued”.
Now if the raccoon had’ve been wearing a Loki outfit, we would’ve needed the Hulk, not Thor. (If you haven’t seen the Avengers movie, do it asap!)
That movie is all kinds of greatness and I’d like to see it again if I could afford it. (Bloody price o’ tickets…)
I backed off from doing the Raccoon in a Loki costume because 1) I felt it would’ve been a bit much, and 2) there would have been various questions raised about insinuating relations to the raccoon. Haha
“But my parents did say the three of **use** need to stop by for dinner!”
Just thought I’d point out the small typo.
It’s the proximity of the “s” and “e” keys when working quickly. Also, it’s one of those words I seem to always mistype. As if my fingers feel “us” isn’t long enough.
OHNO! ITS UPGRADING ITSELF FROM RACCOON…..TO FIREFOX!
yeah bad joke. tired today.
Although if it was a fox, Ginger would have no trouble letting it hang around the store. Haha
6th panel, you misspelled ‘us’.
We still love you though!
I have to say, while I appreciate the help of several people catching my typo (and honestly, I do – I see it as a sign of people caring), I am struck by the fact that in two days over 3 people told me about this typo, but there are typos in the archive that no one notices for over two years. But it’s okay, I still love all of you as well!
I choose to believe that not only did the raccoon get thrown that far, but that he got knocked straight through the street and into the sewers.
Great, so now it not only has gained the ability of fire, but it’s being trained in the deadly Japanese martial arts by mutated adolescent turtles. We’re all fucked.
Sensing Firebombs and Molotovs coming near you Ginger. xD
Oh man, sounds like the raccoon is gaining even more skills than simple lighter usage.
More impresive that he managed to figure it out or that he held on to it after crashing, and surviving, miles away?
This raccoon has shown itself to be slightly beyond normal raccoons. For all we know, after being thrown, it lucked out and landed in a bush or a tree, breaking the fall, and if indeed dropped it, retrieved it. Miles away, despite giving two possibilities in the alt text, has three: 1 – Thrown miles away. 2 – Ran miles away after landing. 3 – Combination of some distance with the first two and the fact that Ginger lives miles away from the store (no one thought about that possibility).
Of course, like the alt text said, this is a personal canon situation where you can imagine what happened to the raccoon between the last comic and this one.
…raccoons with LIGHTERS???
Oh man…that’s how we lost SAGINAW.
And we lost Muskegon to possums using 2×4′s with nails in the end!
Well, them and residents making/using large quanities of meth!
Flint was a collaboration between the raccoons and opossums…
Chicago has its cow, Detroit has its raccoon?
It would be a new explanation to the Devil’s Night fires around Halloween…
i bet in a future story arc the raccoon is going to burn down or at least try to burn down the shop
Just don’t do what a webcomic I use to read did. Before he went on a 4 month break, his comic was a high IQ comic. (political humor, etc)
When he returned, his comic became a NSFW, low IQ comic. He completely changed the lexicon of his comic, and I could not read it anymore.
I know you won’t do that Carl, but ever since that day, I have lost faith in webcomics
Don’t worry, I’m already working on scripts so they should be in line with the general comic already (one would hope better as one hopes to improve while doing this not get worse). I will say they will be a return to one-shots that I do between story arcs (with a couple of tiny arcs thrown in) before we hit the next longer story arc. But I think we’re safe from any kind of drastic change in style.
Raccoon learned Ember!