3556 Word Gets Around
Three months later: An UPDATE! After all, today is my birthday. I’m 54!
Yeah, this contract is BRUTAL. And I’m not sure why exactly this one is different from others. Maybe I’m getting old and slow.
Do any of you remember a thing called a “Long Weekend”, where a holiday happens and you get an extra day off and can use it to do stuff like catch up on other projects, or hobbies, or visit friends/relatives, or go on trips? I haven’t experienced this in a very long time. Deadlines don’t change and I’m glued to my tablet all the time. Near deadlines I’ve even done more late-nighters than I’ve done on any other contract I’m sure. 2:00 AM isn’t unusual.
Anyway. I thought I’d treat myself on my birthday by actually posting a strip I drew some time ago.
Hope you’re all okay. I’m alive and kicking. Family’s fine, still employed. But therein lies the issue. Employment is harder than it used to be, but I’ll chime in when I can. Thanks for sticking around! 😀
BTW: Those of you who have stuck around since the early days may remember that I used to have a tradition, I’d try to make sure that any strips that landed on my birthday would have something really fun to draw in it. Usually bare boobs. Well, this strip wasn’t created with my birthday in mind. But an old friend came ’round to help out.
-Rich “BK” Morris
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!
I just turned 59 this year in October. Us old fogies gotta stick together!
We have to deal with all those young whippersnappers who think the moon landing was faked, despite the lack of special effects anywhere near good enough in the 60s.
Hahah! I hear ya! 'course I wasn't actually BORN quite yet when it happened. I was still a few months away. But I'll happily take your word for it.
Heh, I am 55, and my parents plunked me down in a playpen in front of the TV for the moon landing. Not that I remember any of it at all, of course, but they wanted me to be there for it.
So are you here on the job, or?..
I am too young (51) but I do remember my late grand mother telling me she found it suspicious – the TVs of the day were not that great – but she believed it happened because the Russians did not contest it.
Happy birthday Rich!
Happy birthday Rich.
Welcome to 54, the year is treating me OK so far, hope it treats you kindly once the work settles down a bit.
I was close to 10 weeks premature, and still missed the moon landing by about a few days. Kept on getting moon landing books as birthday presents though. If anyone interested in Apollo story hasn’t come across it, I’d seriously recommend the BBC podcast ‘13 Minutes to the Moon’.
Happy Birthday, Rich! Wishing you all the best. I hope you'll have a wonderful day.
And no worries about us sticking around. The family and the job comes first. As long as you and the family are all well and healthy that's what matters.
Cheers! 😀
Happy Birthday, Rich!
Happy Birthday, Rich, from everyone at Planet Flipside!
Don't you mean STABatini?
Happy Birthday Rich! And it would take more than a few months to chase most of us away. Life is particularly complicated right now for me as well, so I know how it is. While the work may be long, I hope the job is worth it for you, and something that, in the long run, you will be glad that you did. 🙂
Happy Birthday! Family first. In my misspent youth I read Scaramouch and appreciate the fourth panel. I wonder if I'm one of the last people to have read a story by Rafael Sabatini. 🙂
I've got five of 'em on my shelves!
Last one I read was King In Prussia, but that was around 15 years ago.
Does Perez-Reverte count as a tie-breaker?
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Nah, I dip in for a refresher from time to time. Great for getting into the right mindset for Cavaliers of Mars.
Huge bday hugs, Rich! I turn 53 in a few weeks, and suddenly I'm feeling like the young whippersnapper, as I wasn't even conceived in 1969 lol
No worries on keeping us around, and glad the family is well. Hope the contract eases up for your sanity's sake!
As for the comic, once again, you're twisting the plot in an unexpected way. Love it {and the bewbs)! And thanks for the impetus to read scaramouche. Been on my list, and this moved it up. And ty Ken for the reference alert 🙂
Btw, her expression is spot on lolol
> And thanks for the impetus to read scaramouche. Been on my list, and this moved it up.
One of my votes for Best First Sentence Ever.
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Happy Birthday from Germany! Glad to hear things are well with you, hope you'll manage to get some rest and relaxation soon with the upcoming holidays.
Thank you!
Happy Birthday!
Why asymmetrical? …never mind.
Please don't make fun of her ass!
It was so friggin’ hard to get this image the right size and even now I hate it!!
Thank you for naming your files in a way that makes it easy to find the full-size version! I hope those people who used to ask about seeing Arachne's boobs are still around to see this. (I just checked the FAQ and noticed that question is gone)
If your not sure what Kintrex is talking about, the link to the final image is https://www.yafgc.net/img/Silly/ARACHNEbigtext6.jpg
If you change the NAME of the file, changing the 6 to a 5 or a 4 or a 3, the image gets progressively larger. I'd recommend going straight to https://www.yafgc.net/img/Silly/ARACHNEbigtext3.jpg. Rich has a nice hand and at full resolution, Arachne is a beautiful as ever — especially that ass. I love those dimples at the tailbone…
Actually most women have slightly assymetrical breasts, so there is nothing wrong with it…
happy birthday Rick 🙂 I heard that you single handily drew the next Pixart movie
Happy Birthday! I hope you got to spend at least some of it asleep and recharging your batteries! Don't let them wear you out on this contract job! You gotta save dome spoons for yourself!
Happy Birthday! Take care of yourself.
Happy Birthday ! Enjoy it, you deserve it !
A belated happy birthday, Rick! I have the 50 upcoming myself this Christmas – so I may be the even younger whippersnapper and will git offa Ya lawn! ^_^
Happy birthday, Rich! And best wishes from Germany.
You are the best. I (nearly) check in on your website daily. And so it is wonderful to hear from you and that you and your family are fine.
By the way, I'm 62 and I love your YAFGC since the earliest days.
Happy (belated) birthday! ^_^ I hope you had a grand day.
As for current events in the comic… Oof! I fear that boast about Charles being the best swordsman is going to be tested real soon.
Happy belated BDay Rich!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!!!
happy birthday rich
Glad to see you again.
Happy birthday (so late but i din't see strips all days)
Fair enough, there's a bit time zone gap between us, as well as both of us working and whatnot. On top of that, I haven't updated in three months. Unreasonable of me to assume you're all hawking the site every day! 😀 Thank you!
hey, you say it's your birthday? it's my birthday too (almost, mine's actually tomorrow)! also we're only a year apart in age XD have a good one, and sending my best wishes that the next year is kinder for both of us, and the rest of the world too…
Hey man, so glad to see you back and the comic continue, I check the site daily and I have to admit, despair was starting to seep in.
Happy birthday, but you sure you aren't contracted to some kind of black company? That workload sounds insane!
Reminds me of when I took up boxing to protect myself from the bullies at school. Now every bully from every school wanted to test my metal. 🤦♂️😂
I have a friend who was bullied regularly at a notoriously tough school. Then he hit his growth spurt over the Summer, and couldn't wait to get some revenge. The problem was, of course, that when he came back to school big, none of the bullies went after him any more.
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The Great Sabatini?
Exactly whose birthday *is* this, Rich?
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Well that was bloody fast. From teaching three bullies a lesson to the greatest swordsman in the kingdom in the space of an afternoon?
Got to hate the rumor mill.
You've got a typo in the first panel–it should presumably be "drunken".
Also, happy belated birthday!
A bit late, but still: Happy Birthday Rich!
Also, its good to have you back. 🙂 Even if just for a wee while.
Happy birthday! You are a gift to the world, but you must be healthy to continue being so, so take care of yourself, old man! Your young heart needs to stay as long as possible 😀
Happy belated Birthday, Rich.
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Long weekends… no, can't say I remember those. Frankly "weekends" are pretty blurry to me, like a forgotten privilege of my childhood, that only as an adult I realize was pretty blessed.
Two years ago I managed to rearrange shifts on my two jobs so that I got one day off a week. The 8 years before that… I did not have that day. I had days I could set the alarm 3 hours later and MAYBE get more than 4-5 hours sleep in. That was the best I could hope for.
I have family (of origin). They did not care for my "lifestyle" as they called it (I called it "making rent this month"). My mother, a former teacher who got summers off, and decade-long retiree on disability and teachers pension… could not understand why I would not attend my cousins wedding (2-3 day trip). I could not get even a portion of that time off, because the extra employees we hired specifically so I could get a bit more time off… ask me to cover their shifts so they can go to parties and get drunk, but are strangely unavailable anytime I wanted to spend more than 2 hours with my family at Christmas.
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Well… this has been a downer post… and I've been writing it instead of going to sleep (tomorrow is not an "alarm 3 hours later" day. Looks like a 4 hour night at best). I very much enjoy having my one day off a week now, and my family tries to arrange holiday meetings on that day, specifically so I can come. It's not bad. Better than it has been.