A bit late on this one (like really late). The solar eclipse happened 2 weeks ago and this is an actual conversation between me and my wife. Yes, someone was selling solar glasses with an Angry Tomato cartoon design on Amazon! Why an Angry Tomato? I don’t care, I wanted it!
In the end we didn’t get the Angry Tomato eclipse glasses because it “went up in price” … Yeah I’m sus about that. Instead we got “sensible” looking ones with a more astronomy theme, that came with additional phone filters.
Well this was massively delayed and well the comic tells why. This is somewhat a true story, but if you have been following us, you would know that Laura was working on her final project BSc dissertation. Well she submitted it in July and that was supposed to be it, six years of hard work finally done (she did it part-time), but there was one exam left scheduled in August (which she has since completed). At one point she did actually forgot she had an exam 🙂
A few weeks back, we were driving home and about 5 mins from our home we saw a billboard that advertised a festival with the name Tractorfest. I sis assume it was a music festival and Laura a festival of tractors. Turns out we both were right – both music and tractors … yup we do live in the middle of the English countryside (or as we like to call it cow country!).
No we didn’t attend …
The final week before Laura was due to submit her independent research project was quite memorable and it produced this hilarious conversation. I did go to Lidl after my taekwondo class. Lidl is well known for having weird and wonderful stuff in the middle aisle: two person kayak, chain for your chainsaw, a unicycle and one time I saw a giant blow up avocado … but didn’t find any miracle. However, it wasn’t necessary as she got a 90 on her dissertation.
A lot has happened and unfortunately, not much comics being completed at Bears Ink HQ. Laura has been busy with completing her Bachelor’s thesis and I’ve been helper bear and started playing MTG (yeah I know … addiction is wrong). This was a funny convo this past week that I think made for a funny comic. “Inconclusive” & “Beyond the scope of this study” are staples for ay dissertation!
Oh it’s comic time again. After the big holiday episode I decided to focus more on the next (long overdue) Bears of Lore Chapter 3 and then other things happened. But I’m pleased to get this one out. Hope you enjoy and if you’re in the UK, have a relaxing soak for the long weekend.
Took me longer to draw this episode than the actual holidays! It’s been a hot second since our last comic. I love doing a holiday episode. I love the style, the montage, the memories, the fun and most of all sharing a piece of our weird lives with you. So please enjoy this slice of holiday fun,
So I was ill at the start of the year (as usual) and I had this terrible cough. I usually don’t like cough syrup, after a horrible one I had when I was younger. After a nudge from Laura, I gave it a go and man was it delicious! I think I was 3 or 4 table spoons in by the time Laura stopped me. I am sure I would have chugged the bottle! Now a new addiction has been discovered! *sigh*
Since our first pub quiz, back in 2023 (see Pub Quiz), Laura and I have been pub quiz junkies. We love a good pub quiz with our mates. The last one we did was before Christmas and we did absolutely horrendous, our worst performance yet. It was all about music, mainly music followed by a certain British generation. I can’t recall if we had this conversation right after that quiz, but it was close to that night. Imagine, cheating at a pub quiz! The sacrilege!
When I was young (teen to mid twenties) I used to eat a ton of food, and thanks to a high metabolism I would stay skinny. Now well that don’t happen anymore. Laura would always comment about those days, saying that “You used to eat like a blackhole back then”. Now, I look at food an I put on weight! So, she recently bought me a pair of shorts (yes I know that Bears don’t wear clothes, but humour us!) and this conversation happened.
On a side note: Does blackhole feeding decrease with accretion disk growth? Probably, I remember something along those lines while I used to be academia, but I haven’t looked at the literature in over 8 years, but it was a nonetheless a hilarious conversation [citation not needed].