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How to Optimize the Process
One could describe Ric’s kitchen as “a hotbed of unfettered culinary experimentation” and not be wrong. One could also refer to it as “a gastronomic Island of Doctor Moreau, where innocent ...
2024-06-17 07:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Choose a Souvenir
This was one of those cases where, in order to make the comic work, I needed one of the characters do something silly. The most logical options were me and Rick. I ha...
2024-06-10 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Empathize With Other People
This comic was inspired by a situation in real life, but I took some liberties. No, nobody asked Ric for advice. The truth is that a third person told someone who was having problems that they shou...
2024-05-27 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Try Something New
While the real Rick and I were discussing hats (he recently gave into his destiny as a jazz fan and bought a porkpie hat) it occurred to me that if Rocket Hat were a real comic book superhero, he w...
2024-05-20 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Accept Reality
It seems my years, growing up in an irrigated desert, followed by years as a front-line cast member at Walt Disney World, followed by several years living in a paved desert, did my skin no favors.<...
2024-05-13 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Watch the Cycle Repeat
There was a time when pay-per-impression banner ads on a blog or a webcomic were a profitable way to support your creative endeavors. For a long time, I didn’t have any ads on Basic Instructions....
2024-05-06 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Discuss Movies You Haven’t Seen
As I write this, I have not yet seen Godzilla x Kong. It takes a lot to lure me into a theater, but a film that promises King Kong swinging an ax while riding into a fight on Godzilla’s back nice...
2024-04-29 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Laugh at Yourself
It didn’t help that Dad’s primary use for the accordion was to wake me and my brothers up early on Saturday mornings.
We’d all be sound asleep, and he’s stroll in, big gr...
2024-04-22 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Respect Innovation
I often write the phrase, “This comic was based on a real conversation with the real Ric,” or something to that effect. You could be excused for wondering just how directly I pattern these conv...
2024-04-15 07:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Buy Something Ridiculous While Keeping Your Dignity Intact
This comic is based, even more-so than most, on a true story. Heroic Man cologne exists. (See the attached photo for proof!). I bought it for someone as a gift. I tried to ship it to them, and DHL ...
2024-04-08 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Q&A! Seeking your Qs to A!
Hi, everyone! Missy here. I'm going to be refreshing my video editing skills, and I figured what better test project than interviewing Scott with your pressing questions!
SO, if there's any...
2024-04-06 09:33:05 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Explain to Your Boss That You Can’t Come to Work Because You Are Sick
I know I talk more than one might expect about my time as a cast member at Walt Disney World. I have always found the place interesting, and working there only made it more fascinating to me.
How to Explain Your Unusual Tastes
Just FYI, I will be taking next week off. There will be no Out Of Context comic Thursday, or fresh comic the following Monday, but after that we'll be back to normal. Thanks! Now, on to the comment...
2024-03-18 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Understand Economics
I feel a little bad about the fourth panel. George Lucas created something that millions of people, myself included, love. In return, we’ve all given him a bucket-load of crap because that thing ...
2024-03-11 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How to Recover From a Mistake
This strip is based, loosely, on an actual event. I impulse-purchased a bag of what I thought were mixed nuts. That might be the only way anyone ever buys a bag of mixed nuts. I doubt many people e...
2024-03-04 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post