Alien Romance, the daily comic strip

[gs_silva]

The dolly stacked full of cases of beer hits the floor. Maurice was trying to prop it up with his left shoulder while he clutches his re-injured right arm, but he's gone down too. Damion turns around and sees the mess, and stands helplessly with his arms full for an entire panel. Finally he unfreezes, puts his beer down, and runs to help Maurice.

The alien lingers briefly, but she can only apologize for not being able to turn back time. There's nothing helpful she can do.

Damion asks, "You all right?"

"Yeah," says Maurice.

"Can you still drive?" Damion asks.

"It was just my bad arm collapsing. I'm fine," Maurice assures him.

They survey the puddle of glass and beer on the warehouse floor. "That's a lot of beer," Damion observes. Maurice mumbles an agreement, on his feet again and cradling his arm. "Vinny gonna be mad."

***

Life pummels you sometimes! I'm on track; just off schedule. That's one of the problems with keeping oneself to a schedule. When I'm doing well, I tighten it up and add more to it, and then when my smooth sailing becomes a little bumpier, I feel like I'm falling off the schedule. I'm not really. Nobody is holding my feet to the fire except for the utility companies and my need to eat regularly.

Comments

[brumeier]

Poor Maurice. That's no good. And I suspect Damion is correct - Vinny will not be pleased. I like how you represented the broken beer bottles and spilt beer. Defs a mess!

[gs_silva]

Aww, it's the ol' "Poor Maurice"! People used to say that so much that eventually I drew a comic with him yelling at them that he never wanted to hear that phrase again!

Don't worry! He doesn't suffer too much more. I admit I beat on him more than I do some of his friends, but he courts danger more often than they do.

[brumeier]

I was going to share my Poor Lorne icon, but forgot I'd taken it out of rotation. We all have that one character who bears the brunt. I'm glad Maurice is going to be okay. ::grins::

[gs_silva]

"Poor Lorne" has a ring to it! I bet he hates how it sounds like "forlorn."

Okay, enlighten this sadly lost reader - who's Lorne? Is he from fanfic?

[brumeier]

I never noticed that before, but you're write! Forlorn Lorne. LOL!

Evan Lorne is a character from Stargate Atlantis. One of my friends used to write a lot of fic for him and he was always getting physically and emotionally pummeled in it. So we started calling him Poor Lorne.