Bear One Another's Burdens

There's a difference between bearing one another's burdens and becoming a pack mule.

Missionary Birthday

On my second birthday in the mission field, I spent the entire day knocking on doors and getting rejected. We didn't have a single appointment and, as a result, we spent 12 hours tracting. I ended the day eating a carton of ice cream feeling sorry for myself.

It was not a good experience.

But at least it provided me the material for today's strip. That's worth something, right?

(Read another strip here.)

Graduation Day

It's a happy coincidence that Memorial Day and graduation fall so close to each other. Today's gag comes courteous an idea from Abby V.

Birthday Dinner

The worst thing I ever had on my mission was blood sausage--courtesy of another missionary pranking me on April Fool's Day. All in all, Slovene cuisine wasn't bad.

(I'm wrapping up Elder Van Dyke's mission over at deseretnews.com, you might want to check out the final month and a half.)

Breaking Fast

Today's gag, featured in the May 2014 issue of the New Era, is the most unlikely gag of mine that publication has featured. I figure the only reason it showed up in the publication is because it's a universal truth that those envelopes taste nasty!

Breakfast in Bed

Elder Van Dyke's birthday begins with him disappointed. He'd better get used to that feeling.

New subject: since I last posted a comic on this site, I've added a page outlining the many steps I take between a joke idea to a finished gag. You can find the page, titled The Creative Process, here. Check it out, I hope you'll find it interesting.

(Enjoy another strip here.)

Middle School

Given the choice between reliving the three years of middle school or experiencing the end of days, I'd take Armageddon.

Birthday Wishes

Elder Van Dyke is having a birthday, this ought to be good...

(...so is this, it's another strip over at deseretnews.com.)

2014 Summer Movie Preview

Even though the unofficial start of summer doesn't begin for another three and a half weeks (Memorial Day) and the official start of summer doesn't begin for another month and a half (summer solstice); in Hollywood, summer starts this weekend! This is the time of year where movies become more loud, dumb, and silly (although discerning movie goers can still find loud, dumb, and silly movies throughout the rest of the year, if they know where to look).

In conjunction with the start of the summer movie season, this Saturday is Free Comic Book Day! And Sunday, May 4th is Star Wars Day (as in "May the 4th be with you"). We know that eventually the meek shall inherit the earth, until then it looks like the geek shall care for it.

So it is with great pain that I confess that I am not looking forward to this summer's cinematic offerings all that much. Perhaps it's because the best summer movie of 2014 came out a month ago* or perhaps it's because I'm growing up (nah), but I doubt I'll get out to the theater more than two or three times this summer.

Please help me out, what should I be excited for?

*I'm referring, of course, to Noah.**

**No, just joking, I just wanted to get a rise out of my good cartooning buddy, Kevin. The best summer movie of 2014 was Captain America 2.