that orange creature should look for a different club

I drew this to amuse myself and acknowledge it may have minimal validity.

usually I write the words first and draw it much later/never, but this one came out like so. It was funny to me because it is so visceral and hateful, and a product of the moment which inspired it, and I had to finish it as soon as possible. Alas, the finished one looks calculated and like it should make more sense than it does!

The “crap”‘s visual representation was fine to have all black, but in color I don’t want to give it anything specific. It is supposed to be a very vague “crap.” So someone might think “is that supposed to be literal excrement? i do not know.” I will not draw literal excrement, but am comfortable vaguely implying it in a non-final version, hoping I will come up with a better solution later. Had I taken more time to think about this I likely would have exorcised the word “crap” as well. Any word I will only type in quotation marks is one that will get neutered out with enough revisions. So plainly there is more to my lack of success than not meeting a “crap” quota, which the followup strip touches on (with gloves). I of course already drew it, like this, but will not show it until I have ruined it with several more hours of refinement.

I think this was the only time I gave the pathetic snake a serpently body with a snoutless face.
possibly exaggerated a tad. i swear it made sense before i drew the pictures.
loads of text about this one
for cripes bipes I canNOT get this text size bigger whatever numbers in styles.css that I bloat up. in fact nothing seems to be changing. what a rubbish waste of time. I hope I am not editing the wrong one.
oh nope all the text that was big enough got bigger. tricky!

I initially titled it “the grapes of rasp,” not realizing that “rasp” was not actually a snake, but merely the name of a snake-headed rulon crony in Dinoriders, and also the name of a robot I and Jerry Caro came up with in first grade that we imagined traveled around stealing chocolate brownies while saying “RASP…RASP…RASP…” Rasp as in “I have you in my rasp” instead of grasp because kids are dumb. Then (now (in august 2017)) I remembered that “asp” was a snake, and it seemed odd that asp and rasp would be near synonyms. This is a pointless bit of trivia. There is a more poignant bit of trivia about this comic page that also concerns chocolate, but it is depressing and I will defer it to a future posting, which means I will probably never post it, which theoretically suits me, who can only survive by not being aware of things I know that bother me.
as of december 21 2022 I don’t remember what that last part was referring to, other than that on the occasion that inspired this I was actually buying discounted easter candy, but looked up what else dogs were allergic to and found grapes, because I didn’t like how buying a big sack of discounted candy for, myself, primarily, as an adult reflected on my personal habits. And then the car wouldn’t start because I left the headlights on while shopping, since the car turns the lights on by itself without asking and does not turn them off, and its battery was old.
OH I was referring to this