I’d like to get back to posting more regularly, but it’s hard to find stand alone pages from the stuff I’m working on. But if figured this one will resonate with anyone who has ever been in this position, or has a shitty pet. At least this dream wasn’t as bad as the one I had last night where I had sex with Artie, a character on Warehouse 13. Or the one where genetically altered meerkats ripped the face off an ex-boyfriend. I’ve got to stop watching sci-fi.
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Nice! I’ve had a few dreams like that, where I had to do a reality check afterwards.
Thanks for sharing. Helps me feel a little more normal.
I tried smoking once for less than a week and actually quit because of peer pressure: I was embarrassingly bad at it and decided to stop being a waste of tobacco to the people who were giving me puffs of their cigarettes and laughing at how it made me cough and sputter. Years later, however, I had a dream that I was a smoker but I had to hide it, and I had all these tricks for doing so (hanging out of windows, using a fan to get rid of smoke so sure my room didn’t smell). I have no idea if these would work, actually, but in the dream I was absolutely convinced they would… but the really weird bit was that throughout the dream I kept telling myself “I can quit anytime I want.” Brains are weird, party people. And addiction… what the hell. Yay for freaky things just being dreams?
I have relapse dreams a lot, too. They really help to strengthen resolve, in my case.
The worst dreams for me are the ones in which I actually accomplish something. Then I wake up and find that sadly, I actually have to do that shit. I rather bang dream Artie.
I get them too! Quitting drinking completely changed everything – and also, I am madly hooked on scifi. Yay, for this page, thanks!
For 6 months after quitting smoking I had the same type of anxiety dreams. Thanks for this.
Why should Jack be “shitty”? Well, I live together with four cats and they certainly are invocations of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but shitty…?
Nele
The expression on Jack’s face is fuckin’ hilarious!
artie? that’s awesome. i mean, at least he seems very huggable.
Ha, I quit drinking over 33 years ago and I *still* have dreams in which I find myself getting sneaking drinks.
When I wake up, I’m terrified, heart pounding, etc., convinced I’ve gone back on the sauce. The really odd part
is that after I wake up from these nightmares, I feel physically as if I have a hangover.
But quitting drinking has, as they say, made my life a *lot* more manageable.
lol @ the last panel
you might not have relapse dreams if you stopped drawing yourself drinking, if that’s important enough i dunno. Might not be worth it though
God, this makes me feel like a wretched, superficial person. I’d bend over backwards to help someone make a TV show out of my life. Mainstreamy. Indie. Porn. Wouldn’t matter. I’d go for it. Way to have some integrity, even if it was a period in which you were going kinda crazy.
Wow, that last comment would have made more sense if I would have posted it on the right comic.
ha, even I didn’t catch that it was on this comic, I knew which one you were referring to. And really, it’s not so much that I have integrity, it’s that I would rather focus on comics as long as I can before I have to look elsewhere for income. I didn’t want to waste my time writing stuff I didn’t like instead of working on comics. That’s not so much integrity as it is just knowing what I want and what I dont.
You may know Jesse Moynihan. He does FORMING which is making the rounds these days. He’s from Philadelphia, so I know him because we are about the same age and go to some of the same places (before he moved to LA). He and I had a discussion about this just the other night online. I had posted that cartoon that’s going around that shows what people think success looks like and what it really looks like (one is a straight line, the other is a squiggle and then a straight line).
Jesse said he still thought it was a straight line, but as we talked about it (and Jesse has had some success in the last few years), we realized that Jesse’s big advantage is that he has known exactly what he wanted. Which makes him (and, it sounds like, you as well) pretty lucky.