#535 – Stationary
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
Merry Christmas! New comics resume Wednesday.
I want to hide a small sled of some sort in the yard and build a snowman with my son that just happens to be on top of it. Then each night when he goes to sleep I’ll move the snowman to a different part of the yard and hide my footprints. It would be a fun jumping off point to make up stories about what snowmen do at night.
Tags: snow, snowmen, winter
Snowman 1: “So what should we do today?”
Snowman 2: “Dunno. Same thing as yesterday I guess.”
Me: “Try and take over the world?”
That was my first thought also.
The first part of this comic reminds me of a scene from the movie Marty. They could never figure out what to do with themselves until Marty met a girl. So:
Snowman 1: What you wanna… Who’s that?
Snowman 2: What? Where? Oh! Let’s find out!
I remember back in elementary school, one of our reading books had a story about these kids trying to win a radio station contest, by trying to discover how this one snowman kept appearing in random locations all over town, with no surrounding evidence of how it was moved. When it showed up in their neighborhood, they got a real good look and found out it was snow packed on a wire frame, with a metal hook under it’s hat. The station would use it’s traffic copter to pick it up from way on high, and set it down at different spots every couple of days.
If your son watches Doctor Who, that would have been the worst suggestion after this year’s Christmas special they had.
Brings up memories of Calvin and Hobbes, and their snow goblins…