The Tumblin' Duck

Stuff perpetrated by Kim McFarland, AKA Negaduck9.

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Get a Life 361

This is not a discussion you'd often hear during the Great Depression, is it? Alice is a little more in tune with the times than Bendy is.

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Get a Life 360

Chocolate does not solve your problems, but it can make them more bearable.

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Get a Life 359

Be astounded by my onomatopoeia skills!

It's been way too long since I drew Alice Angel. I've missed her.

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Get a Life 358

This comic takes place during the Great Depression, when investing in stocks could was not the smartest thing to do.

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Get a Life 357

Being a demon, Bendy has seen the worst elements of this world. Very literally.

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Get a Life 356

What is Bendy doing in the first panel? That's the reason he was selling flowers: because he kneads the dough! Bwaa ha haa. Ha? Um. It works better when spoken.

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Get a Life 355

To answer that all-important question: that's a cheeseless Reuben sandwich. The shopkeep saw that Bendy hadn't ordered anything for himself, and corrected the oversight.

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Get a Life 354

I don't think I made a good decision in borrowing Shunsaku Ban for this scene. The original character was always an intense kinda guy, and he just doesn't look right in a calm role. Ah well, live and learn. I could have done worse and borrowed Acetylene Lamp or Ham Egg. (This paragraph will be nonsense to anyone but Tezuka fans.)

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Get a Life 352

Someone spotted most of the cameos in comic #350, but nonononononono, not all of them. 

Tee hee.

To answer a question I've been asked several times: the release of Bendy and the Dark Revival will not impact this comic's story line in any way. My story is based on the cartoon characters created by Joey Drew Studios, not any of the goings-on with the studio or its employees.

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Get a Life 351

I was a little surprised that nobody spotted the sweet faces I snuck into the previous comic. I'd have thought they'd have been obvious to someone, but I guess I should have taken that with a giga-jumbo grian of salt. Ah well, I won't be scarred for life because of it.

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Get a Life 350

The random characters…if you know, you know. If you don't, don't worry about it, they have no bearing on the story. I was just having some fun.

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Get a Life 349

Fair warning: you know how I have a habit of sticking in cameos and odd references whenever I need to draw background characters? Just something to keep in mind…

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Get a Life 348

I ate'nt dead!

Sorry for the long long LONG gap between comics. The simple reason is that while I was unemployed all my creative energy drained down a black hole of depression. I drew nothing for months. Not even a doodle on scratch paper. Which is not to say I didn't think about this story. I was still planning it out in my head! I just couldn't put Sharpie to paper.

The good news is, after months of searching, I have gotten a job, and a good one at that! Fully remote, yet I have so much contact with the people with whom I am working that I don't feel isolated at all. I really like my coworkers, and having insurance and a paycheck rocks. I think I'll be happy here.

Oh, and the next comic is already half-drawn!

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Get a Life 347

Sorry for the way-too-long gap between comics. The company I've worked for nearly all of my adult life has closed down, and unemployment has not been kind to me. I'm not starving, but I've been demoralized. Wish me luck finding another job.

BTW, there are things coming up in this comic that might seem inspired by recent events, both in the news and in my own life. While that would be a logical assumption, these events were actually planned out several years ago. But at the rate I've been telling this story, by the time they roll around they might no longer be timely…

Anyhow! Here's the next comic.

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Get a Life 346

In other words, yes, it matters because of the urgency of the situation.

To give a bit of historical context, things were bad long before World War 2 started. Dachau, the first concentration camp opened in Germany in March of 1933, and Anne Frank's family fled to Holland to escape persecution that summer. Her family didn't go into hiding until 1942, but almost a decade earlier the writing was on the wall. And Bendy has been around almost a thousand years and knows how terrible things can get when the wrong person gets into power.

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Get a Life 345

Hopefully Bendy deserves Mel's trust… could be bad if that trust is misplaced…