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             - Breath of the Disappointment 
             - The war In Ukraine plods on 
             - Comics Class 
             - Cooking School 
             - Hot Shiitake 
             - Messengers 
             - This is War 
             - That giant fish 
             - Anime in the Woods 
             - Yo Dawg, I hear you like Cabin in the Woods 
             - Vegetarian serial killer 
             - PUSH 
             - Country strong 
             - Taking a quick trip 
             - The Unforgivable Man-Bun 
             - Cold vibes 
             - How about them Packers? 
             - Me and my big mouth 
             - Howdy there, Internet people 
             - A Winner is Therese 
             - Escape from Bowl Winkle's 
             - No Packers, No Watch 
             - TenCent 
             - The pet owner's dilemma 
             - Twin subarus 
             - The dead of night behind The Pickle 
             - When he's sober 
             - After concert field trip 
             - White people taco night 
             - That guy 
             - Reunion 
             - Mural 
             - Impastor! 
             - Chalk Rattery 
             - The Job Situation 
             - When he was a youngster 
             - Student Housing 
             - It's still talking 
             - Morgan's amazing dreamcoat 
             - Lasso! 
             - CAT BUTT 
             - Them Coulee Boys 
             - That time everybody died 
             - Calories and Covid 
             - Stay Puffed, my friends 
             - Phoenix burning 
             - The music that changed my life 
             - Transplant 
             - Don't Look Up 
             - Call Center 
             - Cancun 
             - Sportsball 
             - Milk disposal 
             - Stomach gurgling 
             - Need stuff 
             - Slow Laptop 
             - Padawan 
             - Ice Road 
             - Swetest 
             - Justice 
             - Escape 
             - Resolutions 
             - Restaurant Review 
             - Brave and cheerful 
             - Running in moon boots 
             - Nelson's Deli 
             - Dad Joke Punch 
             - The morning after 
             - New Years Eve 
             - Pickle 
             - Anarchist Energy 
             - Ah-Mee-Kron 
             - Eff this 
             - Arby's 
             - Christmas Day 
             - EEEEEEE 
             - The Patriarchy 
             - Sparrow 
             - At Work 
             - An early Christmas gift 
             - Direct hit 
             - Berens 
             - Learning to be Italian 
             - Monsoon 
             - Subaru Train 
             - Riding the dragonfly 
             - Stargate 
             - Atheist 
             - Ride 
             - The fall of Bitcoin 
             - Bitcoin Stonks 
             - The Panhandle 
             - Not Helpful 
             - Cartoon 
             - Waiting 
             - Bourbon 
             - Catch Up 
             - Leftovers 
             - Studded 
             - Mort returns 
             - The most magical time of the year 
             - Paninis 
             - Turkey Vampire 
             - Thanksgiving, 2021 
             - Meme 
             - Heave Ho 
             - Spectre! 
             - Cloak 
             - Venture 
             - Remember this? 
             - Weirdmageddon at last 
             - Weirdmageddon is coming 
             - Mother's day 
             - BIEBER! 
             - Steven Seagal 
             - O Scandinavia 
             - Tycoon 
             - Matthew is alright 
             - A sock full of quarters 
             - Turtles! 
             - Quarterbacking 
             - Where everybody knows your name 
             - Alan's bike shop 
             - Casper the Friendly Drunk 
             - Vidya games 
             - T-Swift FTW 
             - Things I don't understand 
             - Alan's solo trip 
             - I try to blame Therese 
             - A real tomato 
             - Jewish heritage 
             - Wholesome times at Racys High 
             - The woke mob 
             - Bughouse 
             - Resigned 
             - Band-aid 
             - Table 
             - Wilbur is the king of his castle 
             - Game with the squid 
             - Springtime in Fall 
             - Pancake 
             - Old School 
             - Talks Business With my Father 
             - Tears of joy 
             - Jungle Jim's  
             - The Onion-ification of History 
             - Ferguson's Orchard, Part 3 
             - Weekend at Ferguson's, Part 2 
             - Weekend at Ferguson's 
             - Infirm 
             - A Real Tomato 
             - Referential 
             - Hy-Vee 
             - Contact 
             - Kentucky Fried Road Trip 
             - Ivy League 
             - Getting older 
             - Night shift 
             - Science!! 
             - In the panhandle 
             - Accents 
             - Jungle 
             - F**k Eric Clapton 
             - A Career Consult 
             - Long day 
             - Cat Call 
             - The machine stops 
             - A Meme Reading 
             - Retro George 
             - Avoiding controversey 
             - Hitler in a toga 
             - What's a Snapchat? 
             - Zoomin 
             - Adorable 
             - Same hair 
             - The night and morning after 
             - The Great Twinkie Burn 
             - Trunk Slamchest 
             - Cajun boil and pathos 
             - Danger Croquet 
             - Danger on the high lakes 
             - Alan discovers Barnes 
             - 9 to 5 
             - Blue Ox-- BAH! 
             - Crises in the backyard 
             - The Covid shot blues 
             - For Science 
             - Wag's! 
             - John takes a chance 
             - Many happy returns 
             - The Spreadsheet Mines 
             - Reconnecting with Anu 
             - Grand Reopening 
             - The Joynt returns to Eau Claire 
             - Too old to care 
             - Full of hope 
             - Farm to Fork 
             - A soft, almost inaudible reopen? 
             - Cookie-Tunes 
             - The housing market is... 
             - Popcorn avalanche 
             - Pan-Fanservice 
             - Space Jammin! 
             - World on fire 
             - John heard it on Alex Jones 
             - Small town politics 
             - A Loving Swug 
             - Don't eat that! 
             - Mystery Science Theater 3000 FTW 
             - Survival skills 
             - A cop 
             - Backdoor to Narnia 
             - Not very woke 
             - Medical "practice" 
             - Welcome to the future 
             - The liquor license plot thickens.... 
             - George Cares for His Mother 
             - George on the Road, Part 2 
             - A Boy and His Subaru 
             - Szechuan surprise 
             - Showering in the basement 
             - Extreme cabin-ing 
             - The morning after 
             - Weird drawers 
             - Therese, explosives and muinitions expert 
             - Blackberry pie 
             - Ripping a huge fahrt 
             - Callback! 
             - Sunbathing and shade bathing 
             - Comics and beer... on the river 
             - This trip to the beach blows 
             - Slaying the demon car 
             - Blackberry pie 
             - Fireflies 
             - Biking! 
             - Therese Badinov 
             - Korean, American Supper 
             - Converter-jacking 
             - Clunky, CLUNKY backend software 
             - Will Wilbur re-open? 
             - And... safety! 
             - Running from the Hennepin County mounties 
             - GET BACK 
             - Even right-wingers in Minneapolis film the police 
             - Look to your right 
             - Reality sets in 
             - B-Dubs 
             - Believe 
             - Blackout 
             - The Winston Boogie Smith Protest, Part 1 
             - Wilbur is no quitter 
             - The Dobsonfly Menace 
             - Baker's Plight 
             - Callback! 
             - The Marvelous Mr. Moffat 
             - Back to the grind 
             - More signs of the Covid era easing 
             - You can't take the Missouri out of John 
             - All in the family 
             - A history and art lesson 
             - Cat's in the bag 
             - Modern art 
             - Cat door 
             - Was that a stop sign? 
             - I'm an artist too 
             - Dark Kermit! 
             - I am (not) Batman 
             - Heather Hugs 
             - Come together, right now 
             - The pandemic slowly lifts 
             - The orange challenge that nobody asked for 
             - Young love 
             - Spider-Man 
             - The Jog Life 
             - Interociters 
             - Basic self-care goes to Washington 
             - My superpower 
             - Camping with Therese 
             - Hobbes the human 
             - Nightmare fuel 
             - Townie bars 
             - The parade of weirdo bikers 
             - The (unnamed) second-richest man in town 
             - Meet Terence's family 
             - Our future leaders 
             - Oyster bound 
             - At least we're not in Iowa 
             - Hair tie 
             - Tree hugger 
             - Masking 
             - Lilac heist busted 
             - Science at Racys 
             - Lord of the Avocados 
             - John's dad 
             - Stabby 
             - Sunburns 
             - And still more science! 
             - Zefrank FTW 
             - Parasite 
             - First Date 
             - SNAKES! 
             - The good old days in the shallow, dirty south 
             - Another reopening? 
             - Meet the (narrator's) parents 
             - Racys Reopens 
             - Wilbur's Storyline Thickens 
             - Drunk History 
             - Therese returns to her family cabin 
             - Soft Reopen! 
             - Food buddies 
             - Morgan's new job 
             - Therese, reunited 
             - Long-lost 
             - Old Country Buffet 4ever (or not) 
             - Davise 
             - Outsiders to art 
             - SHE LIVES 
             - Chauvin takes the fall 
             - One year, no haircut 
             - Health regained 
             - Car talk 
             - The perils of Crystal Cave 
             - Southe'n Cousin 
             - Alvin Green strikes again 
             - Black lives really DO matter 
             - Bran 'n' Bikes 
             - Sick of snow 
             - I'd like to check you for ticks 
             - The road to indy comics 
             - Family reunion! 
             - Christine Anderson Karma 
             - Anu, Epilogue 
             - Wilbur will never be THAT old! 
             - Anu, Part 3 
             - Anu, Part 2 
             - Anu, Part 1 
             - I don't draw so good 
             - A meeting of the cliques 
             - Good bike news and bad bike news 
             - Nut allergy 
             - Space Jammin' 
             - Growing old and dying in a tavern together 
             - George takes good care of my baby 
             - The fountain (actually a well) of immunity 
             - Belle's drawings 
             - Leg or Arm? 
             - Lake Altoona Beach 
             - Content Expertise 
             - Olive Garden 
             - Homeless day shelter 
             - Spring better have sprung 
             - Life's work 
             - A thousand points of light for the homeless man 
             - Movie night! 
             - Smoke em if you got em 
             - Ah, single parenthood 
             - Career freedom 
             - More birthday talk 
             - Naggy Jewish Mothers and Birthdays 
             - Pandemic Pals on the Road to Wellness 
             - Decades of blissful (un)marriage 
             - PJ, the non-vaxxer 
             - First jabs! 
             - Confessing my soda bread sins 
             - Simpsons Forever! 
             - Cardio and playgrounds for the soul. 
             - Life's to short for sharing 
             - Soda bread is harder than it looks... at first. 
             - That one Racys regular... 
             - All vegetable diet gettin' real 
             - Wilbur contains multitudes 
             - Home-bound! 
             - Homeward bound 
             - In fact, go see a Star War or two (or three) 
             - The Great British Bake-Off Caper 
             - Not-Straight in the 90s 
             - Zelda 35! 
             - Late winter sledding! 
             - How history will remember this 
             - Pets of all stripes 
             - The Covid shots start to roll in! 
             - The people in the comic read the comic in the comic 
             - Goodbye old Subaru... but not goodbye forever 
             - Goodbye Subaru (and hello new Subaru) 
             - Squirrels are not so cute, really 
             - Fighting the Covid good fight 
             - The old couple in the bar 
             - Satan's Cake 
             - Milk Dud Peanut Butter Balls 
             - Post-surgery and reality TV (the good, non-American kind) 
             - Jog on wood 
             - Strange cake 
             - Cool Runnings! 
             - A dog and his boy 
             - Heather makes an album 
             - The sweets of mid-winter 
             - What a time for a coffee shop to be takeout only! 
             - The darkest heart of winter 
             - The REAL dog days of winter 
             - A new member of the family 
             - The Dog Days of Winter 
             - Sketchy AirBnB 
             - The before times! 
             - Early 2021 supply chain blues 
             - Wisconsin: Where -10 is too warm 
             - A new lockdown hideout 
             - True Crime in Eau Claire, WI 
             - The legend of Oscar 
             - My son tells a joke 
             - FLAME THROWERS 
             - (Not) taking Therese's dad out for drinks 
             - A banal tour 
             - Surgery recovery buddies 
             - Encounter at the Asian market 
             - Of parenting and other things 
             - Pain solidarity 
             - Heather gets some news of Therese 
             - Career Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs 
             - Electric blankets and take-out 
             - More Covid electric blanket parties 
             - George comes home 
             - On the home stretch with Mr. Robot 
             - Good times with Ben Sidran 
             - Deep thoughts with my son 
             - George hits the road 
             - Dream donuts 
             - Remembering Krispy Kreme 
             - Wilbur doesn't show his age 
             - January 6 4ever 
             - Catching up with Belle 
             - Career Day 
             - Weird weather and homesickness 
             - Catching up with Therese 
             - Bri Squared 
             - Beach blanket party (well,not exactly...) 
             - In the words of the great Baba Fats 
             - Jan 6 Begins 
             - Therese's pit crew 
             - Isolation for everyone 
             - Never as bad as it appears 
             - Midterm surprise 
             - Living the Blog Life 
             - Minnesota Bound 
             - Upper Midwest Road Trip! 
             - Mr. Robot! 
             - Good news for the new year 
             - MANDO! 
             - The new wonder years 
             - A New Years miracle 
             - Waiting for a (soon to come) miracle 
             - Therese's liver transplant comes through. 
             - Covid-safe high school reuinion 
             - A Magical Christmas Near Death Experience 
             - A Christmas Yoga 
             - A 90s nostalgia Christmas 
             - The people in the comic read the comic in the comic 
             - Transferred to a third hospital 
             - In and out of lucidity 
             - Good night 
             - A sudden sense of hope 
             - A tender moment against a sad backdrop 
             - Heather brings the hope 
             - Meet the family: The Epilogue 
             - Fear and loathing for Christmas 
             - Adopt-a-cat 
             - Belle has her own "meet the parents" moment 
             - I finally attempt to draw the Witch King 
             - Therese gets the "meet the family" report 
             - Therese's dad, the doctor 
             - Helicopters! 
             - Meet the family! 
             - Matthew makes a house call 
             - Good music in a closed down bar 
             - Billy Joel and an actual fire 
             - I forgot who the Witch King was! 
             - One Punch Man! 
             - Fussing over a friend 
             - The foreshadowing comes to a head 
             - LASIK BEAMS 
             - The Covid war 
             - Naps and donuts 
             - It's true. Cats are weird 
             - Two old music lovers muse about Adele 
             - The lockdown sneaks indoors 
             - Friendship and Vaccines 
             - Chariots of Exhaustion 
             - The metamorphosis 
             - GROGU?? 
             - Korean by way of Spanish, couched in English 
             - Crossing death's path in Red Wing 
             - Red Wing, here we come! 
             - A strange Thanksgiving repast 
             - Hair in an Era of Covid 
             - Not all who wander are lost 
             - 'MERCA 
             - Pseudoscience in an era of fake news 
             - Managing expectations 
             - It's science! 
             - Sk8er Boi 
             - Meet the press 
             - More fond memories of the late Eric the White 
             - Oh, Chesterton! 
             - A Covid-era virtual funeral 
             - Our departed, omni-present friend 
             - Superskate! 
             - Eric the White's Unofficial Wake 
             - The death of Eric the White 
             - Great moments with Eric the White, Part 2 
             - Great moments with Eric the White, Part 1 
             - Sk8 skooled again 
             - Sk8 skooled 
             - Into the blunderdome 
             - Cheshire grin 
             - Baked potato energy 
             - Done running for the season(?) 
             - Run 4 Life 
             - Trump era politicking 
             - Trump tantrums 
             - Shelter from the storm 
             - A walk in the park is no walk in the park 
             - SPOILER: Trump Didn't Pull Through 
             - Candy corn! 
             - The Halloween Rush 
             - Therese is ready to stop the steal 
             - Go climb a tree 
             - Therese's Gunshow 
             - "Tomorrow this day's madness did prepare." 
             - Recovering from not-Covid 
             - The first Covid death in my circles 
             - Hard decisions 
             - Suspended disbelief 
             - Macho names and head shops 
             - Video Game Nostalgia 
             - Boys are weird 
             - Knock on Wood 
             - Winter is coming 
             - The beauty of the Great Resignation 
             - Heather moves on up 
             - Wilbur nixes the first Covid-winter warmth plan 
             - How DO you stay warm when all indoor spaces are Covid-closed? 
             - First snow 
             - The fall of Therese 
             - BONK 
             - Heather takes requests 
             - Heather draws a crowd 
             - Heather throws an impromptu concert 
             - A local zine 
             - Therese's Kitchen 
             - Disney Princess Laser Tag 
             - The Teacup Ride: Small Town Wisconsin version 
             - Bruised, slightly gross apples deserve love too 
             - Callback Saturday 
             - Ferguson's Orchard: Year One 
             - A mother and child reunion 
             - Remember when Donald Trump got Covid? 
             - There is a cheater among us 
             - Impromptu wake for Chuck's dad 
             - Chuck's dad passes 
             - Therese has nerves of STEEL 
             - Jogging in crocs 
             - A very debatable debate 
             - Therese and Matthew's horrible, no good, very bad week 
             - Trump regime blues 
             - Planning for a safer world 
             - Heather and Matthew talk shop about spirits and death 
             - Heather really is the best 
             - Staring into the Trump-Era abyss 
             - Online gamers among us 
             - Covid gets politicized 
             - Allies exchanging highly sensitive information 
             - Language exchange 
             - Faint pre-pandemic memories of The Grossest Water Park 
             - Fine dining again, FINALLY 
             - More reflections on the Big Smoke 
             - One last dad joke on the beach 
             - Therese: Toxic Avenger 
             - Final 2020 Trip to Big Falls: COLD 
             - The big smoke finally reaches Wisconsin 
             - A lazy fummer day on the East Hill 
             - Therese and Matthew both had epic weeks 
             - First Covid scare, first Covid test 
             - Occupado 
             - Shirtless Dave 
             - Venturing back into Racys 
             - Matthew pays it forward 
             - Wilbur and Matthew's cup-heist 
             - Therese gets ready to slay the dragon 
             - The true horror of student housing 
             - Return to the Murder Car! 
             - Belle joins the protest remotely 
             - When the shouting ends.... 
             - Never forget Jacob Blake. Never forget any of them!! 
             - The charming stench of the Chippewa River 
             - A Magnolia and His Dog 
             - Listening to some Kinky Friedman 
             - Wilbur is still closed for business 
             - A visit to Carl and Belle's backyard 
             - Saying Goodbye to MortKev 
             - The birds, the bees, and the dragonflies 
             - Backstreet on the Chippewa River 
             - Tubing on the Chippewa River, Part 3 
             - Driving to Phoenix Park in my 2003 Subaru Crap-Forester 
             - Meeting Kev and Morty at the Hobbs boat landing to go tubing 
             - Caleb rules the lake 
             - MURDER CAR 
             - I am (apparently) Therese's spirit animal 
             - SWIMMING in a cold late summer rain 
             - Boating in a cold late summer rain 
             - Lions and tigers and wolves, minus lions and tigers 
             - I really do hate spiders 
             - Sweaty Velvet, Part 2 
             - Sweaty Velvet, part 1 
             - The Rice Lake Gorilla 
             - Roadkill Blues! 
             - Josh has counted up the cost, and he knows the sacrifice 
             - An awkward run 
             - Casper the Friendly Ghost in my cemetery?? 
             - The central truth of pandemic safety 
             - Catching up with Heather 
             - The Big Sick 
             - Introducing Carl 
             - Aww, NUTS! 
             - Fear and Loathing in Forest Hill Cemetery 
             - Therese: Butterfly whisperer 
             - My superhero origin? 
             - Wilbur's jukebox 
             - Enter Wilbur and Jennie 
             - How does she do that?? 
             - Fire ants at Beaver Creek Reserve 
             - Rock Trick! 
             - Morgan gets my "old man" pop culture reference 
             - True Facts about Beach Towels 
             - Therese: Horsefly slayer 
             - Therese gets me to take the plunge! 
             - Therese's devil horns show a little  
             - Differences in adulting 
             - Caleb dives into a giant blender 
             - Approaching the fireworks grand finale 
             - Fireworks! 
             - Therese and Caleb Reunite 
             - Enter Josh 
             - Shoo fly, shoo! 
             - Dodging injury at Big Falls 
             - Big Falls! 
             - Matthew imagines a zombie apocalypse in the midst of an actual apocalypse 
             - Lockdown 2020: Outdoor Tables at Racys 
             - Mooch gets a truck 
             - Meet Mick! 
             - The stroll across Eau Claire, Wisconsin's East Hill Continues 
             - Heather and I take a Covid-lockdown stroll on the East Hill in Eau Claire, WI 
             - And so, my rapid weight loss begins. 
             - Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 3 
             - Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 2 
             - Tubing, Part 3: The Sad, Weird End 
             - Tubing, Part 2: Things start to go off the rails. 
             - Tubing!! 
             - "How do we know she is a witch?" 
             - DON'T SHAVE YOUR HEAD! 
             - Heather needs some confidence 
             - And then, Chauvin killed George Floyd 
             - The Way of Clover 
             - Introducing George 
             - Caleb presages the Great Resignation 
             - Fitness in the Age of Covid 
             - That's a Mood, Second Downer Page 
             - That's a Mood, Page 1! 
             - Therese's Good Deed 
             - Last but not least, meet Therese 
             - Introducing Heather 
             - Introducing Caleb 
             - Introducing Belle 
         
      
        
           
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