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Lazy Monday

by Derek on May 16th, 2011
Lazy Monday

I was originally going to do one about the rain drying up when I realized I’ve done that comic already. It’s been raining a lot in NYC lately so I thought it might be time to do another rain strip. I haven’t done one in a long time because I’ve already tapped out a lot of rain comics, and usually getting new ideas requires that I be out in the rain which I don’t normally find myself doing.

Going outside is usually equated with “doing something” because staying at home seems reclusive and sedentary. But with the internets and if your skills are computer-centric then being at home on the computer is the only way to be really productive. If anything, going outside is kind of the break time if you’re in that lifestyle.

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Shower Shield

by Derek on September 14th, 2010
Shower Shield

Not sure it’s entirely clear from my drawing, but the water actually ricocheted off the umbrella on to the people. Credit for this one goes to my friend JM who is the one who did this while standing next to some people who weren’t quite as quick on the draw :P

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Umbrella Fu

by Derek on February 24th, 2010
Umbrella Fu

This week is going to be mostly rain. Part of walking around during the rain is seeing the umbrella casualties that didn’t make it home or the trip to work. Some umbrellas look genuinely messed up, others look like they could’ve made it. Clearly not everyone has mastered umbrella-fu. My umbrella has one broken joint, but I rather enjoy manipulating my umbrella during sudden changes of wind direction.

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Rainstorm Apathy

by Derek on July 1st, 2009
Rainstorm Apathy

I think people who dislike the rain really resent it when they meet someone who doesn’t mind it or actually LIKES the rain. I don’t hate the rain, I think it’s good because it keeps the weather cool. It doesn’t affect me most of the time because usually it doesn’t rain hard enough that I’ll even get wet when using an umbrella. Yesterday the rain was the hardest it’s been in a while, but even then I was okay with it.

The local news anchors like to banter with the weather man saying stuff like “When is the rain going to end?? Give us some good news for once Bob!” or something like that. I don’t know if they really care or they just need some good material to fill the time.


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Heatwave 2008 Pt 3

by Derek on June 11th, 2008
Heatwave 2008 Pt 3

Actually last night the thunder was indeed accompanied by some rain so it was significantly cooler around 10 pm. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough time to cool my apartment down. I ended up using my air conditioner anyway. Monday night though there was quite a lightning storm. Saw several enormous bolts of lightning before it moved on.


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Weather Trickster

by Derek on February 6th, 2008
Weather Trickster

I wrote this strip on Monday night, but if the weather holds up its end of the bargain it’s a ridiculously warm 62° today. Seriously, this is ridiculous. Isn’t it supposed to be 20° or something? At least 30′s I’d say but instead the rest of the week it’s going to be in the 40s. Times like this I try to remember in “An Inconvenient Truth” which parts of New York would be underwater if the Earth’s temperature went up a couple degrees.


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Rain Occurrence

by Derek on November 2nd, 2007
Rain Occurrence

I was in midtown when I saw a guy with his friends. This guy seriously was riding his umbrella like a pretend horse yelling “ride ‘em” and all that. I would’ve loved to have known the context of why he was doing that. Was he imitating someone else or was he actually that insane and shameless that he was doing this on a crowded street?


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Weather Expectations

by Derek on October 11th, 2007
Weather Expectations

I hate when it doesn’t rain after I’ve been carrying my gigantic umbrella all around. Cool as it would be if my umbrella actually were a magic sceptre that made rain go away (thus explaining why so often it doesn’t rain when I have it) I still like my carrying it around to be justified. On Tuesday this almost happened to me but it started raining just a tad. Of course as soon as I got into my apartment it started POURING. At least I got to use it once.


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Subway Humidity

by Derek on June 27th, 2007
Subway Humidity

I’ve already had plenty of Summers in the city, and I’m familiar with how uncomfortable it can be on the subway or in Chinatown where the heat gives new legs to the smells that during the best of times are still horrible. Despite all this I think yesterday when I got into the 34th street subway station it was the most disgusting I’ve ever felt when in a subway station. It was literally like a sauna but with subway funk. I was prepared to jump on any train that presented itself at that moment in time even if it was going in the wrong direction. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like before the subway cars had a/c. Actually I can imagine it, and it makes me glad that I don’t live in that time.


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Spring Rain Battle

by Derek on May 17th, 2007
Spring Rain Battle

I get kind of like this when it’s warm enough outside that rain without an umbrella is sort of refreshing. Doubly so if I’m wearing contact lenses because the rain is a real pain when your glasses are getting water all over them, then they start fogging up and all that. But wearing contacts, warm weather, waterproof boots it’s not so bad. Subway air conditioning, not so much.


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