- Hospital Bed
- A Princess for Christmas
- Stay humble
- Nicked!
- Nerd Roast
- Well howdy there, Internet people
- Star Anise!
- Deer-Mageddon
- War
- Ukraine
- Maple Leaves
- Bar Towel
- Therese doesn't like it
- Clicks
- Borderlands Dreams
- Sushi not sushi
- Hy Vee
- Ham and Eggs
- Hipster
- Like a bus
- SNES
- Pregnancy test
- Hammers
- The morning after
- Cows
- Human
- Last Supper
- Grunkle
- Tenant
- Ox, Rabbit, Monkey
- Referencing
- Why??
- Generation Control Z
- Age
- Randy Sinz and other topics
- Goose Hater
- Hamsters!
- Ron Johnson
- Crocodile
- Gummed up
- Bayonetta
- Cancer
- Furnace schemas
- Stealing the show
- Run for the border
- She ace
- Sharing
- Clovers
- Cecil's Deli
- Good Name
- Cop Elf
- Granola
- Heartless
- A gentleman's sport
- Wild boar
- Covid makes the rounds
- Shrimp Fried Rice
- PlaySTATION!!
- Hat-Ception
- Chicken Dinner
- Robbing a convenience store
- Decked!
- Under the Bridge
- No fantasies
- Gandalf or Sauruman
- Wise old man
- Poison
- Gandalf!
- They finally caught it
- Travelled
- Mariner!
- Amish
- Charter
- Sediment
- Separation
- Royal Treatment
- New Seat
- Not now
- The magical fruit
- The fall of Rogan
- Absolute Zero
- Cats and the Supernatural
- Day in the Woods
- Supplemental anrarchy
- The days of summer
- Worth it!
- Best Selling Author
- If you're really lucky
- Kelly
- Wilder than fiction
- Geopolitics
- Do you
- Borderlands
- Bowhunter
- Can't get away
- Signed Off
- Gun Dog
- Ready for the floor
- Eagle Scout
- The Therese stare
- Weekend viewing
- My dude
- Towel Rack
- Life jacket diaper time
- Skittering
- Pillow non-fight
- The no-fun call
- Catching the 'Rona
- Store-Brand Disney
- It's a mystery
- Checking her work
- Civil War
- Conscientious objectors
- Patriotic tomfoolery
- Popsicle break!
- Jazzing around
- Orville
- Without violence
- Weavers
- It was Kit
- It was depressing anyway
- Legally forced
- James
- Rules for me but not thee
- I can't eat asparagus
- EEE!!
- ASBESTOS???
- Trolol
- By Bye Niagara
- Because they're form Ohio
- Sweltering
- Our math textbooks warned us
- How fares Europe?
- Less Recognition
- The after times
- Spotless
- Ten years
- Coffee shop prophets
- Keep the beat
- A certain vibe
- Carpet Angels
- Surprise!
- We'll be back
- Haunted
- The Christian Girl
- Shaving
- Gross
- Omelette
- Wrecking Ball
- Evolution
- Closing the Doors
- Recession
- Total Eclipse
- Adolsecent rebellion
- YouTube
- Flat Earther
- Snapping turtle
- I may be back
- Birthdays and thrift sales
- Local events
- Sacred
- Toad-herding
- Insist
- Checkmate
- Scrubs
- Chattering sound
- Diamond Dogs
- Whitemail
- The Cutest
- Ages
- Statement
- Rocking it
- Dadding
- Muscular people
- Bourbon Barrel Aged Peppermint Stout
- Nightmare fuel
- Get ot a Coinstar
- The secret meaning of funerals
- A Dartmouth man
- Not with that attitude...
- Perkins
- Stand by Me
- Moon
- Office Space
- Relish the moment
- Rest in power, JayBee, rest in peace, Will Smith's career
- Professoring
- Oh Steve
- Melting
- Pill Gun
- Picard!
- Munich
- Drag show
- Scooters!
- Shrimp that clucks
- Coucounaughts
- If I die
- Roth
- Phone charger
- Grass
- Beads
- Knew Back in High School
- Very Alike
- Backseat Drivers
- A night on the (best bar in) town
- We shouldn't have!
- Fascinating Airplane Story II
- Fascinating Aireplane Story 1
- Robert's Squirrel
- Good enough
- Sunlight
- The dreaded bike rack
- Furniture
- Getting Play
- Manga, Folk Music, and Rock n Roll
- Star Trek has always been woke
- Thump
- 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
Introducing Belle
MattDavise on Nov. 19, 2021
This took place very shortly after the lockdown in Eau Claire, WI, back in the spring of 2020. There wasn't any mask mandate at the time, but businesses that sold food were supposed to be open only for pick-up and take-out, with strict social distancing inside, and no sit-down eating or loitering. Olson's (an ice cream store in downtown Eau Claire) appeared to ignore that altogether. I've avoided them ever since, as I'm kinda Covid cautious. As you'll learn when you read the coming comic strips, someone very close to me is immunocompromised.
