Seems Gene is doing a chore. Let's watch...
MUBBA: "Hi, Gene! What cha doin'?"
GENE (nonchalant): "Mom made a roast last night. I'm cleaning and breaking the leftover bones"
MUBBA (befuddled): "Uh ...why?"
GENE (matter-of-fact): "So it doesn't return to life and plot revenge"
MUBBA (to reader): "Is that right?"
Anyway, a bit of backstory on 'Bones'... I went out recently to an Indian restaurant, but arrived about 15 minutes before opening. Luckily, I'm a common customer (I loooooove me some salmon tikka!) whom the staff know well, so I was allowed to stay inside to wait.
I had a book in my backpack and thought to read it to pass some time.
The book was 'Tanaina Tales from Alaska' by Bill Vaudrin. The book is a collection of (very short) folktales, most of which star animal characters.
One such tale I read at the bar was 'The Porcupine and Beaver' (which may be read here): sta.sh/02alk7bwc7ky
Yeah, I kinda don't get the point of this tale (I guess you had to've been there). :P
Anyway, I liked this passage from the story,
"It was an old Indian custom to wash and clean the bones of certain animals and throw them back in the water. They believed that if the bones weren't broken the animal would come back to life"
That, coupled with the featured pencil (more on that later), is what inspired this stupid, poorly-drawn and (probably) culturally-insensitive comic (nothing to cancel here, so have at it---I neither believe in nor consent to dumbass woke politics, so knock yourselves out ((and don't get back up)). :3
Pencil...
The featured pencil is named 'Krazy Bones', and is marked '2 for 5-cents' (does that mean the graphite is a 2.5?) ^^
I'm unsure what 'Krazy Bones' is a reference to. I'm aware of the Mario character of the same name, but this pencil is most certainly older than he (the pencil's probably from the 80s/90s).
I'm aware, also, of the 'Crazy Bones' toys from 1996, but the toy brand was spelled with a 'C' (ie, 'Crazy Bones').
I've seen (but do not own) another variation of this pencil, which boasted a cartoony font and was priced at ten cents. Inflation is certainly a thing! D:
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08 Mar 2023 10:48 CET
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