With BillyLand© due to open in less than a month, cost overruns, union problems, accidents and deliberate sabotage by jealous competitors are seriously threatening the entire project.  BillyLand© will be the magnet pleasure center on the Texas Gulf Coast, offering rides, games, gambling, fishing, alcohol, and all other family activities.designed for good clean fun and patriotic reinforcement.  Here the visionary founder of BillyCo Inc. meditates upon his next move while thinking of what he is going to tell the bank tomorrow.  Ha ha, the jokes on them, if Mr. Bunny goes broke so does the bank.  Fortunately, Billy is insured for a great deal of money, as the bankers pointed out to him at their last meeting. Billy Bunny is wondering if creosote treated wood in salt water will burn hot enough to reduce it and all evi...all dangerous wreckage to ashes.  One cannot be too careful when it comes to safe working conditions!

  I was fifteen when I first came across this.  I was scandalized and intrigued.  It blew my mind to see anthropomorphic animals acting like real humans, in this case a dog on the outs with society.  The depiction of God is a riot.  Anthro cute bunnies were only supposed to decorate Easter cards, not watch over the sex fantasies of a shabby, lonely, probably unemployed dog.  I had never read something more brutally honest.  And then there is this: The Cute L'il Bearzy Wearzies In this story, the two bears, one divorced, buy shoes, get drunk, high, rebuked by a cop, use bad language and engage in sexual activity.  I thought they lived in a world that was wonderful, partly because of how adorable they were even as they misbehaved.  The influence of this on my life cannot be easily dismissed.  One of the reason these stories caught so much of my attention is because I grew up on a diet of talking animal...

           This morning was cool and wet.  We had just been through a cold snap, laughable to those up north but hard on us here in the Coastal Bend, we just ain't used to real wintertime.  I was drinking coffee and standing on my back porch watching the ibises and cranes pick through the grass looking for their breakfast.  As all the lizards would be lethargic and hunkered down I imagine it was insects and no more for those birds to eat.  I saw one ibis get two small snakes in a few seconds, I was surprised that any would be out and about this day.  I am fond of the reptiles but we would certainly be overrun with a exponentially increasing lizards unless they were culled by predators.  Lizards and snakes are predators as well so nature evens out in it's cold conclusions.  I had the radio on and was listening to the latest reports of the buildup to (another) war.  The only thing that worried me was...

   The opening story from Solo, by the incredible Oscar Martin. Food is scarce and respect for life non-existent. Enemies abound. The rats are the smallest and the most hard pressed to survive in this world. Mind blowing artwork. Did I mention that this is good art? The quality of mercy is not strained in this world, it is unknown. Captured and put in the arena, Solo astonishes all with his speed and ruthlessness. It is speed, not size, that matters in an edged weapons fight.    But all is not hopeless. There may still be a chance for this fearless warrior. We shall see. Solo: The Survivors of Chaos.  Oscar Martin, Titan Comics.  2020. https://www.artstation.com/oscar_martin It's a Hell of a life.

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