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Hungry Honda

Byron — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Good ol’ Chet and his Honda Civic. The “energy crisis” of the 70s spurred on the experimentation of using old frying oil in diesel engines. Actually, it was tried in the 1930s as well, according to Wikipedia. I know, Civics did not have diesel engines… it’s a cartoon, you should just relax. So, with Chet [...]

Quadrophenia

Byron — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:01:00 +0000

Chet seems to be a swinger of sorts these days. Who knew nerds had it in them? Hmmm…. Oh, man, do I remember Quadraphonic as a miserable failure of an audio format. It was even worse then the Beta vs. VHS clash of the 80s. Here it was 2 vs 4 speakers. The biggest problem [...]

Some Girls

Byron — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:01:00 +0000

Welcome back Chet into the comic, our overworked and overlooked computer programmer for 1977. Handy with tools too. Seems he’s looking for a way to spend his overtime. T-shirt: “I got my Happy Ending Toy. Did you?” with Chet holding his Debbie Does Dallas Action Figure “Cheerleader Thrust Debbie” toy. Okay, how many WOULD buy [...]

The Song Is Over

Byron — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

And here it is. Late for sure. Bud get’s his just punishment today, but I don’t think I’d want to be around when they do finally cut him out! With today’s comic, I have decided to take a break. Yes, I’m going to put the comic on hiatus. The comic will return on Sunday, August [...]

Ten Inch Record

Byron — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

And let the penis jokes begin… Inspiration for this came from “Animal House” and a very similar scene… The “real” Chet (my real life friend) probably never used that particular pick-up line, but I know he thought about it… and I’m sure his Mr. Happy works just fine under pressure… Aerosmith’s “Toys In The Attic” [...]

Welcome To My Nightmare

Byron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

And that was the worst thing, man… If you couldn’t get Frenched on the first date, it was like over already. Bummer for Chet… Let’s see how he does tomorrow! “Welcome To My Nightmare” was not one of my favorite Alice Cooper albums (those would be Billion Dollar Babies & School’s Out) but the appearance [...]

Surf’s Up!

Byron — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

The belt sander getting away from the operator and running down the floor or hallway has been done many a time for sure… and like a pie to the face, I laugh every time I see it, but I wanted something a little different for Bud. He’s been putting people in harm’s way all week [...]

IF I Fell

Byron — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

How is it some people just seem to know every damn thing? My “Chet” was one of those folks and the really irritating part was he did know everything. What class in high school did I sleep through that these types seem to know a sprocket from a socket? Lesson one in home demolition… look [...]

Blinded By The Light

Byron — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Thanks to the best readers in the webcomic world, I was able to rewrite my original comic of Chet getting shot by a nail gun and turned it into this. I couldn’t find any good sources of nail guns in the 70s and reader not_a_monkey sent me some great links and a photo that I [...]

If I Had A Hammer

Byron — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:01:00 +0000

The pisser of this comic was originally Bud was to have shot a nail through a hat Chet would have been wearing, but it seems nail guns didn’t come around until the 1990s or so. At least I couldn’t find any references to them before 1990, so I changed it to a saw, which is [...]

Lazy

Byron — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Okay, now this is my first attempt at the new coloring technique and it was not too bad to do, but I’ve got some more learnin’ to do! I’m gonna do this size format in color Monday thru Thursday. Sundays will also be in color but will be that BIG panel that I was using [...]

Nerds 1, Stoners 0

Byron — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:00:00 +0000

The Dating Game circa 1977. Chet stops by for a visit and keeps his testicles intact this time.