Oh, joy. Another year. Can’t wait to fill out the date on something and accidentally write 2022.
In 2007, I created a website called thepulloutcouch.com to post webcomics. I was something like 16 at the time and overestimated my artistic and comedic capabilities.
Greatly overestimated. (I also thought giant blocks of text, pink skin, horrible resolution, and a reference to the “gallon challenge” were all great things that would age well.)
This persisted throughout high school and college and resulted in 118 horrible comics. I then became a missionary and was separated from the world for two years, during which thepulloutcouch.com was unpublished and died like a unloved relative being taken off life support.
After the two years were finished, I returned to regular life and discovered that I was kind of a vastly different human being. So I started a new website and restarted the comics from scratch.
Which was a pretty good call. However, something unfortunate happened. I got a real job. It proceeded to consume my energy and soul for the next six years. It turns out it is very hard to draw funny pictures on the internet as a soulless husk. I was also incredibly lazy and inconsistent. Plus, I once again started to hate what I had written.
So here we are, 16 years later, writing yet another “first post.”
Can’t wait to end up in the same place in another 16 years.
Happy New Year.