I had to do it… you know I did.  With the Winter Olympics going on I had to have at least one strip dealing with the games.  I find the Olympics a lot of fun to watch, but sometimes wish the commentary could be turned off.  Just like pressing the SAP button to change the language to Spanish, there should be a button where you get no commentary or a scrolling commentary below of the high points.  I find this especially annoying in Figure Skating where besides the technical aspects of the sport, you have an artist element… keyed to music.  Music we at home cannot hear over the announcers going on (and on) about the tragedy that the skater overcame when they lost their dog at age 5.

For my students this comic was one I really had to edit… Editing is that thing I try to get you to do in your writing to make it better.  I started off with this large idea with a lot of commentary and then realized that I would need more panels than I had last week to get it all in.  So I left out the joke about “Bruce has really been working on his technique-  He even had a driveway built at his home so he could practice”  (ala Shaun White’s halfpipe) along with some other gags… about growing up in California and not taking up the sport until late in life.  The whole “Up Close & Personal” piece. There is so much the network hosting the Olympics has to do to fill time.  It may have hurt the strip, but sometimes you need to try to keep it simple and you only have so much room.

I do have a hat like that (Sue knit it for me) but it is red.