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CUPS 40: Chuck

Charles ‘Chuck’ Nichols went on to become a minor celebrity in Seaford, Delaware years later after starring in a half dozen ads as the ‘Wire Tyrant’, a local wire fencing company’s attempt to compete with their competitor’s ‘Wire King’ personality. It didn’t pay well, but for a solid 4-7 years Chuck drank for free at local bars probably only a little more than half the time. He divorced from his wife Lisa under amicable differences, when the kids were mostly grown up and in college, and stayed friendly with her… But never re-married. Not that he tried. Chuck was happy, mostly. He grew old in Seaford, working as the guidance counselor at a local high school. It didn’t pay much, but it payed enough. Chuck quietly died in his sleep at the age of 64, to heart complications.

CUPS 39: History

Here’s a comic that isn’t all that funny. I mean, maybe it’s funny to you, but I didn’t write it with humor in the forefront. Actually, we’re in the midst of a storyline where a few of these strips are like that. I hope you like it, because this is the backstory of CUPS. I’m not sure if it’s important, but it sure seems helpful to the understanding of the history of CUPS. You know what? Even if it’s not important, I gotta come up with some sort of thing to write about twice a week. Did you know that time just keeps going and these strips keep needing to be created and posted? It’s never ending and infinitely tireless, this time thing.

CUPS 38: Because College

Here’s a little mini-arc where I do a little bit of backstory telling. I definitely don’t think it’s necessary — CUPS the Comic is not even really a little bit about the game of CUPS — but I do think this it’s constructive to explain some of this stuff to those of you who may be interested in finding it out. Whenever I watch a movies, I just kind of roll with whatever they tell me to roll with — ‘Oh, this guy’s a pirate and a taxidermist? Cool, I’m in’. My wife, though, usually gets frustrated by this. She wants answers; She wants to know the why and the how. So this mini-arc is for you people who are like my wife. The demanding media consumer types.

CUPS 37: PCORTA

I’m going to be honest with you, if someone offered to pay me a living wage to just come up with fake advanced statistical metrics for sports that don’t exist, that would be the happiest day of my life.

CUPS 36: No Biggie

Skyping someone from the bathroom when you’re hungover is just the most obnoxious sort of call you could ever make. I’ve simultaneously been pooping while on the phone a solid forty times in my life, but this whole thing that Rita’s doing is just straight up rude as hell.