Is this the only comic that can be made about the Taliban without me getting my head cut off? Maybe, only time will tell, and I’ve heard time is being coy these days about telling us anything.

So yes! I am totally a dad now! Little Man is coming up to his third week of life, and his geopolitical opinions are a little rough around the edges. It’s ok, we have time to iron them out I’m sure. I had a whole lot of great gags written here but WordPress deleted it all. So this post is going to be much more brief.

Auckland just got it’s first lockdown in about a year due to someone walking in some Delta variant from Australia. Nice one guys I hope it was worth it. Although in all honesty I haven’t noticed any difference. I’ve been on paternity leave lockdown since Little Man was born. So my life has not been impacted at all.

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A poor 1910’s couple walk away from a city, a winding road ahead.
Caption: We always dreamed of escaping the city

A bucolic scene on a farm. They are happy.
Caption: settling down in the countryside; spending the rest of our lives together.

The same frame as the previous panel. The buildings are bombed out, the grass has been churned to mud, WWI era soldiers advance across the ruined farm. A couple piles of debris might be human forms (same clothes as previous panel, if you wanted to make it more obvious).
Captions: We managed that, at least.