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I really wanted to expand on the intervention fiasco but ultimately it wasn’t a focus point and the upcoming “Origin of Tanked” arc is already a 25 page and counting behemoth so shortened it was. It probably would have just devolved to a couple of pages of Tanked cramming random small animals into his mouth which would have been fun to draw… I thinking eating a squirrel whole is probably a choking hazard though.
So an update on the parasites: we had our first appointment with a high risk specialist and another ultrasound yesterday. No membrane found so definitely still monoamniotic twins. Fortunately there wasn’t any obvious cord tangling or a significant size difference. There was however an unfortunate abundance of penises for someone who kinda wanted a girl. Jim likes to say there’s “a sausage fest” in my belly, or his other line is “No tangles but lots of dangles!” At least someone’s having fun with this. It’s funny because beforehand I wasn’t really concerned either way and since we’re used to boys and have all boy clothes and toys I thought it wouldn’t matter. It’s the absolutes that get you though. I was staring at the tiny wenis on the screen and realized I’ll never have a girl. Hopefully I get lots of nieces someday so I can buy little dresses. I told Jim in the meantime I’d just spend that money on girly clothes for me… if my chest ever goes back to the way it was of course.
So Jim gets his way again. He hates boy bands and musicals and Britney Spears and has an irrational fear of date rape and finds teenage girls terrifying in a screechy, emotional way. I try to tell him that’s not always the case, I for instance was a really easy going teenage girl to raise, as were my friends. Little boys on the other hand tend to be loud, hitting, mess makers which he doesn’t see as a problem. His family of three boys always communicated by yelling and punching (with occasional games of “Let’s throw rocks at each other!”) so he doesn’t generally get my concern. I predict my sanity will be more than half way gone by this time next year. Perhaps that will be a good thing for Bear Nuts :)
Evil’s been a little upstaged lately which doesn’t seem right so here’s a commission sketch of my a-hole bear at it again.
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March 18th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Withdrawal is such a painful process.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Poor poor Tanked. I hope he will survive this in a hilarious manner! Great page.
Also, a “sausage fest in your belly” made me chuckle.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Is he drinking Laundry Detergent? o.O; Oh my.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:05 am
lol, you’re referring to your new babies as parasites?
March 18th, 2011 at 12:09 am
OMG, all of the bears are in the same strip. This rarely happens because of the elusive Death Bear.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:25 am
Is he drinking laundry detergent? o.o
March 18th, 2011 at 12:25 am
I wouldn’t worry about Tanked eating a whole Squirrel (which in a creative way could also be considered as a “sausage fest” in one’s “belly”) I used to have an Alaskan Malamute/Siberian Husky mix, and she once ate a full grown rabbit whole. Never caused her a problem! She also once ate an entire package of hot dog buns- cramped up her stomach so bad she couldn’t move until we burped her.
Its good to hear that you and your twins are healthy!
i also love the expressions of the bear cast line up. (:
March 18th, 2011 at 12:51 am
Poor Tanked…thought it’d be Crack,but this?Why…
March 18th, 2011 at 1:07 am
There are so many questions that need to be asked for Tank’s past. Namely, what caused him to drink in the first place?
And, about your twins, since they’re both boys, expect them to come out holding each other’s necks…. If my family’s any indication, they will fight a lot.
March 18th, 2011 at 1:54 am
Welcome to the Three Thug Club. My beloved wife is a fanatical basketball player, so when we went from two to three we changed from “man to man” to “area defence”. Love this arc – how you managed to make Tanked truly creepy….
March 18th, 2011 at 2:23 am
Why must you do this to Tanked? He’s my favorite bear! :(
Also, if you’re not too busy (congrats on the twins! :)) maybe you can please please please add a page about how to draw the bears? And also just how you make your comic?
Keep up the awesome work! :D
March 18th, 2011 at 2:31 am
they thought him going sober would be good but no is was much worse he went crazy
March 18th, 2011 at 3:31 am
You need some new vs polls of withdrawal tanked vs. whatever
March 18th, 2011 at 3:53 am
Gay obviously hasn’t seen his gucci bags yet . . ..
March 18th, 2011 at 4:06 am
Yay! More Tanked plz :D
March 18th, 2011 at 5:03 am
Please don;t kill him off. =O
March 18th, 2011 at 5:06 am
Actually, I feel sorry for the squirrel.
March 18th, 2011 at 5:56 am
You may still get the chance to buy one of your children pretty dresses. The trick will be in getting one that looks good on him.
March 18th, 2011 at 6:16 am
Great comic. :) I hope you continue to be okay and I’ll pray at least on of your boys are quiet, nice gentlemen. Good luck to the sausage fest in your stomach. :D
March 18th, 2011 at 6:56 am
Yikes…! Oh, man, did Tanked actually kill those guys? Or did they manage to stop him first? The lack of a blue bird and mice in the fourth panel is a little distressing. You tend to forget these guys are actually apex predators. (But hey, at least they didn’t kill off the passenger pigeon. :) ) The ‘beast’-laid plans of mice and bears aft gang agley.
Voter-incentive sketch: I hope that’s not the bag Tanked went in…
@Alison — Don’t worry, you’ll always have Gay to dress up. :D
March 18th, 2011 at 7:27 am
HEHE. When I looked at the extra picture I heard a sobbing gay voice in my head going, “My Gu-hoo-hooo-cciiiii…!” (Gucci, in case the spelling makes it puzzling.)
March 18th, 2011 at 7:43 am
Hello, happy for you about your twins. I’m47 and my wife doesn’t want kids anymore, else…
Nice pages on Tanked (awwww…), I suggest you just sit on your mental sanity in order to continue your BearNuts as crazy as it is (^v^). And I’m so curious to know more about him. I loved the pages where he took tea with the squirrel !
March 18th, 2011 at 7:53 am
And in the previous page, the third panel made me sooo laugh ! Yes Vandigo, I’m waiting for Gay to see his bags, too !
March 18th, 2011 at 8:04 am
OMG Tank became Ozzy Osbourne at frame 4… just throw one bat to him :D
March 18th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Hehe, Vanity is so short!
March 18th, 2011 at 9:59 am
I could not resist grabbing the third panel as a new avatar. Hope it is okay with you Allison, thanks.
March 18th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Good to hear good news on you and the twins.
heh, great update, nice to see all the gang.
How about a soundtrack for this tale? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISmgOrhELXs
“I wanna tell you a story
All about a tanked bear
I come to Bearnut one Friday
And found that Tanked lost his alcohol
He looked to the other bears
And said as long as I can get my booze next Friday
So next Friday came and they coundn’t find any Bud
And loose hell went”
…
So, Tanked, what do you want?
“One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
I haven’t had a drink since I don’t when
Mister bartender, set’em up again
I want get high, man, or I will get loose
give me a triple shot of that highland juice
I want to get drunk, man, have no fear
I want one bourbon, one scotch, one beer” :D
March 18th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Am I the only one that thinks that an extended version of panel 5 (or is it technically 6, because of the split in panel 3/4?) would make a great poster?
March 18th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Oh, dear! :(
March 18th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Nice to see Crack’s recovered, though. I can’t help wondering if his recent tough-love style corn therapy will help get him over his phobia or exacerbate it. :)
March 18th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
The picture on Tanked’s belly… there’s like a hidden “CCCP” on it, wich is USSR in Russian.
Just noticed.
March 18th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or is that the power of alcohol?
(Derp XP )
I’m feeling kind of depressed this year.
Tokyo, Japan was one of my favorite places that I wanted to go to before I die.
As an anime fanatic ( Or an Otaku) I took part in donating some things to Japan.
I gave away some of my manga books, sold some of my used games at gamestop, (Half of the money is for the donation) And I’ve been searching for canned goods in both the market and my home kitchen.
(If there are any anime fans out there, Japan needs our help!!!)
March 18th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
The fact you called your twins parasites is awesome. My boyfriend pretty much told me once that babies are parasites in a literal biological sense. I think I may agree with your husband about girls. But then again, I think throwing rocks at stuff (i.e. each other) is fun! XD
Also, great comic!
March 18th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Congrats on the parasites! My DH had to take me out to dinner to calm me down when I found out I was going to have a boy. 17 years later he’s a sweetie and, while I love his sister unreservedly she was the challenge. Besides, you’re Canadian so they HAVE to be polite. Let ’em get their ya-yas out on the ice rink.
March 18th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Anthony,
March 18th, 2011 at 6:49 pm
O: Did I hear something about an Origin of Tanked?! Hurray!
March 18th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
If you can make it there do it. Japans is about the most foreign place an American can go. Tokyo is still standing, and they will recover. You will never meet a more helpful person then in Japan. I was helped out of sticky spot more then once by total strangers. It’s an awesome place to visit.
March 18th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
@Mykhailo — So THAT’S it. Tanked’s going through his own personal perestroika as a result of vodka depletion. Da, tovarich! :)
March 18th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Maybe conceiving male twins is a sign that THE COMIC NEEDS MORE GIRL BEARS?
I love looking at all the different reactions as they sit around Tanked in a despairing circle.
March 18th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
I always thought “Pretty Good at Drinkin’ Beer” was a good song for Tanked.
March 19th, 2011 at 4:44 am
As soon as I saw the “grawp” in the second panel, I thought of one of those sounds that DoodleBob made on that one episode of Spongebob.
Moy hoy minoy! Meoy!
Poor Tanked. We’re getting so much enjoyment from his suffering.
March 19th, 2011 at 6:33 am
at least get the poor man some nyquil!
March 19th, 2011 at 7:08 am
havn’t the keepers noticed anything?? xD
March 19th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Man….I am waiting to see how this turns out. I love all the bears…But Evil holds a place in my heart. I’ll need to see about getting the books. Continue the good work, good luck with the double munchkin fiasco brewing in your belly, and full speed ahead.
March 19th, 2011 at 10:56 am
Wow, Tanked isn’t getting better. This chapter is either minimal time passing or Tanked has a lot of system purification to go through.
March 19th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Shouldn’t be too hard to purify his system now that he’s drank drain cleanser…
March 19th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
I think I have figured out Tank, and while this is just speculation, its, baised on observation.
Tank, is distroying things that make bears happy, the clothing, the purses, Nerds dolls, anything he can to lash out at them- and it’s scary for the other bears because they don’t know why. They are trying to stop his destructive behavior, but, until they get to the root of it, things won’t end.
Upon this reflection, It occured to me that when you have everything that makes you happy taken away from you in a distructive way, you can lash out, and while that doesn’t help, if its enough, and you break, then you drink to forget what you have lost. Tank hasn’t vocalized whats wrong, except in a basic, primative way- one of disperation perhaps?
I think it goes beyond what Prozac and Evil have gone through. You have to wonder what is best for Tanked, is it drowning his sorrows in the bottom of the bottle, or finally sobering up to what he has is gone forever , and nothing, not even the tears and fears of the others can get it back.
As for your twins. Boys come in all shapes and sizes and they live what they learn. My nephew has been one of the most laid back peaceful kids I’ve ever encountered, Has been since the day he was born, and my other nephews were wild children, – who grew up to be rational adults of responsiblitys. Don’t worry unless they are born with demon eyes and smoke when you bath them.
Congrats!!
March 19th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
Yeeey, lets trow rocks at each other, the funniest game ever :D
My big brother were so awesome in that game, me for some reason i always missed to the right of him… just the same when we were having a ”beat eachother with sticks” contest, i always missed him to the right… always… hmm…
March 19th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Don’t trust the ultrasound to determine the sex of the twins. Many little girls have been taken home to blue nurseries.
March 20th, 2011 at 12:37 am
Looks like the gangs all there (or at least most of them considering Tanked has gone bat**** crazy). Vanity is going to learn what goes on in a NORMAL day at the Bear Cave.
Alison dosen’t seem to be hiding the fact that GxG are cannon. In fact, it seems she’s promoting it in a way. Twice in the last month we have had fanservice of the two.
For all who actually care, I’m back from Spring Break. I’ve been meaning to comment, but haven’t since I’ve been having so much fun. Going to Six Flags made me almost feel like a little kid again (still upset PePe didn’t show though) and the cruise in SC was pretty fun. But now that I’m back, time to get ready for my final 9 weeks before summer (and my last few weeks before ACT). So good night to you all. Hope you all had a rockin’ Spring Break like I did; especially Alison, you deserve a decent break.
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