Soup the Comic Strip by Alun Clewe
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Comic strip for May 6 2024.
PANEL ONE: Close on Erlak, screaming. ERLAK: AAAAAHHHHH! PANEL TWO: Lambor faces Erlak across the bar. LAMBOR: What's wrong? ERLAK: My champion— my connection with him—it's GONE! PANEL THREE: Close on Erlak. ERLAK: It's like...okay, like if our connection was a bowl of soup, and, and I was eating the soup, but then—no, wait, my champion was the bowl, and the connection was, um, the spoon? And the soup was...maybe he was the spoon? Or... PANEL FOUR: Side angle on Lambor and Erlak. ERLAK: Okay, I'm kinda bad with metaphors...
May 6 2024

So! I did not work yesterday (I was supposed to, but the shoot canceled at the last minute—actually, later than the last minute, in that it was after the time it was supposed to start, the shoot having been delayed twice before the cancellation), but unfortunately I still somehow did not draw advertising banners for the strip. However! I realized that it does not really matter that I don't have the advertising banners done yet, because I would not have been able to advertise the strip even if I had. Because! Two things are required to advertise the strip on webcomic sites: the banner image, and money to pay for the advertising. And! Even if I had the former, I don't have the latter.

But! Didn't I just say in yesterday's commentary that I'd been swamped with work? So! If I've been working that much, shouldn't I have money? Well, the issue is twofold. First, I'd just paid my manager her commission, which took most of my cash on hand, and then the rest went toward rent. Second, for some my jobs I get paid on the spot, and for others I have to submit an invoice or fill in some forms online, and the payment doesn't arrive till weeks later. And pretty much all my recent jobs have been of the latter sort, which means I haven't been paid for them yet. So... I'm basically out of money at the moment. Not only do I not have money for advertising, I don't even have money for food, of which I am currently pretty much out. (Well, no, not completely, not really; I don't want to overstate things; of course there are a lot of people worse off than me. I'm not starving; I have no convenient ready-to-eat food at hand, but I have a lot of canned soup in the cupboard, and I have a few packages of food in the freezer I haven't eaten mostly because it requires more preparation than I've wanted to devote the time to. Okay, I did eat some two-year-old pizza slices I found in the refrigerator yesterday (yes, I was kind of astonished they were still edible—I mean, they weren't tasty, but they were edible), but anyway.)

So, yeah, I still do want to get those advertising banners done, but even when I do... I still can't really do anything with them until I have some money. Which... should be relatively soon, I hope? (The shoot that cancelled today was going to pay cash, but, well, it cancelled.) In the meantime, uh, guess I'll be eating soup.

I didn't even think of the fact I was talking about soup in the commentary of a strip called Soup until I was writing the final word of the last paragraph. Uh... that connection was entirely unintended.

Also, hold on a second, Erlak used the word "like", so wasn't he making a simile, not a metaphor? (Okay, under some definitions, a simile is a kind of metaphor, but not every source agrees with that.) Well, maybe being bad with metaphors includes being unclear on what a metaphor is.