Benefits of the Ever-Recycling Cold

If you've been following me on Twitter, then you know that my kids and I have been battling colds since late November, early December. It's been awful. One of the worst cold/flu seasons I can remember in many years. But it has also been one of the best. Because I was able to spend more time with my boys then I normally could.

For those who don't know, I'm a big kid at heart. When the opportunity comes for me to play robots with my kids, pretend I'm a giant super-villain dinosaur, or bust into lightsaber duals in the middle of lunch, I seize the moment.

The other thing about spending a LOT of time with someone, is you begin to understand how they think. During week 4 of our quarantine, I witnessed my 3-year-old's imagination explode with hilarious creativity. When he and I would play, he would create characters, locations, and crazy situations that would resolve themselves in ways you wouldn't expect. It's incredible.

In fact, his stories are so hilariously strange, I've been writing them down in a Moleskine notebook after he goes to bed, so that he could look back on them 20 or 30 years and enjoy them as much as I did. The whole thing reminds me of the magic that is Axe Cop. I'm such a huge fan of that comic.

After I had about 6 or 7 different stories written down, I thought this totally would work as a comic. So I decided, what the heck! And I turned a few of these stories into comics. I'm thinking of posting them, just for giggles.

Would you be interested in seeing some of them?

Remember, they were written by a 3-year-old. So you kind of have to just go with it.

Here is one of his main recurring characters. A robot who's all about vigilante justice: