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INKTOBER 2022 Day #14: EMPTY. Okay, I think I managed to go outside the box a little with this prompt interpretation. PMD is emptying his laser bananas (TM) into some unseen threat...or just because it's fun. The whole laser banana (TM) thing first showed up in 2014 on a card I made for my

INKTOBER 2022 Day #13: KIND. I struggled for a long time to come up with an idea for this prompt. I did my usual word and image searches, delved into the definitions. Not much got my Brain going. I thought about how to show kindness, I thought about PMD being one of many plunger-wearing

INKTOBER 2022 Day #12: FORGET. PMD, like me, sometimes has too many things to remember. I'm not sure where the whole "tie some string to your finger so you don't forget X" started, or if anyone actually did it, but I question it's effectiveness. What happens if you have more than one thing to

INKTOBER 2022 Day #11: EAGLE. I don't golf. Outside of mini golf a handful of times in my life, I have never played the sport. My dad and brother used to play a lot, but not me. I don't know why I chose to go with the golf definition of eagle rather than the

INKTOBER 2022 Day # 10: CRABBY. Okay...I can explain...maybe. So, quite a few years ago, my best friend and I got to talking, and somehow it came up that one of his kids called crab rangoons "crab raccoons". Obviously, this was hilarious and conjured up a mental image for both of us. Both of

INKTOBER 2022 Day #9: NEST. PMD asking the important questions: Squid-chicken, or Chicken-squid? My Brain birthed this critter completely out of the blue while I was doodling and I had to turn it into a shirt. It was random and weird, so I loved it. When I was brainstorming for this prompt, I quickly

INKTOBER 2022 Day #8: MATCH. This was the first interpretation of the prompt that popped into my Brain when I saw it: a fight of some kind. At first I was thinking a wrestling match, and was envisioning PMD as the Ultimate Plunger or Ultimate Monkey (I watched wrestling in the 80s a lot

INKTOBER 2022 Day #7: TRIP. Always be sure to put your squid away when you're done using it... I struggled with an idea for this one. I did my usual googling of definitions and images and phrases including the word-like power trip and ego trip and guilt trip-looking for a spark, looking for a

INKTOBER 2022 Day #6: BOUQUET. ...Okay, so, I didn't really know what to do with this one. My Brain said "how about a bouquet of bananas, plungers, and a squid?" It's tough to argue with my Brain sometimes.

INKTOBER 2022 Day #5: FLAME.   The Flaming Plunger? The Flaming Monkey? There may be another PMD alter ego to explore here. Despite being a self-described "comic book nerd", I've never read an issue of The Fantastic Four. That's probably as criminal as not having ever read an issue of Batman or Superman. I

INKTOBER 2022 Day #4: SCALLOP. Okay, I went a bit self-referential for this one. When I was significantly younger, I was in scouts. At some point, I learned a wacky tongue twister that really resonated with me. It begins "One hen, two ducks, three squawking geese, four limerick oysters..." and gets progressively weirder and

INKTOBER 2022 Day #3: BAT. As usual, when I can't come up with a clever way to interpret a prompt or a way to pay homage to my various creative influences, I default to having PMD stick a plunger on something. I find it amusing. At the risk of ruining a gag by explaining