From the Horse's Mouth

All hail the new strip!

'Col. Bob's Survival Emporium' is a ficticious business. I chose that name because the other option was 'Crazy Bob's Survival Emporium' and I though the 'Crazy' part was too cliched.

Unfortunately, one of my readers actually did a search on army supply stores in this area and found a dead ringer. There are a couple of other places in the area too that are similar, but they're not the people I'm talking about. The actual culprit went out of business (possibly due to the crazy), which is why they didn't hire me or anyone else for that matter.

Now, I'm not making fun of these businesses. Heck, I come from Texas. You might not be aware of it, but I was one of the evactuees for Hurricane Rita.

I was lucky, I had friends in Oklahoma who were willing to take me in. In the end, I had a home to go back to. Others weren't so lucky. When I drove through San Antonio on my way up north I passed by the temporary hurricane refugee housing: it was the AT&T Center. People were camping out in the stadium.

People like Captain Dave donated much needed non-perishables and equipment that saw those people through. So, yes: some of them have concrete bunkers under their houses stocked with ten years worth of food and toilet paper. A lot of them have questionable attitudes towards the government.

However, they do have their hearts in the right place.

So I want to make it clear that I'm not singling anyone out. That was something that happened to me and it was funny. I go to a lot of trouble to generalize the other people in the comic, including the character that I use to represent myself. When all is said and done: this is a comic and a work of fiction. It is based loosely on real events, but a lot of it has been dramatized for entertainment's sake.

That being said, I'm glad people are enjoying the story. I just want to make sure folks aren't taking it too seriously.