Checkers Checkmate
Checkmate isn’t a move normally used in checkers, but sometimes it can be useful.
(This comic strip was previously published on August 26, 2010.)
On a quest to find Winky’s chocolate factory, Fraz points the way for everyone to follow in Androgoth’s playful sketch. You can see Androgoth’s original drawing of Fraz’s Quest over at his My Gothic Realm blog if he’ll let you in.
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I myself have played the game this way. You learn how to loose. So you can know how to win.
I’d like to learn how to win!
Playing this way prepares you for life. Even when you win you usually lose somethin’ too.
I guess I’m prepared for life, then! I’m always losing something.
I find when I play solo checkers, using milk chocolate buttons and white chocolate way more rewarding. Win/Win
That would make checkers a whole lot more fun!
I have that same board!
We should play checkers, then!
Marshmallow checkers is fun too but I seem lose all the pieces 🙁
That might be a problem for me, too!
double 🙁 with a cherry on top
Maybe chocolate pieces aren’t such a good idea if we actually want to play a game!
If the cherries are the crown, that is incentive to get the marshmallows and chocolates across the board…
I’m not sure I could hold off on eating them long enough to get the cherries!
Sounds like you would need to have some extra pieces.
That’s a good idea. There’re supposed to be 24 pieces normally. So if I made a game with 100 pieces, maybe I could finish a game!
That would work. Or put in a bag of wine gums?
As a snack diversion? I never thought of that!
yes but with a chocolate pieces and board i woud never be able to finish the game .
Me neither! But it would always be a fun game!
That sounds like a great game for the chocolate factory to be producing! Edible games. What an idea!
That sounds like a winner to me!
You could even make a chocolate Zombie Operation game where you eat the pieces you take out. I am sure Andro would loan you some models.
I need to start making some chocolate games! They sound good.
Yes I have plenty of examples just waiting to be explored 🙂
It could be a chocolate zombie feast!
As long as it is not a chocolate covered Zombie parts. Eww.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone would like those! Well, maybe a Zombie.
Yes let’s give the zombie covered chocolate treats a miss, as they always stink and nobody likes whiffy chocolates 🙁
That’s about the only thing chocolate that I don’t like.
That is some half-empty mind stuff going on!
I hope it’s not my mind that’s half empty.
Yeah, but on the flip side, you’d always win.
That’s the way I like to look at it!
He had to point that out. 🙂
I think it’s Chris’s job.
I had to stop playing with myself – folk were starting to talk !
You should play in private.
Peter, you have mastered the though frame. Love Winky’s ears in the last frame. Completely emotive.
Red.
Your typo fairies are fired…thought.
I think they were taking a break. Like usual.
Thanks, Red! The ears can be quite expressive.
I have a Chihuahua, whose satellite dishes are completely expressive. Fab use of the Wombies’.
It’s amazing how expressive dogs can be. Especially when they want something like food.
Oh, no doubt. *She says as dog walks away from children occupied with school work with toy in his mouth.*
Get Bruno to play with the poor dog!
He would, but he has lessons to finish as well! Claret is almost done. She finishes first everyday!
Whoever finishes first gets to play with the dog? That’s a wonderful incentive.
His whining and pouting seems to speed the process…
Dogs know how to control their humans.
Beau has no idea he is a dog. He sleeps on the top bunk, eats off the children’s plates, gets a bath every night…He is convinced he is one of my children.
Sounds like my Wombies!
I adore this sketch of Andro’s. The zombie on the skateboard is perfection. My son is a competition skater, and that rendition is very accurate!
Yes, it’s a lot of fun.
I didn’t know your son was a skater.
Thank you Red 🙂 Hey I didn’t know that he was a skater either 🙂
Hey, I’m a skater, too!
Maybe we could have some pancakes together!
He would give you a run for your money. He is a slender little thing and eats like a bottomless pit.
We have a lot in common, then!
He has been competition skating now for almost 10 years. He loves it. He loved when we were in NY. He had killer decks no one back home could get 😉
Ten years is a long time to be competitive in a sport like that I would think.
It is. Most skaters have broken something important by about the fifth year. He has no real road rash, which is fortunate, and has not had many ankle and wrist injuries.
I would image broken bones would be pretty common. He sounds pretty lucky. Or I guess more likely skilled.
A really good combination.
I guess that would do it.
I won’t be recommending this sport to my skeletons that’s for sure 🙂
I guess if a skeleton breaks his bone, he just falls apart.
Probably good advice Andro…Zombies can at least reattach parts…
With duct tape?
And chewed up bits and pieces 🙁 icky
Yep, I’m such a terrible checkers player that I can’t win even if I cheat. I’m a little better at chess, but not that much more.
Maybe I could play checkers against your chess!
If he’s got chocolate then I say go for it. Why to I find his logic is spot on. Chocolate?
Have a terrific day. 🙂
When I have chocolate, it doesn’t really matter if I win or lose.
If there’s chocolates on offer we can play checkers later 🙂
Sure! And as long as we have chocolates, no one is a loser!
Here have another chocolate with fudge surprise 🙂
Sure!! But you have to have some pancakes, too.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play yourself.
I play myself like no one else can!
What great sportsmanship! Be kind to yourself when you lose and give yourself a chocolate second prize.
Losing wouldn’t be so bad, then!
Love it !!!!!!!!!!! PDM !!!
Andro Andro Andro ……….
pure sweetness –
You are so very talented
a style all of your own 🙂
i love the way you create xo
much love guys and wombies xx
Cat
Thanks, Cat.
You’re back! Again! You seemed to disappear after you returned.
I returned yes …….no vanishing though –
just doing other stuff
been offline a ton
feels good 🙂 u know …….? 🙂 x
sweet comic and super sweet art andro
xx
Offline? I’ve heard about that place, but I thought it was just a myth.
No Myth !!!!!!
lol
it’s a nice place
I’ll believe it when I see it!
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t let anyone fool you, Peter. Offline is imaginary. The people who live there do not have Internet connection.
I figured there must be some sort of catch. Still, it might be a nice place to visit one day.
Mundania? Been there. Nothing to write home about. Although, I did write about it in my next book.
I suppose the grass is always greener.
What is your next book?
A book of Mantra’s poetry. Many surprises in it because some have never been published before. Due out at the end of the month!
Sounds good!
Thank you Cat, I call this Art the simplistic style as it is so easy to achieve 🙂 lol
You know why i love it Andro 🙂 cuz it shows the kid inside you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have a great night guys xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
That’s true, it does!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes there’s a BIG kid in there you know? 🙂
OOOH i know that about you Andro !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s my favourite part of you – THE BIG KID SIDE …XOXOXOXOXO
have a gorgeous Sunday xx
Thank you Cat 🙂 🙂
🙂
Androgoth actually let’s people in? Not sure what he has behind that curtain.
Great pic though.
You have to know the secret handshake. It’s Top Secret, so we can’t really talk about it.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🙂 I will try sending you an invite Bearman then you don’t even have to knock, besides if you wake the Zombies up anything could happen 🙁
I hear zombies like bear men!
And bare men, but they prefer bare women.
Perhaps it depends on the zombie’s gender?
I don’t know. Andro’s educational series on Zombies did not include the female zombies recipes. 😉
Well I think they come in both flavors. Though I’m no expert.
They like anyone Peter that’s their problem, and when I say ‘Like’ I mean as in liking to eat them 🙁
And that’s the part I don’t like about them.
Me neither 🙁
Fraz needs to work on those to traps to keep the zombies out, then.
I suppose whether you win or lose depends on if you’re an optimist or a pessimist!
I’m a chocolate-imist!
me too ….and a chocolate-imist is always a winner
Yay, I’m finally a winner at something!
You need a chocolate medal.
I could sure use one! Or eat one!
Looks like your learning a lot about life, Winky!
But I don’t need to learn how to lose!
I really like this artwork by Andro that you posted. One of my favorites of his.
Yes, it’s a very playful piece.
Everyone is far too kind but thanks 🙂
We see the fun in it!
Thank you 🙂
Andro what a fun poster and although Fraz is pointing towards the chocolate factory( how very generous) he looks like he is giving a travolta dance move.
A big hug to my lovely friend…love you fun Wombie art work
Yes I had fun teaching him those steps, but it’s not Sandy that he wants, it’s lots of chocolate instead 🙂
I always want more chocolates!
And I have lots to give you Fraz, in fact I am calling over later with three truck loads of Transylvanian Fangdesserts all for you 🙂
Just be careful they don’t bite you…
I’ll wear my suit-of-armor gloves just to be sure!
All it takes to never lose is a good flip of the table when your opponent gets too close to winning.
I’ll have to try that next time!
I find that playing solo checkers is that my opponent always seems to know what I’m thinking.
That’s exactly what happens when I play!
Funny! And true. 🙂
Thanks, Wendy!
Want to play a game of Solitaire with me?
Sure, I like to play solitaire with someone! It gets kind of lonely by myself.
humans are real Spoil sports..I say always play alone and see the half cup full or whatever makes one win..one can easily change sides and be winner but only wombies have the depth to understand that….
Winky as always I am with you
Tripple chocolate shake with chocolate drops and a chocolate cake for the win
Yeah, humans seem to like to spoil things. If they just saw things the way we Wombies see things, everything would be a whole lot better!
I prefer 1st. option. 😉 You are always a winner 🙂
That’s the one I like best, too!
Yeah it’s like that half empty/half full glass thing I’ve heard before. An optimist will always see things half full…I am guessing you are an optimist Wink 😉
Yeah, I think I am an optimist. I also think of myself as a chocolate-imist!
My brother used to play himself at the games he invented because the rules were so complex no one else could understand them. And no one liked his games anyway because he always won. So he eventually ended up playing by himself, which he claimed to like better anyway, since he didn’t have to keep explaining the rules to us.
Maybe I should invent my own games. But I’d probably forget the rules and end up losing anyway.
This also works with chess, dating, and and eating chocolate.
Eating chocolate goes well with anything!
Dating?
It’s probably hard for a ghost to get a date.
Or you can look at it as a win and a loss. Your record at checkers would be at .500. So you are an average player. Not bad.
That’s a lot better than my score in lots of things!
this is a glass half empty / glass half full thing – I love it!
I definitely prefer a full glass because then I get more!
Don’t like to think too much. Eating is much easier.
I couldn’t agree more!!