Optional Accessories
You can be the master of your own domain if you have the appropriate power options in your car.
(This comic strip was previously published on June 8, 2009.)
Editorial cartoonist Bearman sent us this wombat crossing sign that he picked up on his recent trip to Australia. For editorial and pop culture cartoons, and some cray conversations, take a tour of Bearman’s Bearman Cartoons website.
That’s why they call it “Power” controls! 😀
Everyone wants power!
hes a control freak bet he hasnt got his control over sharing his chocolate bars he counts every bubble in his choco bar he controls the unwrapping he controls the bites and cant control his temper when he finds out his chocolates been pinched
I’m not a control freak! I just like to have control.
You know what would be cool, to activate the kiddy controls so the window on Fraz’s side won’t go down far. How annoying 🙂
I have the master switch set so they can’t open their windows at all! And the child locks, so they can’t get out, either!
Awesome Chris , you rock as a control freak!!!!
Yeah. Wait a minute, I’m not a control freak!
i think chris needs to control himself lol does he control his car stereo too
The music is my domain, too!
A side-effect of all that ‘new car smell’?!
🙂
I think the new car smell wore off about ten years ago.
You can buy it in a spray bottle, a jar and as a hanger for your rear view mirror…
But where do I get the smell from to bottle it?
Same place it comes from in your car… leather, plastic and formaldehyde.
I’ll try mixing that together and see what happens.
Never has someone been so drunk on so little power…
I’ve got to get my kicks somehow!
Bwahahahahahahahaha. Exactly. I love it.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
No they haven’t!
It’s nice to know that you can control something… until the car battery dies, then you’re back to square one!
Power is fleeting.
Next you’ll be controlling the world! Well, maybe not.
I’d settle for just being able to control the house.
I know that one! It’s because of our Wombies?
They think they own the place!
And everything in it too!
Especially anything to do with chocolate, wine gums, and Spam.
And the ice cream too!…Especially the chocolate.
They might as well own my kitchen!
I think Twink already does.
Yeah, she does.
Less work for you if you as long as you don’t have to do the clean-up.
I try to get Winky to do that, which usually works. “A clean kitchen means more food!”
I never had much luck with getting Dink to clean in the kitchen, much less anything else, but Chewy seems to be a big help doing chores.
I guess one working is better than none. Maybe you need to try the cookie on a stick trick to get Dink motivated.
Just how does that work?
You need to think like them, and offer them a a good enticement. That’s why I tell Winky “A clean kitchen means more food!” Winky always wants more food, so he’s motivated to clean the kitchen to to get it.
That’ll work! 🙂
It should!
It did!
🙂
No different than any other children…
No, I guess not. Just furrier.
I really like the 3 panels of Chris. Great job!
Thanks, Deb. I think some low lighting gave him a more sinister look.
The third one of the 3 really sets off the whole seen because of that low lighting too.
That’s what I was aiming for!
You have a good aim.
🙂
I remember being a kid and the parents would do that. It’d be a thrill to control our own windows.
Power to the passengers!
I am jealous, my Jeep doesn’t have anything powered
I guess that’s the price you pay for being an outdoorsman.
My jeep did not have windows…
That wouldn’t be very good up here!
He might as well assert his power options because it’s the only power he’s going to get in Wombania.
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And that’s about it, too.
Must feel awful for him when he has to drive a limo … traditionally back right seat controls everything! W.C.C.
In my limo, I control everything!
Now if you can just control the wombies you might have simething going.
That would be ideal, no matter how unlikely.
We all have our impossible dreams.
That’s for sure. I hope for some peace and tranquility.
I am powerless over the car windows and my life has become unmanageable.
No really.
Maybe Binky can take a look at them between rocket plans.
Loved this one, not just the great art, but for the reason listed above 🙂
It sounds as if you might have some power issues. Perhaps I could add some rocket power to your car.
Binky that would be the best. Can you imagine a 1993 Rocket Powered Executive Lincoln Town Car?!
I could make it to BC, pick up a case of wine gums, and be home before Victor and Victoria’s lunch time!
I wanted to add rockets to Chris’s car, but he was resistant. A rocket powered stretch limo would be a good project. We should collaborate.
You can rocket power my truck.
I would be happy to!
great looking comic strip with some really funny characters 🙂
Thanks, Jed. Glad you liked it.
Ha Ha!!! Love you newly discovered power Chris!!! However Binky seems to have discovered a new level of fear by the look on his face
Binky should fear me! I have untold power! Accessories, that is.
We only have those handle winding thingys in our car. They remove all control from me & put it into the hands of my minions.
My minions always seem to have the upper hand, but not in my car!
Tony I am full of envy! When my daughter left for college my minions disappeared.
Okay, minion. Singular.
Do you think any college would accept a small gang of Wombies?
My only minions are my wife Michelle & Dixie our poodle. Dixie hasn’t amstered the window winders & the door lock buttons yet.
Oh Ed was still in the comment form fields but it was me. amstered??? No I have no hamsters but I really meant Mastered
Are you sure you don’t have a secret horde of hamsters? The hamster minions!
Hmmm… I could do with a horde of hamster minions to do my bidding….
I could take them with me to cheese auctions
Good one! I think we could all use some minions to do our biding!
Of course he doesn’t. Ed would eat those.
Ed would eat the hamsters? Maybe the Tassie would.
20km, that’s a long way for us Wombats to travel. There must be a Wombat Marathon going on or something.
Cray talk at Beartoons???
Is he interviewing a couple of Crayfish???
That part was in code. You weren’t supposed to see it. The error has now been rectified. You do not remember seeing it, you do not remember seeing it. . .
Seeing what???
Hey it says unusual conversations at Beartoons. I think if Mister Bearman interviewed a couple of Crayfish it would be pretty unusual
I have no idea what I meant beforehand as I have no recollection of typing that. “Unusual” seemed like the best substitution. I think if Bearman interviewed a wombat, it would be better.
He may eventually relinquish control if they don’t take it from him.
The car is my domain! I will never relinquish control!
do you control in car snacks or is it a no eating zone too i find all kinds of things in my car im completely out of control lol
The only way I can keep them under control is to let them eat themselves silly while I’m driving.
Power mad? Nope. Power happy!
More like poser sappy. Like most men.
My last car humbled me because it had all the power. Then it started to die. :-/
So you finally out-powered it?
All men love power, but everyone knows that women really have all the control. 😉
We let men think they have power, but we know who really does.
I know, right? 😛
🙂
I get to control the radio!
And that’s how I lose control. One little bit at a time.
You mean eventually I’ll gain more control? Cool! I want to drive the car!
Not for a very long long time!
That’s for sure! 🙂
At least we hope!
Is hope all we got?
With Wombies, hope is the most we can ask for!
That, and large chocolate supply!
That certainly helps keep them under control.
The power is not everything. More important is to have control over everything.
I want both power and control!
Chris is like a supply teacher mad on power 😉 (a joke Noel Fielding once shared in a TV show)
I’m not mad on power! I just want to control everything!
Same for me….unfortunately my wife controls me.
I’m glad I’m single! Well, single with Wombies.
Not sure that still qualifies you as single…
Maybe semi-single.
He’s just steady power-trippin’ I see. 🙂
I need to be in control somewhere!
Chris has the power when he wears that stinky cologne too 🙁 Pooooooooooooh
It wasn’t stinky, it was odiferous.
Chris is driving car or is just trying to hypnotise it? 😉
I think he’s hypnotized by the power he thinks he has!
Hehehehe….now I can see why people of power go quite wonky in the head…;)
Too much power seems to do that to anyone.
Ahahah 😀 Nice post.
I would love to visit Australia… and Canada!
And France would be pretty nice, too!
Well, he has to take his power where he can get it…the Wombies rule his roost!!
I want my roost back!