Honey Vs. Her Poor Ankle

Oh, Honey Hart. Oh nooo.

This is pretty core to her character, I think — the flipside of her genuine OPTIMISM AND ENTHUSIASM and sentimentality is that she kinda has secret deep wells of pent-up melancholy…and it’s not easy for some frustration or disappointment to really shake her up, but when it does it hits pretty hard.

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The eternal struggle of keeping the darkness at bay… i.e. why manic depressives make good perky goths

I love every Honey face in this comic. At first I was gonna be like “oh ya, panel 2 honey” but then I looked at all the other drawings and I now I can’t decide.

Also Honey’s black-background word balloons are kinda scaring me a bit. Nice.

OH man, I can totally relate to Honey right now, sometimes you gotta force yourself to the bottom so you can start climbing back up.

Oh man WAY TO TELEGRAPH THE ENDING, Loyal Horse VHS sleeve! (Unless it’s not the ending, unless the movie is just like ninety minutes of Loyal Horse standing vigil at a grave, interspersed with flashbacks of grooming, dressage, and care)

I see what you did there with Honey wearing her heart on her sleeve, both literally and in the sharing of darker-and-less-often-shown emotions sense. Plus that robe looks very comforting.

Those movies, that robe, the dark room all alone staring at the tv. All she needs is an ice cream bucket that plays The Cure’s Disintegration album and she’s all set.

Loyal Horse! Please send that movie to me immediately.

my broken ankle was probably the more sourballs version. ended up alone on that christmas eve with a bottle of tequila (the only alcohol i had in the house), watching the papal mass (my tv only got one station in clearly) from the couch with my cast propped up on the coffee table. woke up christmas morning from an epic dream that went on and on . . .

First, Cath’s story of her broken ankle, the pope and the tequila bottle is a classic and I thank her for sharing.
Second, is there someway that that mean old Turpentine can share the evening of sad movies with Honey.
I would love to read her commentary on Loyal Horse.

Loyal Horse spoiler: the horse also dies.

I slogged through two hours of that movie, only for my VCR to eat the tape at the last ten minutes. All of these years later, I finally learn the horse died as well. I guess we never did find out who left the flowers on the grave huh?

We don’t know who left the flowers, but the horse ate them anyway.

OH HONEY HART YOU SHOULD PUT ON YOUR NEWEST SOURBALLS RECORD AND LISTEN TO IT

IN THE DARK…

The Orphan’s Mother sounds like it could also be a horror film. Those films are spot on – amazing.

ow poor Honey
maybe optimism isn’t what will make her feel better, it could instead be some Sourballs songs 😉