2 T. Butter
1/3 c brown sugar
1 T. water
1 can snot-nosed whelp
40 Luxardo cherries
1 1/3 c flour
2/3 c. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2/3 c milk
1/4 c butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla

1. Combine 2 T. butter, brown sugar, and water in a 9″ baking pan. Dump in the canned brat
2. In a medium bowl, stir flour, sugar, and baking powder. Add milk, 1/4 softened butter, egg, and vanilla. Mix together and add to pan.
3. Bake for a half hour at 350 degrees. Cool for five minutes, then dump the cherries all over it to mask the kid smell.
   Serves 8.

I started writing these comics a year and a half ago. I would to a writing hour with a friend at a coffee shop, and when I didn’t feel like writing something substantive, I would jot down comics ideas. A lot has happened since then, not the least of which is that the coffee shops have been closed.

So it’s weird to look at this strip now that I haven’t been in a coffee shop for a year. My first thought is that any kid who climbs into a hippo pen should stay at least six feet apart from the animals and really should be wearing a mask. I guess that means I can look forward to seeing Niles and Nash getting vaccinated in late 2022.

When we first talked about Niles and Nash, we both envisioned an Angriest Dog in the World kind of comic or maybe a Dinosaur Comics-type comic where the art stayed the same and we just changed the dialogue. That would have been fun, but it makes the writer’s job really difficult and the artist’s job really easy. Then I came up with the idea to make the writer’s job really easy and the artist’s job really difficult by making Bill draw any cockamamie thing I write, and I think we can all agree that was a better choice. Anyway, this is one of those strips that would have worked in the original format, and Bill still drew a whole crowd and everything.

This also might be the last moment in the strip that we could have gotten away with four static images, since I wanted to do a Harambe story right after this. Sorry, Bill!

I didn’t have an Instagram account until we started posting Niles and Nash. This was mostly for two reasons: 1) I never remember to take pictures of my dinner, and I was told that’s what Instagram is mainly for, and 2) I don’t know what to call Instagram for short so I can sound cool. Like, say I took a sweet vid of my Lucky Charms. Do I Insta it? Do I ‘gram it? Do I IG it? Or are the cool kids using some new slang, like Cockney rhyming slang or something?

So I was really flying blind when I had had Nash go with “Insta.” Whatever the cool term is, it ain’t that one anymore. Also, in my headcanon, Niles is eating his words, which means that Nash is fine with posting it on Instagram.

Though I still might not know what it’s for.

I suppose you’re wondering why I called you all here today. It’s mostly to find out if the blog works. Does the blog work?

Fine, don’t tell me. No that’s just fine. All right, you can all go back to your places of business.

We’ve been working on this for while, but now it’s on the internet! (That means we’ve finally made it.) Please celebrate by telling all of your friends how funny it is and that they should definitely be reading it too.

We plan to update twice a week until one of us collapses from exhaustion. We’ll let you know how that goes.

Thanks for stopping by!