Nothing Up My Sleeve

by Paul Benson | Jan 13, 2016

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware of something else happening today besides a new Heroines For Hire comic.

The freakin' Powerball is at $1.5 Billion.  Billion.  Everyone's talking about it, so I figured why buck the trend?

That's just crazy.  I mean, could you imagine if just one person won all that money?  Sure, taxes are going to take a hefty bite, but you'd still be left with a ludicrous amount of money.  An obviously optimistic person I know was even trying to figure out how best to claim the money should she win.  I advised her to worry about that once she actually won.  Someone else said that she'd never played the lottery before, but wanted to buy a ticket so she could feel that she was part of something big.  I pointed out that there was no recognition to be had in this world for buying a lottery ticket.

Now, having read all that you probably figure that I'm not playing the Powerball.  If you did, you'd be wrong.  Sure I bought a ticket...the odds are astronomical, but what the hey, someone has to win eventually, and I have just as good of a shot at it as anyone else.  Well, except maybe some of those idiots that are spending thousands of dollars on buying tickets.  They have something like a .001% better chance than me at winning. But you know what? I'll take those odds.

Don't worry, if I win, I'll still be writing Heroines for Hire.  I might be writing it on a brand new laptop on a tropical beach somewhere while getting a massage, but really is that all that different from how I write it now? (Answer: Yes. Yes it is.)

by Jo Roberts | Jan 13, 2016

I do not buy lotto tickets or gamble. 

My luck is extremely bad and therefore I avoid tempting the fates.  If Paul wins the lottery I would expect he would only tip me about $200.  He would then proceed to hire a better artist to do the strip, leaving me poor and destitute on the side of the road.  Oh, wait, then I would be suffering the true pathos of an artist.  Crap, now I have to hope he wins and not give me a dime so I can be a “better” artist.