A penny for your thoughts

I found one more of the Morning Calm cartoons. It's funny that it seems to be along the same lines as the Good Heavens cartoons that ran last week and this week.

You can't buy protection like this

This is my favorite of the Morning Calm strips. I like the second panel where he sees himself as a mighty Hwarang warrior...just like me.

I choose top!

More from the land of Korea

Take out

Two side notes:
No. 1 - The restaurants I used for this were some of my favorites along the Wasatch Front. I don't know if any of them are still around.
No. 2 - One of the first official meals I had in Korea was at a company cafeteria in Pohang...cafeteria style squid, seaweed, rice and kimchi. Mmm, mmm!

Morning Calm II

The guy has my "Korean" name. Back in the day, they gave us all Korean names to help us blend in better. Being a blond white guy, that didn't always work so well...especially when I was paired with a 6'2" companion with bright red hair. We didn't exactly pass for natives as we walked through the streets of Yosu!

And, for the gee whiz file, my brother served in Seoul and we had the same family name, Beck, which means "white."

Land of the Morning Calm

We're now counting down the days before Zach goes in to the MTC. Of course, that reminds me of when I served my mission a couple (dozen) years ago. When I came home, I thought it would be cool to do a strip that was sort of opposite of what I experienced: Koreans acclimating to life in the United States. I drew up a half-dozen or so strips based on that premise. Here's the first one.