Grateful
Feb24
on 2019-02-24
at 18:36
Hallelujah!
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Earl
To tell the truth, I didn’t come to ask for a job, but I’ll take it. I’m very grateful.
The whole town dried up when the factories closed. Outsourcing. I lost my shop and people stopped needing housekeeping. I got the trailer for doing some work, and we were living out of it on my mother’s place. I tried enlisting, but I have ear problems.
And then, when Mom passed away last year, the bank foreclosed without letting us even try to take over the loan. Not like I had that kind of money anyway.
Grampy
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Earl
Thank you.
It’s been hard, but Anya and her girls have been a blessing. If I hadn’t met them that day, I’d truly be poorer for it. I’m so glad you and Providence pointed us at each other.
And at least I don’t have any debts.
But just before Mom passed, she told me we had family up this way, but they’d fallen out of touch. She’d been doing drugs and all else, and had even become hateful toward them. That was before she met my father and found God.
She said she was always too ashamed to look them up again.
We still had some money, so we packed it in and headed here.
Grampy
That’s terrible. If I’d known…
Earl
No. That town was done for. Even the MegaMarket closed. After that it took a 30 minute drive just to get groceries.
I remembered you’d be looking up knife companies in the area in order to locate your granddaughter, so I thought you might know something. Seemed a good reason to visit. And to say hello, too.
Did you happen upon any kitchenware companies run by a Gary Gibs? I guess he’s my uncle. I thought it might be GibsCo, but some guy named Ace runs that.
To tell the truth, I didn’t come to ask for a job, but I’ll take it. I’m very grateful.
The whole town dried up when the factories closed. Outsourcing. I lost my shop and people stopped needing housekeeping. I got the trailer for doing some work, and we were living out of it on my mother’s place. I tried enlisting, but I have ear problems.
And then, when Mom passed away last year, the bank foreclosed without letting us even try to take over the loan. Not like I had that kind of money anyway.
Grampy
I’m so sorry for your loss.
Earl
Thank you.
It’s been hard, but Anya and her girls have been a blessing. If I hadn’t met them that day, I’d truly be poorer for it. I’m so glad you and Providence pointed us at each other.
And at least I don’t have any debts.
But just before Mom passed, she told me we had family up this way, but they’d fallen out of touch. She’d been doing drugs and all else, and had even become hateful toward them. That was before she met my father and found God.
She said she was always too ashamed to look them up again.
We still had some money, so we packed it in and headed here.
Grampy
That’s terrible. If I’d known…
Earl
No. That town was done for. Even the MegaMarket closed. After that it took a 30 minute drive just to get groceries.
I remembered you’d be looking up knife companies in the area in order to locate your granddaughter, so I thought you might know something. Seemed a good reason to visit. And to say hello, too.
Did you happen upon any kitchenware companies run by a Gary Gibs? I guess he’s my uncle. I thought it might be GibsCo, but some guy named Ace runs that.
Aha! I was right! He does look like Ace. They’re related!
Looks more like Cousin Gabe, to me. Same difference, they’re all cousins.
And this is when the super computer keeping track of the relationships in this comic just vomited it’s CPU out it’s coolant port. =P
Having read your comment about not being able to post for a while, I understand why you missed about four more of these opportunities among the Orions 🙂
What is the over-under on Earl being our Grey saucer-crasher?
Not likely. Gray sector commander said the person who freaked out was older than Ace while Earl looks younger.
Something like that could cause ear problems.
One thing you can say about this comic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9YqCP_B7EU
And boy, is Earl due for a mind blowing info dump
Introductions will be a little difficult, what with Ace, Gabe and Luna out of this world.
I like the way you think!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW7Op86ox9g
A mother who found..religion… OH DEAR FLIPPING CRIMENY…. Am glad she was at least willing to say go and find them.
Well, now we know what happened to Rocky’s mother, which makes Grampy, Earl’s grandfather.
Okay, so Earl is related to Ace, still say he isn’t the one that caused the Grey ship to crash
rypperdoc: we already knew what happened to Rocky’s mother
Don’t know, gave up betting on stuff after dang Georgia only won the orange bowl by the spread back in the 80’s.
I don’t know if this is intended behavior, but at the moment this comic is the current comic and the arrows for “Next Chapter” and “Next in Chapter” are live and both point to the first comic https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/out-of-the-nest/ (the arrows for “Next Comic”, “Chapter End”, and “Current Comic” are grayed out as expected).
Obviously, this is comment can be deleted if it is no longer relevant.
I hadn’t assigned a sequence number to the current chapter, yet. Lazy me.
No, we don’t. As stated in the comic, someone was killed, but it wasn’t Rocky’s mother.
https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/quest/
Your hypothesis successfully boggled my mind. So… “Mom” is Gina and Gary’s (I presume) Older Sister, who ran away, married Grampy’s son, had Roxanne and Billy, got mixed up with organized crime and ran away They found a body, it wasn’t her.
So then she marries (or doesn’t – she’d be a bigamist) Earl’s father, finds God (nobody mentioned “finding religion”) has Earl and raises him in a small factory town somewhere between New Orleans and Portland.
Grampy passes through, hooks Earl up with Anya, and they follow Grampy.
Earl (if you are correct) is Gary’s nephew. Gina’s nephew. Gabe’s cousin. Luna’s… cousinish not-related person.
Also, Grampy’s grandson. Roxanne’s half-brother. Rosa’s step-granddaughter. Roxy and Maddie may adopt Anya as another half step grandsister by marriage.so they can be aunts to her kids.
Given her kids are angels, both of them, who do you suspect, hypothesize or speculate that Anya is, in this cross-connected family tree thing? There was that one celestial that may have been implicated in Ace’s grandmother’s death, still unaccounted for, after all.
Blockquote>rypperdoc said: Well, now we know what happened to Rocky’s mother, which makes Grampy, Earl’s grandfather.
Guesticus said: rypperdoc: we already knew what happened to Rocky’s mother
rypperdoc replied No, we don’t. As stated in the comic, someone was killed, but it wasn’t Rocky’s mother.
https://www.tmi-comic.com/comic/quest/
@ Gary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
You’re making it too complicated. Earl’s mother is a sister to Gina and Gary, and Earl is Ace’s, Gabe’s and Grace’s cousin. He is not related by blood or marriage to Grampy or Rosa, nor is Anya.
Rocky’s father was Grampy’s son and he died when Rocky was still very young. Rocky’s mother remarried and that was the man who went to jail for supposedly killing Rocky’s brother Billy (a crime he didn’t commit, but took a plea bargain so they would stop badgering Rocky to testify against him. Rocky’s mother is currently missing, but presumed dead by Grampy, but not by Rocky or her stepfather. One of these days I may sit down and chart out the various families and how they interconnect. Could be a fun project.
Slight issue with some of these theories – Grampy is the father of Rocky’s MOTHER. Grampy isn’t related to Rocky’s dad other than by his daughter’s marriage. Nor does he seem to be related to Ace’s family in any way other than by the bonds of mutual affection.
Ace and Earl, on the other hand, could easily be related in any number of ways, particularly since they both seem to share Gary Gibbs as an uncle.
Rocky’s father was Grampy’s son.
earl couldn’t be the saucer crasher, as alien said that guy looked liked ace but was much older. the age difference between ace and earl could not be more than a few years.
i am still gonna go with saucer crasher is either larry who lost a leg in a crash and was training to be an astronaut, or a time variant of ace.
Gary Jordan:- doubt Rosa meant literal ‘Angels’, just that they are well behaved
Whoops! Shame on me for scanning too quickly on my archive dive; I read “daughter-in-law” but somehow processed it as “daughter” in the conversation when Rocky’s stepfather showed up at Grampy and Rosa’s door.
Thanks for the correction, Andy, and apologies to all and sundry for my misinformation above. I hereby withdraw my objections to the theories and hang my head in shame…
Earl is related to Ace, not Grampy. Rocky’s mother is still a big unknown, but Ace may want to have a talk with his mother about how many other unknown relatives he might have coming out of the woodwork. Sounds like Gary and Gina had a sister whom got alienated from the family.
Greywolf, rypperdoc’s hypothesis was that Rocky’s mother was Gary and Gina’s runaway sister, who after getting deeper into drugs and crime, ran away again and married Earl’s father. It’s a very elegant theory and deepens family ties all around. I’m trying to imagine one of Carly’s criminal cousins marrying Anya, to rope in that family as well. Maybe the one that got him banned from France?
Isn’t the set of relationships complex enough without making things worse? What makes you think that Earl’s mother and Rocky’s mother are the same people? We have no indication that Rocky’s mother is an addict, nor that she was white.And I would think that Gina and Gary would have noticed if their sister was Rocky’s mother.
Don’t think I literally meant angels, either – just related to them, and unusually well behaved as a result.
Guesticus said, “Gary Jordan:- doubt Rosa meant literal ‘Angels’, just that they are well behaved”