Trap Game
Trap Game – noun
When a good team that is expected to succeed overlooks a bad team and the bad team upsets them. Will result in many, many tears.
Ah the Rams. Glorious spoilers that you are. Nobody paid much attention to the Rams/Broncos game since no one expected the Rams to defeat Peyton Manning, but there you go, classic Trap Game, one week after the Jets trapped the Steelers. Trap games are the best when you are the trap, and the worst when you are the good team. Playing spoiler and getting the spoiled fans of the good team angry is always a satisfying thing, so the Rams have to feel good about themselves today, even if the Broncos walk away as the still better team. Hell, if the Rams could ever find a franchize QB they might finally use all these weapons the Redskins gave them for RG3 and be a force in the west. The Seahawks are not the team of 2013 and the problems won’t fix themselves soon (Especially since Marshawn looks to be gone soon), the 49ers seem to be heading towards a transition phase with the Harbaugh mess, and the Cardinals…who knows what to expect out of them, though they have a good coach and things look good for their future.
Anyway, I have other news.
IMPORTANT DRAW PLAY NEWS INCOMING, PLEASE READ SO YOU ARE NOT CONFUSED FOR TWO WEEKS.
I will be travelling to my parents home in Maryland for two weeks to spend the holiday with my family. Because my main computer is a desktop, I will be unable to produce typical comics in that time frame as I am not flying that home with me, but I will STILL BE PRODUCING WORK. Regular DP updates will resume the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
I will be on a plane by the time you are reading this post. Obviously this is a bummer, but rest assured it does not mean the DP will go on a complete hiatus for that time. I will have an old laptop with me during the time frame. However, because it’s old and creaky, it doesn’t handle photoshop with very high efficiency and I don’t think I’ll be able to produce a typical full color high quality comic on the thing. However, those of you who follow my social media accounts know that I occasionally make “quickie” comics that are very simple. I hope to be able to at least produce these, and plenty of them, while I am away. I do not know if I will be posting them here on the front page, I have to get home and see what happens, but rest assured I’ll keep you informed. I will however still post these works, plus my usual nonsense to my twitter and facebook pages, and probably some fun on my instagram, so if you don’t follow me on those yet, I highly suggest you do. I post a lot of quick silly jokes & sketches and such on those accounts that don’t end up on this site. The links to those accounts can be found on the right sidebar.
I will also still be contributing my usual output to KissingSuzyKolber. In case you didn’t realize I wrote for them, The link to my profile and articles is right here! I’ve done a lot of good work for KSK and it functions as a place I can make jokes in different forms than my usual comic. If you haven’t read my stuff there, I contribute a few times a week and most of that artwork doesn’t make it to this site either.
Obviously, if anyone has a commission due from me, don’t expect it in the next two weeks. You don’t want artwork produced on a crappy old laptop anyway. I apologize for the inconvenience. I will have lots of free time when I come back, so December should be a productive month as this is my trip home, I am not going anywhere for Christmas.
Also, and this is optional of course, but if anyone would like to make a Guest Comic during these two weeks, I’d be happy to take it and post it. If you’d like to submit one, please try and keep my highly vertical format (My final comics are usually 800px wide 72 res. That’s obviously lower res than how I draw them, but that’s the size that goes live so try to keep things to that template). I don’t care if it’s stick figures, all that I request is that it’s readable and not too off color. I will not post anything too profane or something that doesn’t fit the general goofy vibe of TDP close enough. Send your comics (or any questions) to drawplay574@gmail.com.
Again, I’m sorry things will be weird for a bit, but I’ll hopefully still be around making work, we just won’t have regular full color full production comics.
Thank you for your patience, and thank you so much for reading.
-Dave
Dave, did you make this entire comic to make the “it’s a trap…game!” pun? If so, bravo.
You bet I did
I read the tags. I appreciate the Star Wars reference too. And I agree with your assessment of the Rams. They are a funny team to predict. Better wins than most of the better teams in the league but just no real consistency.
So when does the utter futility of the Oakland Raiders become the biggest story in football?
At 0-15
This may very well be the greatest thing you have ever done. I also love that the Rams-Star has a subtle grin in the last panel.
I lost it at John Fox-bar.
ha, ships in the shapes of X’s and O’s, clever
I was all like “oh man, I’m all over this”…
Then I realized I can’t draw for shit.
Is it me, or does the Broncos ship have just a touch of horse mask to it? (Or is that Elway?)
In this NFL of parity, it seems like every game is a trap game. I love the unpredictability of each weekend, but it must wreak havoc in Vegas!
The mother of all trap games could be this Thurs night–KC vs. Oak. If the Raiders can shut down Jamaal Charles (ha!)…
Turns out you called it.
Don’t remind me…I still picked the Chiefs to win! Stupid Alex Smith and his dink n dunk passes.
Those Thursday night games always seem to be crazy unpredictable.
Seriously, I have no idea why the NFL still has those. The greatly reduced prep time seems to throw teams off, and the games are often bad and messy. Plus I think the safety concern is definitely a real issue.
Jebibob – One reason only. Ratings. Primetime on thursday night draws in the numbers. If they thought they could schedule a game every night and draw big ratings, they would.
To be honest I kind of saw this one coming, this is what the Rams do.
The St. Louis Rams are 4-6 this year.
3 out of those 4 wins have been major upsets (Seahawks, 49ers, and now Broncos)
The Rams are the ultimate trap team.
If anyone’s wondering, that 1st win and the only non-upset was against the craptacular currently 2-8 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The real trap is John Fox as the Broncos head coach. He wouldn’t shout, “It’s a Trap!” His mantra is, “I’d do it again.” I wish he’d taken that heart attack as a sign to spend more time with his family and retire, so we can get someone good in blue and orange.
Stop exploding, you cowards!
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I can totally draw, I have my own (non-web) comic. But 800 pixels? I probably can’t do that. I can try…
How dare you take time off to visit your family instead of giving high quality full-color comics several times a week on a regular schedule for free?!?
Love the eyes on Foxbar btw. Really an awesome touch.
Enjoy your vacation!
So wait, if Peyton is Lando Calrissian and Belichick is Palpatine, Who are Luke and Han?
Brady & Gronk? Ryan Mallett & Bill O’Brien? Take a guess