How to Be an An Introvert

Welcome to my compilation of comics about being an introvert in normal, friendly social interactions!

The majority of these were written from my experience in a cubicle workspace at a corporation. If you do not find it enjoyable, you probably aren't an introvert, but I won't hold that against you.

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I realize I post a lot of 'How To' books like some self-help author,

TWS

Hors d'

I just found out about the word "oeuvre" and it really has nothing to do with eggs but everything to do with a body of work, and so for my next trick, I think I'll do an oeuvre.

It'll be my life's work.

Meanwhile, I can't see the bottle of Smoked Paprika in my cabinet and wonder what game it could have possibly failed at so epically. As in...

*sports announcement*

"It was a close race for salt and pepper the whole time, but they absolutely smoked paprika!"

Poor paprika. Always in a league of its own.

So then by that logic, smoked turkeys are just the ones that can't run as fast.

And the crowd goes mild.

Did you hear about the scandal involving a closed entrance? They're calling it Gategate.

You know this is the content you subscribe for.

Anyway, a while back, I saw this tweet. Or this X or whatever you want to call it:

And then I thought about these guys:

Cow Ants, or Mutillidae

Contrary to popular belief, these are actually wasps and not ants, but I want to circle back to the tweet and not the biological reality.

What if the ants on the gummy did get some kind of high and ascended in consciousness and realize that they could be so much more than just fire ants working for some queen?

Sure, at the ant bed you have a ton of friends all working together, but you're always working for someone else.

So what if the ants KNEW that they could lift 100 times their weight and realized their own individual strength? And then what if they broke out of the ant colony and went out on their own?

Instead of serving some queen, they awoke and started their own ventures?

Freelancers!

Freel-ANTS-ers

Before tonight, I thought maybe the Cow Ants had done this, like they had overcome their ant ego and ascended in mind and stature to become big chunky can't-touch-this loner ants. It turns out those are just female wasps who don't get wings but all of them do live solitary lifestyles and to quote Wikipedia, lack complex social systems. No beds or colonies for these guys.

I'm just saying there's a metaphor somewhere in here.

Let me know if you find it.

No uncles, just ants,
TWS