I saw a cartoon yesterday about chickens in cubicles and, somehow, that became the chicken feed for today's cubicle-based comic. And, in our team meeting yesterday, we did talk about values and I did choose family as very important. So, I just glued those together.

Tell Me Once Again, Who's Fat

This comic idea came from my dentist, who was talking about being able to choose what to eat and deciding for himself if he needed to lost weight. I commented that sounded like an idea for a CoV and he challenged me to come up with a whole concept. When I thought of songs in panel four, I toyed with more Billy Joel (such as Moving Out where he sings "heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack."), but decided to tie in Weird Al's Fat parody instead.

Stay Healthy

i cannot say what made me think of politically incorrect acronyms for today's comic, but this would certainly be one of them. We do have a Stay Healthy campaign here at work, so maybe that was tucked away in my head. Also, I had some computer troubles before I could create this, so I was really tight on time.

Cinco de What?

I had not planned on doing a Cinco de Mayo-themed CoV, but I only have this chance once a year. So, what better way to cover it than to mix up what mayo means? If today were 5/5, I would have had the characters come to work already drunk and argue about mayo vs Mayo.

Express Flooring

I am sure that every major TV market has a plethora of local or regional ads that drive you crazy. Bad singing or bad acting or silly, contrived concepts. Well, we have one for Express Flooring featuring a local music teacher (we thought until last week that she must be a relative of the company owners, but that is not the case). Anyway, something brought that commercial to mind this morning and I thought the same thing as in today's CoV. "I would rather watch anything else than this ad." So, I allowed myself to wonder what would be worse, and political ads came to mind immediately. The comic wrote itself.

Communicator App

Yes, there is such an app, although I cannot remember if it is for iPhone or Android. Anyway, being somewhat of a geek, I thought it was pretty cool and decided to use it for today's CoV. For some reason, I remembered it last night, and that's when I decided to do this. OK, I've got to go. One to beam up, Scotty.

Organ Donor

I had originally planned to continue the PM's from another profession in today's comic, but I heard an ad on the way in about organ donors. So, since I thought of organ as a musical instrument, I decided to use that concept today. The tricky part was how to end it with a twist as I usually do.