Shelter From The Storm – The freewheelin’ Bob Dylan provides the title to another comic, although it comes from a song on his album ‘Blood on the Tracks’ and not from the titular ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’. The punchline comes a few comics later in Home, although this one was written afterward. Perhaps it is easier to write the punchline first and then the joke. Though maybe it is less a joke and more irony. Still there is enough irony in this comic alone to entertain. See the turtle has shelter from the storm, while Stoke has nothing to provide cover. Tah-duh. Humor. Well maybe not. It isn’t a very good comic. I suppose they can’t all be good. I suppose it wouldn’t matter even if they were. And where do the homeless go when it is raining? I guess I always imagine they find shelter somewhere, that they stay warm and dry. So naïve of me. The homeless have nowhere to go. And society does nothing to help. And what is with all my recent notes providing commentary on the socioeconomic and political realities of homelessness? It is pointless. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs should be inversed, it is meaning and fulfillment in life that needs to be satiated first and only then can one worry about trivial things like food, water, and shelter. And now through my writing I’ve become the freewheelin’ one and though I have shelter from the storm, I remain homeless in this existence. – Zachary