Wasted Potential

Making It Official

2011-01-09T11:10:00.000-05:00

Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I've posted a strip, and now I'm making it official: "Wasted Potential" is going on hiatus for the foreseeable future.

I'd like to thank everyone who's been reading this strip for the past four years. Hope you've enjoyed reading the strip as much as I've loved writing and drawing it.

Thank you and good night,

Ray Tomczak

Its the Thought That Counts

2010-12-19T09:58:00.000-05:00

A Cartoon by Norm Burns

2010-12-12T18:17:00.000-05:00

Neither A Borrower....

2010-12-05T18:17:00.000-05:00

Guilty Pleasures

2010-11-28T15:49:00.000-05:00

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

2010-11-21T07:07:00.000-05:00

Continued On Back

2010-11-14T16:11:00.000-05:00

Fiddling While Ken Burns

2010-11-07T07:42:00.000-05:00

It's A Bird...It's A Plane...

2010-10-31T06:09:00.000-05:00

Something You Don't See Every Day

2010-10-24T08:23:00.000-05:00

Status Quo

2010-10-17T18:15:00.000-05:00

The Answer

2010-10-10T09:31:00.000-05:00

Options

2010-10-03T18:03:00.000-05:00

Issues

2010-09-26T07:24:00.000-05:00

Growth

2010-09-19T08:42:00.000-05:00

Happy Man

2010-09-12T11:38:00.000-05:00

Collected Works

2010-09-05T17:26:00.000-05:00

That Time of Year Again

2010-08-29T18:45:00.000-05:00

Show and Yell

2010-08-22T06:40:00.000-05:00

Busman's Holiday

2010-08-15T08:39:00.000-05:00

Real Life

2010-08-08T10:10:00.000-05:00

The Meaning of Norm

2010-08-01T11:16:00.000-05:00

The Norm Effect

2010-07-25T07:23:00.000-05:00

Tomczak Amuck

2010-07-18T07:17:00.000-05:00

Drop Those Stones, Fanboy!

2010-07-11T08:43:00.000-05:00

Ok, Maybe It's a Little Funny...

2010-07-04T17:09:00.000-05:00

You Know Who You Are

2010-06-27T09:56:00.000-05:00

Just The Facts, Norm

2010-06-20T07:29:00.000-05:00

Void Where Prohibited

2010-06-13T08:05:00.000-05:00

Tutorial 2

2010-06-06T08:08:00.000-05:00

Tutorial

2010-05-30T11:30:00.000-05:00

Fool Me Once...

2010-05-23T11:02:00.000-05:00

Faux Pas

2010-05-16T07:34:00.000-05:00

The Adventures of Floyd and Whitey

2010-04-25T06:36:00.000-05:00

2010-04-18T03:56:00.001-05:00

Debacle

2010-04-11T08:37:00.000-05:00

Gimme A Ticket For An Aeroplane...

2010-04-04T07:46:00.000-05:00

Place Holder

2010-03-28T08:26:00.000-05:00

Duck..What Duck?

2010-03-21T08:03:00.000-05:00

Punchline

2010-03-14T08:25:00.000-05:00

Weird or...?

2010-03-07T09:24:00.000-05:00

What New Insanity

2010-02-28T08:28:00.000-05:00

Prologue

2010-02-21T07:37:00.000-05:00

Rationalizations

2010-02-14T09:14:00.000-05:00

Epilogue 2

2010-02-07T08:36:00.000-05:00

Epilogue 1

2010-01-31T10:01:00.000-05:00

To Monkey or Not To Monkey

2010-01-24T09:28:00.000-05:00

I See A Monkey

2010-01-17T09:39:00.000-05:00

Free Classifieds, Cheap Joke

2010-01-10T07:53:00.000-05:00

Exploration

2010-01-03T10:09:00.000-05:00

Staying In

2009-12-27T08:25:00.001-05:00

Tradition

2009-12-20T07:15:00.000-05:00

Capitalism Run Wild

2009-12-13T07:52:00.000-05:00

When I drew this strip several months ago, there really was no WP merch to be had. Now, although none of the items shown above yet exist, you can purchase your very own Wasted Potential T-shirt here.

Verisimilitude

2009-12-06T09:45:00.000-05:00

In case you're wondering, The Bob Newhart Show is, in fact, available on DVD.

Mind Games

2009-11-29T08:16:00.000-05:00

The Secret of Getting Along With Family

2009-11-22T09:48:00.000-05:00

Adultitudiness

2009-11-15T06:28:00.000-05:00

In two weeks, on the 28th, I'll be making my way to Cleveland to appear at a new small press comics show called the Genghis Con. Read all about it here, at the show's web-site, and here's a little write up from the Plain Dealer. Hope to see you then.

Concentration

2009-11-08T08:28:00.001-05:00

Bunny Blues

2009-11-01T09:29:00.000-05:00

Beam Me Up, Normie!

2009-10-25T08:49:00.000-05:00

Party Guests

2009-10-18T08:34:00.002-05:00

The guests at Norm's party are:
From Wasted Potential: Amy, Bill, Paul, Dawg, June, Alex, Tina, Amanda, Norman and Eileen Burns, and Braddock.
Hiding in the background is Irving McKenzie, from my earlier comic series Dr. Bob and Irving.
Other people's characters attending:
Tim Kelly's Zook and Max
Mike Carroll's "Accidentals"--Burn, Blow, Dirt, and Drip
Charles Darwin as seen in Jay Hosler's The Sandwalk Adventures
Pam Bliss' Radiation Man
Kel Crum's Ed Thudd and Cornelia
Greg Hyland's Lethargic Lad
Larned Justin's Charlie Chong
Brien Wayne Powell's Magnet Man
Matt Feazell's Cynicalman
Matt Wyatt's Buck Trenz
Bob Corby's Mike Blues
Erik Hodsen's Chad the Fat Kid

Party Favors

2009-10-11T08:28:00.001-05:00

Inspiration

2009-10-04T07:24:00.000-05:00

Reminder

2009-09-27T07:05:00.001-05:00

Effort

2009-09-20T07:26:00.001-05:00

Wrong Again

2009-09-13T08:07:00.002-05:00

I screwed up last week. This strip was supposed to be last week's strip and the strip I uploaded last week is really this week's strip.
This, of course, will give you a reason to buy my next book at SPACE in the spring, so you can read the strips in the proper order.

Honesty

2009-09-06T10:30:00.000-05:00

Coping Strategies

2009-08-30T07:26:00.000-05:00

And Now A Word From Bill....

2009-08-23T08:40:00.000-05:00

Hard Truths

2009-08-16T05:36:00.000-05:00

Sheila's Always Right

2009-08-09T07:52:00.001-05:00

Life's Little Mysteries

2009-08-02T08:52:00.000-05:00

Want Ads

2009-07-26T09:47:00.000-05:00

Deflation

2009-07-19T08:14:00.002-05:00

Justification

2009-07-12T01:45:00.000-05:00

Dead Weight

2009-07-05T08:35:00.000-05:00

One Man's Trash...

2009-06-28T10:35:00.001-05:00

Dream Sequence 4

2009-06-21T08:00:00.000-05:00

Uh--What I Meant Was...

2009-06-14T10:00:00.001-05:00

Not The Results I'd Hoped For

2009-06-07T10:00:00.000-05:00

The Power of Positive Thinking

2009-05-31T07:39:00.000-05:00

WP Responds

2009-05-24T07:36:00.001-05:00

Witness

2009-05-17T08:59:00.000-05:00

Dream Sequence 3

2009-05-10T10:00:00.000-05:00

In Celebration of ..... Something

2009-05-03T09:10:00.001-05:00

Nutritious and Sacrilegious

2009-04-26T07:15:00.001-05:00

Take It, Tamara

2009-04-18T05:18:00.002-05:00

This week's strip is up early for precisely the reason stated in the strip itself. I am at SPACE, the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo, all this weekend. Hope to see you there.

What's the "O" Stand For?

2009-04-12T07:00:00.000-05:00

Just The Usual Insanity

2009-04-05T08:56:00.000-05:00

Moving Day

2009-03-29T10:00:00.000-05:00

It's a big week in Wasted Potential land. Not only are we introducing the hottest new comic strip character of 2009, the lovely and cynical Ms. June Cox, but I have launched the official WP group on everyone's favorite social networking site, Facebook. Click here to check it out, and join up.

Concerns

2009-03-22T10:00:00.000-05:00

Dream Sequence 2

2009-03-15T10:00:00.000-05:00

Sparks Pt. 2

2009-03-08T10:00:00.000-05:00

"Sparks"

2009-03-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

Ain't Too Proud To Beg

2009-02-22T10:00:00.000-05:00

Peak Perforformance

2009-02-15T09:01:00.000-05:00

Dream Sequence 1

2009-02-08T10:00:00.001-05:00

Try And See It My Way

2009-02-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

In The Shadow of Howie Mandel

2009-01-25T10:00:00.000-05:00

Age Of Uncertainty

2009-01-18T10:00:00.001-05:00