Homecoming Talk

I feel pretty much the same way about my mission.

First Date Continued

A day or two after I came home from my mission, a former companion took me to a dance club to get back into the social scene. It was like drinking out of a fire hydrant. I felt so out of my depth. I remember visiting with one girl who offered me a piece of gum. I backed away slowly convinced she was trying to get me to kiss her, when she was likely just offering me a piece of gum. Slowly I got comfortable with the fairer sex, but it took some time.

Post-Mission First Date

This pretty much perfectly captures my first experiences dating after my mission.

Mission Curse Lives

After a one-week hiatus, we'll now return to the chronicles of Elder Van Dyke's post mission. Today, he discovers that his ability to ruin missionaries' love life is sadly still in effect. Check back next week for his first post-mission date!

Back in the World

The adjustment from missionary to returned missionary can be a little tough.

Release

Continuing the story of the end of Elder Van Dyke's missionary service, today's strip focuses on his missionary release at the hands of his stake president.

Airport

Continuing the chronicles of the end of Elder Van Dyke's mission, here's a strip where he sees his family for the first time in two years at the airport.

Exit Interview

Here's another strip at the tail end of Elder Van Dyke's mission: this one centers around his old MTC companion Elder Ryan. I had so much fun drawing this guy that I kept coming back to him. First in another companionship halfway through Van Dyke's mission and then again at the end.

Sudden Death

For the past two years, my missionary comic strip has been running in the Deseret News. Sadly, that's coming to an end at the end of the month. (This is the problem with a strip tracking a missionary through his two-year mission--it has to end.) I've enjoyed immensely seeing my work in the paper and I'm going to be awfully sad to close that chapter in my cartooning career, but I suppose nothing lasts forever.