Sounds so like my father...

From the irrepressible "Digger" (a story of gods, magic and a female wombat of rock-solid common sense):



This is an excellent webcomic; clever, thoughtful, touching (though you know how much I hate that word), visually stunning, and overall hysterically, cracktastically funny.

And if you click on the Table of Contents link, you can now read it from the beginning - an excellent way to spend a couple of hours!