Americans and Cyrillic

I've been trying to learn Russian recently, starting, of course, with learning the Cyrillic Alphabet. A lot of people in my school seem to be very confused about this... Which causes situations like those in the comic. One of my friends insisted on calling vodka "boaka" even after I explained the whole thing to him...
I actually really like this comic. And I got to use my markers YAAAAAAAAAAAY. I was a little worried about the flow but everyone I showed it to said it was fine, so...
Hetalia characters (c) Hidekaz Himaruya.