Comic 764 is up! ...After a week, but hopefully this nonsense will truly end once we're past this whole storyline and can get back to the normal stuff. This stuff just makes my mind go blank, I don't much like writing it... Next update? Who knows...
Comic 763 is up! Sorry for the non-update yesterday, more power outages over at Matt's place. Been a lot of those this summer, getting kind of bothersome... Anyways, the text for the actual story comic is still eluding me, so I put this together instead.
Comic 762 is up! And I have a vague idea of what to put into tomorrow's comic, even! Woo!
Comic 761 is up! Slightly late, due to a 7 hour power outage. ...And a mysterious site no-worky yesterday, and a busy weekend prior to that.
Comic 760 is up! ...Yep!
Comic 759 is up! ...Yep, it's up alright, and that's about all there is to say.
Comic 758 is up! With oh-so-much text! Seriously, I can't believe it all fit into one strip.
Comic 757 is up! ...And I have nothing else of interest to say! See you tomorrow!
Comic 756 is up! Though we're still very short on readers, keep telling everyone that we're back! While you're at it, go ahead and wail on those Vote buttons down there, vote as often as you can! Get us back into a respectable vote area, and we'll put up something cool for the vote incentive pages. ...What that may be, I have no idea, but let's at least focus on getting out of the sub-1000's for now.
Comic 755 is up! And onwards we merrily stroll. Woo for being back to the storyline, now let's try to get those readers back again! C'mon, folks, I had at least 4-5 times this many readers before, get everyone back here! Alert the press, the media, spread the news on whatever internet sites you happen to visit!
Comic 754 is up! And that's the end of the tie-up "week". Even though I could go on for another week with stuff that's been forgotten or quietly ignored, it's far more fun to sneak it into a future comic when it's appropriate. Come on back tomorrow for the return of the actual storyline!
Comic 753 is up! ...Clearly not late at all! ...Alright, so I'm still getting back in the swing of things, gimme a break.
Comic 752 is up! ...And that's about all I have to say today. But still, go! Spread the word! I need readers again! Tell your friends! Tell your family! Tell your army buddies, person who will be returning to training in a few weeks! Go up to random strangers on the street and tell them, graffiti the site name on walls! ...Wait... On second thought, please don't do that last one...
Comic 751 is up! ...And only very slightly late, but there's lots of distractions lately, and nobody's even aware that I'm back yet, so who cares! The woo hoo's continue!
Comic 750 is up! And we're back! Woo hoo's all around! But tons of woo hoo's for Matt, getting the site all fixed up and our super spiffy new forum. Woo!
Comic... well, Panel 749 is up. It's true, the hiatus is nearly at an end. ...When exactly that end will be, I'm not 100% sure yet. Hence the "nearly back" bit. But it'll be soon! And we'll be back to daily updates again! Woo! See you then!
Comic 748 is up, at long, long last. So... I guess it's been a while, huh? Apologies for the semi-hiatus, I just needed a break. ...Though, I'm honestly not sure if I'm done with that break. I'll know by tomorrow if I'm up to continuing on again or not. I think I'm ready to get started again, though, so here's to a rejuvenated Alex!
Comic 747 is up, just a few days late. Busy with other things, however the new FAQ page and other things for the beta site are coming along nicely. Hopefully soon Matt can push everything over (including the few comics that aren't there yet) and get the beta site live.
Comic 746 is up, quickly reaching a location we're familiar with. Since I'm lazy and don't like doing work for myself... I'm giving my readers a chance to name this organization. Anything will do, whether it's rabbit-themed or not. ...Preferably not, come to think of it, I can only think of one other rabbit character on the NES.
Comic 745 is up, after a record-breaking lateness run. I went back and forth on this one a lot, I changed panel 4 a number of times, wasn't sure how quickly I wanted to move the story along. I really will try my best to update on time more often (or at least not have three days between updates)... but no promises.
Comic 744 is up, just about time to learn a lot more about Alden. Some more work has been done on the FAQ, only about... 12 and a half questions left to go before I'm done with it. And then there's the Cast page left to... entirely re-do. And the extras page... so much left to do...
Comic 743 is up, finally. Another day late comic, but at least this one's not too late...
Comic 742 is up, I think I've redefined late... There was a certain amount of not feeling well involved, as well as zero idea of what I was going to do with this comic. I knew what I had planned for the next comic, I just didn't know what I wanted to do to stall until then. So, after a lot of... well, next to no thought, I decided to skip the stalling, and combined the two comics. Coupled with the fact that this comic is roughly a day and a half late, this'd be more or less the comic that would've been up today if I had done the stalling comic to begin with.
Comic 741 is up, slightly... okay, very late. Inspiration ran dry, and I fell asleep earlier than usual. No other news yet, see everyone tomorrow.
Comic 740 is up, yay for giant comics. No other real news, work continues slowly on the FAQ, Cast, and Extras pages for the new site redesign. See you all tomorrow!
Comic 739 is up, floating down the river... isn't going so well. Must be off now, see you tomorrow!
Comic 738 is up, moving on, moving on, moving on. I am going somewhere, honestly, we'll get to something fun... eventually. No other real news tonight, though the FAQ is coming along nicely. Thanks for the questions, folks!
Comic 737 is up, moving on already... No real news tonight, still slightly busy.
Comic 736 is up, it's.... mildly somber. And only slightly fourth wall breaking! But that's okay. No real news tonight, somewhat busy with other stuff. Which may or may not be that RPG Maker Game Destroyers game that was once mentioned in the forums.
Comic 735 is up, Zippy's gone for another dip... And that marks two days in a row of updating on time! Woo hoo! Maybe there's hope for my resolution after all! It really does help when I actually know what I want the strip to be about... Also, keep posting your questions and whatnot else in the thread I have for that kind of stuff.
Comic 734 is up, the group's also heading up. Is this... Wait, I think it's... An on time update! Holy crap, that never happens anymore! In other news, I have my own "List of things to do" thread now, so go post in it and start telling me what you think I should be doing!
Comic 733 is up, two days late... New record, I suppose. Hopefully it'll appear, there may be errors... If there are, putting up tonight's comic should fix them.
Comic 732 is up, nearly a non-update day. I have to admit to a weakness of mine: Other webcomics. Once I get into one (assuming it's good), I'm lost to the world. Hence the reason for the insane lateness today, I was completely absorbed by Freak Angels. This is nothing short of amazing stuff, people. Go read, enjoy, and be prepared to lose hours at a time.
Comic 731 is up, just about to enter the next game. Hopefully Alden's reasons for protest are somewhat obvious. Kinda fun how his back story was entirely glossed over when he was introduced... Yay, characterization!
Comic 730 is up... kinda filler-y. Real story comic tonight, I promise.
Comic 729 is up, even later than yesterday. When I don't like the current comic much, ideas for dialogue just hit a roadblock in my mind... and procrastination takes over. On the plus side, I've gotten a lot of other stuff done...
Comic 728 is up, already broken my resolution. Ah well.
Comic 727 is up, moving along to... whatever's next. Gotta put some thought into it, I'm only half sure of what's coming up.
Comic 726 is up, totally not fixing any plotholes here... Seriously, I'm not! This was actually planned, amazingly enough. It's also nice to see that the errors are gone, yay! But beyond that (and the fact that I updated on time, also yay!)... no real news to report on.
Comic 725 is up, Happy New Year, folks! ...I rather hope you can see the comic today, and that there are no more errors. There was a comic yesterday (uploaded on time, even!), but Error 725 stood in its place all day. Gonna have to badger Matt about setting me up with a way to fix problems like that at some point...
Comic 724 is up, a day late again. I may move to a slower schedule for a while, I haven't really decided yet. I'm not really certain where to go from here in the short term, so it's been slow going in producing the comics. We'll see what happens tomorrow.
Comic 723 is up, more than a day late... No, I'm not sick, or in a bad way, or not doing well with the comic, I've just been overly busy. Another filler just didn't feel right yesterday, so I just let it loop over a day. Distraction! Go check out the new site layout, in its almost-working form! Then go tell Matt how awesome he is for getting it put together!
Comic 722 is up, late late late. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Relatives are still over, still keeping me busy.
Comic 721 is up, late tiny comic! Sorry, Christmas stuff has kept me very busy lately, I'll try to get back on track soon.
Comic 720 is up, Merry Christmas everyone! Or, Happy Holidays, or Happy Day on the Calendar in December, whichever you like. And woo for the new site! A new layout is coming soon, Matt's working hard on it. Having the domain name is one of our Christmas gifts, though, give Matt some major props for all the work he's done to get it up and running.
Comic 719 is up, with a few pieces of info about this particular group. Expect fun things tomorrow for Christmas, it should definitely be fun. And not here, exactly.
Comic 718 is up, and there's a nice little pile of Writer's Block rubble here. ...Well, I have the next two or three strips figured out, anyway. But, we'll see what happens. Big things planned for Christmas, it promises to be lots of fun. Give your support to Matt, he's working his ass off (or, at least, doing far more than I am) for this Christmas surprise.
Comic 717 is up, kinda/sorta. Mostly, I'm just being lazy, and didn't want to make two comics today, since they're kinda plotty and important, and both have a fair amount of sprite work involved. So, you get today's comic tomorrow, and tomorrow's comic two days from now.
Comic 716 is up, on to the new game already. So, my fan comic go put up over at TKT today, yay! Go check it out, it's nifty! And while you're at it, check out his archives, it's a great comic for Godzilla and giant monster-y humor. And also, welcome to anyone who has come here from Twisted Kaiju Theater! Hope you like it here, though you might want to start at the beginning, so that you know who's saying what. I've never been much of a fan of arrows on speech bubbles, as you can already see, but I like my own system well enough. Hopefully you do, too.
Comic 715 is up, just about to go into a new game. Some of you should already be familiar with this game, if only because it's one of the ones that the AVGN has reviewed. We'll see how far into the game I can go to get screenshots and sprites before going insane...
Comic 714 is up, almost a duplicate of 713... I promise there'll be actual movement in tomorrow's update.
Comic 713 is up, yay comic. So much to do before Christmas, must be off...
Comic 712 is up, the couch is... undergoing a growth spurt. Still no news worth commenting on... I suppose I'll just wish good luck to everyone I know who has finals coming up.
Comic 710 is up, the gang's all together again. As usual, no real news to report. The Christmas special is coming up again, but I think I'll do something different this year, something different from personalized gifts. Santa Ferahgo will, of course, return.
Comic 710 is up, that's all for Tiny Toon Adventures. ...And that's all for the news, nothing new to report today.
Comic 709 is up, Tiny Toons is as good as gone. No real news for tonight, though if you have any suggestions for a new Cast page, let me know! There just might be work happening on it in the near future...
Comic 708 is up, and we're nearly done with Tiny Toons now. As the group promised, it will be destroyed. No other real news at the moment, other than my insane excitement while waiting to find out if my fan comic will actually be put up over at TKT. If I pop from excitement before we find out, someone make sure to contact me via Ouija board or something and let me know what happened.
Comic 707 is up, we're still in Wackyland. Though, not for too much longer... About that little secret project... It was a fan comic for the comic Twisted Kaiju Theater. I already heard back from the author, Sean McGuinness, and he said he loved it! :D I don't know for sure if this means it'll be put up on his site, but I'm certainly hopeful. Keep your fingers crossed!
Comic 706 is up, that is all. Secret project is done, you'll know the status of it as soon as I do. Hopefully I'll be linking to it at some point in the near future.
Comic 705 is up, a day late, but that's okay. Seems there were some server problems, but everything should be fixed now. And yes, I know I screwed up the link in the blurb the other day, I forgot the "http://" in front of the address, so the website decided that that meant it was a part of this site. I was going to get Matt to fix the link, but then the whole site went kerplooey, so that became slightly more important. Here's a correct link, directly to the review. Oh, and the secret project is more than half done now, I'm hoping to finish it up tonight.
Comic 704 is up, almost introducing a new character... We'll find out who he is tomorrow. Now back to work on my other project... Oh! Nearly forgot, I got reviewed over at ArtPatient.com, and it's a great review! Go check it out, folks!
Comic 703 is up, so much for Elmyra... No news tonight, working on another project... another comic, as it were. You'll see it soon enough, hopefully on another site...
Comic 702 is up, Elmyra has arrived. For anyone who's not familiar with Tiny Toons... Well, head to youtube and look her up, I really can't do the girl justice.
Comic 701 is up, I thought carrots were supposed to be good for your eyes... I did have a different idea in mind for tonight, but ended up splitting it off, you'll see it tomorrow.
Comic 700 is up, yay 700! It's an arbitrary milestone because it's a multiple of 100! And it just happens to be animated, for no great or special reason! Yay!
Comic 699 is up, moving on to a new game... Though, not a new storyline, you'll notice. And that's all I'll say about that...
Comic 698 is up, we're moving on already. It was not easy fitting this much text onto this annoying layout...
Comic 697 is up, things are returning to normal. No other news though, other than that I'm still in the process of spreading the word that the comic is back up again. Tell anyone you can about it, let your friends know, start spamming people's emails and facebooks and twitter pages! So far, the site's hits are still at only about half of what they used to be.
Comic 696 is up, yay for more history. And... that's about all I have for tonight, though I have been putting more thought recently into all the extra work that I should be doing on the site.
Comic 695 is up, yay further plotty goodness. This one actually took quite a while, just because I couldn't decide what sort of problems were happening between these two secret organizations. ...And also because I was expecting the real life Jipples to give me names for them both like I asked him to, but as you can see, that didn't happen. They'll get named... eventually...
Comic 694 is up, yay, plot! Sorry 'bout the lateness of yesterday's comic, spending time with the relatives took precedence. But hey, at least this one's on time! Don't forget to go back and check out yesterday's comic if you missed it, otherwise you'll wonder where the giant guy disappeared off to and who this new guy is.
Comic 693 is up, blah blah late blah usual blah yeah.
Comic 692 is up, Draco's feeling for his distant family. I had the idea for this last night, but couldn't take the picture until today, naturally. (Yes, I know I could've googled a pic, but it's more fun for me this way).
Comic 691 is up, we're up to meeting Jipples' boss already. As per usual, every 100 comics since the first comic I put onto Matt's server is Matt Appreciation Day! And we're giving him extra hoo-rahs this time for getting the site back up and running well again. Click here to go on over to the Matt is Awesome thread and let him know!
Comic 690 is up... I hope. If it is, that means that Matt fixed things! Yay! If things are fixed, we can get on to some fun story elements! Yay! And I won't get to take any more days off like this! Yay... I think...
Comic 689 is up, yaaaay! Kick starting the new storyline right off the bat, I did have some other comics that went over what happened to Draco and Alden a little bit more, but decided against them. Anyways, yay for being back!
Comic 688 is up, finally! And the site is back to normal again. I lost my saved username and password when I upgraded to Windows 7, so I couldn't access the comic upload forms. But, now we have them again, so things can get back to normal again. At least the Halloween comic got put up on Halloween...
Comic 687 is up, finally.
Comic 686 is up, with a nice little bit of the past suddenly remembered. So, lateness... For once, lateness wasn't /only/ due to laziness, it was due to me working on the comic. Just, not last night's comic, but this Saturday's comic... the Halloween special. 3 costumes done so far, two days to go... things are looking pretty good.
Comic 685 is up, meh. More news tonight.
Comic 684 is up, in all its single panel glory. Never done this before, not the little panel style, anyway. I couldn't think of enough content to fill all four panels tonight, but I didn't want to make a normal filler comic, and I had this one panel's worth of content to use. At first, I could decide if it should be the Narrator saying the lines, or maybe Ferahgo, but then I decided Spiffy was the most appropriate.
Comic 683 is up, with a rather appropriate random color for Zippy. I haven't picked a color for Zippy myself in a very long time now, I have a certain random color generator that I've been using. Some of you know what that is, and can confirm that the highly appropriate sickly green color today was randomly generated, not specifically picked. ...Funny how that kind of thing works out sometimes, hmm?
Comic 682 is up, yay lateness! No, wait, that's not right... Boo, lateness!
Comic 681 is up, two more rooms down. Will we see P.G.'s room tomorrow? ...Possibly.
Comic 680 is up, starting to look around the new place. More to come tomorrow, still gotta see Spiffy, P.G., and Rose's new rooms.
Comic 679 is up, though it's kind of filler-ish. I did have something else in mind for today's comic, but it'd take quite the bit of work, so rather than doing all that work today and having another extremely late update, I put this together instead. See you folks tomorrow, with an 8 panel comic!
Comic 678 is up, late late late late late late late LATE. On to 679!
Comic 677 is up, with thanks to folks who made suggestions in the forums. As per usual, no thanks to Scotty and his inane suggestion. "Escorts" indeed... Really now, what the hell were you thinking with that suggestion?
Comic 676 is up, though I'm not sure if I like the look of that without the command text beneath it. The background is already scaled up to 200%, so I can't really change that any... What do you folks think?
Comic 675 is up, more in Jipples' room.
Comic 674 is up, welcome to Jipples' room.
Comic 673 is up, in a curiously familiar way... I swear I know what I'm doing, there's more to this place than meets the eye.
Comic 672 is up, that takes care of this little section. Not really sure why I dragged it out so long, beyond simple writer's block. This storyline isn't quite over yet, though.
Comic 671 is up, bothersome dialogue and all. Back to the grind, I suppose. Maybe I'll actually get to work on some projects sometime soon...
Comic 670 is technically up, I suppose.
Comic 669 is up, with a new plan for the rest of the storyline arc. Did anyone guess it might come to this? ...Besides the people who knew this was coming, of course.
Comic 668 is up, we're already done with Sweet Home. When I remembered that the game had random battles, I gave up on it.
Comic 667 is up, back to normal now. Moving right along, we're already in a new game, though this one definitely won't last long. Bonus points to anyone who's familiar with this very obscure game, you know what's coming.
Comic 666 is up, with the traditional obligatory dip into demonic madness. Yes, this is actually happening. No, this will never be spoken of again. Yes, I had this planned in advance. Hey, yesterday counts as in advance!
Comic 665 is up, just about done with Milon's Secret Castle. And that's about all I have to say tonight, kinda busy with other things. See you folks tomorrow!
Comic 664 is up, I'm kind of glad to be moving on from here already... I guess this place didn't have as much fun stuff in it as I thought it would. Though, come to think of it, we'll still be in this world for another day or two...
Comic 663 is up, with pink keys... All my life, I thought that the keys in this game were yellow... I had no idea until today that they're pink.
Comic 662 is up, moving on through Milon's. Just about done here, or, at least, with this first area. Not really too much else to say about this game, most of the things about it that can be made fun of can be done here in this first area. The game's ludicrous difficulty isn't really something I can put in the comic, unfortunately. Apologies for the late updates this past weekend, some relatives of mine were visiting, and I don't get to spend much time with them. Now I can get back to my regular lateness, though, between 1 and 4 AM EST.
Comic 661 is up, blah.
Comic 660 is up, late yet again. Such is life. I had something I was going to put here, but I didn't actually write it down, and it's now gone... Not a clue what it could've been. Maybe I'll remember by tonight's update...
Comic 659 is up, and it's bubbly. Now we can finally move on to other parts of this game... And then move on with the storyline, though what's immediately next, I'm not 100% certain.
Comic 658 is up, prelude to another, slightly less threatening, battle. ...And that's about all I have to say tonight.
Comic 657 is up, that's nearly all of the first room there. Not much to the place, really, at least, not without knowing what to do in that particular game...
Comic 656 is up, breaking the record for lateness! But at least it's a comic, rather than a filler. On to tonight's!
Comic 655 is up, bringing in the game's hero right away. I considered bringing him in a little bit later on, but I honestly couldn't think of what else to poke fun at tonight... We'll definitely get to some of the more curious things in the game, though.
Comic 654 is up, entering a new game at last... one we'll actually stick with for a bit, even. Aaaanyways... about the last few days, last night's busy task was as simple as my usual Friday night D&D game, and the previous day, I was involved in a project that ate up a lot of my time this week, but I finished it up today. Who knows how long it'll be until I get into some new project... Probably not long, admittedly.
Comic 653 is up, and I know I said I'd explain more, but I'm busy, must be off, explain more later. Later!
Comic 652 is up, sort of. I'll explain more with tonight's actual update.
Comic 651 ia up, with a new storyline. Not much else to say, except that I'm a bit surprised that the War storyline wasn't the longest storyline yet. Definitely a close second, but I just figured one of the more important storylines so far would be the longest. However, it's not worth stretching the story just for that silly reason, so onward we go.
Comic 650 is up, that ends this storyline. ...I think, anyway, I'm pretty sure there's no loose ends left. (Yes, I know the hammer thing still hasn't been resolved, hush!)
Comic 649 is up, that's all that'll be said about Fizzle, I do believe. Never much liked his character anyway, a pothead character just doesn't work out as well in comic form. Or, at least, a comic where I can't draw him with goofy facial expressions and a loopy attitude... The Gradius ship was about the worst choice of a sprite for him, but I had no way of knowing that at the time.
Comic 648 is up, we won't be around here much longer. And that's about all I have to say, this storyline is pretty much done. What comes next, I'm only half-sure of right now, I'm still gathering info and sprites for it.
Comic 647 is up, with a little hint at what Fizzle's been doing. ...Which I guess only makes sense if you're familiar with the Maniac Mansion story. Slightly more detailed info will be coming soon, though probably not tomorrow.
Comic 646 is up, and that's about the last we'll see of those two. ...Does anyone even care one way or the other? Oh, and I know it's National Talk Like a Pirate Day, but there was no way in hell I was gonna have them talking like pirates over Ace and Cedris' grave.
Comic 645 is up, and it's even (very close to) on time! Will this become a habit? Only time will tell, but I'll try!
Comic 644 is up, and it's about time. But hey, at least you don't have to wait long until the next comic goes up and you see how this all turns out, right?
Comic 643 is up, things are looking a bit bleak for the group. When you think about it, Dr. Fred never would've had a reason before to have a good bedside manner...
Comic 642 is up, late as it is. But at least it's up.
Comic 641 is up, not might fight left in the gang now. One little loose end tied up, or, just about tied up, anyway.
Comic 640 is up, Syd and Vald have reappeared. That didn't take long, eh? What will their fate be? I'm honestly not sure, I've got a lot of different ideas in mind for what to do with the two of them right now... We'll see what's in store for them soon enough. Also, keep voicing your thoughts on Fizzle, I want someone other than Scotty to voice their opinion on him.
Comic 639 is up, such as it is. Today, I just don't have the creative juices to write dialogue for two comics... All my creativity is being put into Scribblenauts. And, co-incidentally, that's the reason why this comic is so late, and a filler. Sorry!
Comic 638 is up, 4 are all that remain of the 12 Game Destroyers. ...Or possibly 5, I still haven't decided what the hell happened to Fizzle, he just kind of disappeared. Let me know in the forums what you think should happen with his character, I don't really mind one way or the other.
Comic 637 is up, Fred and P.G. settle on an agreement. And there are other things you probably think I'm forgetting, but I'm (fairly) sure I remember it and will cover it all in the days to come.
Comic 636 is up, three Game Destroyers are still down. And that's all I have to say for now, except, stay tuned...
Comic 635 is up, moving slowly forward again. Tying things up, though despite what was thought of on the forums, I'm not ending the comic, just wrapping up this storyline. Rest assured, there's still more story to tell, even with the Otaku out of the picture.
Comic 634 is up, the Otaku is gone. Now we can finally get to some loose end tying up.
Comic 633 is up, Spiffy's taking matters into his own hands. Er, mouth. Whatever. I did, in fact, update yesterday... it was just really, really late. Again, I apologize for all of the late updates recently. To offset that, tonight's comic is actually on time!
Comic 632 is up, ridiculously late. But at least it's there.
Comic 631 is up, surprisingly close to being on time. (I actually had this done before midnight, but I got involved in a conversation and was rather distracted. I swear!)
Comic 630 is up, nobody is doing very well... Aside from Spiffy and the Stevens', of course.
Comic 629 is up, with some giant Stevens. This won't end well...
Comic 628 is up, though admittedly not much is happening yet. Green Tentacle is about as useful as I expected him to be, particularly considering it only has four sprites total. But, we'll see what's yet to come, this fight isn't over yet.
Comic 627 is up, with a (what I hope is) fairly random bit thrown in. These news blurbs are getting less and less interesting to read, hmm?
Comic 626 is up, the Orange Soda Knight is... suddenly gone. Definitely not much of this battle left.
Comic 625 is up, with a rather confused P.G. This battle is nearly over, but not quite finished yet.
Comic 624 is up, we're heading outside. No particular reason for this, I just felt like the battle needed to be shifted to a different location.
Comic 623 is up, Doc Fred is pretty pissed. And that's all I have to say about that.
Comic 622 is up, Doc Fred is finally voicing his thoughts... Where this argument will lead should prove interesting. Oh, and in case you missed it, click back and check out yesterday's comic, as it was put up particularly late today. Again, sorry for that.
Comic 621 is up, the battle goes on. And that's all I have to say, sorry for the late comic.
Comic 620 is up, with no text. Intentionally done, or just a bad case of writer's block? You be the judge.
Comic 619 is up, things are picking up again. No news to report on tonight, though I am starting to doubt that I'll ever get a response back from any of the folks I sent emails to a number of weeks back.
Comic 618 is up, with a lot of talk. Nothing new to report on, as per usual.
Comic 617 is up, Jipples is slightly confused. Nothing to report on, other than that tonight's comic should have been on time, it was done before midnight and everything. I just forgot to upload it for a while, then got involved in other things and time... just sort of ran away with it. Least it's up now.
Comic 616 is up, everyone's awake now. Not really much happening here, but tomorrow should be fun.
Comic 615 is up, though admittedly there's not much to it. I know, this really could've been a 4 panel comic, and there's really only 2 panels of content there... but writer's block is a bitch.
Comic 614 is up, most of the group is back together again. Some other projects have been eating up my time lately, but the comic won't suffer as a result of them. Daily updates won't ever end, regardless of what else I get into. Side projects will continue to suffer, but that should come as no surprise, as they barely got worked on, anyway.
Comic 613 is up, Dr. Jeebus is definitely down... This storyline is winding down now, though there's still a few fun bits to come. Nothing much new to report on, still working on the new quotes and other fun stuff.
Comic 612 is up, the battle is pretty much won for the Game Destroyers. Still a couple of loose ends to tie up, though... No real news today, as per usual.
Comic 611 is up, now I feel worse for Spanky... Being ignored is one thing, but being focused on by four people who want to kill you probably isn't much of a good thing, either. I guess I'll use what little has been suggested in the quotes thread, and use whatever else comes to mind, and anyone who doesn't like what I come up with can't really complain, since you've had plenty of time to submit your favorite quotes. Work on that may well begin soon.
Comic 610 is up, I'm starting to feel bad for Spanky... No news tonight, nothing to report on.
Comic 609 is up, the upstairs is a lot cleaner now... Still working on getting those quotes together, anything you have to contribute would be lovely. And it's now seeming like Satsui won't have to make a second bonus comic this week, and I won't have to do anything for the end of the month bonus, since we've now slipped down past the 250 spot. If you want a big bonus, get back to voting as often as you can!
Comic 608 is up, Spanky has re-entered the scene. I could really use some suggestions in the quote thread... There's more than 30 characters, shout out any you like (or even any you remember)!
Comic 607 is up, I'm starting to wonder about Draco... No real news today, keep on submitting ideas in the quotes thread in the forum!
Comic 606 is up, things look... well, probably not good for them. If you haven't already, go check out the forums and put in your ideas for your favorite quotes.
Comic 605 is up, sort of advancing the plot. Not much to say, I should actually remember to do some work on these numerous side projects one of these days...
Comic 604 is up, two enemies are down... I've never actually bothered to use thought bubbles before, not sure I really like how the effect looks. However, I also don't think that Dr. Jeebus is the type that would talk to himself, even when no one else is around. What do you folks think, how does it look?
Comic 603 is up, with what I hope is an interesting little twist. Kinda hard to see there, but the hammer is half-there in the second panel. No real news for today.
Comic 602 is up, things are getting better, and also a little worse. No real news to report on today, though.
Comic 601 is up, things look... well, not exactly grim, but not exactly good, either. So, three days of asking for ideas, and not so much as a peep... does anyone even read these news blurbs any more? I'm still looking for ideas on what to do for Yay Votes stuff, as well as what you guys think would be good to put on the New Readers page. Oh, also worth noting that the FAQ page will be changing soon, to reflect the status of the new beginning, as well as putting actual examples of everyone's text, in addition to just saying what they are.
Comic 600 is up... Happy 600! ...And that's the extent that non-important milestone comics get celebrated. Still haven't heard a word from you guys about what I could do for an end of the month yay votes bonus... I guess you just don't want anything at all, hmm? Also, there's a New Readers section in the works now, keep an eye out for that coming... somewhat soon.
Comic 599 is up, things are not looking good for our heroes... er, villains... well, for them. I'm still waiting for ideas on what you guys would like to see for a reward for an entire month in the top 250 on Top Web Comics. Anything you'd like to see (within reason), let me know!
Comic 598 is up, and things are turning around a little bit. The code seems to be working fine again, the new timer is in place, I guess. ...Though, I'm not really sure why the timer was implemented in the first place, but as long as it's working, I don't mind it. We've been on an advertising kick lately, so if you haven't been voting on top web comics lately, go do so! Every day, if you like. Satsui'll be providing bonus comics every week I finish in the top 250 on that site, and if I can go a whole month in the top 250, I'll be doing something special. What that something special is... I have absolutely no idea right now. If there's anything you'd like to see, gimme some ideas!
Comic 597 is up, with a ton of text crammed in the third panel... There was a slight hiccup in the code today, Matt's tinkering with a new comic updater, and comic 596 disappeared for a little while, but it's back up now. Assuming this reaches the news blurb, the code is back to normal.
It was a simple and stupid mistake I made while coding the new editor page: instead of putting a < symbol to make the engine run the proper way, I typed a > symbol. And since the code automatically tries to delete the item in question before creating the new comic image (to keep the comic database folder neat, clean and organized), it deleted the old comic instead of trying to delete anything named as the new one. As far as I know right now, everything is fixed, and will work as planned for tomorrow's update. Cross your fingers!
--Matt
Comic 596 is up, with a bit more cussing than usual. Yesterday's news blurb wasn't supposed to be so short, I accidentally hit the "Update Website" button early... Not that I had much to report on, anyway. Today, however, I do... For the first time in months, I worked on old comics again, comic 31 has been re-done. Go ahead, use the nifty archive drop-down or page to go see it. More will be coming as I get to them, though who knows when that'll be...
Comic 595 is up, the Syd Men are attacking.
Comic 594 is up, Syd has revealed his true form, so to speak. This actually came out of a discussion from the Syd Lexia forums about Doc Robots a couple days ago, once I knew that Syd always felt that there were eight Doc Robots instead of just one, I knew I had to work that in as an "Oh, shit" moment for Alden and Rose.
Comic 593 is up... finally. Things were pretty busy around here today and yesterday, my apologies for the late comic. ...Now to start working on tonight's comic...
Comic 592 is up, just a bit more fighting. No real news tonight, just glad that my laptop screen didn't have any problems tonight.
Comic 591 is up, though annoyingly enough, it's just a filler. Today is still Celebrate Matt's Awesomeness Day, though, as this is technically comic 591, and Matt's day is always every x91th comic. The thread from the last day is still there (hardly seems like 100 days has passed already, eh?), so if you want, you can say something in there, particularly about the nifty new script he wrote for the late update notice, which works like a charm. As for why it's a filler... my laptop monitor decided to crap out on me after about two hours of work on tonight's comic. Fortunately, should this laptop crap out on me entirely, I do have everything backed up, but it's still bothersome to lose an entire night's work.
Comic 590 is up, with a far shorter animation than I intended... I had been hoping to animate the entire last panel, to show the Otaku appearing at the appropriate time in the dialogue, but my animation program couldn't handle it. My own fault for making it longer than I needed to... If I have time, I'll put a shorter version together, but the simple explanation works for now.
Comic 589 is up, the tide of one battle seems to be turning... Wonder how everyone else is doing...
Comic 588 is up, the attack continues. Work on the sprite sheets has moved slowly along today, it's annoyingly time consuming... Too many other, more fun things I'd rather be doing, but I'm attempting to play the role of a good sprite comic author. Hopefully tomorrow's comic will be up even earlier, maybe even on time (ha, as if).
Comic 587 is up, the attack has begun. I'm slowly building up sprite sheets of the enemy, so that I don't have to cut them out every single night...
Comic 586 is up, now the war truly begins. Expect plenty of late comics, there's gonna be a lot of work put into the upcoming strips. I think I'll be implementing double panels a lot more often coming up...
Comic 585 is up, or... at least, will be up eventually. Around 2 AM, I realized I screwed up and put the wrong backgrounds in panels 2 and 3... after I had already put characters in them. So, now I get to go back in, change the backgrounds, and put the characters back in again. At whatever point I finish it, I'll change the comic in the ftp server and put the actual comic in place of Dancin' Spiffy up there. ...Hence why the title and comment are what they'll actually be once the real comic is in place, because I can't access that on my own.
Comic 584 is up, the army has entered the building. I know the "doctor is in" joke is old and lame, but I couldn't really think of a better line for him to come in on. Who is he, you ask? Stay tuned, introductions are coming soon.
Comic 583 is up, war is definitely on the horizon. ...And that's about all I have to say. At this point, I almost want to update twice a day, I'm excited about this story arc.
Comic 582 is up, with my patented Wall O' Text. What will all these teams be doing, you ask? Oh, it's good stuff. The war is barreling down on us now, just a couple little odds and ends left to cover before things really get going.
Comic 581 is up, with a fully armed army! After working with about 3 or 4 different army games, I came to a realization... Most games use a little black design for their guns, sometimes not more than a 2 pixel line in whatever direction. Those games tend to have bright backgrounds and character sprites with no black borders. All the Castlevania creatures... do have black borders. A little black gun does not show up at all when thrown into that mess of sprites... But damn, do I like the look of it on those Goombas. ...And yes, this would be why tonight's comic is three hours late, as opposed to the usual one.
Comic 580 is up, we're done with the boxes! I sort of wish I had never put them in in the first place, but what's done is done. Tomorrow... Come to think of it, who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Comic 579 is up, that's the last we'll see of the box pile at this size. Tommorow, it shrinks.
Comic 578 is up, I think we're getting close to being done with these boxes. The hardest thing about making the comics at these boxes hasn't been in making them at all... but in coming up with titles for comics with virtually nothing happening in them. Exposition and plothole filling is all well and good, but it doesn't make for very interesting titles or comments...
Comic 577 is up, with a start at a hopefully reasonable explanation. This came largely from a conversation with UsaSatsui, as I had virtually nothing planned for the contents of the rest of the boxes. So, anyone familiar with the game (which is alarmingly few of you, as I recall from when we first came here...) will get a few extra laughs out of this segment.
Comic 576 is up, the start of a new storyline. By now, the ambush is long since over, the war has begun. ...Well, pretty much, anyway. I still have to actually figure out what's in the rest of those boxes... Any guesses?
Comic 575 is up, not much of a punchline, but yay, ominous...ness! Who these 5 people are is... somewhere between very important and... not important at all. When will you learn who they are? Well... you'll just have to stick around and find out.
Comic 574 is up, finally catching up with Jipples. I finally got a chance to talk to someone who's gonna be involved in the upcoming events, and a lot of new plot ideas were hatched. The war is definitely gonna be fun times.
Comic 573 is up, that's the end of this section, finally... We'll move on to see what Jipples has been up to tomorrow.
Comic 572 is up, though I'm not very happy with it. Writer's block sucks... And the reverse of writer's block is no picnic, either. I spent a long time staring at the backgrounds today, not having a clue what to write tonight... After a while, I finally wrote out what I wanted the characters to say to finish up this box section... and it ended up being long enough to cover the next three strips. Here I promised you we'd only spend one more strip at these boxes, I didn't want to spend another three strips here. I scrunched the text together a lot and cut a little of it down (I think that's fairly obvious with Kaid's dialogue tonight) so that we can finally move on.
Comic 571 is up, in all its... not much is happening glory. I figure we'll get one, maybe two more days out of these boxes, I'm looking forward to being done with them myself...
Comic 570 is up, though the mystery of the extra supplies has not yet been revealed. No real news tonight, progress on the war is still halted for the time being... At least we can squeeze a few more strips out of these supplies, and then get several more following Jipples. After that... who knows?
Comic 569 is up, with a slight twist... Not even I'm sure what's up with the extra boxes right now, I have a couple ideas, we'll see what happens with them as time goes on. I think we'll be catching up with Jipples pretty soon...
Comic 568 is up, Squads A and C are back together. Where we'll go from here, I'm honestly not sure...
Comic 567 is up now, we're almost getting somewhere. Though, I haven't seen the guy I'm working with on the upcoming war in a while now, so that's more or less on hold for the time being... Be prepared for some stalling comics in the near future.
Comic 566 is up, starting to open up the supply boxes. Those of you who keep up with the forums, you know who that tank is going to. ...Though, I'm not quite sure how I'll make a top down tank look good in this sidescrolling game.
Comic 565 is up, yay for recolored boxes. In the game I pulled those boxes from, they're pink, of all colors... Bonus points to anyone who can name that game. No progress of any kind was made today, but the war creeps ever closer...
Comic 564 is up, finally catching up with Squad A. More and more details are coming together for the upcoming war... hopefully they all come together in time and I don't have to make any stalling and/or filler comics.
Comic 563 is up, the last of this little flashback. Slightly late comic tonight, got a few more parts for the upcoming war done tonight. 3 of the... potentially 5 to 7 major parts of it have been decided on. Yay, mysterious foreshadowing!
Comic 562 is up, going back in the story just a little bit. Why didn't I simply show this when Alden actually first arrived? Because flashbacks are always more fun!
Comic 561 is up, just getting the group back in the house, nothing really going on in this one... We'll find out what Squad A has been doing starting tomorrow.
Comic 560 is up, Ed's plans are revealed. So, there you have it, Ed's little plot twist. Just one more monkey wrench thrown in to work against the Game Destroyers army. The big war is approaching, just a couple little loose ends to tie up before we get there...
Comic 559 is up, with something hopefully unexpected. ...Except to the person who suggested this little plot twist, of course. Though, the plot twist may not actually be apparent yet... It'll definitely be apparenty tomorrow, we'll see where it goes from there.
Comic 558 is up, and it's full of text... Or, at least, panel 3 is. Bear with me through these "searching for X" strips, there's something good planned for next week. Trust me on that. In non-site related news, congratulations to Ben and Dana on their engagement! In site-related news... Oh, right, there is no site-related news. Maybe tomorrow.
Comic 557 is up, that'll be all for Squad B. So far, general opinion is to go with Squad C next, so unless there's a massive demand for Squad A, we'll be seeing what P.G., Rose and Ace have been up to.
Comic 556 is up, that was a somewhat short part of the storyline... But, of course, there's only so many places he might have been, and I didn't want to drag this part out long, as it was planned to be the simplest of the four. The other groups should be slightly more interesting, and take a little longer to get through. There'll only be one more comic dedicated to Squad B, so you have two days to decide if you would rather see Squad A (Alden & co.) next, or Squad C (P.G. and the rest).
Comic 555 is up, hey, we have the start of nearly every fake phone number! That's it for the talking, tomorrow... well, they'll be moving, at least. Though, I haven't yet decided which group I'll be following first... If you have any preference, lemme know!
Comic 554 is up, if you can see it behind all that text. There's enough text here to cover two comics, but I didn't want to spend too many strips standing around talking... Took a lot of cramming to get it to fit properly, though. I think this is the first time so many different characters have talked at once, so if you've forgotten anyone's text or colors... well, you're kinda boned, since the FAQ hasn't been updated yet.
Comic 552 is up, with too... much... text! Seriously, I think this is the largest amount of text I've ever crammed into a single strip. ...And yet, I still pale in comparison to some of the other webcomics out there in terms of sheer word volume. ...And I'm no longer sure why Rose kicked Kaid there... I guess it's just been a while
Comic 552 is up, double panel style. This one ended up with a bit too much text, though. At least things are starting to move forward a bit... No other real news tonight, though.
Comic 551 is up, finally... Sorry for the very late update, there were a lot of delays and distractions, and I rewrote the text a bunch of times, wasn't sure of what to do with today's strip initially. ...And yay for an attempt at subtle irony, the fact that Spiffy's complaining about wanting to bubble him, while he is in a bubble.
Comic 550 is up, the counterattack starts! I was hoping at least one person would comment on Alden opening one eye yesterday... As to how he recovered so quickly from his seemingly dead state, you'll just have to wait around to find that out. No real news tonight.
Comic 549 is up, things get a little bit worse. As for the allegations made by a certain new character in the forums... This has been the plan for the Dynamo since about the time they entered Marble Madness. I'll admit that Lt. Alden wasn't in the original plan, though, and that did both extend The Gauntlet further than I expected, as well as complicating the last clue, but it all worked out pretty well, I think.
Comic 548 is up, things are looking grim for our heroes... Err, villains. No time to report on the lack of news, must be off to my D&D game.
Comic 547 is up, it's a new story arc! Get ready for some action... maybe... possibly... or at least a couple battle scenes amidst the usual amount of talking. Incidentally, The Gauntlet is now the longest storyline the comic has had so far, even if you exclude the guest comics and filler strips. Not what I originally intended, but it all worked out. Beyond that, no real news today.
Comic 546 is up, I think that's about all the "these sprites are small" jokes that I care to make. I could try to pull more out of Jackal, but I think it's time to end this mini-arc of army games. No real news today, just gonna bug you folks with a reminder to go tell Matt if there's any changes or upgrades you'd like to see.
Comic 545 is up, moving on through a lot of army games I considered, but don't much like. We may stay another day in Jackal, we may not, depending on how much material I can come up with beyond "Haha, the sprites are tiny." No other real news today.
Comic 544 is up, this'll probably be the last Ikari Warriors strip. I'm just not a fan of the game, plus... I used up all the screenshots I took. I didn't make it very far into the game before getting a game over (yes, even with save stating), and I just don't feel like going through it again to get more shots. At least I got enough screenshots to show what I'm gonna claim is a warehouse of goods (despite the fact that in game, it's just a wall with even more open area behind it).
Comic 543 is up, we're into Ikari Warriors now. The comic's a little bit late, as it took me a bit longer to come up with the dialogue than it usually does. Having never played this game before, I don't have the prior experience I usually do with other games, I have nothing planned to make jokes about with this game. We'll see what happens over the next few strips, though I don't think we'll be here for very long.
Comic 542 is up, though I haven't decided yet just how "hippie" Fizzle really is. No real news tonight, though I'm not entirely happy with how tonight's comic turned out. It ended up with too much text, I was hoping to be in Ikari Warriors by the last panel. Least I have tomorrow's comic mostly worked out...
Comic 541 is up, just a filler... No time to chat, though, gotta go prepare for D&D. See you tomorrow with a real strip!
Comic 540 is up, they live! ...As if anyone is surprised. I vaguely considered killing one of them off, but it wouldn't have felt right killing off the new guys so quickly, or killing off three of the important characters. No other news today, though I am working on the rest of the Cast page updates, Cedris, Scout, Fizzle, and Alden all need to be added still. Generally, though, I like to wait a bit to add a character to the Cast page, so that we know a little bit about them beyond what game they're from. I think I'll have to rename the "Main Characters" page to "Game Destroyers", though, since we can't very well have 12 main characters.
Comic 539 is up, dragging out the reveal just a tiny bit. What kind of comic author would I be if I just instantly revealed whether the rest of the group was okay or not? The comic's a bit late tonight due to my being banned from the DALnet IRC server. I went through a lot to try and get around from it, due to their lousy service, I won't get a response for 2-3 days.
Comic 538 is up, things don't look good... I'm lazy tonight, so I'll just copy and paste this for anyone who didn't catch it yesterday...
I've been trying to get the comic's status fixed over at the Web Comic List for a while now, but nothing has been happening... I think it's because they relate my account to my old Ferahgo330@yahoo.com email address, which I signed up for the site with, but that account got deleted... and their site has no place for me to change my email. You readers can help me out, send an email to ash@thewebcomiclist.com and yell at them, tell them to fix this comic's status on their site. Mention that the comic has had "Pattern not matching" status for months now, and that it should be fixed to check for the daily updates which are now happening again. I used to get a bunch of traffic through their site, but apparently that traffic only comes in when they think I'm updating, and I could really use that traffic again! Many thanks to anyone who does this, see you folks tomorrow.
Comic 537 is up, the last clue(?) is within their grasp. I've been trying to get the comic's status fixed over at the Web Comic List for a while now, but nothing has been happening... I think it's because they relate my account to my old Ferahgo330@yahoo.com email address, which I signed up for the site with, but that account got deleted... and their site has no place for me to change my email. You readers can help me out, send an email to ash@thewebcomiclist.com and yell at them, tell them to fix this comic's status on their site. Mention that the comic has had "Pattern not matching" status for months now, and that it should be fixed to check for the daily updates which are now happening again. I used to get a bunch of traffic through their site, but apparently that traffic only comes in when they think I'm updating, and I could really use that traffic again! Many thanks to anyone who does this, see you folks tomorrow.
Comic 536 is up, Alden seems to be adjusting to the group fairly well. Only a few strips left in this game, then we'll be on to... well, you'll see soon.
Comic 535 is up, Alden is pretty close to being a new part of the team. Fizzle... well, we'll get to him. Matt fixed a typo in the archive system, changing the story arc "A 'Villan' Appears" to "A 'Villain' Appears", but the archives themselves still need to be fixed... all the individual comics still need to be renamed. Here's hoping the new archive system can be set up soon so that I can take care of these silly glitches myself, rather than pestering Matt all the time.
Comic 534 is up, with one last new character for this storyline. He should make for an interesting addition to the team, something that they've lacked so far. Matt's doing a lot of changes today, but many of them won't be seen by anyone but us. The big change is that the old Back/Next/First/Previous button thingy is gone, replaced by the ones that SevereFlame made. Other stuff will be coming in the next few days as he tinkers with the code, so there may be down times for the site. The forums should remain up throughout any changes, though. See you tomorrow.
Comic 533 is up, still more Gradius. Yesterday was the second day in a row my news post looked stupid, as three seconds after I posted it, the new character got his name. So today, I'm just not going to say anything further.
Comic 532 is up, moving on through Gradius. Just about done with the last of the new characters that'll be added in this storyline, all he needs now is a name. And he had damn well better come up with one, or his name will be Mud. Apparently, the intro video thing expired yesterday, which made my news post look quite stupid...
Comic 531 is up, another new character already. Yeah, this storyline won't be lasting much longer. Or, at the very least, this game won't be. No real news tonight, though the intro video should be gone within a few days.
Comic 530 is up, entering what may well be the last game. No real news tonight, I dunno what tomorrow will bring, either.
Comic 529 is up, going into the last game tomorrow. Then, *gasp*, this storyline will end! I can't say I won't be sad to see it go. No news today, see you folks tomorrow.
Comic 528 is up, that's all for Fire N' Ice. In another sudden burst of spriting, I finished comics 28-30! This means that... drumroll, please... The new beginning is complete! So, without further ado, the links...
Comic 28!
Comic 29!
Comic 30!
This is exciting for me, completing the new beginning really does mark a new beginning for the site. At whatever point Matt is around, I'll be working with him to bring the new beginning over to this site, phasing out the old beginning entirely. And as time goes on, I'll work through the archives until all the old strips have been revamped up to the larger panel size. But don't worry, from here on out, the old comics are only getting a size increase and minor tweaks to the dialogue, everything else is staying the same.
Comic 527 is up, they're... kinda screwed, really. I promise not to stay too much longer in Fire N' Ice, though. No real news to report on tonight, see everyone tomorrow.
Comic 526 is up, Scout has been formally introduced. So, in a flashback of when I first started this comic, I made a bunch of new old comics today. Link time!
Comic 22!
Comic 23!
Comic 24!
Comic 25!
Comic 26!
Comic 27!
Enjoy.
Comic 525 is up, another new character is... almost introduced. We'll get a formal introduction to her tomorrow. See you then!
Comic 524 is up, Fire 'N Ice is going by pretty quickly. So, welcome back! As they say, that little "vacation" was both too long and too short. In case you missed them, I uploaded a couple new old comics, namely:
Comic 18!
Comic 19!
Comic 20!
Comic 21!
And I even *gasps* updated the cast pages! Check em out, both the Game Destroyers and the Minor Characters have been updated. More to come soon, Sparkles and Cedris still have to be added, and there's 9 more new old comics to go before the new beginning is finished. But at least I'm done with school and finally have time to work on this stuff again! Woo!
Comic 523 is up, that's the last of Satsui's vacation comics. I may put up some of the other's I've gotten, we'll see. On a side note, I actually updated the Cast page. {waits for everyone to pick their jaw up off the floor.} Yes, a few characters have been added, and I have a couple more written up and ready to go, possibly tomorrow. I even put together comic 18, but my old site is being picky all of a sudden, I'll hopefully have a link tomorrow.
Comic 522 is up, second to last of Satsui's vacation strips. I have some more guest comics now, we'll see which ones get used.
Comic 521 is up, only a few strips of Satsui's guest strips left. I've gotten a few other guest strips in the past couple days, there might just be strips to follow Satsui's to fill in more time until the end of the hiatus.
Comic 520 is up, just about finished with Satsui's vacation storyline. No real news tonight.
Comic 519 is up, an action comic from Satsui. Still a few strips left in this storyline, but there's still more time left before the hiatus ends... Send in some more guest comics!
Comic 518 is up, past the halfway mark of UsaSatsui's Vacation storyline. ...Yep, this'd be the one I was thinking of. More fun still to come...
Comic 517 is up, continuing on through the strips from Satsui. ...And apparently my memory is bad, must be tomorrow where things get worse, as far as content is concerned.
Comic 516 is up, still in the middle of the strips from UsaSatsui. Stay tuned, tomorrow they enter the game proper.
Comic 515 is up, guest week-and-a-half-or-so continues. ...If any of this is offensive... I can only say that it's going to get worse over the next couple of days. See you tomorrow!
Comic 514 is up, strip #2 of UsaSatsui's guest comics. Stay tuned for more over the next week and a half, and send in your own guest comics, why not?
Comic 513 is up, the first of the guest strips. Only a few weeks left of class, one drawing left for the art class and that's done... two papers and one response for the online class, one paper and 4 journal entries for the writing class, and one project left for photography... On the plus side, I'm getting closer to being done with the cast page updates. I do still think about them, I swear.
Comic 512 is up, last one for a while... Not at all happy with taking a hiatus, but I'm less happy with the comic suffering from poor quality and late updates throughout the next month. So, bye for now, feel free to talk it up in the forums, I'll still be around.
Comic 511 is up, P.G. has learned to put out a fire. As per usual, no real news tonight.
Comic 510 is up, heading on into the second to last game of this storyline. No news to report tonight, must be off to my game.
Comic 509 is up, the next clue is out for your perusal. ...That's really about all I have tonight. I'm actually looking forward to working on the new old comics again, maybe if I get enough schoolwork done over the weekend (yech, never thought I'd say those words), I'll get around to making comic 17.
Comic 508 is up, just about into the next game now. I actually did intend to give the clue tonight, I had help in searching all around for the game's instruction manual, but what I was looking for was nowhere to be found. I'll make something up based on the game itself tomorrow, no more stalling.
Comic 507 is up, P.G. should be able to remember the clue tomorrow. ...Or possibly Thursday, depends how things go. Wednesday is never a good night for comic making, due to a late night class. No other site news, though I'm now wishing I had time to make old comics or cast pages... those'd be more enjoyable than homework.
Comic 506 is up, P.G. is finally awake. Still up to my neck in homework, but I got some things done. Should've mentioned this yesterday, but Matt got the pips for the forum up. However, since he still hasn't chosen a character for himself, he's currently without one... And since there are no moderators, global or otherwise, besides he and I, of the 7 pips I made, only two are actually in use right now, Forum Member and Comic Author. ...Though, it's probably a good thing that we haven't needed the "Banned Member" pip yet.
Comic 505 is up, fillery goodness. ...No news tonight, must get back to drawing.
Comic 504 is up, P.G. will be up and around... pretty soon. Rather late comic, rather sorry, rather tired. Even on Saturdays now, I'm doing schoolwork... Of course, the fact that I have an online class with work due on Sundays probably has something to do with that.
Comic 503 is up, yay, filler! Oh, wait, no. Filler bad. Sorry about the filler... Tonight was my sister's birthday, and the D&D game is also tonight, and there were a bunch of other things that happened, so... Sorry again.
Comic 502 is up, poor P.G.... I considered doing a filler comic, but decided to go with this instead. ...I suppose the filler comic would have actually been put up on time, though. This is mostly just stalling because I haven't had the time to think about the clue for the next game yet... It should be in tomorrow's comic... probably.
Comic 501 is up, that's about all for Metroid. Still no name for the new guy, though that's simply because the timing hasn't been right to have him introduce himself. He's had a name since the character was created, of course. Oh, I entirely forgot to mention yesterday, since I was in a hurry to update close to midnight, the site redesign has been coming along well. ...Though, I guess it's okay to mention it today, since (I think) a little more work was done.
Comic 500 is up, happy 500th strip, everyone! In my usual fashion, I decided against simply doing a special comic instead of a normal one, and just went with attaching it to the bottom of tonight's strip. ...Not that the 500th strip special is really all that much, but at least it's something. Here's to another 500!
Comic 499 is up, Samus has entered the game. Well, I entirely forgot to find out the last name of the guy today, didn't even occur to me until around an hour ago... But, apparently Matt has ESP... he showed up not a half an hour ago and gave me the guy's last name. Then, not too long ago, I realized, he may not want me blabbing his full name across the internets... The guy behind... well, the still unnamed new character... is Jeremy. Of course, this only matters to the few people who read the comic that also happen to go to my college and know the guy...
Comic 498 is up, who might this guy be? As I mentioned above, I have plans for the team. Any new Game Destroyers that get added now won't be main characters, they'll be minor characters, at best. But, as Ferahgo said, they need to find lots more unprogrammed sprites to fight in the army, so we'll be meeting a number more people. I've had an open casting call among folks I know for a while now, and managed to scrounge up a few to add during this storyline. More will be coming later, of course. As for who this is... well, I'd say it now, but I honestly don't remember his last name...
Comic 497 is up, only an hour or so late... Panels 3 and 4 really had me stuck for a while as to what they would talk about. I got a bit of advice, but ended up going with this instead. Also, Jipples being a packrat is a character trait that he was supposed to have long ago, Josh asked me to implement that a long time ago. I just never felt that there was a right time for it before now. Not to mention, we now have two packrat characters (though, that's not too bad, considering that we have four characters whose description consists of "random and zany").
Comic 496 is up, moving on into Metroid... which I can see that many people were already able to either guess or look up on their own. Only two games to go, then this section will be over with. As per usual, no real site news today.
Comic 495 is up, almost into the next game. ...Hey, guess what? No site news today.
Comic 494 is up, the plot has advanced ever so slightly. No real site news today, too many other things to think about.
Comic 493 is up... Meh. Nothing to say tonight. No real site news.
Comic 492 is up, yet not... I did actually have the backgrounds and characters all set, but I got completely stumped on the dialogue. I just couldn't write anything good, the whole premise was just plain bad. And I didn't really even want to address the jumping situation yet, but I knew I couldn't leave it up in the air for too much longer. I did plan to address it soon, the comments in the forums just... expedited it. Hopefully this explanation isn't too deus ex machina-y, and hopefully it doesn't ruin P.G.'s character too much. (Honestly, I was gonna find a way for him to jump sooner or later... Too many platforming games exist on the NES for him to always borrow a balloon from Jipples.)
Comic 491 is up, moving on through Castlevania II. Well, I dunno if anyone else remembers 100 comics ago, but at that point, I said that each 100 strips after 291 would be Talk About Matt and How Awesome He Is For Hosting the Comic and the Forums Day. ...Though, since we had the news page hiccup, I don't actually remember if we had the forums the last time this happened. So, everyone remind Matt how awesome he is, and thank him for keeping the forums up and running for no pay whatsoever. :D
Comic 490 is up, progress is slow going through CV II. For those who have been guessing in the forums, there are exactly 3 games left to go through in this gauntlet, and then we'll be on to the next storyline. This storyline didn't really work out as well as I had hoped, I was hoping to go through far more games and also... well, something else, you'll see in the next three games. Meh, no real news tonight.
Comic 488 is up, into Castlevania II we go. Major props go to Hacker, aka Scotty, tonight, for going through the archives for me while I was busy and doing a bit of research for me. I couldn't honestly remember if either Ace or P.G. had seen P.G. get all stabbity before, and I didn't have the spare time to go browsing through the archives myself, what with tonight being the first game of the SydLexia D&D. The dialog in the first panel was shaped by that information, so give him a thank you in the forums.
Comic 488 is up, into the next game now. Hmm, I should probably pick out the next game to go into soon... And it'd probably help if I remember where the clue in this game is supposed to go... Oh, hey, look at that, I actually updated on time today! ...Though, there's no real news tonight, as per usual.
Comic 487 is up, just a bit of talking. Too many annoying distractions tonight. Comic took far longer than it should have. No real news tonight.
Comic 486 is up, with a nice little list. Can you believe we've gone through so many games? Granted, three of the games on that list we didn't really "go through," we just sort of stopped in them for a brief visit. No one seems to be guessing on the upcoming games, so I suppose I'll be skipping the rest of the non-important games on the list that I have. That's not to say that this storyline is almost over, though, there's still a couple important games to go through. ...And who knows, I may throw in a few more non-important games, just to trip you up.
Comic 485 is up, another clue for you all to have fun with. Rather late comic tonight, almost put up a filler, but I decided against it. No real news tonight, guess away at the next game.
Comic 484 is up, another clue retrieved. Goodbye to Ninja Gaiden, though we may well revisit the game some day, it's too important in gaming history to spend only three comics on it. I still need to hire someone to write this kind of dialogue... In writing Draco's lines, I bit down on my hand and said the lines aloud, writing down what it sounded like. And yes, I felt very silly in doing so.
Comic 483 is up, they're at the 8th beetle... but will they manage to get it? I didn't actually plan out the comic too well, it was just random luck that it happened to work out with two beetles in each panel. I could have probably expanded upon any of the four panels instead of just heading on through, but I'm just not that big of a Ninja Gaiden fan, so I'm getting in and out of this game as quickly as possible. The next game has been selected, should prove fairly fun.
Comic 482 is up, the clue has been solved already. I know that nobody in the forums guessed the game yet (or at least, nobody said it aloud), but I was running late today and I was drawing a blank. For a short time, I considered putting up a non-Steve & Sammich filler, just to lengthen the guessing time, but then I decided against it. I was rather unprepared for stalling this time like I did with the last clue. We'll see what happens with the next game, I suppose.
Comic 481 is up, the clue is finally written! Again, I'm left to wonder if this clue will be so easy that you guys get it off the bat, or if it's vague enough to leave you guessing for days again... We shall see. I forgot to mention yesterday that I actually wrote up some stuff for the {gasps} Minor Character pages! Some new ones might even get added in the near future! ...But not today.
Comic 480 is up, almost managed to fit the clue in today... ...Yeah, alright, it's intentional stalling, I still haven't made up a good clue for the next game. Definitely tomorrow, though.
Comic 479 is up, yet another Steve & Sammich. Hey, at least it's been more than three weeks since the last one. This is what happens when I leave an essay til the last minute, though. Something had to be cut from my schedule, and this was the easiest thing to cut. Sorry, but the comic doesn't rank higher than my schoolwork. ...Or, at least, schoolwork that's worth a decent percent of my grade, anyway.
Comic 478 is up, back to the hideout again. I do have (most) of the next clue written out... but the way the spacing of the comic worked out, I figured I'd put it off for a day and stick in the Sparkles as a pet joke. ...Even though it was pretty obvious that they'd be keeping Sparkles as a pet, given the name of yesterday's comic... While some of the games they're going into are randomly selected, there are a few that they'll definitely be going into during this story arc. I'm not pulling everything in this story out of my ass... just most of it.
Comic 477 is up, the hammer has been found. The drawing is nearly done at this point, I'll take a picture of it at some point tomorrow, probably. It's just a drawing of P.G., Spiffy, and Kaid, not really much happening in it, but they came out pretty well. As usual as of late, no other site news tonight.
Comic 476 is up, it's the next clue world! And they've found a little pet to boot. You should all go check out the game Trilby: The Art of Theft for the PC, it's a free little adventure game, first result on google. It ate up a number of hours of my free time today... I'm also working on drawing some of the main characters for an assignment for my drawing class, I may consider taking a picture of it and uploading it here, depending how well it turns out.
Comic 475 is up, woo for hitting 4 games in a single strip. Doesn't happen often, you know. I had a few fun ideas for upcoming comics today, but other than that, no real site news.
Comic 474 is up, though, while not filler, it is essentially pointless, as far as the gang is concerned. I know that Kaid is supposed to talk in that flowery text when he's in his flower bush disguise... But that text takes up a LOT of room, and this strip is already crowded with text as it is. Expect site updates to be on the low side for a bit, as I work on my new D&D quest. I'll try to squeeze in more new old comics whenever I can, though.
Comic 473 is up, Ace is... well, seems better, anyway. I had a different plan in mind for the last two panels, but then decided to go with at least people moving, rather than everyone just sitting on the couch, like they usually are. No real site news today, I spent far too many hours today writing up a tutorial on how to use HeroForge.
Comic 472 is up, Ace is down... That guy seems to get the most bloody injuries in the group, doesn't he? No real news for the site today, other than me having to go back into Gremlins 2 yet again for more screenshots. On the plus side, I discovered yet more poses to add to P.G.'s sprite sheet. One thing that's taking up a lot of my time now is that I'll be DM'ing a game in the #sydlexia chatroom, and I've come under a deluge of questions from every side about the game. Plenty of folks who are playing are doing so for the first time, so there's lots of folks to explain the basics to.
Comic 471 is up, we're almost done with Contra already! Only slightly late tonight, by a few minutes, lots of other things happening tonight vying for my time. As usual, most of them are SydLexia related. Not really much site related news today, other than making the pips for the forums. Go check em out in the Help Me section, leave some feedback!
Comic 470 is up, and we're off an running through the gauntlet (of games). One new comic today, comic 17 is finished!
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Other than that, though, not really much to report on today.
Comic 469 is up, now we're starting to see a little of what's gonna happen here. ...No real news for today, other than to apologize for the hour late (or two hour late, if you've set your clock forward early). I was busy with a project for a different site, as well as with my duties as an operator in the #sydlexia chatroom. It's hard to focus on making a comic when one certain guy is spamming the hell out of my bot... Anyways, there's been a lot of late comics lately, but I do intend to pick up the slack and get them done sooner in the day. Work on comic 17 has essentially begun, I've gone through Gremlins 2 and gotten a bunch of screenshots to use for backgrounds. I'm now hoping to never have to play that game again...
Comic 468 is up, so much text... Slightly late tonight, though I was almost on time... At the last minute, I realized I had put regular square textboxes around Ferahgo's text instead of the rounded square ones, so I had to go back and fix those up. In what may come as a surprise, I actually did some work with the site today! Comic 16 is finished!
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Though, admittedly, it's just a segueway to get into comic 17, comic 16 isn't really all that great.
Comic 467 is up, still in the den. ...I realized today that in my rush last night, I forgot to actually name the new storyline... So, there you are, a new storyline arc, and at some point soon, yesterday's strip will be edited to be part of it as well. As promised yesterday, I'll mention that I'm now writing in a spiffy new Comic Editor v2.1 written by Matt, which replaces the old three page update system and seems to be quick as a wink, compared to the other one, which seemed to freeze Firefox on a regular basis. Matt has also entirely rewritten the archive system to be organized by storyline now, and it's quite easy to navigate through. Let's hear a round of applause for Matt, everyone!
Comic 466 is up, yay for confusing the newer characters! ...Really, I'd say more, but it's already 3 AM, and I have a class in 6 and a half hours... Sleep is needed. I apologize for the ridiculously late comic. Actual news tomorrow, as Matt's been quite the busy little bee, it would seem.
Comic 465 is up, that wraps up the dreams. Unless I think of something great tomorrow, this storyline is over. ...I suppose I could take the 's' off of Dream Sequences, since we really only went into detail on one. Though, we did at least hear a little bit about Spiffy and P.G.'s dreams... New storyline possibly starting tomorrow, should hopefully be fun stuff.
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