And then the twist ending that we ALL saw coming… was actually totally unplanned. Yeah, this wasn’t originally going to be part of the series at all. The party was supposed to be The Nitpickers and The New Guys exclusively. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, time for some Behind the Scenes lore. VERY shortly after last year’s Christmas comics were done, we got some actual snow around town. It was early enough in January that a lot of Christmas decorations were still up, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See what I mean? These things are all over the place! And yes, now Jenna and Megaweapon are getting repeat appearances. I apologize for nothing, I love the Hector crew. Also, I really AM going to start Jenna’s Patreon comics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wow, it’s been a while since we saw Megaweapon outside of a Christmas comic, hasn’t it? I really DO have too many characters too keep track of. Speaking of whom, at first I was going to have him just have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
She’s not kidding either. Avatar’s so done, she leaves the White Void Filled With Abstract Shapes after this. I really do get bored with doing any one thing for too long. Art Talk Time: my parents have this little wooden[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I introduced Dr. Freeman here in a Christmas series back in 2011, and keep looking for excuses to use him more, but it’s surprisingly hard to find places to work in a tree-themed mad scientist. And given the kind of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been sticking a note at the top of all these explaining that I’m mirroring the comics on social media due to “SmackJeeves shenanigans.” What I meant was that SmackJeeves was planning to switch over to a new mobile reader-based[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: This is still one of my favorite animated pages out of the bunch, a perfect example of the right way to use the effect, ESPECIALLY compared to some of the not so good experiments you’re about to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Far Out There is so far in the future that even a machine that runs on a giant glowing brain in a jar can somehow look really vintage. At some point (I think it was a previous Christmas series?) I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: More iffy backgrounds because I just couldn’t find any pictures of a backstage area that matched the perspective of this drawing. I probably could have faked it if I added some piles of Christmas-y props behind Rumiko to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…