Happy 2022, everybody! Some focused free time between academic semesters helped me get back on track with the comic! In an attempt to achieve some better work/life/hobby balance, I’m going to go back to the schedule where I alternate a “main story” comic with a 4-panel “joke” comic each week, so while that main story…
2020 and 2021 were, I think, each tremendously rough rides in their own similar and distinct ways. I know New Year’s Eve is a high-order human construct, and that the flipping over of the calendar to a “new” year doesn’t actually do anything to change the world around us, but it’s incentive to try, and…
I feel like art-as-advocacy has not had the long-term punchiness in the pandemic that many of us who genuinely believe in the potential of art to communicate ideas, encourage empathy, and impact the world hoped it had. Or, at least, in my corner of the world, I’ve not seen it be as successful as maybe…
One of my favorite parts about these short, 4-panel comic strips is in trying to pair up characters who don’t get a lot of time together normally, and see how they bounce off one another. I think a longer-form Rage and Hawkeye adventure could be a lot of fun, if I ever have the time…
Hawkeye never thought he’d go from being the Avengers’ resident Luddite to providing on-the-fly tech support to Captain America…
Into the Spider-Verse is a movie I’ve not been able to get out of my head since the moment I saw it in the theater, and while I’m certainly not trying to be (nor capable of being) as visually imaginative as that movie, I’d at least like to tip my hat to it, especially around…
One of the obvious downsides of maintaining your secret identity is that you can’t have serious conversations with your super-coworkers. Not without resorting to a lot of euphemisms like, “A friend of mine…” or, “I heard someone say once…” Especially when you’re Spider-Man, and it’s not easy for you to make friends!
I’ve mentioned before that Rage was a character who caught my attention in some of the earliest comics I ever remember buying; what I particularly liked about him was how he didn’t really try to affect a superhero “persona.” He was a person (a 13-year old kid, in fact) and a superhero in equal measure….
I wish I had anything useful about the genesis of this idea, but I don’t. Inspiration just struck, and would not let go, until I had finished bringing this comic strip into existence. It still makes me laugh, looking at it, and I hope it’s entertaining to you, too! Red Guardian’s actually a funny character,…
The Fabulous Frog-Man is a character (and particularly a character design) that I’ve always adored; his desperation to do the right thing, in spite of his inexperience and (some might say) incompetence is very endearing. My hope is to, eventually, build out the cast of characters – students and faculty alike – at Midtown High…
