Category: Writer’s Blog

One of the biggest pet peeves I notice amongst comics pros is that whenever anything related to comics gets some sort of mainstream media coverage, the title will predictably include a handful of sound effects straight out of the campy […]
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Do you recall this exchange from Shaun of the Dead? Ed: Are there any zombies out there? Shaun: Don’t say that! Ed: What? Shaun: That. Ed: What? Shaun: That. The Z word. Don’t say it. Ed: Why not? Shaun: Because […]
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If you’ve been paying attention to our comings and goings, you’ll know that this past weekend Dawn and I made our journey to Phoenix Comicon. If you haven’t? Uh, well… this past weekend Dawn and I made our journey to […]
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“I chartered one of the superb vessels of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for a hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and invited several parties to go along with me, twelve hundred in all. I shall not take so many next […]
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Growing up in the 1980s, I was a huge Uncanny X-Men fan. I had next to no idea about who was writing and drawing it (although for the record it was the Chris Claremont/John Byrne dream team), all I knew […]
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Verisimilitude, dear readers. Verisimilitude. Mouthful of a word, isn’t it? In fiction it speaks directly to the issue of “realism”, and how close or how far a story holds to how we understand things to function in our daily lives. It’s also tied into […]
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You know, I’m not sure if our weekly schedule has been harder or easier of late on those of you who are truly caught up in the throes of “What happens next?” Is it good to have a week to […]
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The past few weeks this blog has been pretty heavy on the “business” side of my experiences, so I figure it might be about time to get back to discussing more creative matters. The idea of tropes raised its head […]
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Last week I went over my reasons for why Dawn and I have become leery of submitting to paid entry contests involving our creative work. Even if they’re not intended as scams, some of them just seem like little more than what could […]
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In case you trip over my pretentious (and possibly inappropriately used) Latin here, the basic translation is “I do not wish to contend”, or more simply, “no contest”. The term mainly comes up in U.S. courts where a defendant chooses to […]
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I think I’ve mentioned before how lately I’d gotten somewhat pessimistic going into convention appearances. There have been occasions of terrible sales, terrible boredom, and on a couple of occasions a deadly combination of both, and running into one of […]
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You know about Shaun. But do you know about Juan? The oddest thing about the movie Juan of the Dead is that the pun of its title works far better in English than the original Spanish of “Juan de los […]
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A few weeks ago I was reminded once again that my perspective on this series is not that of the average reader. Now when I’m saying “average” I don’t mean that in a disparaging sense, because otherwise I’d be putting […]
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I’ve had this poll on the site for a few weeks now asking people what their favorite method of reading comics is: online, or in print? And I acknowledged right up front that this is perhaps a silly question to […]
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Well, last week I spelled out all my reservations regarding the sudden expansion of Emerald City Comic Con. Was it as big a letdown as I expected? Thankfully, no. In fact, if it weren’t for the expense involved in getting […]
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As stated in the text section below this week’s comic, this coming weekend will see Dawn and I returning to the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle for the second year. We also included a custom map showing our location, because the convention has […]
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There’s a tab on several of the more popular TV  Tropes pages with the initials “WMG”, which stands for “Wild Mass Guessing“. If you’ve ever debated with your friends over something like whether Cobb is awake or asleep at the […]
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So I have a confession to make, and that’s that I was not exactly champing at the bit to see Django Unchained. Yes, despite Quentin Tarantino’s name attached (and actually directing rather than simply producing). Despite it being a modern homage […]
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There comes a time in every webcomic’s life, assuming it lasts past the first several months, that a creator will look back at the first pages and think, “Man, that’s some rough stuff.” Some people go so far as to […]
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Last week’s comic represented a bit of a rarity for us, in that we actually went ahead and showed a person with his face half chewed off. For a comic named “Zombie Ranch”, we really don’t have much of a […]
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