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Hey, look! Here’s a comic about buying a computer that used to belong to the guy that created Star Trek. I’m too tired to make funny words to go with it, but it will probably be a two-parter so check back Friday for the conclusion [unless I decide to do something else].
I know the comics schedule has been crazy unpredictable lately, and for that I’m sorry. Believe me that I am the person MOST frustrated by the situation. Finishing the book and getting ready for my first real con has taken up nearly every ounce of my focus for the last month. Today was my wife’s birthday and I spent the whole day making a comic. The comic was late so that makes me a crappy husband AND a crappy cartoonist.
Speaking of cons, please check out my post about my upcoming appearances in Baltimore, MD and Austin, TX. I am getting super excited (read: extraordinarily worried) about graduating from “faceless internet person of slight interest” to a “hey look there’s an internet person sitting behind that table let’s go poke him” person. I’ve been frantically practicing drawing on REAL paper (something I haven’t done regularly in almost a decade) in anticipation of doing con sketches. Follow me on Twitter to see the sketches I’ve been doing lately.
I hope to be doing a handful of cons next year. These first few outings are really just practice. For instance, I dropped a cashwad on shirts for Baltimore not knowing if it’s even the sort of con where people buy shirts. Expect a fire sale after the con if they sell poorly at the show. I’ll also be debuting a 4 pack of HE buttons and, of course, the book.
BOOK NOTE FOR MARYLAND PEOPLES: If you ordered the book already, or if you order it between now and Oct. 1st and you are going to be at Baltimore Comic-Con AND you want to pick up your book there please email store (At) hijinksensue(dot)com.
SPECIAL THANKS: to the server samurai at Infinistorm for the ridiculously smooth transition to my new souped up server. I have never worked with more accessible, reliable and honest server geeks. They specialize in custom app development, web design and VPS hosting. If you live in Indianapolis they will meet with you and buy you a puppy.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:11 am
Awesome. I like the assimilation and the face rug. Josh trying to get the computer to work by talking into the mouse is priceless, as is his face in panel 2.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Combine Riker's stache with Shatners rug…and you would have the ability to overthrow nations, merely because you would want to make it so.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Is it made of transparent aluminium?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Joel, thanks for the introduction of Face Pelt up into my lexicon.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:16 am
The second panel looks freaky. The text bubble covers enough of Joel's hair, AND he's holding a clump of similar colored hair in his hand I first thought he tore his hair out.
In either case, if the Borg did assimilate the iPhone, it would be Mac-Ocalpyse all over again, but with green instead of red.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Trapper Keeper ready to absorb.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:22 am
This is awesome on so many levels.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:28 am
Sadly, I'm going to miss Baltimore this year. I am, however, hitting up the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD this weekend. You should try to exhibit at that one next year.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Ironically, the Borg were overthrown after assimilating the iPhone's remote kill switch program.
Side note: Firefox spell check is awesome – it actually ensured that I spelled "Borg" with a capital "B".
September 24th, 2009 at 6:40 am
..Is that a Zoolander joke in the first panel?
Your paper-sketches are going fine, btw, can't wait to see what you'll doodle on my copy of The Book when it's all done and fancy. Good luck with the cons, I'm sure you'll do fine!
-D
September 24th, 2009 at 7:42 am
IT Crowd reference in the first panel I believe. Eeexcellent.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Should have used the old Chicago font for the "Resistance…" text.
Not a font nerd, and not usually a nit-picker, it was just the first thing that came to mind.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
I actually like the random schedule. It gives me a reason to check HE everyday, if theres nothing new, i review some classics!
ATTENTION COMIC-MAKER: "like" does not mean "change the normal schedule to random"
September 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
LOVE the IT Crowd reference in the first panel.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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September 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Josh: insane or just stupid? Or does he have some bacon-computer that has no mouse?
September 24th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
and be a world class sex machine
September 24th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Oh good call! Maybe Josh can also hit the darn thing and make ape sounds?
"The file's IN the computer. It's so simple!"
September 25th, 2009 at 12:46 am
That would be a reference to Scotty trying to talk to a Mac in Star Trek 4 The Voyage home.
September 25th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Hahahahahahahaha!
Has Josh totally stolen Riker's beard and run off with it? I know _I_ would … I mean … er …
September 25th, 2009 at 3:52 am
How do we know he didn't invent the stuff?
September 25th, 2009 at 3:58 am
Borg…is that Swedish?
September 25th, 2009 at 4:05 am
OMG what happens if Shatner's toupee and Riker's face pelt combine and breed to form an unstoppable hairy sex machine seducing all the women in the world and causing the human race to go extinct!
September 25th, 2009 at 4:07 am
Doug you strike me as the guy who would run of with the toupee…. just sayin
September 25th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Perhaps the Mac should be stuck in the middle of ape men while Josh brains one with a femur.
September 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I'm thinking of using "By Riker's beard!" as my exclamation of choice from now on.
Not so much a hair-on-top-of-the-head man myself, but beards are good. Very good.
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