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Emerald City Comicon
Emerald City Comicon, you have stolen my heart… and perhaps some of my bone marrow. This was by far the most fun (and most profitable) con I’ve ever done. I actually brought about half the books and shirts that I should have. I WILL be back next year for sure. Look for me and Angela in a booth of sorts.
My next con will be Comicpalooza in Houston, TX, March 26-28. Come see me or I will… still have a fun time. Just not with you.
This “comic” is adapted from a commissioned sketch I did for Kitty at ECCC. When I get a sketch request like “please draw Josh vs. a Jedi octopus” my initial internal reaction is something like, “are you just fucking with me?” Then I start to see the inherent challenge and look at it as a… well, a challenge. A beast to be tamed. And tame it I did. Look how tame it is! With Josh and the sea creature and light sabres and struggling and futility and such.
In addition to hanging out with my awesome webcomics friends and making a few new ones, I finally got to meet Wil Wheaton in person. We’ve emailed back and forth a few times but it was nice to see him in meat space. He has a firm handshake that says “I am not Wesley. And don’t be a dick.” I introduced myself and he looks at another guy in the booth and says “this is the guy I was telling you about that does the webcomic and made those Edward shirts.”
So yeah, Rest Of My Life, you’re going to have to try pretty hard to top this weekend.
Tags: conventions, emerald city comicon, jedi, josh dies, octopus, star wars
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March 15th, 2010 at 10:41 am
That's just… awesome. Jedi octopi rule
March 15th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Tentacoo wape?
March 15th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
I am going frame hunting for this tomorrow! I love it so muchly. And I am so excited you are coming back next year!
March 15th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Aww snap, Wil Wheaton is referring to you in the 3rd person to his friends. Roles reversed!
March 15th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
That is clearly a Sith octopus, only they use red light sabers.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
While a Jedi octopus would never use tentacle rape, a Sith octopus would have had Josh's pants down by now.
March 15th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I somehow can't help but feel that this is somehow, tangentially related to this…
http://io9.com/5492977/the-most-self+explanatory-...
Though I do have to say Joel, your best quality as a comic writer and artist is your ability to commit to things. I am always amused by your convention sketches.
March 15th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Obviously the force is not strong in Josh.
March 15th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I want that pic on a shirt!
March 15th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Well, at least not yet.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:28 pm
As one of Josh's tribe, I can attest that this is almost certainly NOT what the octopus would likely be doing in such a meet-up.
Naughty, naughty tentacles…
March 15th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Before I read the title of the comic I thought it was supposed to be Josh being raped by a octopus with lightsaber dildos.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:54 am
please tell your friend that I havent gotten his email about his commission and to please contact me before I completely forget.
March 16th, 2010 at 12:55 am
close enough.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:01 am
I wanted to make sure I shared josh's new acquisition:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubinplano/443376052...
Hand made and one of a kind.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Some great pics from the con:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-monk/sets/72157...
March 16th, 2010 at 1:17 am
Some great pics from the con:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave-monk/sets/72157...
March 16th, 2010 at 5:22 am
Clearly a Sith octopus. Josh is subdued, and frightened out of his mind, and a Jedi octopus at this point would be restraining him for the appropriate authorities. That octopus is looking ready to murder or torture Josh, so it must be a Sith.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Not to repeat myself…but, Josh is gonna get some loving, Josh is gonna get some loving, Josh is gonna get some loving, Josh is gonna get some loving, Josh is gonna get some loving, Josh is gonna get some loving…
March 16th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Watch Lucas steal this idea for the new "upgrades" to General Grievous….lol Nice pic!
March 16th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
I was totally going to ask……"Why does it look like Josh is gonna get raped with a lightsaber?" lol
March 16th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Somehow I always new it would end this way….
March 16th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Josh's sexual proclivities are his undoing…
March 16th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
I Jedi must control his emotions….he must never get involved with an octopus…
March 16th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
wow. disturbing and funny
March 16th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I suppose that depends on where precisely those tentacles go
March 16th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
This gives me happy mental images. Well, mostly happy. Happy and jealous. Not sure if I'm jealous of the octopus or Josh. Maybe both.
March 17th, 2010 at 6:00 am
I'm totally loving the swag I got at the ECCC. My Fancy Bastard Sticker now lives on my laptop! Booth sitting for you was a bit of a surreal event for me, especially when you consider that I missed the first part of a seminar on webcomics to do it. But it was totally worth it.
http://www.facebook.com/MaggieBones?v=photos#!/ph…
Photo proof that I am, in fact, a geek. <3
March 17th, 2010 at 6:16 am
Okay, let's try this again, only with a link that doesn't make you 'friend' me.
http://s453.photobucket.com/albums/qq252/maggie-b...
That nonsense should work.
March 17th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fis...
That's what the Internet has done for you today.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Just got my OMGWTF book for birthday present. You really are the bastard child of all things speedy and religious, mister joel.
March 21st, 2010 at 4:31 pm
It's octopuses. And Jedi octopuses don't use red-bladed lightsabers.
Except in the Bizarro world, perhaps.
July 6th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Dude, I completely forgot.
July 6th, 2010 at 3:09 am
Well email me I guess. I feel bad taking your money and you having nothing in return.