No comic today.

I will be posting it tomorrow, Friday the 4th.

I’ve been working on a super secret project that, if it comes to fruition, will be pretty cool. Once something is set in stone I will make an announcement here. If nothing comes of it you will be left to wonder for the rest of your lives. Then, in 50 years you’ll ask me, “What was the secret project you were working on?”

I’ll moan out a reply, “Come closer…closer….it was….it was….deez nuts….” Then I die. Forever.

Jonathan Coulton in Dallas Wednesday 9/19/07

Jonathan Coulton is a personal hero. He’s just some guy from NYC that writes funny songs and distributes them over the internet. Over the last couple of years he’s turned his music into his full time job. He is completely supported by me and you and everyone else that enjoys his music. You’ve probably heard his folky acoustic cover of “Baby Got Back,” or maybe you were lucky enough to see him perform at this year’s PAX.

His rise to internet fame stems from the close connection he keeps with his fans through his website. Email him. I dare you. He’ll respond. He helped me with the code for Corn Mo’s music store just because I asked him how he’d made his own. What a guy!

Jonathan Coulton

Angel Season 6 (comic) First 5 Pages!

Check them out on Ain’t it Cool.

Hot on the heels of Joss Whedon’s hugely popular “Buffy: Season Eight” series for Dark Horse Comics (consistently the publisher’s top-selling title since its launch last March) comes a Whedon-supervised “Angel: Season Six” funnybook series for IDW.

I’ve really been enjoying Buffy: Season 8. This preview of Angel: Season Six has made me very enthusiastic. No spoilers…OK, one. Angel is riding a dragon.

Angel Season 6 Preview

Does this qualify as fan art?

Probably not because I don’t think the person that drew it ever actually saw the comic. Here’s the deal: I made a comic that illustrated what Wikipedia means to me (link to hi-res version). A nice person called DPDarkPrimus posted a link to it on a scifi forum.

Another nice person called Dalton replied:

Nothing makes my day more than a dude dressed up as George Washington, riding a velociraptor and wielding Lion-O’s sword, while a giant robot battles a tank in the background.

A fantasical badass called havokeff did an interpretation of the comic that looked like this:

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Wikipedia Comic Forum Sketch Thumb

That is the greatest thing I have ever seen. It puts my original to shame. If you know havokeff, please extend my heartfelt thanks for making my day.