Getting a little too pluggy for your tastes? Well, the plugs are paying for my table and hotel at Comicpalooza so how about roll with it just this once and, if you are in the area, come out and see what promises to be a very cool comic/pop culture show.

Meeting Wil Wheaton at Emerald City Comicon was such a thrill that I thought the experience deserved it’s own comic. He’s such a kind and gracious dude. I highly suggest that you check out his various podcasts and books, especially the Memories of the Futurecast and the book what inspired it called [shockingly] Memories of the Future. If you ever wondered what it was like to actually grow up on the set of Star Trek: The Next Generation (especially during the highly questionable first season) this is a must-read. (more…)

• Project Cloverfield: Top Secret Bath Gel?
• Emerald City Comicon
• Bacn Bacn Bacn Bacn Bacn! I Smell Bacn!

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.

• Sweet On Wheat-on
• You Just Got Rick RROD
• With So Much Drama In The LHC

Pig-Lash? Whip-Sizzle? Electro-Bacon-Belts?

While I am living it up (ie not sleeping, working long shifts with no breaks, being a sub minor internet celebrity for a select few geeks) at Emerald City Comic Con, Fancy Bastard and fellow webcartoonist Jerry Nowlin was kind enough to make you all a comic to read and direct your LOLs toward.

Check out his comic Truly Epic or you will truly regret it (that rhymes if you read it right). The keenest and fanciest of you will remember Josh’s unfortunate tattoo choice from this comic.

So anywhatever, if you are in the Seattle area please come down to ECCC and say hi to me and every other webcartoonist. I am in the artist alley at table M-06, just down the way from the big ass Topatoco booth. Josh may or may not be with me for part of the day on Saturday. Follow me on Twitter for updates on his whereabouts and level of sobriety.

Super special thanks to Jade and Dov for hosting me at their home this weekend and to Paul and Ben of the webcomic Woody After Hours for shuttling me around town in their party van. See, kids? Some times it pays to get into a van with strangers.

A SERIOUS THING: Even more special thanks to all of you who sent your kind words and well wishes for my mom after her very serious car accident. She is at my house resting and recovering now and doing quite well all things considered. I appreciate you directing some positive vibes our way during a very troubling week and for not calling me out on the lack of comics this week.

• Whatever Remains, However Improbable…
• War Machine, HUH! Good God! What Is It Good For?
• I’m Going To Be In Pictures (Guest Comic By Didu)

WTF IS GOING ON!?!?
If you follow me on Twitter, you may know that my mom was in a really bad car accident yesterday. I ended up spending all night in the hospital and came home to get some rest about 2am this morning. I’m headed back to the hospital now. She is doing well, but she needs to have surgery for a compound fracture in her thumb. Please send positive thoughts our way and excuse the lack of comic updates this week.

I assume I will still be at Emerald City Comic Con this weekend if she is already home and recovering.

If you are in Seattle and would be interested in a reader meetup this weekend, comment below.

Upcoming Appearances!!!

Emerald City Comic-Con
March 13-14 @ The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA
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• 2 TRON 2B 4 GOTTEN
• Weekend Recap
• The Bravest Little Hobbit Of Them All

CHECK OUT THIS INTERVIEW that I did with SciFi Mafia about the origins of The Edward [James Olmos] shirt. I also want to mention that Olmos Productions is now donating their licensing proceeds from the shirt to benefit Jaime Escalante who was the inspiration for the movie Stand And Deliver. HE Podcast listeners will recognize this as one of Eli’s favorite films. He is very ill with cancer and needs financial help. Read EJO’s letter HERE.

Upcoming Appearances!!!
Staple! THIS WEEKEND!!!
March 6 @ The Monarch Event Center in Austin, TX
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Emerald City Comic-Con
March 13-14 @ The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA
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JUST ANNOUNCED!
I will be a guest at Comicpalooza in Houston, TX March 26-28
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Speaking of Xander, he’s actually going to be there. So is Sierra from Dollhouse who was by far the best actress on the show.

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• Jazz Fangs
• The Glee Agenda
• Rebuffed

“Part 1 in The Hypertrinity Saga”

2 Upcoming Appearances!!!
Staple! THIS WEEKEND!!!
March 6 @ The Monarch Event Center in Austin, TX
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Emerald City Comic-Con
March 13-14 @ The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA
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If there’s one thing that makes Ron D. Moore’s space-beard stand on end it’s the juxtaposition of science and religion. When you boil it down to space-ics this is the central theme of every show he’s ever run. He often broaches the topic in such s way that really gets you thinking about the wider implications of the argument. “If a planet of space-jews tell me I’m the messiah and treat me like the messiah no matter what I do or say, AM I the messiah? Is that all it takes? Is that what happened to Jesus?”

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• Why a Wiimote cousin? Why not an axe?
• Where No Man Has Gotten Freaky Before
• What’s “Taters,” Precious?

“I think I hear muffled growls coming from the closet.”

2 Upcoming Appearances!!!
Staple!
March 6 @ The Monarch Event Center in Austin, TX
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Emerald City Comic-Con
March 13-14 @ The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA
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What’s wrong with telling the suspicious link clicking, password giving, attachment downloading, bad-computing masses that a website can fix their slow computer? Well, correct me if I’m wrong, but one would assume the only way an external site could scan your files and your registry would be to give that site root access to your machine. So are they are offering malicious spyware to remove spyware? (more…)

• The Song Of The Unsuccessful Aquatic Mammal
• S.W.A.T. (Swedish Weapons and Torrents)
• Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel

Thanks to Paul Southworth of Not Invented Here for informing me that John “Jim Halpert” Krasinski was in the running to play a goofily smirking Captain America [and for essentially coming up with the idea for this comic]. If you like this particular comic, why not email your favorite movie blog and send them a link to it? What could it hurt?

• Marvel Convenes Steamy CAPTAIN AMERICA Casting Orgy!!!
• Jim from ‘The Office’ As Captain America?
• Would-Be Captain Americas Do Screen Tests… But Seriously? John Krasinski?

HEY!There is a new LoFijiNKS Podcast up now!

2 Upcoming Appearances!!!
Staple!
March 6 @ The Monarch Event Center in Austin, TX
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Emerald City Comic-Con
March 13-14 @ The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA
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• X-Tweens
• Why So Posthumous?
• Who Snooches The Noochmen?

Yep. That really just happened. For “IRL” reals, even.

A moment later 100 white doves burst into the sky each doing an air guitar rendition of “Eruption” by Van Halen while swarms of hawks painted like the jets from Top Gun picked them off one by one mid-air. A team of sled dogs pulled a polar bear with a flame thrower as he burned “WILLGHFHYOUHFGAUEGQ AIFHMARRYJIAJDHGAHHHH” into the side of the resort (because polar bears can’t spell very well, much less do they have the fine motor control to write legibly with a flame thrower). But the sentiment was beautiful, none the less. (more…)

• The Tigh’s That Blind
• The Song Of The Unsuccessful Aquatic Mammal
• The Immaculate Extinction Theory

NEW PODCAST! I am doing a new mini-podcast called the LoFijiNKS Podcast where I just talk for 30 min or so. You can listen HERE, subscribe HERE, or iTunes subscribe HERE.

STORE NEWS: The “Riker?” Shirt will be available until Feb 20th and 5 other HE shirts are being retired (ALSO ON FEB 20th!!!) for the foreseeable future and are on sale now for $18.

The guy in the comic that isn’t me is my friend Daniel. He came over to watch Lost last night (and show that really should always be shared with friends so you can look up what the hell is going on in the episode from multiple web-enabled mobile phones in teams) and we had this exact conversation, though admittedly with less lyrical flow. (more…)

• The Song Of The Unsuccessful Aquatic Mammal
• Tweroes and Twillains
• The Most Mal Of Wares