Comics return on June 23rd
There follows a brief pause while I finish drawing SAVAGE SWORD OF SUSAN, which runs for 11 weeks rather than the usual seven. Yes, it is epic in scale (for a single issue), you guessed right. It’s certainly not 34 pages of titting about in a forest*. I’ll see you back here on the 20th for the unveiling of the cover, and new pages begin to run on June 23rd. My Patreon subscribers will be able to read it in full then.
* It is 34 pages of titting about in a forest.
Did someone call for me? My titting-about-in-a-forest sense is tingling!
Being someone fond of both forests and titting about, I think I’m going to enjoy this one rather a lot.
As long as they don’t tit about on ladders, it’s fine.
Trees are just naturally occurring ladders.
Little Claire, not little adventure
Certainly it will be different from wrestling in a forest. (or at least not the same kind of wrestling we saw in a forest in Solver)
Given that Glenn is rolling out a barrel, I assume that we will have roughly that amount of fun.
Is the barrel full of laughs?
Monkeys?
What is in that barrel!?!
We’ve got the blues on the run!
But I’m not sure it’s time to roll the barrel. Is the gang all here?
Tzing! Boom! Ta-rarrel!
Thief, Rogue, and… Maid?
This is the weirdest D&D session ever.
Glenn is a scribe, or at least he was in the previous epic that had to be taken down.
Why can’t a scribe be a rogue? Perhaps he writes in copperplate instead of Baskerville?
Bold choice indeed!
You are a font of daring suggestions!
Could be worse. Could be Comic Sans. (Although personally I hate Papyrus even more. I have enough fonts installed to choke the Blatant Beast and give any typesetter a hernia.)
From the “Blood Egg” page John posted on his bluesky, it appears to be thief, scribe, and healer.
CARLOTTA!!!!
The big question is: Will Shailey make an appearance?
These characters seem… familiar. Doubly familiar, in fact.
If this will be the aborted Conan comic, but with all instances of those mighty thews replaced by Susan, it’ll still be a great time.
Again, careful mentioning the IP in question. We don’t want to risk courting their wrath against John any further.
Is Conan O’Brien really that insecure? 😀
I’m not sure I can wait 2 weeks without some bad machinery
…and my car doesn’t count
You know what else has 34 pages of titting about in a forest?
Cymbeline.
aka ‘The Tragedie of Cymbeline’ or ‘Cymbeline, King of Britain’.
Written by some guy called oh I don’t know you may have heard of him… WILLIAM WILBERFORCE SHAKESPEARE.
So, yeah.
Funny that…
I AM VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS
Y’all need to pop in or sub to John’s Bluesky already:
https://bsky.app/profile/badmachinery.com
Last two days nets you a page from the cancelled Conan kerfluffle, a grammar thread involving Destroy History, and some New Jack Swing.
Yes! Lil Claire is suspiciously “eastern martial artist girl” flavored in this pic, and despite nothing particularly racy, I will still count this as fanservice.
LARP LARP LARP LARP LARP
A friend of mine overheard me using the word “larp” and mistakenly deduced from context that a larp was a small fictional animal. He asked me whether larps were good to eat. I did not at all know how to reply.
I can’t say I’ve ever eaten larp, but I’ve had many a fine feast from the related sca.
FFS turn that ruddy car alarm off!