Spruce Up
The site has had a minor spruce-up for 2026. NEMS parts 2&3 and Savage Sword of Susan have been moved to the story archive – you can find them in the menu at the top of the page (under “my old comics”), or on the Scary Go Round site where you can also find Bad Machinery, Kit + The Wolf, Giant Days (Self-Published) and more! I’ll add It’s The Nineties, Get Used To It to this archive when I get chance.
The plan for this year is twelve months of Solver, so it’s time for the old masthead (knocked up in ten minutes nearly five years ago, IIRC) to go. I hope you like the new one. Mildred must feature, of course – she got two whole issues of Solver, after all, and can always return to stir up trouble when she’s needed.
Jack still lost in time, I see.
At least ITNGUTI hasn’t been permanently consigned to the memory hole. There’s hope for Jack yet.
The good thing about time travel, though, is that he can come back to whatever time is most narratively convenient.
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Glad to hear that ITNGUTI isn’t gone forever. I hope you find a chance to revisit it.
I’m never going to finish it here as an ongoing series which resolves the plot. It was a pilot (as billed) that I did not feel like I wanted to spend years building out and resolving. It had merit but not enough to dominate my creative life for a year/years. But I should find a way to square it away (in a manner that will satisfy no one) this year.
So, if you’re spending this year entirely on Solver, and you think you’ll resolve ITNGUTI this year, does that mean you think it might get resolved in a Solver story?
Yes. It might get resolved in one panel of a Solver story. But I could see it taking as many as six. Panels, not pages, don’t get over excited.
Obviously, it will be something like this:
Mildred and Lottie: JACK! Wake up!
Jack: I just had the strangest dream. Oh, well, that’s over now.
And it will never be mentioned again.
Or maybe Jack actually gets used to the nineties, which turns out to be the mechanism that forces him back to NOW (whenever that is), so he remains feeling lost in time.
Actually, Clippy’s AI therapy might be useful for Jack in that scenario. Moreso than it seems likely to be for Dean right now, anyway…