Good morning! Firstly, say hello to Germany and Sweden, who are still topping out lists for non native English speaking nations. Hi guys, keep coming. Tell your friends.

A few things - one, you’ve noticed that I posted two pages today. While that eats the buffer up a little bit, it’s necessary because they were painfully boring, and I am trying to get us to Page 12 (the start of what I consider to be actual plot and tight writing) as fast as possible. This is the ONLY time two pages will be posted, sorry, but they all get better from here.

As for the news of the day, may I please draw your attention to a very interesting art show that is coming into my neck of the woods: The Vader Project is a very unique art show that takes hot new artists and has them decorate Darth Vader’s helmet in various ways. This strange and gorgeous phenomenon was spawned at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles in 2007, and traveled out from there across the UK and the United States. They come out beautifully, all odd and one-of-a-kind, and this is totally worth seeing.

The flier, below:

It will be at the Warhol on the Northside, I encourage any Pittsburghers to go. I know I certainly will.

Until next week,

Jen

I’ve got nothin’ today, folks. Nada. Zilch. Zippo.

Hope everyone is having a good Monday.

I suppose this week when I get around to seeing Watchmen I’ll have a blog post to write, but until then, sorry. Today I’ve got no juice.

- Jen

While the title of today’s post might sound like the title of a very interesting term paper for an English Lit major, it is not. It is far less serious than that.

First, I’d like to point out that according to our statistics program, the top 3 countries that read this webcomic are the US, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates. The internet is a surprising and wonderful thing! So hello, Dubai, hope you’re enjoying!

Second, who remembers that great Sci-Fi show that ran in the ’90’s, Mystery Science Theater 3000? We all loved Joel and Mike and their zany talking robots, trapped in space and mercilessly forced to watch awful B-rated flicks that would make Ed Wood cringe in pain. Who doesn’t love a good viewing of Night of the Lepus, or Hercules Versus the Moon Men, after all? Especially with expert comedy commentary in the background.

Well, if you were a fan, you should know that Mr. Nelson and his band of merry men are far from done with their critical comical anaylsis of bad movies. They’ve started their own side program called Rifftrax, which are companion commentaries for the PC that you play overtop of a DVD. They run around $3 a piece and they are for all kinds of modern movies these days. I highly recommend any of the new Star Wars trilogy which I had the pleasure (and horror) of watching the other night. If anything, their sense of humor has only gotten better from the original show.

My next news item is for anyone who steeped in the wonderful world of H.P. Lovecraft: I found (thanks to my friend Cynthia), a musical version of Shadow Over Innsmouth. And I have had this song stuck in my head on loop for a week straight. If you don’t know what’s going on, read the story synopsis first.

Now I will stop abusing Wikipedia and bid you adieu for the week.

Jen

Good morning!

There have been rumors floating about that Anne and I will be at the upcoming Tekkoshocon event in Pittsburgh, and more rumors yet that I will be helping run the LARP event.

Unfortunately, while my friend Brian is running the LARP event and I was scheduled to be assisting, and Anne and I were scheduled to be in attendence of the con as we normally are, this year we have a conflict of interest and will not be able to make it. I’m sad because this was the LARP kickoff year and I do love Tekko dearly, but I can’t be too sad since Anne and I will instead by lying on a beach in Monterey and visiting some family.

That being said, there WILL be updates for April 6th and April 13th even though I will not be in town. There might be blog posts, we’ll see.

Everyone going to Tekko, support Brian (because he has put a ton of work into a great plot!), have fun for me, and take lots of pictures and email us with all the fun we missed. We’re always interested to see people’s costumes.

- Jen