Intermission — April 23 — Bigfoot Problems

There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.


What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off

I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.

First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.

As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.

Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.

JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.

On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.

I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.

But the story itself is very, very good.

WikiWatch 1

WikiWatch

According to a few Wikipedia editors, Evil Inc is not a noteworthy comic.

They know nothing of the 11,000+ daily visitors (not counting newspapers).

They know nothing of the newspapers it runs in — including Philadelphia Daily News (130,000 daily circulation).

They don’t know about the two graphic novels, distributed worldwide by Diamond Distribution.

What they see is a webcomic.

And in their myopic view, it’s a webcomic unworthy of inclusion in their increasingly narrowminded Wikipedia.

In their tribunal, the entry for Evil Inc was conisdered “unverifiable.” They said no attempt had been made to establish “notability.”

And when I wrote the editor who was credited for the deletion, I got a real taste of the “not my problem” mentality of some Wikipedia editors (scroll down to read it).

So it was unceremoniously dumped from the Wikipedia servers. Not noteworthy and unverifiable, indeed.

I have two choices. I can simply groan and go back to what I truly love best — creating comics. Or I can stand up to these people and insist that what you and I share here is noteworthy.

One SuperFan has petitioned Wikipedia to resinstate the entry. And I would encourage you to take a couple minutes and add your voice to the appeal.

There’s only one way to respond to behavior such as theirs — loudly.

And that, my friends, is verifiable.