Build-a-Baddie Returns (And It’s Bigger, Badder, and More Chaotic)
The last Build-a-Baddie Poll was such a hit, it spun off not one but two projects — a microfic and a 1,500-word short story!
So naturally… we’re doing it again.
Welcome back to Build-a-Baddie — the crowd-sourced character experiment where you decide:
I take your winning combo and turn it into a brand-new illustration.
There’s also a Wildcard section if you want to whisper your weirdest ideas into the void. No promises… but I will read them.
Voting opens this week on Patreon. Bring your best (and worst) ideas.
Transcript — Evolution Success Stories
A single-panel cartoon shows two bug-like creatures standing on a forest floor surrounded by large green leaves. Both have tall, thin, purple bodies with spindly limbs and antennae. The bug on the right has colorful, symmetrical butterfly wings with orange, black, and white patterns and looks relatively normal — an evolution success story The bug on the left has a strange, mismatched set of wings that resemble bold, graphic signage instead of natural wings. The wings are black with bright orange arrows and large words pointing in different directions, including “TASTY,” “HERE,” and “YUM!” with arrows directing attention toward the bug’s own body. The malformed-wing bug looks uneasy, while the butterfly-wing bug looks on. Beneath the comic, a caption reads: “All I’m saying is… it’s easy to be a fan of evolution if all you hear about are the success stories…”
To the right of the panel is a blue box that reads: “Intermission — The Evil Inc storyline will continue next week.”
Courting Disaster
Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. It’s a lot of fun.
You’ll laugh your pants off. This week’s question:
This probably shouldn’t bother me but it does. I’m a happily married man for over five years, but I just found out that when I met my wife down the Jersey shore, she had a two-week torrid romance with one guy while she was dating another guy the whole time. When I showed up, she told me she was single, we dated, fell in love and are married. I know that it was a long time ago, but should I feel like a stooge for being married to a so-called "shore whore?" When we slept together for the first time, she volunteered it had been "over a year" since she had sex. Now I found out it was only a matter of weeks. Is it normal to feel like an idiot?
